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

"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.

Jelly Lovejoy, a weary young police detective in Warden, Georgia, takes off a mental health day at the demand of his chief. Jelly decides to wander about his hometown and county talking with lover, friend and foe, listening for clues, current and legendary, about the mysteries that confront him and his hometown.

Near the Florida line, semi-tropical Warden struggles with festering social problems beneath the postcard veneer of a sleepy old county courthouse, a restored downtown commercial square and the apparently prosperous retail franchise sprawl of its outskirts. Immigration of Mexican...

"Cal was reaching behind his jacket to pull his gun back out when the man kicked him in the stomach. The kick came with such an impact that his hands instinctively went to the front of his torso. Trying to gasp for breath he could hear the men struggling. Bar stools were being knocked over and bottles were shattering all around. The officers towards the back of the bar were running to assist but were fighting through screaming customers who were just as desperate to get out.
Cal struggled through the pain of getting a breath back into his lungs. He reached for his gun. Just as his hand...

A late-night phone call awakens Inspector Jean-Michel Jolivet and his irrepressible American friend, Amy Page: a man has been found brutally murdered at the foot of the Pont Louis-Philippe. Curiously, the body has been posed theatrically, perhaps to send a message.

Amy is surprised to discover that the victim is an acquaintance of hers and that she may have been the last person to see him. As she and Jean-Michel sift through codes, ciphers, and more violent murders, they uncover an international struggle for control of the new designer drug Bliss.

Were it not for her deepening...

New York City, 2004. Shortly after New York City rocker Tommy Peterson of The Winding Roads accepts an award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gala at The Waldorf-Astoria, the guitar legend is found brutally murdered the next day inside his recording studio apartment in the West Village. Nothing is taken but the way in which Peterson was murdered raises questions as to what the killer's motives were.

Veteran rock journalist Tony Russo is devastated after hearing the tragic news of his friend of thirty years. But after NYPD detective and rock fan Caitlin O'Connell discovers Russo was...

Suspense surrounds detective Joe Kavinsky in his rush to answer numerous crucial questions-including whether to help rescue his uncle Al who has been comatose for a very long time-or if Al's life support should be removed as some 'pro-activists" want. His uncle-an investigative reporter-has been struggling for life since being overdosed in a hospital after minor surgery. Why and how did this happen?.and who's to blame?

But Joe can't wait for answers. He's been warned by a noted physician that Al will be brain dead if special treatment is delayed any longer. Fighting time, criminal...

"The fifth Humboldt Prior mystery" is a story of economic greed, murder, intellectual racism, and more murder. A casualty of a traumatic, Silicon Valley corporate takeover, Humboldt Prior, now 60 years old, relocates to his midwestern hometown, where he has been offered a position as a university lecturer on information technology. There he finds himself entwined in a pair of mysterious crimes, one scientific, and one financial, and both leading to murder. At the request of high government officials, Prior acts alone, unknown to his college and local police authorities. His only help comes...

A seemingly inexplicable murder has occurred in a small Northern California town. Its bizarre nature draws an aging, retired FBI agent from his self-imposed exile into the fray of the chase. Unlike any case he has encountered, this murder could have been committed by three suspects, in three different ways. The convoluted truth of the case will change his life forever and launch him into a new career.