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It is Melbourne 1989. While investigating organised crime, Peter Clancy is caught up in a sinister plot involving drug importation, police corruption and some very kinky sex. Along the way, Peter meets a young lawyer and instantly besotted with her - unlike his friends and colleagues who see something disturbing beneath her wholesome exterior. Enter the world of the thorny devils - where nothing is as it seems. Thornydevils heralds the much anticipated return of hard-living Melbourne Truth journalist, Peter Clancy._,

&ldquo,It was August when our seven-year-old son went missing. On a Tuesday morning in Muskingum, Ohio, trees still green under the punishing late summer sun.&rdquo, And so, Cooper&rsquo,s Moon begins. While teaching philosophy at a small college in central Ohio, Cooper&rsquo,s seven-year-old son, Maxie, is kidnapped, an event that would eventually destroy his marriage, his career, and his mental well-being, taking him from a rural, mid-western town into southeast Florida and into the vicious world of child prostitution, gangs, and church treachery. , , , , , , , , , , , The novel begins with a random shooting in the streets of south Miami where a young boy is killed. Cooper, now a homicide detective with the Miami Police Department, is called to the scene with his partner, Detective Anthony DeFelice. Caught in a shootout with gangbangers, Cooper is wounded and is taken to the hospital. He will remember one of the bangers in a later gunfight in Miami&rsquo,s Gangland. Two weeks later, now recovered from his gunshot wounds, Cooper is called out to investigate the death of a twelve-year-old boy, Ethan Miller, whose body was found in a cemetery in south Miami. Soon after the murder, a teenage girl&rsquo,s body is found in a cemetery in Oceanside, a small city to the south of Miami. This leads Cooper to believe there might be a connection. , , , , , , , , , , , Ethan Miller&rsquo,s murder haunts Cooper, bringing back memories of his own son&rsquo,s disappearance. It&rsquo,s been seven years since Maxie vanished from his own yard. So Cooper, depressed over his failure to find his son, quits the force to focus on Maxie. But he needs money, so he becomes a private investigator and specializes in finding missing people. His first client is the mother of Ethan, the murdered twelve-year-old boy. Cooper&rsquo,s leads take him to a priest who works with kids from t

A high-society murder. A ,spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall?  ,London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she&rsquo,s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job&mdash,looking into the background of her cousin&rsquo,s fiancé,, Alfred. ,Alfred burst into the upper crust world of London&rsquo,s high society, but his answers to questions about his past are decidedly vague. Before Olive can gather more than the basics, a murder occurs at a posh party. Suddenly, every Bright Young Person in attendance is a suspect, and Olive must race to find the culprit because a sly murderer is determined to make sure Olive&rsquo,s first case is her last. ,Murder at Archly Manor is the first in the High Society Lady Detective series of charming historical cozy mysteries. If you like witty banter, glamorous settings, and delightful plot twists, you&rsquo,ll love USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett&rsquo,s series for Anglophiles and mystery lovers alike.Travel back to the Golden Age of detective fiction with Murder at Archly Manor. ,  ,_,

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn',t the first time Erin O',Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn',t prepared for the sheer brutality that',s waiting for her. She and her trusty K-9 Rolf peel back the curtain on a seedy world of human trafficking and murder. In the streets of Little Odessa, Erin finds men who won',t think twice about killing a woman. And this is one place where her gold detective shield will be no protection. ,  ,_,

THE CYBERWORLD IS ABOUT TO UNLEASH HELL UPON THE REAL WORLD -- AND ONLY ONE HACKER CAN STOP IT.Her friends call her &ldquo,Roller&rdquo, because of her wheelchair, but the witty, wise-cracking, pistol-packing agent is better known at the CIA as &ldquo,the Veterinarian.&rdquo, She&rsquo,s the woman dispatched to cage big dogs and bring the bits and bytes to heel.When Roller&rsquo,s superiors discover the balance of power between the U.S. and Russia is about to run off the rails, she&rsquo,s called upon to head a cyber strike team and face off with her arch-nemesis, a female hacker from the depths of the Dark Net. There&rsquo,s $50 billion of oligarch money at play, bitcoins to intercept, and evidence of a surging cyberattack on the global infrastructure that could kill thousands.Some days it just doesn&rsquo,t pay to roll into work.BYTE spirals us into the underworld of cyber criminals who can make kings or break them &ndash, and shatter civilizations in a keystroke._,

Madelaine Jones is working to rebuild the pieces of her life. She is going through the process of becoming a foster mom to a teenage girl who survived a brutal trafficking ring. She is also in the midst of remodeling a new house because her old one was destroyed in an explosion, and she has finally come to terms with her husband&rsquo,s death. In fact, she has found a new love

