First Mystery

It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso. McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote compound. But the odds are stacked against him.

Izzie loves nothing more than her three best friends - Viv, Graham, and Harry - and the bond the four of them share. And she's terrified of their friendship falling apart next year when they go off to college. To bind them together, she decides to create something that will belong only to them, a special thing that they'll always share between the four of them. And so they dream up the Order of IV, a secret society devoted to mischief that rights wrongs and pays back debts.

A patient in the intensive care unit, for no apparent reason, begins shooting and kills a nurse and a doctor who are caring for him. Gunfire is exchanged between the patient and a security guard, and they both die. Why did this happen? Where did the patient get the gun?

During his twenty-six-year career, D.C. radio talk show host Rick Jennings has steered clear of outrageous radio. It just wasn't his thing. So when WTLK execs tap him for the Afternoon Circus to land a lucrative satellite deal, Rick struggles to maintain his standards - and his dignity. Soon, a chilling call ("I'm a long-time listener, first time KILLER.") leads to the discovery of an intern's arm in a trashcan.

It was supposed to be a place of healing - a place where doctors and nurses dedicated their lives to helping the sick and injured. Nobody wants to imagine a massacre at a hospital. So at Newton Memorial, staff and patients are left frightened and stunned after the brutal shooting death of Dr. John Connor and an attending nurse. And when Dr. Jack Norris is asked by police to help with the investigation, he will stop at nothing to figure out how a peaceful patient was suddenly turned into a violent killer.

Deep in the heart of the Ozarks, in southern Missouri, there is a beast that is on the hunt. Nothing is safe, and humans seem to be on the menu. Do you have an idea what it is? Do you live in the Ozarks? Do you need to watch over your shoulders, while walking in the woods? Let us find out, and see if it can be stopped.

On the muddy banks of the Calumet River, a body has been found posed next to a series of mysterious glyphs and bearing wounds from a ritualistic slaying. Chicago detective Addie Bisset knows only one man who can decipher the message left by the killer: her friend Dr. Evan Wilding. A brilliant forensic semiotician, Evan decodes the etchings as Viking Age runes. They suggest either human sacrifice or righteous punishment. But to what god? And for what sins? Only one thing is clear from the disturbing runic riddles: there are more victims to come.

From venture capitalist Ben Wiener comes a rollicking debut novel that artfully blends business strategy with murder mystery and keeps you guessing to the very end. Addie Morita, a frustrated young crime researcher, finally gets her big career break when a serial killer targets her successful former classmates from an elite San Francisco Bay Area college. Addie must match wits with both the taunting killer and the intimidating special agent assigned to the case, racing to decipher key clues buried in a famous start-up strategy book - before it’s too late.

The man you love has been murdered. You'd do anything to find out the truth. Wouldn't you? A man lies dead in a hotel room, and the police attend his home address to inform the widow. Nothing unusual, until DC Freya West realises that the victim is the man she has been having an affair with. The...

One dead body. One witness. One answer. Early one morning, DS Robin Butler is summoned to a crime scene. Not as a policeman, but as best friend to renowned meteorologist, Dr Finn Mason. The morning after studying an enormous storm, Finn has locked himself in a van. Bloodied, confused, and with...

Products of their run-down Pennsylvania mining town, three brothers grapple with their lives in decline. Harvey drives a delivery truck; Stevie works odd jobs; and Will is a struggling bar owner whose wife, Laci, is edging toward desperation when her boss offers her more money…for a price. Then, in this tight circle where prosperity is rare - and hope, even rarer - comes a breaking point in a simple but indefensible slight....When Harvey gets shafted by his brother-in-law in a deal over a vintage Indian motorcycle, he enlists the help of Stevie and Will to set things right.

John Jordan's first two cases in one box set. When John Jordan was 12 years old, he came face-to-face with the man who went to prison for the Atlanta child murders. Six years later, John returns to Atlanta to discover the truth. Innocent Blood is both a standalone thriller and the true first book in an electrifying series. And in Power in the Blood, John Jordan, now a prison chaplain in the Florida Panhandle, witnesses the bloody death of Potter Correctional Institution inmate Ike Johnson. But what exactly did he witness? Murder, accident, or suicide?

Reed Montgomery's retirement is doomed to be short-lived. After the CIA receives intelligence from deep inside North Korea of a startling new weapon, President Trousdale green-lights an illegal mission to extract the informant.

Kann man der Person trauen, die man am meisten liebt? Paul Reeve ist auf dem Sprung zu einer großen Karriere als Anwalt, doch als er eines Tages nach Hause kommt, findet er seine Frau blutüberströmt vor. Sie hat mit einem Brieföffner in ihrem Bad einen Einbrecher getötet - aus Notwehr, wie sie behauptet. Paul sieht seine Karriere in höchster Gefahr und beschließt, zu handeln: Die Leiche muss aus dem Haus. Doch das ist nur die erste Lüge, auf die er und seine Frau Alice sich einlassen, und dann steht plötzlich die Polizei vor der Tür.

Salem is a private investigator hired to find a young girl abducted from her school in the middle of the school day. Local authorities have had zero leads and no good suspects for months and have hit a dead-end. Salem has his own theory, but it leads down a much darker path than he anything the local police could imagine or are equipped to deal with. His investigation is nearly cut short before it could really get underway, when on his first night in town, he finds himself trapped at the beginning of a murder investigation; the killer working very hard to make sure he's the prime suspect.

The United States has elected the first female President, who comes from the political establishment inside D.C.’s beltway. Katherine Fontaine and her former Vice President husband bring their dysfunctional personal lives, progressive ideas, and an apologist’s agenda to The Oval Office.

The action heats up in Jacksonville Beach! Clayton Conway and the repo crew are faced with even more peril, both in their careers and personal lives. A woman is found, hidden in a secret compartment of a recovered boat, and looks to be tied to the Orenato Cartel. Is she a spy, or has she truly lost her memory?

A bus-station locker in South Florida is filled with drugs and more than a million dollars in cash. Clayton and his friends need it for their futures, but the Orenato Cartel wants it back. Who will ultimately get the locker open and empty before time runs out? From the author of the award-winning crime thriller series Dirty Deeds comes a new series set in the same world!

Unexpectedly and shockingly, Lucifer is yanked from the depths of Hell by his Father, forced back to his former role in the Garden of Eden. This is no reprieve; it’s a desperate gambit to salvage a dying Paradise, the fragile nexus of Heaven, Hell, and Earth. As he steps into this decaying sanctuary, Lucifer discovers he is far from alone.

Lauren didn’t ask to be a hero. But one night during the graveyard shift at Jodrell Bank, she captured an astonishing fast radio burst from an alien race. And just like that, the fate of the world was thrust into her hands. Now she’s put everything on the line to blow open the conspiracy of silence surrounding UFOs. She's on the run from MI5 and a secret organization determined to stop her. After a year of dead ends and a heart-breaking personal tragedy, she’s on the verge of being forced to abandon her personal crusade.