Vigilante Violence

In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. The peace is kept by a team of smooth, well-dressed negotiators called The Men in Fancy Suits. Meanwhile a young girl is caught in the middle and thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. Zoey, a recent college graduate with a worthless degree, makes a reluctant trip into the city after hearing that her estranged con artist father died in a mysterious yet spectacular way.

Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers - killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten.

What pushes an ordinary person to commit an unforgivable act? This gripping collection of twenty true-crime stories moves past the "how" and focuses on the "why." It explores the darkest corners of the human heart, where grievance, jealousy, and humiliation curdle into a chilling motive. From the public rage of a scorned spouse to the cold, calculated vigilantism of a town against its bully, these accounts expose the breaking point. Journey into the minds of perpetrators, including: A jilted lover who used the dark web to destroy her romantic rival. A father who took the law into his own ...

Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the...

It’s murder out there… In the new Baker & Tate mystery, Ruth faces a sniper’s deadly game on a remote desert highway where escape is impossible and survival is uncertain. Texas Ranger Ruth Baker thought she’d seen everything—until travelers start turning up dead along an isolated stretch of highway, victims of a group of snipers who strike without warning and without apparent motive. Partnered with Aaron Tate, Ruth is called in to investigate the chilling case. But with no witnesses and no evidence, the killers seem to vanish into the endless desert, leaving only fear and carnage ...

4 STUNNING CRIME THRILLERS IN THIS GREAT VALUE BOXSET: Brick In the heart of Liverpool, a peaceful evening is shattered when a teenager is brutally attacked while walking his dog. This senseless violence ignites a fierce murder investigation that spirals into chaos, as the victim’s innocent family finds themselves under a relentless campaign of terror. As the Major Investigation Team races against time to uncover the motives behind the attack, the links to a powerful organized crime family begin to surface, leading to shocking revelations that threaten to destabilize their sinister empire...

Alex (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Six) A missing person. A family tragedy. Buried secrets. Alex’s past has come back to torment him. The risk factor is too high to involve anyone with what he must do, so he leaves quietly without a word to anyone. He couldn’t live with himself if one of Sarah’s people got hurt on his account. Even so, Sarah and Aaron decide to look for him. What made him into the man he is today is stuck in the past, and it’s a horrifying revelation that even Aaron didn’t know about. That history never went away—Alex just chose to ignore it—but he can’t ignore...

A man who has had more than enough, takes justice into his own hands.

The Disappearance (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Four) Sarah Roberts has gone missing on a cold, snowy evening in northern Ontario. When the snowstorm clears, a search party begins the arduous job of trekking through the wintry Canadian forests in search of her car. They find her vehicle in a deep ditch, hidden from the road and covered in snow. The passenger door is open, there’s blood on the steering wheel, and there are signs that someone was dragged from the car. Frustrated and panicked, Parkman, Aaron, and Alex band together to hunt for Sarah before she dies in the minus temperatures of ...

The Depraved (Sarah Roberts Book Twenty-Six) A Toronto homicide detective receives a letter threatening multiple murders that are about to occur in horrific ways. He reaches out to Sarah Roberts for help because the letter states that Sarah inspires the murders. While the detective and Sarah try to figure out why he received the letter, the first three bodies are discovered. Brutally murdered, with one of the victims tortured in a depraved manner, they learn why that homicide detective was chosen—he knew the victims personally. Not only that, he knows where the bodies were found—his ...

In The United States vs. Hanson Oil - A Novel About the US Open Border, a once modest, family-run business strikes black gold, catapulting the Hansons into wealth and fame. Hoot Hanson, a laid-back yet sharp oil wildcatter, and his feisty, resilient wife, Hanna, seem to have it all—twin daughters, a loyal bird dog, and a tight-knit circle of friends. But with unimaginable riches come sinister threats. As the US southern border remains open, Mexican cartels and international criminals flood into the country, unleashing an epidemic of drugs, violence, and terror. The Hansons find themselves...

