Gritty Crime Thriller

When a Janie Doe is found strangled in a small clearing along Whisper Creek in Charleston, South Carolina, Lieutenant Mark Wheeler must use all his resources to find a sadistic killer. As he digs deeper into the investigation, the case stirs up old wounds from his past. Soon he discovers there may be a connection between human trafficking and his victim. Suddenly, all of Charleston is in an uproar for the police to find the girl’s killer. When the case takes a few hard turns, nothing can prepare him for the world he’s about to encounter, the past that haunts him, and a city on the brink...

Vincent never had a chance. He lost his mother in the South Tower. He lost his father to a bottle. The rest, he gave away slowly—to heroin, silence, and survival. ★★★★★ "by the time the last scene fades out, you’ll want to sit in the dark for a minute, just letting it settle."- Goodreads ★★★★★ "It did what The Sopranos ending tried to do but actually pulled it off. The final pages of In Powder Blue by Nikolas Pleiadi left me completely silent." - Goodreads ★★★★★ "A modern crime masterpiece....You could dissect this forever. On par with The Godfather."- ...

The first three books in the Rebecca Watson crime thriller series. Stone Cold Detective Rebecca Watson is tracking a vicious serial killer in Eugene Falls, Florida. As a distraction, she’s dragged back into court for the retrial of a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend five years earlier. His defense attorney will use any means to get his client freed, including uncovering old wounds from Watson’s past. As the case takes a few hard turns, nothing can prepare her for the world she’s about to encounter, the past that haunts her, and the truth behind the serial killer’s motive. ...

One man pulls every string—and cuts them when necessary. On the deceptively calm shores of Florida’s Sapphire Island, amid postcard-perfect beaches and gleaming mansions, business mogul Arnold Thornberry III quietly shapes every decision and every outcome. Few dare to question him. Even fewer survive crossing him. Pastor Nick Landstrom arrives on Sapphire Island searching for renewal after personal tragedy leaves him questioning everything he once believed. But hope proves elusive when a runaway girl shows up at his door, and Nick senses trouble in her wake that may be tied to the past ...

“M.G. Cole is a brilliant new addition to the echelon of British crimewriters.” Peter James "Dark, grim, tense. A compelling new voice." PAUL FINCH, author of the Detective Mark Heckenburg novels. Books 1-3 - plus a prequel novelette - of the thrilling DCI Garrick crime series. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Holy crap what a way to end a book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn’t put it down! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you want to get in at the beginning of a good series, this is the one! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I can't wait to read the next in the series ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A refreshing change. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Will keep you ...

They shouldn't work together. DS Susie Drummond is the detective trying to keep a serial killer off Edinburgh's front pages while her boss watches the clock. Doug McGregor is the journalist who already knows more than he should and isn't above using it. They've struck an uneasy truce built on mutual leverage and something that might, on a good day, resemble trust. It's not much. But it's all they've got.

DETECTIVE JORDAN CROSS DOESN'T SOLVE COLD CASES. SHE EXPOSES THE CONSPIRACIES THAT CREATED THEM. In the ruins of Detroit, where abandoned buildings outnumber people and institutional corruption runs fifty years deep, one detective refuses to let the forgotten stay buried. Jordan Cross works the cases nobody wants—decades-old murders in a basement cold case unit where files gather dust and victims' families have stopped hoping for justice. She's cynical, damaged, relentless. A divorced cop who chain-smokes through sixteen-hour days because the work is all she has. Then she finds the ...

A SERIES OF GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED, Set in the USA and Liverpool. Soft Target Soft Target 2 'Tank' Jerusalem 18th Brigade Blister TTF Series Synopsis In the gripping and high-stakes series by international bestselling author Conrad Jones, the Terrorist Task Force (TTF) stands as the last line of defense against a looming threat. As Islamic extremists unleash a series of coordinated attacks across iconic American locations—starting with a shocking assault on Downtown Disney in Las Vegas, followed by chaos in San Francisco and an attack at the Grand Canyon—the nation grapples with fear ...

She’s part of my family’s revenge, the governments pawn, and my obsession. HUNTER As a club enforcer, violence isn't just my job—it’s my mafia heritage. The Butcher of Chicago groomed me to inherit a throne of bones. Betrayal forced me to walk away, but I’ve found a new brotherhood. Then Brandy comes to the clubhouse looking for her sister. She stirs a primal protectiveness in me I didn’t think I possessed. She’s strong yet broken, which only makes me want her more. Unfortunately, my past is about to collide with my present. Nobody lays a hand on what’s mine and lives. ...

