Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Conor Gifford's peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleases hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason's wrath, a killer strikes five times in six short hours. His victims include a world famous billionaire, a high tech millionaire, a local developer, a simple realtor and the Chairman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Gifford, the Chief of the Loudoun Sheriff Department's Investigative Division, and his ten man detective squad confront a serial killer...

Detective Sara Mackenzie James, Mac to her friends, was in control of her life. She called the shots, and she made the rules. Or so she thought. She believed this until she read the "Tribune" headlines and felt her whole life begin to fall apart. For fifteen years Sara had chased a serial killer that had eluded capture. Now, the headlines trumpeted his return as a series of new murders began to transpire along the I-70 Corridor. But, are the headlines right?

As Sara digs deeper into the case she soon discovers there is more to what is going on than what the headlines indicate. In the...

"Race Traitors" portrays the thrilling and compelling exploits of two African American police detectives assigned to Chicago's Gang Intelligence Unit--two men who witness the apocalyptic suffering of a community and its residents.

Bound by their oath to protect life and property, these detectives are committed to their pledge to protect and serve. In an attempt to deal with the physical and psychological stress of their job, they battle those who have sworn to destroy their community. Entrenched in the struggle to overcome the gang's hold on the community, they are forced to become...

Seattle Police Detective Riley Davis rescues a small boy when he bolts into the street in the popular Pike Place Market. Detective Davis meets the boy's mother, Jill Preston, Architect, and gets invited to a gala dinner where Jill, her ex-mother-in-law, her dead husband's mistress, and the city's elite gather. When one of the dinner guests is shot in the Market, Detective Davis finds himself investigating the beautiful Jill Preston for murder. Jill becomes the target of a murder attempt, and the detective turns his sleuthing skills toward other members of the socially prominent group at the...

It all seemed so routine, the old lady dead in her bed, the grieving nephew and his lovely wife arranging a quick and quiet burial, with the seasoned undertaker and his policeman pal lending sympathetic service to their visitors from out of town. But then Sammy Vanderhove and Chief Earl stir up the whole thing by finding the old Caddy with its trunk full of shiny gold bars in the garage behind the former movie star's house. When Nathan Corso's gorgeous wife finds out about the diamonds, the ones the old lady had secretly stashed, well, she just has to have them. After all, Nathan is the only...

Pasadena Police Detective Roy Gildard finds himself on a collision course with the ruthless gangster, Johnny "One Shot" King. Roy is determined to catch Johnny, whose vicious gang, the P-9s, gets involved in a turf war with the Squiggly Lane Gangsters.

In the meantime, Roy finds true love and a deeper meaning to his life when his cop friend and ex-lover, Mary Eloyan, sets him up with the pretty but troubled LA Sheriff's Deputy Laura Reel.

Helping Roy battle the gangsters is veteran training officer, George Denney, a suspected racist who gets a soft spot for his rookie trainee, the...

"The Scarce Man" centers on Agent Mike Rawlings of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He is Minnesota's top murder detective and is nearing retirement when he's called in to handle the most baffling and dangerous case of his career. Someone with a violent M.O. is killing certain people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Rawlings deduces that the murders are politically motivated, but what he doesn't know is that the killer, who in the days following 9/11, has become obsessed with the idea that he alone can begin a chain of events that will launch the social revolution he believes...

After Heidi Conner discovers the body of her boyfriend, Drake Bloom, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

When Sergeant Ronny Wallace is called out to the scene of the crime, he is painfully reminded of his first case as a rookie and the woman whose life he could not save. As the investigation continues, Ronny is devastated as he realizes that this latest case is somehow connected to his first case nearly fifteen years prior. Compelled to protect Heidi despite her obvious guilt, Ronny is torn between his devotion to her and his duties as a police officer.

"Fallen Copper" is a mystery thriller based on case history files from the San Francisco Police Department. In this 1950's who-dunnit, in a city racked with scandal and corruption, Patrolman Frank Ahern becomes Chief of Police and a rookie cop takes the fall for political expediency.

