Crime Control

It is six years since special agent Samuel Lynch left the FBI following the disappearance of his son, Daniel. Lynch believes an underground organisation known as The Railroad is responsible and has never stopped searching.

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then...

Every battle has a winner. But not everyone will survive the war… Crystal wants out. Out of her small-town life. Out of shared parenting with a man she no longer respects. When she decides to take her daughter and move across state lines, she tells herself she’s doing nothing wrong. Supported by his father and sister, Jake believes in doing the right thing and trusts the system. He just wants access to his daughter. He just wants to be a good dad. But he has no idea of the danger he is in... Seven-year-old Holly is caught in the middle. And love, she discovers, is conditional. Meanwhile...

One match. One grudge. One killer? DCI David Garrick faces his most dangerous case yet. A predator is stalking victims through dating apps—selecting targets, gaining trust, and killing without leaving a trace. At the same time, a ruthless arsonist is setting fires across the city—each blaze more deliberate, more destructive, and hiding something far darker beneath the flames. At first, the cases seem unconnected. They’re not. As the investigations collide, Garrick and his team are pulled into a deadly game of deception where every lead is a lie—and every suspect has something to ...

On July 4, 2022, a shooter climbed onto a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois, and opened fire on a Fourth of July parade below, killing seven people and wounding dozens more. Prosecutors charged Robert “Bobby” Crimo III with the mass shooting. But this attack was part of something even more insidious. Bobby had created an elaborate game—complete with cryptic videos, a book of numbers, and an eerie online presence—designed to seed a conspiracy theory about the massacre.

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would eventually rescind it and made every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented an elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam.

In the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car is driven off the side of a mountain. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals two trash bags containing human remains. It's just another day in the life of Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. The remains are those of a...

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police...

A rising star at her prestigious Seattle law firm, Dana Hill knows all about stress. She pours herself into her work and family with all the energy she has. But her carefully balanced life is about to be turned upside down. First a frightening medical diagnosis forces her to reassess her roles as a lawyer, mother, and wife to a man she suddenly no longer trusts. Then her life is rocked further by the shocking and brutal murder of her twin brother.

If you’re going to pick an abandoned building to hide in, don’t make it a Russian Mafia safehouse. A Russian mafia boss found me hiding from my abusive ex. Told me he’d protect me. Sparks flew between us and I ended up spending the night in his penthouse. Then I saw him do something I could never forgive. So I ran before he could do the same to me. I started again on the other side of the country. But the head of the Bratva never forgot me. He stalked me. Kidnapped me. Demanded I marry him. And the worst part is… I just found out I’m pregnant, and he’s the father.Obsessed Bratva...

In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened. Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined...

Her mind is their weapon—She just wants to see her children again. Roxy Powers has spent years building the perfect life — a respected interior designer and fiercely protective mother. But behind the façade, she hides a dangerous secret: she’s psychic. Powerful. Unpredictable. When a shadowy organisation tears her from her children and locks her inside a hidden underground facility, Roxy becomes the subject of a brutal psychological experiment. They want her mind. They want control. And they’ll do whatever it takes to break her. But something is changing inside Roxy. Her abilities ...

When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo—and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the...

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. 

"A crisp, twisting tale in the hands of a writer in the bloom of his abundant talents." — Graydon Carter A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful...

“A heart-pounding thriller. When I Was You pitches two women with the same name against one another, and the rug is pulled out from under you the moment you decide to trust one of them.” —Sandie Jones, USA Today bestselling author of The Other Woman “Amber Garza has upped the game on the...

A standalone psychological thriller in the Memoirs series. He built a system no one escapes. She learned how to survive it. He never stopped watching. Methodical. Patient. Precise. He doesn’t rely on chaos—he builds systems. Studies behavior. Teaches obedience. And once you’re inside… leaving isn’t part of the design. Ratchel thought survival meant enduring. It doesn’t. Kidnapped and isolated, she’s forced into a routine designed to break resistance and replace it with compliance. Every detail has a purpose. Every reaction is measured. But even systems have limits. And Ratchel...

A child in the background. A bruise pattern only one woman sees. Former true crime YouTuber Zara Osei has rebuilt her life as a small-town librarian in rural Texas, determined to stay offline, unnoticed, and far away from the case that destroyed her channel and her reputation. The stacks are quiet, the days are predictable, and no one in Hatchett County cares who she used to be. Until one evening at the reference desk, when a viral homesteading video plays on her screen and a seven-year-old boy’s arm crosses the frame. She freezes the image and recognizes a bruising pattern she once spent...

Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady’s professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling suspense series, set in the beautiful desert country of the...