I wasn't hired for my résumé. I was hired for my bones. Three hundred forty-two thousand dollars in debt. Forty-eight hours before the collectors took everything — including my sister's house. Then the contract slid across the mahogany desk. Vaughn Mercer didn't want a wife. He wanted a user interface. A woman who could wear his missing wife's clothes, sign her name, and stand in the floor-to-ceiling windows of his forty-story penthouse so the world would believe Daphne Mercer hadn't vanished. Six months. Total debt elimination. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. All I had to do was ...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

LOYALTY IS TESTED. MERCY IS WEAKNESS. DEATH COMES FOR ALL… How far would you go to take what’s yours? Sydney. 2003. John Kennedy returns for what he is owed. He walks into something far worse. A city-wide drug conflict explodes. Gangs fracture. Alliances collapse. The city turns on itself. Old enemies resurface. New loyalties break. And chaos takes control. John is forced back into a world where nothing is given— and everything is taken in blood. EVERY MOVE HAS CONSEQUENCES. EVERY CHOICE DEMANDS BLOOD. AND SURVIVAL IS NEVER GUARANTEED. BOOK FIVE IN THE DRUG GANG SERIES (CHRONOLOGICAL ...

Christmas was supposed to bury the past. Shiffon was meant to be a memory, her name reduced to a whisper, her story sealed as another casualty of Maverick McClay’s violent legacy. But December in Atlanta peels back secrets like wrapping paper. When Shiffon resurfaces with her newborn son, it’s proof Maverick’s bloodline is still alive, and someone intends to claim it. As holiday lights glow and snow dusts the city, Riot Mercer, Maverick’s volatile protégé stalks through Atlanta’s shadows. His eyes burn with newfound purpose, Maverick’s blood lives on in Shiffon’s infant son....

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A missing student. A fortune in stolen diamonds. A page-turning heist mystery. When a fortune in stolen diamonds is rumored to be buried off Mission Road—an old logging trail deep in the Northern Divide—people flood the area, setting up camps and chasing dreams of striking it rich. Then, one of the fortune hunters disappears. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate. But what begins as a search quickly turns into something far more dangerous. It's not just a missing person....

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times Book Review When seventeen-year-old Meaghan McKenna's mother drowns in the Springfield River, police call it an accident. Meaghan knows better. So does Detective Frank Yakabuski. The suspicious death pulls Yakabuski and his partner, Donna Griffin, into something far more dangerous than a tragic drowning. It's murder. And the killer has been hiding in plain sight for decades. Their investigation soon reveals a dark corner of the Northern Divide — a place where colonial-era land disputes, ...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Taron Egerton, Ana Sophia Heger, Rob Yang and John Carroll Lynch A propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows—her father Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is...

"Ron Corbett is the real deal." — C.J. Box "Ron Corbett is fantastic." — Marc Cameron The Edgar Award–nominated novel that launched the Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series. High on the Northern Divide, a family has been murdered in an isolated wilderness cabin. Veteran detective Frank Yakabuski is sent north to investigate. His only witnesses are the wary residents of Ragged Lake—a dying mill town where old loyalties run deep, strangers are never trusted, and everyone seems to be hiding something. Then a brutal winter storm cuts off every road. As suspicion turns neighbour against ...

I was a gift to settle my father's debts. He kept me for entirely different reasons. Viktor Sorokin didn't want a wife. He wanted leverage. I was supposed to be temporary, a pawn to control my father, discarded when my usefulness ended. But then he looked at me. Really looked. Now I'm not a pawn. I'm a prisoner in his penthouse, dressed in silk and diamonds, watched by security cameras he doesn't hide. He learns my habits. My fears. The way I cry when I think no one's listening. He's supposed to be my enemy. So why does he hold me while I break? Why does he destroy anyone who makes me ...

Innocence can be deadly… It was supposed to be a summer party for my friends like no other to celebrate our last year of high school. I’d planned everything to perfection but as the night got underway, I never could have predicted how it ended… Twenty years later, we are thrown back...

A Rookie Cop. A Buried Trauma. A Killer Who Never Forgot. Fox Valley Homicide: No Perfect Witness is a gripping crime thriller that blends a chilling serial killer thriller with a tense police procedural and razor-sharp psychological thriller suspense. When construction workers uncover a brutal homicide in a quiet Wisconsin wetland, rookie officer Lori Castle is assigned to secure the scene. The case appears to be a routine murder mystery until Lori recognizes a horrifying detail: the victim bears the same brand Lori has hidden for six years. A mark left by the man who abducted her… and ...