The mystery is built around an apparent suicide in a hotel room. The room is double-locked from the inside. A large sum of embezzled money is missing. Was there a crime? A murder?

"Fallen Copper" opens with the outbreak of WWII and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Miles Manner's military duty in Japan and his...

Five years prior, a merchant marine is murdered. Political forces at work cause the case to be unsolved and forgotten. Aiden O'Brien is a retired cop turned private detective. He works cold cases on the side for the New Jersey Deputy Attorney General's office. O'Brien, following leads, uncovering evidence, and using all of his senses, brings the case to a surprising and exciting conclusion.

At an exclusive Long Island yacht club, a police lieutenant and his investigator are trapped in a web of disappearances and deaths that link club members to Washington, the Coast Guard, and the underworld. An excerpt from "Unsafe Harbor"-- "Cautious, he headed for shore and shallow water dragging the line. The magnet and object moved without encountering rock. Having no desire to share his treasure, Luke searched the shore, the bluffs and tree line to assure no one watched. This will be a secret for now. Seeing no one, he smiled from greed and scolded himself. At 6-feet depth, he saw the...

When FBI agent Dylan Thomas steps back into the spotlight, he is smothered by his past. He must overcome his fears and surmount his nightmares as he accepts a new mission that'll endanger him and his men. But as time progresses he finds it harder to concentrate on the things he adores the most. In desperation, he is forced to follow his instincts and gain the trust of his agents as the crime of jealousy befuddles the American people. In the end, two governments sit and wait as a disloyal deed is potentially disrupted.

"Unconsciously, she tried to pass her damp tongue over her dry upper lip-her tongue was cut short by thick tape. Terry Mitchel was confused. The sound of tinkering caught her ear. It reminded her of her father in the garage on a Saturday afternoon when she was a young girl in Ohio. The comforting memory gave her great pain. Her reflex effort to wipe her mouth was stopped by a chain and dog collar shackling her hand. She knew her father wasn't around. Consciousness set in, revealing her desperate situation. The taste and smell of stale beer and chloroform quickly became insignificant when she...

Amy Page, a middle-aged American widow and food columnist from Charleston, South Carolina, is in Paris to write a cookbook. Her lengthy stay in the City of Lights suddenly takes an unexpected turn when a cab driver is murdered in front of her building on the Ile St-Louis.

Jean-Michel Jolivet, Inspector for the French Surete and Director of the International Bureau of Security, insists that Amy is essential to solving his ever-widening investigation that now involves several murders and an international plot. While interrogating Amy, Jolivet becomes increasingly annoyed with her incessant...

In this mystery, the second in a series, curiosity about an old flame leads interim Sheriff Conor Gifford to accept an invitation to participate in a Richmond conference which in turn ensnares him in a dubious investigation at the behest of a lame duck governor. Avaricious speculators, ambitious politicians, conniving bureaucrats and a mysterious internal affairs investigator independently contrive self-serving schemes that merge in a maze of conflicting chaos. Gifford, intent on avoiding the political morass, diligently pursues the killer of a seemingly innocent low-level civil servant and...

First in the series to wet your appetite is "Stardom Kills." A flowing page-turner intertwined with a plot mix of engrossing characters: Hollywood's Elite, Celebrities, Media Hounds and Shady Mortals-will all keep you enthralled and guessing.

Henry Tyler and his wife Barbara, who reside in La Jolla, CA since Henry's retirement, are back in L.A. vacationing with their son and daughter-in-law at the famous Beverly Hills Hotel.

Famous guests in the hotel include Pop Diva Alicia Hill, who is relaxing while promoting her newest smash album.

On Alicia's big night of jubilation sponsored by...

There is something unusual about the trees in Oakville. An old Indian legend has it that these are spirit trees and keepers of the town's secrets. When a volunteer fundraiser for the high school's thespian group dies under mysterious circumstances, the police chief and a housewife start an investigation that uncovers not only the town's secrets, but also its dreams, and often deadly games.Set in 1979 in Michigan, Oakville is about a time as much as a place, gone now, but still remembered.