Vigilante Crime

Lexi Winter is tough, and has stood on her own two feet since childhood, when she was a victim of notorious paedophile: the Spider. All she cares about now is a roof over her head and her long-term relationship with Johnny Walker. She isn't particular about who she sleeps with...as long as they pay before leaving. Lexi is also an ace hacker, tracking and entrapping local paedophiles and reporting them to the cops. When she finds a particularly dangerous paedophile who the police can't touch, she decides to gather enough evidence to put him away. Instead, she's a witness to his death.

I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge. All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw. I never meant to hurt her. To push her. As she lay at the bottom of the stairs, blood pooling around her head, I knew it was the end for me too. I kept expecting the knock on the door, the police, the handcuffs. But it never came. On the news, they are reporting someone has come forward and confessed to her murder. But that can't be true. Because her killer is me.

As dusk falls the night before the trial of notorious crime boss Thomas Unwin, the prosecution’s star witness is brutally murdered, his killer escaping in plain sight from a secure hotel. Detective Rick Turner spent months building the case against Unwin, and he’s not willing to give up now. But Unwin has one final trick up his sleeve to turn the trial in his favour: he has Rick’s girlfriend, Jess, kidnapped in a plan to coerce Rick into throwing his own testimony.

Der sechzehn Jahre alte Teenager Lola van Black und ihre sechs Jahre jüngere Schwester Emilia verlieren durch einen Amoklauf ihre Eltern. Sie werden zunächst in einem Amsterdamer Waisenhaus aufgenommen. Doch als Lola siebzehn wird, darf sie mit ihrer Schwester unter Auflagen ins elterliche Haus zurück, welches die beiden nun geerbt haben. Emilia wird für Lola in der nächsten Zeit der einzige Grund, nicht den Verstand zu verlieren. Als Emilia schließlich an ihrem achtzehnten Geburtstag von einer Gruppe Männer getötet wird, gerät Lolas Leben erneut ins Wanken.

Dennis and Sarah Coleman wake up one Sunday to find the message "You’re all grounded!" on both of their phones. They at first think it’s a prank, but they soon figure out that they and their two young children are locked in the house and their communications with the outside world have been severed. They then get a phone call and learn that they are at the mercy of a psychopath hell-bent on punishing them for their sins. They must do as he says if they ever want to leave their house alive.

When Gemma Kline is reported missing after setting off on a solo hike in the remote Pennines, her sister, Sarah, is dumbfounded. How can someone disappear without a trace? Travelling to the isolated town where Gemma was last seen, Sarah discovers it’s not the first time a young woman has vanished from the hills in mysterious circumstances. As she digs deeper, it quickly becomes apparent that neither disappearance is what it first seems – especially when unwelcoming locals share chilling tales about what’s really lurking on the moors.

Vigilante assassin Silence Jones is accustomed to hunting people who escaped justice. But nothing can prepare him for the depths of deceit he’s about to face. People are being murdered across the United States, and law enforcement is powerless to stop it. The victims’ only connection: they’re all survivors of a military training disaster years earlier.

You don't lead a life full of action and close scrapes without making a few enemies. This is the hard lesson ex-boxer and retired fixer Shelby Alexander learns when he travels to his boyhood town in northern Michigan to "settle down". As it happens, the bad guys have other ideas. This explosive four-book collection is a roller-coaster ride filled with drama, innuendos, twists and turns, secrets, and betrayal, and a bombshell ending that will leave you spinning.

Being a cop was never something that Riley was very good at. But now, as she must become a vigilante to clear her name, she finds new reserves of strength and courage, all with a healthy dose of sarcasm. With her name and photo splashed across the nightly news, Riley should leave the city ASAP. Instead, she decides to stay undercover and track down the real killer. But somebody knows that Riley is still in the game, and soon the police are the least of her worries as a sexy assassin starts closing in. Can she become the hero the city needs without getting herself killed?

Violetta Morgenstern, Pensionärin und kreative Auftragskillerin im Namen des Staates, kommt in arge Bedrängnis, als ausgerechnet ihr Freund eliminiert werden soll. Die Situation gerät völlig außer Kontrolle, und plötzlich steht Violetta selbst auf der Todesliste. Von den eigenen Leuten gejagt, taucht sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Kollegen, Ex-Söldner Miguel Schlunegger, unter. Das mörderische Duo sorgt nun aus dem Untergrund heraus auf eigene Faust für Gerechtigkeit.