Someone &hellip, or something &hellip, is stalking the citizens of Miami.First, the chief of the triage morgue at Dade County Hospital is strangled, the skulls of two homeless men are crushed

',Still, he looked for hoof prints, glad there was nobody to laugh at him for doing so. He shaded his eyes and squinted at a dark object, half covered in sand, then began to walk towards it. He should should have been wearing sunglasses to protect his eyes, but he never thought of things like that. It was a women',s coat, black, or at least it has been.',  , A young camel disappears from its trainers paddock and the coat of a murdered women is found abandoned in the sand dunes. These seemingly unrelated events are a far cry from the regular police duties of Constable Chris Blackie and his rookie recruit from Melbourne, Anthea Merritt, in the small seaside town of Queenscliff. Little by little and with a burgeoning sense of menace, these two unlikely detectives carefully navigate the eclectic, often eccentric personalities of the town, as well as the disdain of law enforcement colleagues further afield, to uncover the unsettling truth.  , Described as a ',sea-change mystery', Through a Camel',s Eye deftly juxtaposes the idyllic surroundings of a coastal Victorian town with the gravity of murder. ",Dorothy Johnson stands with the best of Australian crime writers, her exquisite sense of people and place as evocative and compelling as the elegance of her plots.", - Sara Dowse, author of West Block and As the Lonely Fly_,

A pastor with a kind heart. A black op with a deadly aim. All wrapped up in one amazing woman&hellip,.When you&rsquo,ve given your conscience to God and your country is in peril, how fiercely

Madelaine Jones is awakened moments before her farmhouse explodes. Soon after, she discovers a letter that says her husband, who was in the Army, may have died for reasons other than being a war casualty, as she had been told. Determined to find answers, she travels across the Atlantic. Another explosion and a race against time puts this widowed horsewoman in the crosshairs of some very dangerous people who would do anything to stop her from finding the truth._,

When danger lurks in your sleep... dreams aren',t real unless they are when someone wants to watch you drown you better pay attention Sage and Marlow are reunited in this second book of A Nursery Rhyme Mystery series. When Sage',s dreams merge with Marlow',s they know something strange is connecting them. But when the drowning dreams start to come true, Sage wonders if she can prevent her own death. ,Because someone is definitely out to get her. *** A science fiction mystery romantic suspense series from Amazon bestselling author Lee Strauss!_,

When Brooke Adams is found battered, bleeding, and barely conscious, the police are at a loss as to who her attacker is or why she was targeted. Then, PI Rod Morgan turns up convinced that Brooke&rsquo,s attack is the latest in a string of unsolved disappearances dating back thirty-five years. The police, however, aren&rsquo,t convinced, so Brooke and Rod must investigate the cases themselves. As secrets from the past start unravelling, will they find Brooke&rsquo,s attacker before he strikes again, or is that one secret that will stay buried forever?_,

Leona Foxx is a black op with a white collar, who worships at two altars, her country and her God. She fights with ferocity for both.The black op with the white collar, Leona Foxx, takes on renegade Transhumanists making themselves kingmakers by selling espionage technology. Leona',s strategy is to turn superintelligence against itself in order to preserve global peace. Can a mere human prevail against the posthuman? ,If you want to grasp the promises and risks of enhancing human intelligence in a world riddled with competition for supremacy, buy this book._,

Filled with excitement and non stop action, a little boy',s journey becomes more frightening then one can imagine but within, holding the key to courage and goes from a choir boy to a super hero and saves the world. ,I wrote this one when I was a child myself. I never had the proper timing to release it in a world where everything changes so fast. I couldn',t be happier that I did wait before releasing this one.Along with many more of my King novels this one ranks above them all. It',s designed so that even an eight-year old can read it, ,An introduction to the spooky scary books I write.- The real King -_,

All children were a mixture of innocence and guile, Chris Blackie thought, but the innocence had been squashed out of Boby McGilvrey unnaturally young.A shocking murder rocks the quiet coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, a place where police work usually entails minor traffic infringements and dealing with the occasional Saturday night drunk.Local senior constable Chris Blackie and his deputy Anthea Merritt fully expect a murder investigation to be handled by the Criminal Investigation Unit based in Geelong. But they',re blind-sided by the interest shadowy figures from the secret military training base on nearby Swan Island take in the case.Consigned to the edges of the investigation and fearing an imminent wrongful conviction, Chris and Anthea defy their superiors to follow their own lines of enquiry - at great personal risk.A worthy addition to Dorothy Johnston',s sea-change mysteries, The Swan Island Connection follows on from Through a Camel',s Eye, once again bringing Queenscliff to life._,

