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ONLY SLOWLY DID HER DISARTICULATED CORPSE emerge from a winter’s low-hanging mist. At first, early morning joggers thought the bloodless limbs were broken pieces from the cold white marble of nearby statues. Only when the mist had completely evaporated did it become apparent these arms and legs had once been rose-colored flesh. Sixty-five years earlier and a continent away a similar gruesome crime went unsolved. Now, however improbable, the killer appears to have struck again—only this time his target was the headstrong daughter of a United States Senator. Is this a copycat killing, or ...

The Great Plague appeared out of nowhere, sweeping around the globe in a matter of months. By the time patient zero was tracked to the Korean Peninsula, it was already too late. In the wake of the infection governments dissolved, infrastructure collapsed and society descended into virtual chaos. Those few who survived the disease were not the lucky ones, however, for the virus contained a horrific secret. It transformed the infected, mutating them into mindless beasts. Only those who had not yet entered puberty were immune. In the months following the Big Death the remnants of civilization ...

When a disheveled and desperate man unexpectedly appears on Michael Riley’s doorstep pleading for help finding his missing fiancé, the former CIA analyst finds the man’s frantic appeals impossible to ignore. But when he learns the missing woman disappeared from a commercial jetliner while in flight, he has his doubts about his late night visitor’s state of mind. Despite these doubts, Riley agrees to confirm the man's claim he and his fiancé boarded the same flight. Finding no one matching the woman's name or description on the flight manifest, Riley is about to concede the man is ...

They told me if I knew what was good for me I’d deliver the girl to them. They didn’t mention they intended to kill her. They’d kill her because she had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the right time and saw something she was never meant to see. Later, they’d come for me because after they killed the girl I’d be the only one left alive who knew what she had seen. They warned me not to run. They said if we ran they’d find us and it would be a whole lot worse. I couldn’t think of anything worse than being dead, so I wasn’t impressed by their threats. Besides, they ...

“DEATH ON WINTER’S EVE” is a highly charged romantic thriller about forbidden desire, unbridled passion, and callus betrayal set amidst the background of war-torn London in the 1940s! Serving in a British military hospital in London during the Second World War, nurse Mary Wellington has no inkling she is about to come face to face with the mysterious stranger who nightly invades her dreams. When a badly wounded German airman is brought into Lieutenant Wellington’s care at Queen Anne’s Hospital, she has no idea he is a man whose very presence will place her on a path to exotic ...

When CIA undercover operative Barbara Lavelle is brutally murdered, Michael Riley is determined to find and punish her killers. But when the trail leads to our own Secretary of State, Riley soon discovers vengeance is more complicated than he ever imagined. Digging into the covert agent’s last murky assignment, Riley uncovers the dirty little secret our highest-ranking government official will go to any length to protect. Battling government spooks, the deep state, and private security company henchmen, Riley unravels Lavelle’s darkest secret and learns the true reason for the ...

More than sixty years after her tragic death, Marilyn's missing diary has mysteriously appeared in the kit of a murdered merchant seaman. Tasked with retrieving this priceless artifact, Michael Riley finds more than he bargained for when he stumbles across audiotapes made during the final months before Marilyn’s fateful suicide. Will these recordings finally unravel the mystery of her last moments, her secret love affair with a beloved president, or expose one of the cold war’s darkest and most terrifying secrets? The list of those prepared to kill to keep them secret is long. Riley ...

When Mia Navarro, the woman with whom he is having an affair is brutally murdered, Michael Riley instantly becomes Miami Homicide Detective Samuel Morgan’s chief suspect. With time running out before he is charged with capital murder, Riley must uncover the dark secrets of his paramour’s past. But Mia’s secrets prove deadly and staying one step ahead of the police quickly becomes the least of his problems. Unraveling the mystery of Mia’s murder places Riley at the very epicenter of an international drug cartel’s money laundering activities. With assassins close on his heels Riley ...

For nearly seventy years the German submarine U-3045 lay rusting on the muddy ocean bottom barely three miles from the shimmering lights and bustling boardwalks of Miami Beach. A mere artifact of history it lay undisturbed and forgotten, its crew entombed inside. But when the fishing trawler Belle Fille accidentally snags her gillnets on the U-boat’s conning tower, the disintegrating hulk’s deadly cargo suddenly becomes the catalyst for a series of ruthless and inexplicable murders. One by one the Belle Fille’s crew begin to disappear, leaving their families and the authorities ...

THE GIRL WITH EMERALD EYES is a descent into the dark and mysterious world of the U.S. Marshals Service witness protection program. Out for a pre-dawn run along the beach, Michael Riley stumbles upon a young woman struggling for her life in the ocean just offshore. Rescuing her from almost certain death he carries her nearly lifeless body back to his beach house. After recuperating from her ordeal the woman insists on setting off on her own, leaving Riley to ponder the mysterious circumstances that nearly took her life. Five weeks later the woman’s decomposing body is discovered in an ...

On a bitterly cold night in January 1945, a heavily armored train pulled into the station at Breslau in German occupied Poland. Here, ancient tapestries, priceless masterpieces, and three hundred tons of gold looted from the treasuries of conquered countries were loaded aboard. Just before dawn, laden with treasure, the train pulled away from the station heading west and disappeared from history. Deep in the primeval forests of the Eulengebirge Mountains of southwestern Poland, a secret Nazi fortress lies buried, untouched by the passage of time. Here, in a labyrinth of tunnels, Hitler’s ...

In an era of flappers, gunsels, dames, and rumrunners, Bobby Maguire was southern Florida’s most notorious bootlegger. Young, handsome, and daring to the point of recklessness, Bobby made millions sneaking his liquor-laden quick boats past a gauntlet of armed and vigilant patrol boats of the United State’s Coast Guard. In the roaring twenties Florida, fueled by a land boom was the fastest-growing state in the nation and Maguire was determined to feed its thirst for booze, dames, and high times. Drawn by Maguire’s flamboyance and dashing good looks women adored him. But Bobby’s ...

“THE DEAD DON’T GRIEVE” is a high-octane thriller that will catapult you from the posh lifestyles of the nouveau riche in California’s playground of billionaire financiers to the gothic towers of a medieval castle high in the Swiss Alps. The mysterious and nearly mythic Mikhail Corvinas, computer genius and reputed Russian mobster has crafted a most potent computer virus that could alter the landscape of the world's economy. With every major law enforcement agency seeking to thwart his sinister plan, no one can say for certain Corvinas actually exists. When Michael Riley attends a ...

FBI SPECIAL AGENT HARPER RIGGS IS ONE OF THE FEW AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN THE FBI. Of the FBI’s thirty-five thousand active agents, Harper Riggs is one of only a handful of African American women to gain entry to the nearly all white, mostly male fraternity of special agents. After graduating from the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia she is assigned to the FBI’s field office in Washington, DC, a reward for graduating third in a class of two hundred fifty new agent trainees. Harper’s first important case brings her into the confidence of a ...

It began the morning they found her body floating in the ocean just off Catalina Island. She had arrived the evening before aboard the yacht Grandeur, accompanied by her husband, the yacht’s captain, and Jonathan Walton, the costar in her latest film, Cascade. The tabloids claimed she and Jonathan were lovers, but such was the kind of titillating gossip for which Hollywood was famous, so few took these rumors seriously. Natalie hated the water—feared it actually, so it was odd she would have embarked on a sea voyage and stranger still to learn she had drowned. The coroner’s official ...