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

Detective Joe Kavinsky and his bride Sarah are interrupted in their Bermuda honeymoon by a report of the nearby suicide of Sarah's father.In returning home, they receive wedding photos that include several taken by a bodyguard of a notorious drug lord. Tracking down the photographer leads Joe to nearly swallowing poison at a huge shopping mall and a piano player who helps capture the drug network with some fancy notes. Lots of exciting drama occurs as both local and federal authorites team up to "run down" the clever drug lord and his "kingly" gang. Meanwhile, Joe's uncle Al, the newspaper...

They may be low tech, a little rude, a little crude and not too polished around the edges. Some of them may be a little lacking in people skills. Political correctness is not their strong suit. You won't see them on "Cops," but they handle anything the big city cops do. Their beat is measured in hundreds of square miles, not city blocks. Most of the time, their backup is at least twenty minutes away, if it is available at all. As their Sheriff says, "You do what you're big enough to do." Country cops know that there are many ways to "protect and serve" besides making arrests. They know that...

Grace Akers is hung from a beam over the altar of the Harford Independent Bible Church, and shortly thereafter, on the first day of deer season, her husband is shot dead on the property of the Smiley family. Kate and Ben Pierce, the new owners of a country home in Harford, become involved in the case through Jenny Smiley, the remarkable daughter of Pastor Paul Smiley, after Jenny is attacked in a highly novel way. The only obvious common denominator in the murders is the church. But how could the church possibly be involved?

"How?" is the question that tantalizes Brad Jackson, Pennsylvania...

Deep in the canyons of Wall Street and against the frenzied pace of today's volatile story-driven trading, a predator seeks revenge against the industry's top investment analysts, killing only during the volatile triple-witching hour, at the close of each quarter's third Friday. If the crime spree isn't stopped soon, the City's tough anti-crime Mayor says he'll close down "the street," an event that could send global markets reeling.

Working against time and the market, brusque Lieutenant Al Mason of the 16th precinct - a neophyte when it comes to the fast-track world of securities, equity...

Matheson Draper ruled a global business empire. His shiny black trucks, planes, and ships traveled the far reaches of the world. A remorseless sexual deviate, he went to great lengths to promote and expand his corporate interests. But sometimes a man's power can corrupt more than just himself.

Todd Milton, state agent for the Montana Criminal Investigation Bureau, was no stranger to murder investigations, but who would want to kill one of the world's richest men? Or maybe it might be easier to figure out who wouldn't.

From the high peaks north of Yellowstone to the quiet suburbs of New...

A serial killer is targeting cops in a Chicago suburb, and Detective Joe Garrett is determined to discover his identity before another one of his fellow police officers is murdered. A hardened investigator, Garrett follows a string of murders spanning four decades, once every five years to the date. With his own personal problems, and the holidays closing in, Garrett discovers time is a more precious commodity than he ever anticipated. Every clue he finds seems to lead to a dead end.

Choosing to research potential victims by riding with the patrolmen he figures are prime targets, the...

Jay Sand moves to a small city in Nebraska looking forward to his new job in the district attorney's office. He soon becomes the target of assassins and Sergeant Cindy Jackson is assigned to work out of his office and watch his back.

They stumble onto a multiple homicide in progress and are caught up in the search for the killers.

The pursuit takes them from a gun battle on the streets of Omaha to a jail break in Harrisburg as they stay one step ahead of organized crime and an intelligence spook gone bad.

This is a story of contemporary fiction about two professional crime fighters,...

Michelle Burns, Philadelphia Police Lieutenant, like other female African American lieutenants without a squad to command, was buried behind a desk in homicide. That all changed when the third body was found in Fairmount Park's nature trails. Three young African American males mutilated and left with no clues.

When the political heat hit the fan, Michelle is assigned to her first command to lead the newly formed task force to solve these murders, against the wishes of some members of the department.

The investigation takes a personal turn, when Michelle, along with her dog Maxwell,...

Discretion is the key word two young rookies on the New York Police Department must employ. The West Bronx natives have dreamt of becoming members of the prestigious NYPD since childhood, but their reality is turning into a nightmare. Jim Mackery subdues a cop killer in his road to detective, but his best friend Frankie Driscoll ends up in prison. Driscoll's undercover detail must be kept from Mackery and mistrust creates a rift in the friendship until a rogue police sergeant, pedophile priest and shared childhood secret loom large in the investigation of a runaway's murder.

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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...