Police Adventures

The quiet of Longboat Key, Florida, is shattered when an old man is shot to death and his murderer is killed while fleeing the police. Strange documents in German and Arabic are found in the killer's car then an old friend of the murdered man disappears. As the mystery deepens, a ragtag group of devious and dangerous characters intrudes on the lives of the islanders, creating a kind of havoc unusual for a sun-splashed island full of retirees and beach bums.

Imprisoned for the attempted murder of a federal agent, Gabe Quinn is keen to make amends for his mistakes - so when a gruesome murder forces his freedom, he is determined to do everything in his power to bring the killer to justice and prove himself to the FBI. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the killer has something else in mind for Gabe Quinn, something that will raze everything he loves to the ground.

Join Captain Hamish Columbo, the kilted captain of cops from Kilcaldy, in this final book of the Time Police trilogy. We see the return of the arch villain Sergei Herbert Draco as he attempts to alter the history of mankind. Meet Leonardo DaVinci, Dick Whittington, and other famous historic characters, as they unwittingly become part of the cat and mouse chase along the corridors of time, with Captain Columbo in the continual struggle to outwit the evil Draco and his followers: the Draconians.

No one thinks a 17-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan; she's tough, clever and beautiful ¿ and she's determined that nothing will stand in her way. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable: the queen and king of organised crime. But notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put away Maura once and for all ¿ and not everyone in the family thinks that's such a bad idea.

Sherlock Holmes is at it again. Mrs. Warren, a London lodging-house keeper, comes to Holmes with a curious story of a reclusive and eccentric tenant. Mrs. Warren's husband has been abducted and then quickly released again, perhaps a case of mistaken identity. Holmes decides the case is more important than it appears.

El inspector Villanueva ha vuelto a recibir una llamada desde Sevilla: "¿Por qué me llama, Jiménez? ¿Ha cantado José Manuel Poto?" "Tiene varios discos Villanueva, pero del cante que nos interesa de Poto todavía no hay novedad, sigue en la cárcel sin decir ni media. Le llamo por otra noticia mucho peor, me temo."

The hunt for a cop killer in New York throws up all the horrors of the Vietnam War. An NYPD procedural introducing Detective Michael Casoni.

When young girls start showing up dead in family-friendly locations around the city, Detective Deidre Tordano is called to solve the case. But between similarities to her daughter and the case getting close to home, does she have what it takes to find the culprit?

When called to Kansas City by Judge Chamber, Deputy Marshal Cotton Cooper is given three warrants. One for Clive Pepper, one for his brother Toad Pepper and-- a warrant for Angela Stone. A young woman that was raped by the Pepper brothers. After recovering from the rape, Angela Stone strapped on a .45 and went out to kill all the Pepper brothers. She found one, Scratch, challenged him and when he went for his gun she shot him. His girlfriend claimed that Angela shot him in the back. That's why there was a warrant for Angela.

Detective Nikki Evelyn Armstrong, a decorated member of the United States Navy and the New York City Police Department, stood at the site of the freshly dug grave surrounded by its moist piles of dirt. She reflected on what most thought to be a promising career.

A trail robbery and multiple murders end up as the problem of Ranson Nye, town marshal of Temptation, Texas. This town built in the hopes of taking the last dollars from tired cowboys headed back home after cattle drives to Kansas is becoming more than it ever intended to be. When a newspaper comes to town, almost everything changes for this dusty little spot on the Red River across from The Indian Territory. When Mother Nature intervenes, tragedy brings out secrets and hidden talents. Add a Texas Ranger to the mix and we have Bad News in Temptation.

When the latest in a series of dead bodies turns up in the Chicago River, newspaper reporter Alex Chapa and Police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels reluctantly join forces. Thriller writers J.A. Konrath ( Whiskey Sour, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb) and Henry Perez ( Killing Red) and their series characters have teamed up to create FLOATERS, a mystery tale that combines humor with thrills.

In the wake of a disastrous firefight with a Mexican cartel, two El Paso police officers find themselves in a military hospital facing a debriefing about what went wrong. As their accounts unfold, Tony, a by-the-book cop, begins to believe that hotheaded Matt might have divided loyalties. Could he have intentionally led the team into a trap that saw the death of a beloved senior officer? Or is the truth even more terrifying than Tony dares to imagine?

Detectives Dominic Trejo and Alexandra Okada search for a famous rock ’n' roll guitarist who vanished just before his new tour kicked off. The Case of the Missing Rocker is a short mystery set in a near-future science-fiction Los Angeles.

"The Adventure of the Red Circle" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of eight stories in the volume, His Last Bow. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction.