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Special Agent Constant Marlowe is tasked with taking over the investigation of an obsessed serial killer trolling the small town of Clark Valley in the quiet—and eerie—plains of the Midwest. Two female victims in quick succession, the same brutal MO, and every indication that victim number three is only days away. Also in the killer’s scope is Constant herself. When she interviews a local family who may be potential witnesses, she leads the devil to their doorstep, throwing their lives into chaos.

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness. The only problem? Marlowe doesn’t know who he is or even what he looks like. It doesn’t help that the trail has led her to a farming community in the nether land of Downstate, those stretches of Illinois where endless fields of late-season corn block the truth…and any sign of coming threat.

FBI Agent Jessie NuCalla barged into my establishment demanding I surrender. What this fierce female failed to realize is The Governor Hotel is my sovereign territory. Within these walls, I am the justice system. One of us has fallen into a trap, but I'm not sure if either of us wants to escape. Who will escape what's happening between us?

Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

Be careful what you dream...when murder is on your mind. Sixteen-year-old Alice is a ghost. Although born blind, the world is more blind to her than she is to it. Until the day she's noticed. By a bully. She did what any girl would do...and wished him dead. When a body is discovered, Alice fears the worst. Could she be to blame? No one would believe her even if she confessed. Because nightmares don't come true...do they?

Wandering through the snowy woods in the mountains near her home, Angela Constantine stumbles upon a wolf feeding on the body of a murdered young woman. That discovery is only the start of her problems. Throw a blind evangelist and his mute sister into the mix, and New York Times best-selling author Terry Goodkind has concocted another irresistible cocktail of suspense, a tale where the difference between life and death dances on the edge of a razor-sharp blade. Trouble’s Child set in the world of the novel The Girl in the Moon.

En Helen Grace-novelle af M. J. Arlidge.

Jodie ankommer til sit tredje børnehjem. Hun er kun femten år gammel. Måske bliver det anderledes denne gang. Hun vil være i sikkerhed. Beskyttet.

Men sandheden er, at der ikke er nogen tilbage til at beskytte hende. Hun må lære at forsvare sig. Og forandre sig.

When Detective Seth Harding responds to shots being fired, he faces a familiar sight: a double homicide. However, he is shocked to find a young boy chained in the basement. The terrified child refuses to speak, but Seth knows he is the key to something sinister. Reluctantly, Seth calls the only social worker he trusts with the traumatized boy - his wife. Carly is recovering from her own trauma suffered on the job, but she can't turn away from this case, not from another child in trouble.

It’s a few days until her eighteenth birthday, and Cass is holding the fort at the Sharp detective agency. All is quiet in the office until a distraught girl runs in, seeking refuge from an rampaging boyfriend who is hell bent on destroying the place. Tara Sharp arrives home from a holiday to find her workplace in chaos. At the same time, she receives an urgent summons by the bikies to do a job for them. It seems they believe she still owes them a favor. As usual with Tara though, all roads lead back to John Viaspa, this time by way of a rival bike gang and John’s cousin Abramo.

Crystal Queen is a prequel, of sorts, to Boogie House, the first Rolson McKane novel. While Rolson is busy slamming into future clients with his car, his ex-wife, Vanessa, is roaming the streets of Atlanta with her new love interest. They live from high-to-high and have fallen on some hard times. That all changes when a guy Vanessa calls The Money Man shows up and demands what he's owed. She and Jerry use a dead man's death to swipe a suitcase full of what they hope is money and end up on the wrong side of a major conflict over drugs and cash. Their trouble is multiplied when a killer named Limba Fitz decides to get involved.

A group of film students shooting a documentary about grimy findings in seedy motel rooms unwittingly unearths a crime scene trail left by a serial killer. Blinded by ambition, they pick up the pieces of the puzzle rather than alert the authorities themselves and feature in a final film that will change their lives forever.

Before he became the UK's most wanted man, he was their deadliest weapon. Hear the story of Sam Pope's career before his one-man crusade against organised crime in this thrilling bundle of prequels.

Sam Pope had given up. The loss of his military career to a life-threating injury had been followed by the senseless killing of his son, Jamie. The trauma had cost him everything. His wife. His sense of purpose. Getting back on his feet in an administrative role in the Metropolitan Police, Sam soon realises he isn't the only one who has been let down by the justice system. A young girl, Daisy Phillips, met a grizzly end at the hands of the notorious O'Riordan brothers, and had nobody to fight for her.

Get ready for a thrilling ride through the icy wilderness of Juneau, Alaska. Private investigator Tyrese Randolph and his forensic investigator girlfriend Nicole White are heading to her hometown for a holiday with her eccentric family. But as soon as they arrive, things take a sinister turn. A ferocious wolf attacks them, and they learn about a string of disappearances in the area. Nicole goes missing in the snowy woods when they think it cannot get any worse. With his love in danger, Tyrese must unravel Juneau's dark secrets and navigate Nicole's complicated family dynamics.

When local DJ Travis Jameson is found dead at the radio station, it sends shockwaves through the tight-knit community. Sheriff Frank Miller, a man weary of secrets, is tasked with finding the truth. But as he and journalist Lucy Hartman dig deeper, they uncover more than just a murder. Whispers of a long-buried tragedy begin to resurface—a fire that destroyed the town’s high school decades ago, leaving five students dead. The case was closed, ruled an accident, but the deeper Frank and Lucy look, the more they realize that the fire was anything but.

This Christmas, the stalker is far too close. Photographer Ivy Frost lives for capturing the perfect portrait—until her Secret Santa starts obsessively capturing her. It begins with a letter, then escalates to emails, texts, and more. She’s lonely but these unsettling messages prove she’s never truly alone. The stalker, fixated on the perfect life they never had, knows intimate details about Ivy’s past and stays uncomfortably close to her present. As the messages grow darker, Ivy’s paranoia spirals.

In this brand-new digitally exclusive novella from Edgar Award finalist Mike Lawson, beloved Washington, DC troubleshooter Joe DeMarco finds himself face to face with Ella Fields, a cunning, ruthless woman he thought he’d locked up behind bars for good. Ella Fields was supposed to serve...

Show dogs, pianos, baseball, fainting sofas, knives, guns, theft, ransom, the American Dream, antique Fords, live theater, education, the woods, the water, the mutt, the man with bad knees, the man in a cheap suit, the woman who sings to you, the bloodstained carpet, and the declaration of the greatest firstbaseman of all time.

In a city shrouded in shadows, justice hangs in the balance, and Konnors must unravel the threads of a malevolent plot before it engulfs her. J. Luke Bennecke’s suspenseful style meets a narrative saturated with intrigue, creating a thrilling journey through the relentless tide of crime and the treacherous currents of betrayal. Will Konnors emerge unscathed, or will the shadows claim her as their own?