Millie Masters spielt mit dem Feuer "Warst du auch schon einmal auf einem seltsamen Date? Kannst du den creepy Typen an der Bar nicht loswerden? Hast du Angst, auf dem Heimweg verfolgt zu werden? Dann melde dich bei M." Nach einem schrecklichen Date zu viel hat Millie Masters eine Hotline für Frauen ins Leben gerufen, die nachts nicht mehr alleine nach Hause gehen wollen: Message M. Nachdem Millies Schwester in einer Partynacht vergewaltigt wird, hat Millie außerdem noch ein anderes Ziel: Sie will den Täter finden. Denn sie weiß, dass viele Männer am nächsten Abend einfach weitermachen.

A woman kills a man in the privacy of her home. It is self-defense. It is also the latest time she has had to defend herself against a killer from a secret murder club, of which she knows nothing about. Her name is Gianna Ricci, and she finds herself alone in the world with unseen enemies coming for her from every direction. Gianna knows she must move. She must get off her kitchen floor where her enemy lies next to her and escape her home before more like him arrive. Because there are more, more and more killers who all want the same thing—her death.

At hyre en morder har aldrig været farligere... ”Jeg venter på, at der kommer nogen og dræber mig. I aften vil være et godt tidspunkt.” Sytten, verdens mest berygtede lejemorder, har sagt op. Men hvem, der end måtte ønske at blive Snigmorder Atten, må finde og dræbe ham først. Så da en kugle rammer glasset få centimeter fra hans ansigt, ved han, hvem der skød – gør han ikke? Men skytten er ikke den hårdkogte dræber, han forventede. Det er Mireille – et mystisk, tavst barn, efterladt alene i skoven med instruktioner om at trykke på aftrækkeren.

Ein Mörder, der straffrei bleibt. Ein Vater, der für Gerechtigkeit kämpft. Eine Polizistin, die alles aufs Spiel setzt. Als der 72jährige Volker März an einem kalten Herbstmorgen den Bahnsteig betritt, ahnt er nicht, dass er beobachtet wird. Der alte Mann gilt als dringend tatverdächtig in einem Mordfall, der vor 40 Jahren ganz Deutschland erschütterte: Im November 1981 wurde die 17jährige Nina Markowski auf brutale Weise umgebracht. Die Spuren am Tatort belasteten Volker März damals schwer, doch die Beweise reichten nicht für einen Schuldspruch.

If the tragic shipwreck isn't bad enough, the megadome suffers a horrid murder-rape, and Dog Breakfast co-op must bring the culprit to justice. Nyssa and Shepp follow the perp to LA where they rescue young women from vicious sex traffickers. But funds are running low, so they're joined by Griz and Jen. All four travel to Tijuana where they part $750,000 from strip-club bettors. The quartet follow the rapist to Quito, Ecuador where they must face two-dozen mercenaries and armored-robotic cyclops.

Can Hunter and his team prevent a kidnapping by an enemy with vast resources? The foe’s endgame is to leverage these kids for their own vengeful desires. Hunter and his team are toeing the line between virtue and vile. Drawing on wit, brawn, halos, and pitchforks, the Divine Devils will scorch the earth to protect these kids. Even if it costs them their eternal souls!

Avenging Serpents tells how two far-from-innocent men, who met by a freak coincidence, were inspired by an old myth to seek revenge on the perpetrators of ongoing abuses.

Walter Eloy Goe, crime fighter and vigilante for justice, takes on a Palatini project aimed at eliminating the Mafias sex trafficking of underage girls along the New York and Canadian border. The operation morphs into an all-out war when the Palatini's lead asset for the project, Anna Sasins, goes missing and is presumed murdered by the Abbandanza crime family. Walter splits with the Palatini Knighthood when he's ordered by Society Palatini Grand Master Maximillian Karnage to abandon Anna and to tie off the operation.

Homicide Detective Stanford Carter uses Zen meditation to deal with the gruesome crimes of humanity. But his composure is severely tested when an unfaithful husband and stripper are not only murdered but showcased for their immoral lives. To test his mettle further, department policy is jeopardizing his romance with his CSI colleague Jill Seacrest. Marrying colleagues is prohibited, and Carter must either end his romance or have Jill put in for transfer.

While on assignment in Japan, Captain Action is haunted by the woman he loved and lost years ago in the underground kingdom beneath Siberia. When she mysteriously begins reappearing during his clandestine mission to witness a newly discovered power source, agent Miles Drake begins to question his own sanity.