Gritty Crime Thriller

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. ...

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."- ...

WOW! 5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth the read! I couldn’t put it down. True Blue Detective: Climb into the back of an NOPD car as they patrol and investigate strange occurrences in their distinct city of New Orleans. In the first novel of the True Blue Detective series, Zack uses his detective skills to discover that his daughter-in- law’s next door neighbor may have been an accidental target. Crescent City Detective: Dr. Walter Ross' illegal organ sales business is uncovered when another death occurs at Riverside Inn. Retired detective Zack and Howard try to stop Felipe and the Cornerview Gang...

When Lieutenant Mark Wheeler of the South Carolina Police Department arrives at a possible murder-suicide, he realizes almost immediately things are amiss. The crime scene is brutal, but upon further investigation, he unveils a sadistic killer at play who will stop at nothing to get away. As the case unfolds, nothing can prepare Wheeler for the gauntlet of turmoil and trouble. Relentlessly pursuing a psychopath who has flown under the radar for years, Mark fights to keep control—driven to bring this monster to justice. Will the sadistic killer finally be caught or will his instincts which...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An unsolved murder. An island gripped by corruption. And an SAS soldier with nothing left to lose. Haunted by the mysterious death of his parents, SAS Captain Kirkland Finn takes a temporary leave of absence from the regiment. Stripped of his weapons and operating without military protection, he arrives in Cyprus looking for answers—but instead walks straight into a hornets' nest. What was supposed to be a private investigation quickly derails when Finn uncovers an island completely riddled with police corruption and ruthless organized crime. Teaming up with Eleni Petrides, a sharp and ...

When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme. In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, ...

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 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....

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 ...

She was my first love. Now she's my prisoner. Natalie grew up next door in a home as broken as mine. My childhood was hell and my father was the devil. I was nothing but fists, fury and rage. But Natalie...she was the lovely free spirit who danced barefoot, baked me cookies, and bandaged my wounds. When she ran away, she took my heart with her. Now I’ve found her again. But I've changed. I'm the cold-blooded VP of the Twisted Devils MC. Vicious. Lethal. Deadly. She's too pure for a monster like me, but my black heart beats only for her. She still prefers flower crowns to leather cuts. But...

'Dripping with authenticity. Packed full of characters you genuinely care about . . . I didn't read the last few chapters, I devoured them. An absolute triumph' M. W. CRAVEN _____________ He loves surprises. But not this one. A schoolgirl is found dead in a park in North London and DI Charlie...

There is a body in Shannon's apartment, and it belongs to the chief of police. Avery Yakushev has sold illegal guns in Camden for years without killing anyone. That ended tonight, on a medical student's living room floor, in a struggle he did not start. Now there is sand to dig, a car to clean, and a detective named Atticus Devetzi who is going to notice his brother missing by morning. Shannon Holmes could end this by picking up a phone. Self-defense, one statement, and Avery becomes somebody else's problem. She will not do it. She has decided he is worth protecting, and that decision is ...

A GRITTY HIGH OCTANE THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING WRITER D. E. WHITE. Eleven years ago, Holly’s brother disappeared and his girlfriend was killed. Leaving behind her crime boss dad, and her boxing career, Holly walked away from the violence and didn't look back. Holly has tried her best to forget the traumatic events of her past, making a new life for herself and her young son away from the notorious Seaview Estate. But when she’s involved in a car accident and regains consciousness to find a strange child on the backseat, she’s drawn back into everything she’s been trying to escape ...

Tony and Addie must up their game—or get put out of business for good—in the second volume of this dystopian series from the creator of Victor of Tucson. The Blast isn't your typical New Manhattan neighborhood. It's the kind of high-tech, hardwired cyberpunk underworld where only the tough...

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....

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...