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Impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green returns and unwittingly puts his daughter, a rookie patrol officer, in the line of fire. Sidelined to administrative duties, Inspector Michael Green misses the thrill of the chase. So, when his daughter Hannah, now a rookie patrol officer, responds to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in a wealthy suburban neighborhood, he is intrigued. Both husband and wife deny a problem and, despite...

THE BIRTH OF A KILLING FRENZY The killer has a pattern. Abduct a girl from a beachside community. Tie her up. Torture her to death. Move north along the coast. Repeat. With each gruesome killing, a clue is delivered to New York City investigator Frank Quinn. The ex-homicide detective understands that the message is more than a taunt. It is an invitation-to play. And the game has just begun...

The past is never over. It's just waiting for an opportunity to return... When the notorious serial killer the Beast of Manchester was captured, the streets should have been safe. Except the police got the wrong man. An innocent person was convicted, and only later was the culprit put away. Now, those connected to the case are being targeted. Someone wants revenge. DI Thomas Ridpath has to relive the horrors all over again. As the bodies stack up...

seven stories involving stormsHellstorm on HelstromYou just can't do some people a favor!Storm Front - Clint FaradayA severe storm, a drug runner, a body – but not the one expected. What was going on?Hate - from Enter Merlin Tyana.Merlin is a mysterious character who appears in a storm to solve or thwart a murder.Hellstorm - Nick StorieHurricanes are bad enough. You don't need a bunch of millionaire nutcases getting murdered in a public shelterFinal...

Amid London's docks and dark alleys, a coroner's officer investigates a murder. The poverty, drunken fights between visiting sailors, drug trafficking, and criminal gangs haunting the shadows of the busiest docks in the world mean that the Coroner sees more than its fair share of sudden and unnatural deaths. But Coroner's Officer May Keaps has never failed to provide a jury with sufficient evidence to arrive at a just verdict. May relishes the responsibility...

Les enquêtes palpitantes du commandant Rosko. Johnny Rosko, commandant de police, et son équipe tentent d'élucider le rapport entre deux crimes, le premier perpétré à Vannes et le second à Grand-Champ. Cette enquête va conduire Rosko à Lorient o il rencontre Jacques Plank. Ce dernier a découvert dans le grenier de la maison héritée de ses parents, un manuscrit inachevé d'un certain Brandon Quint. Profitant de son temps libre de nouveau...

Inspector Ted Stratton returns in a mystery based on real events. It's 1950s London. Beautiful Diana Calthrop, last seen breaking hearts in Laura Wilson's The Innocent Spy as an icily daring MI5 operative in the finest couture, is looking a little tarnished, her famously catastrophic taste in men catching up at last. On the plus side, she has once again bumped into Inspector Ted Stratton, that sturdy, straightforward copper. Could he be her rescuer?...

Detective Mervin Pratt is enjoying a quiet dinner at his favorite Italian restaurant when he's called in to assist at a murder scene at a popular downtown nightclub. The manager has been stabbed to death in his office. The lead investigator, Detective Gordon, no friend of Pratt's, sees it as an open-and-shut case. He has the suspect, motive and even the murder weapon. But Pratt is unwilling to jump to conclusions. When Pratt's young partner, Dave...

Flu season is in full swing, surrounded by germs and illness, SSA Ellie Iverson reacts like any new mom, with hand sanitizer at the ready and a desire to keep away from anti-vaxers. Her newly hatched germaphobia escalates when Delta A is asked to investigate animal rights activists and a missing laboratory monkey. An incident in Lexington, Virginia leaves the Director of the FBI fighting for her life. A sudden violent death of a colleague in Washington,...

A cutthroat Manhattan custody battle leads to kidnapping and murder Rita Galloway is leaving a puppet show when a stranger sprints up to her and snatches her son, Bobby, from her arms. She screams for help, and Bobby is able to wriggle out of the man's grip, but the would-be kidnapper escapes without a trace. It would be just another ordinary Manhattan street crime if it weren't for Rita's estranged husband, heir to one of the wealthiest corporations...