The Cartel (Sarah Roberts Book Fifteen) The Enzo Cartel has kidnapped Sarah Roberts’s boyfriend in Tijuana to lure Sarah to Mexico. Still, the cartel does not expect Sarah to come with Casper, a high-ranking government official, DEA agents, and a slew of others working with the Mexican authorities. Delay after delay has them locked in a hotel, waiting for something to happen. While Sarah is out at a café, their hotel is attacked by heavily armed hitmen. More than half the team is killed, and the cartel snatches Casper. Sarah needs help, and she finds it with an old friend from Italy, ...

The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) For the past four years, Sarah Roberts has risked her life to save others—guided by cryptic messages from the dead. Each communication from the Other Side has helped her prevent tragedies and pull people back from the brink of death. But this time, it’s personal. Sarah receives a chilling message about the man who murdered her sister—and where to find him. The information is incomplete, clouded by uncertainty, and worse, it may point to the wrong man. Still, she can’t ignore the chance to finally get justice. Then she receives The Warning: Walk ...

The Decoy (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Three) After a group of mercenaries call in bomb threats, they detonate several of them to prove they're serious. The emergency response is thinned and spread to multiple locations, allowing the mercs to rob a jewelry store with a secret stash. Authorities soon learn it was staged for a larger, more profitable job that Sarah Roberts had attempted to foil. To catch these criminals, the authorities plan an effective countermeasure and use Sarah as bait, but that goes wrong quickly, and now Sarah's gone off the radar. With blood on her hands from the first ...

The Whole Truth (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Five) Sarah Roberts heads to a small town up north to deliver messages from her sister and then head back home. But when do things ever go as planned? Working on limited information, Sarah threatens a man who turns out to be a corrupt judge, gets entangled with abusive parents, and then interrupts an extortion bid—all in a day’s work. But when Sarah gets arrested and brought before the very judge she threatened, she’s locked away and may not make her next court date—or even make it through the night. The people in charge have decided Sarah ...

"Having stolen billions of dollars and been responsible for the unnecessary slaughter of thousands, I must still confess on the record that even my worst actions were never born of ill will." An infamous supervillain tells her side of the story in this epic retelling of her long and storied life. From her infant genius through her would-be world-conquering, this notorious antagonist looks to explain her personal motivations and unique perspective on the various exploits for which society has falsely judged as wrong and evil. This memoir also recounts the many legendary confrontations with ...

Los Angeles is at the mercy of the CHiLL13 street gang. They are out of control and becoming more emboldened with every shocking move they make. With Diego Rivera as their ruthless leader, the LAPD is always one step behind them until they get some help from two strange sources. The first is a pair of Redondo Beach homicide detectives and the second is a very unusual old woman from Mexico who is visiting relatives. The old woman’s family becomes victims of the gang and it turns out to be the deadliest mistake they could ever make. Rock takes many twists and turns as the story of the old ...

The Game (Sarah Roberts Series Book Thirty-Two) Is Sarah Roberts’s sister, Vivian, alive? After all these years? That’s the case, according to Sarah’s mother. Or is someone playing with Sarah’s family? After meeting with Vivian, Sarah’s mother is convinced it’s true—her daughter is alive, and her death was faked so a government agency could mine Vivian’s clairvoyant abilities. That’s a hard sell for Sarah, who wonders who the voice inside her head has been if it isn’t her sister. When that voice directs Sarah to abduct a seventeen-year-old girl, Sarah must trust that ...

Wrath (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty) When Sarah arrives home after being away for a month, her house is empty, and her daughter and boyfriend are missing. There’s even a FOR SALE sign on the front lawn. At the martial arts gym, her boyfriend owns, she finds it empty, a FOR LEASE sign in the window. Panic sets in after calling every number she knows for friends and loved ones and getting nowhere. Something terrible has happened, and she’s determined to figure it out. Later that same night, she’s in a car accident with Parkman. Whoever hit them grabs Parkman. Now he’s disappeared, too. ...

The Abandoned (Sarah Roberts Book Fourteen) Sarah Roberts boards a plane heading to Amsterdam, even though she knows the plane will crash during the flight. She’s powerless to keep the flight from taking off and powerless to prevent the crash, but she boards anyway. Throughout the flight, she meets Casper, a stranger who has been watching her. With Vivian’s help, Sarah survives the crash, and her actions save nearly a hundred people. The Netherlands authorities arrest Sarah as witnesses on board claim she knew about the crash beforehand. The Netherlands police, a division of the ...