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Greenwashing, corporate intransigence and bloody secrets. Maggie Cloete is back. After working in Berlin and Joburg, she returns to present-day Pietermaritzburg as the day news editor for The Gazette. When a well-known environmentalist commits suicide, Maggie finds herself caught in the crossfire of conflicting interests. This escalates as loggers for Sentinel, a local paper company, unearth a gruesome find in the forest. As South Africa',s present confronts its past, Maggie faces the most bitter surprise of her life._,

4 CITIES, 4 LIVES, 1 CRIME - In Madrid, an Argentinian bookseller gets caught up in the scheme of an American professor to prevent an appalling crime. Her sidekicks soon include a Gambian migrant in Paris and a Spanish waitress in London. Seeking some sort of companionship in their exiles, the four characters join forces in a quest that becomes a dangerous obsession. All four lives seem to be fatefully connected. But how to get people to take the crime seriously if it does not yet exist? In Buenos Aires, the criminals are remorselessly pursued. They cross paths with a Nigerian judge, the wife of one of General Francos thugs, a caretaker to the wealthy, and Peter Halbtsen, an expert in Chinese culture. It is early March 2004. Halbtsen has spent years deciphering a book which may hold the key to the mystery. But where is the crime? Who is the criminal? And can anything be done to prevent humanity from reaping the whirlwind?_,

A shooting in downtown Providence possibly connected to an insurance and inheritance fight after a boat explosion with a woman missing at sea, basketball and radio memories, flavors from local restaurants.The sixth book in the New England Mystery series featuring Vermont&rsquo,s Michael Hanlon and Louie Ragsdale, this story is a fictional account of events that you may have read about in recent years. ,_,

Polo on the Pacific Coast of Mexico is high-speed fun. Jack and Penny Battle leave San Miguel to join the players and sponsors at San Pancho Resort. They find that murder has distracted the powerful Gustios family from its favorite sport. A long-missing and murderous Gustios brother must be nearby, but which claimant is he, and is he more dangerous than ever? Glamorous places and nasty people. A chase to Budapest, Jack locked in an Aztec vault, and an alpha dog are exciting. A bloody ending in a spooky house in Mexico City leaves us wondering which character is the real villain._,

FBI informer and novice bounty hunter Richard Stern returns in this explosive second novel of the Richard Stern Series. A terrorist attack at the nuclear power plant in Perry, Ohio, ends when a bomb prematurely explodes, killing three female terrorists. The authorities believe all of the criminals in this particular terrorist cell have been accounted for, but further investigation proves them wrong

A terrorist bomb destroys a corporate jet, and a reluctant Conor Gifford, the Chief of the Office of Special Investigations, is thrust into an investigation that takes him to picturesque but bloody Kashmir where he is greeted with disdain and encouraged to withdraw. With a solitary Indian Special Branch shadow as his only companion, Gif stubbornly ignores the advice and warnings of competing Indian and American investigators and eventually follows a trail that takes him to Karachi, Islamabad and Reston, Virginia. Gif uncovers two vital clues which he turns over to the FBI investigative team. A distracted Gifford eagerly withdraws from the hunt for the bomber and hurries back to Richmond only to have the governor dispatch him to Virginia Beach to join a hunt for a serial killer. Before Gif is able to fully engage with the search for the serial killer, an eccentric billionaire contrives Gifs return to the quest for the bomber. Forced to balance the pressures of two distracting investigations, Gif commutes between Washington, D.C., Richmond, and Virginia Beach until assistance from two unlikely sources lead him two very dissimilar antagonists. Both investigations culminate in one tumultuous weekend._,

Who is Matthias Jones and what is he doing here? Jones is not a forensic expert or a crackerjack private investigator. He does not possess overwhelming analytical abilities and relies on hunches called side road theories. Jones does not seek to solve murder cases, but is inexorably drawn into the accumulating evidence. The people that drop into his murder investigations appear to be bumblers and are terribly annoying, yet they contribute surprisingly cogent assessments of the crime. When the Fletcher patriarch is murdered, Jones suspects Fletchers only daughter, the Fletcher company controller, and Thurmond, a wild, gun-toting neighbor._,

Forced to leave the department due to the death of his uncle by gang members Sam, a former Bi-racial Sergeant of Youngstown Police Dept. for ten year, is now a Private Investigator. Together with Shorty, a Black ex-navy seal and bounty hunter turned Private Investigator, they form a very lucrative agency. Called on by a friend of Sams uncle to investigate the death of his son whose bullet riddled body was found in a car that was set on fire in a predominantly white neighborhood of town, the case takes the two into the underworld of the privileged young. Along the way, the two are joined by RJ of the local police and Marcella, an FBI agent out of Columbus. Marcellas interest in the case becomes apparent as she tells the story of corruption in Columbus that mirrors the incident that Sam and Shorty are investigating. While Marcella and RJ are bound legally to follow the letter of the law, Sam and Shorty use their creative and unique ways of investigation to get to the bottom of this homicide. As Sam and Shorty get deeper into their investigation, they realize there is more to this killing than meets the eye. Things really heat up when Jackie, Sams significant other, is kidnapped. Coupled with leads from informants, the duo race against time to find Jackie before its too late._,

Andy Meltan, a gifted, nationally renowned author and consultant, enjoys a luxurious life with his wife and daughter in Solana Beach, California. He appears to have it all but is beleaguered by The B.F.-The Bad Feelings-that haunt him from childhood. Growing up in poverty in DuVal, New York, Andy and his alter ego now coexist with memories of The Event, a brutal teenage attack seventeen years ago that is still so disturbing

Please dont kill me! Please dont kill me! His victims will plead for their lives. His victims are mostly unassuming, everyday people, yet he is not picky. He will dabble in killing prostitutes, cops and whoever dares to cross him. Silas is a man filled with pure unremorseful revenge. The police seem baffled at the killings this sort of thing just dont happen here. If not here, where? The killer tends to play Cat and Mouse with the authorities daring them to find him. No one is safe, a town will be turn up side down. The frenzy of this killer will grow with every victim. His time to shine is now!_,