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Sun-filled Sarasota, Florida, is up to its lovely hips in murder. Not the run of the mill household variety, these are vicious. Attorney David Winter receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a distraught woman worried about her missing son. He takes the case and he soon finds himself up to his ears in sex-trafficking, kidnapping, and hunted by the Arab Mafia.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

¿Dónde está Megan? La adolescente de diecisiete años Megan Carver ha desaparecido. No parecía el tipo de persona que se escaparía de casa: era una estudiante de excelentes calificaciones, provenía de un hogar feliz y rara vez se metía en problemas. Seis meses después, aún no la han encontrado. Desesperados, los padres de Megan contratan al investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker para averiguar lo que sucedió. Raker, que no es ajeno al dolor y la pérdida, sabe que para encontrarla tendrá que adentrarse en un mundo oscuro que podría costarle la vida.

Enterró a su hijo. Pero acaba de verlo vivo. Hace un año, se encontró el cuerpo de Alex Towne. Hace un mes, su madre lo vio en la calle. Hace una semana, David Raker aceptó investigarlo. Ahora, desearía no haberlo hecho. El hijo de Mary Towne, Alex, desapareció hace seis años. Cinco años después, se encontró su cadáver calcinado en un accidente de coche. El investigador de personas desaparecidas David Raker cree que la mujer es incapaz de dejar marchar a su hijo, pero, atormentado por su propia pérdida, acepta a regañadientes reabrir el caso. Gran error.

Over the years, David Winter’s seen his share of pain. Everything from arsenic laced potato soup to exploding outhouses. The latter wounded him and draped him in nightmares. He wanted to sell his firm and do nothing more than chase down dead-beat husbands for back alimony and live out his life in Florida, but fate turned him to Arizona.

When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and a series of murders which get dangerously personal. Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it all behind. His years as a Washington, DC...

Fanget i en rigmands soveværelse overværer indbrudstyven Luther Whitney et brutalt overfald og mord på millionærens unge kone. Overfaldsmanden er USA's præsident. Whitney flygter med en blodig papirkniv, der kan forbinde præsidenten til mordet, og snart er han jaget vildt. Jack Graham er en succesrig advokat for finansverdenens top. Alligevel bliver han blandet ind i den lyssky affære, da Whitney kontakter ham. Med kontakten følger et møde med Whitneys datter, en idealistisk kvinde og Jacks tidligere forlovede. Jack kastes ud i et kapløb mod tiden for at afsløre magtens korruption.

Tra colpi di scena e antichi segreti da svelare, un giovane archeologo si ritroverà suo malgrado nelle vesti di investigatore privato. Valerio Guerra è un giovane archeologo disoccupato che cerca di sbarcare il lunario con lavoretti precari. Quando viene rinvenuto il cadavere di una ragazza di un'importante famiglia del varesotto, gli inquirenti convocano Valerio per avvalersi del suo parere esperto: un misterioso anello longobardo è stato infatti ritrovato sul luogo del delitto e lui potrebbe rivelarsi utile alle ricerche.

Michelle Maxwell er indlagt efter de traumatiske oplevelser i forbindelse med hende og makkeren Sean Kings sidste sag. Mens Michelle kæmper med sine dæmoner, bliver King kontaktet af et hemmelighedsfuldt selskab, der vil have ham til at undersøge de mystiske omstændigheder omkring en af deres topmatematikeres død. Snart bliver Sean blandet ind i en verden af elitefysikere og -matematikere, CIA- og FBI-agenter, spioner, krigshelte og meget mere.

Året er 1949. Aloysius Archer er en ærlig mand, han er krigsveteran fra Anden Verdenskrig, og så er han netop blevet prøveløsladt efter at have været fængslet for en forbrydelse, han ikke havde begået. Udstyret med en lang liste med regler for prøveløsladte begynder han sit nye liv i Poca City. Han får et job som gældsinddriver for byens største forretningsmand. Men jobbet viser sig ikke at være så ligetil, som det ser ud.

Sometimes, the terrorists that get the news headlines aren't necessarily the ones we need to worry about. When Sam and his team go up against a whole new group, he learns firsthand just how dangerous it can be to square off against people whose disregard for life is surpassed only by their desire for power. Unfortunately, the only way to trap these particular monsters is by baiting the trap with some of the most dangerous weapons the world has ever produced.

When a man careens off the road into the frigid waters of the Chautauqua River, Chief Detective David Wolf risks his own life to bring the man to shore. News of Wolf's bravery travels fast through the burgeoning ski town of Rocky Points, Colorado, and before long he's pulled into the political grinder, where candidates are eager to exploit Wolf's character for their own gain.

David Mason, up-and-coming detective in the Houston Police Department, has a career that's on a meteoric rise. Now he faces two of the toughest challenges of his life. First, he has to decide if he will violate the code that Texas police officers all adhere to, protect their brother officers. He believes fellow officers have committed a homicide. If he turns them in, he'll face the wrath of the officers in the department.

In Bergoo, West Virginia, legends swirl and the past is never far away. A week away seems the best cure for what ails Dave Winter’s marriage. He can go fishing with an old Army buddy, Mark, while his wife can visit her family. Yet the town of Bergoo isn’t quite as welcoming as it first appears and it isn’t long before things start to go incredibly wrong. A night of Bourbon flavored reminiscing resolves in a morning with Mark gone, strangers in the cabin and the beginning of a violent and deadly adventure.

Attorney David Winter kicks back on the Florida beach, soaking in the sunshine and watching the ladies stroll by. When his old Army buddy, Sean, asks him to defend his aunt in a murder case, David doesn’t think twice and leaves the sun and sand for Missouri’s ice and snow to help his old pal. Seems Aunt Sharon’s pastime was killing husbands and getting rich off their insurance policies. The more David investigates, the more accomplices keep coming out of the woodwork.

Chief Detective David Wolf's son has a new girlfriend, and when she discovers her father-a well known man in ancient fossils trade circles-has been murdered, she and the rest of her shattered family turn to Wolf to bring them justice.

Llevamos a Europa a la sala de operaciones y la abrimos en canal. Metemos las manos en la herida y acercamos la luz a los grandes órganos enfermos. Nos damos cuenta de que las lesiones son tantas y tan profundas que no merece la pena intervenir. Guardamos el bisturí y nos limitamos a señalar...

This is the nine-book series of comedy-mysteries featuring the tough and crass, wise-cracking private detective who happens to be a hugely successful ladies' man. In a series of tales involving murder, blackmail, and other assorted acts of violence and deceit, Brett learns the hard way that there's a steep price to be paid for being such an unscrupulous bastard. Not recommended for the politically-correct crowd.

A gripping novel about a man trying to escape his violent past and soon becomes a murder suspect when a publisher—and the husband of the woman he's having an affair with—turns up dead. The man who calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by living a quiet, anonymous life...

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. Now paroled and having learned Windom had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West.