In this debut novel, a self-righteous team of vigilantes don luchador (Mexican wrestling) masks and bring their own swift brand of violent justice to anyone who would dare harm a child. Their actions however are quickly misinterpreted by the media and attention-starved online followers&hellip, and what was originally meant to halt the cycle of violence, only perpetuates it.  ,_,

Speak easy. Prohibition-era New York swims in a sea of illegal booze and it seems like the party will never end. Even so, dark deeds and bad men lurk behind the good life. Freshly returned from Europe&rsquo,s conflicts, strong and silent Riley wants to rush back to the farm but smooth-talker Cornelius aspires to a new life. As a crime reporter amidst the city&rsquo,s icons, from the Algonquin Round Table&rsquo,s glitterati to the seedy underbelly where deals get done and so do people, Cornelius takes a deadly ringside seat for the unveiling of plans that will change the future of organized crime. Back in Missouri, the daughter he&rsquo,s never seen and a son whose father has yet to come home give Riley the strength to resist the siren call of adventure, though dark scars from the past threaten to surface. When tragedy strikes close to home and Cornelius falls into the clutches of a criminal mastermind, Riley heads east to settle accounts.The city that never sleeps had better watch out. Riley and Cornelius are back! Still traipsing through the 20th Century, they stumble across the secrets behind three of its great unsolved mysteries along the way. Dorothy Parker, Al Capone, Damon Runyon, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein, J.P. Morgan, Albert Anastasia, and a Marx brother or two &mdash, any one of them might make the difference between life and death for our duo._,

THE RED SCARF ,Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, providing plenty of business, but now it&rsquo,s been delayed. , The bank refuses to help, and his brother turns him down. Desperate and on the way back home, he catches a ride with a bickering couple named Vivian and Teece. They start drinking, then Teece gets spooked, and crashes the car. That&rsquo,s when Nichols discovers that his travelling companions have been carrying a briefcase full of cash. Teece appears to be dead, and Vivian confesses that they have robbed the mob, and begs him to help her escape. But to do that, Nichols will have to lie to his wife Bess&hellip,to the cops&hellip,and ultimately, to a very dangerous man named Radan. ,A KILLER IS LOOSE ,Ex-cop Steve Logan is down on his luck. With a baby on the way, Logan decides to pawn his last pistol to a bartender friend. On his way, he rescues a stranger, Ralph Angers, from being hit by an oncoming bus. Angers is an eye surgeon and a Korean War vet, and he has plans to build a hospital in town. Unfortunately, he is also prepared to kill anyone and everyone who gets in the way of his plans. So when Angers manages to get a hold of Logan&rsquo,s Luger, he also drags his rescuer into a nightmare of murder and insanity. Logan becomes a hostage to Angers&rsquo, plans, and there will be no mercy to anyone who gets in his way. , ,_,

AN UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND, AN AGGRIEVED WIFE, AND A CUNNING PLAN FOR REVENGE THAT&rsquo,S TOO CLEVER BY HALF. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?Becky Miller is stunned to discover that her husband, Walter, is having an affair with a scatter­,brained cocktail waitress. In retaliation, she devises a clever plan that will place her philandering husband squarely in the sights of both the police and the IRS before she divorces him and leaves him to the tender mercies of his dopey girlfriend. But as she sets her scheme into motion, things go tragically wrong and Becky winds up a victim of her own carefully-orchestrated plan. Shortly thereafter, a female torso floats to the surface of a Phoenix canal and the case is assigned to hom­,icide detective Sean Richardson and his partner, Maggie McClinton. DNA tests confirm that the victim is Becky Miller. But what seems at first to be a fairly straight-forward investigation turns out to be much more complicated, and as their case becomes increasingly convoluted, Sean and Maggie must sort through the havoc that Becky Miller has left in her wake and somehow find the solution to an especially gruesome crime before anyone else pays the ultimate price for a scheme that&rsquo,s gotten way out of hand.",FATAL BLOW is a meticulous and engrossing procedural &ndash, from the perspective of both the dogged detective and the surprising, enterprising criminal.",&mdash,Lou Berney, Edgar Award winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone&ldquo,Beautifully written and tautly plotted--one of the best procedurals I&rsquo,ve read in years.&rdquo, &mdash, Christine Carbo, Award-winning author of The Wild InsidePraise for the Sean Richardson Series&ldquo,No Place to Die&rdquo, is a two-in-one treat, a convincing police procedural bolted to a nail-biter suspense novel. A good novel gives y

When racktrack owners who have banned prominent race horse owner, Ted Tilley, begin being murdered under strange circumstances, Jack Doyle steps in to tryand solve the crimes. He almost finds more th