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It is 2023. Tension over illegal immigration across the U.S. Mexico border is rising. Mark Springer is in Mexico City for a conference on the “assisted migration” of species trapped by climate change. While there he encounters a young Guatemalan boy, one of 20,000 “rat children” surviving on the streets of the city, who is trying to get to America to search for his father. In helping the boy he becomes enmeshed in a scheme to sell illegal unaccompanied minors into servitude in the U.S. In probing the scheme with long-time collaborator, Justin Tso, he discovers a controlling figure ...

Professional thief Blake agrees to come in on a nightclub heist outside of Belfast. He doesn’t count on a double cross or on stumbling on an old flame and a mess of murder and deceit. Blake was featured recently in the hardboiled story Riot Score and the press said:"I’m amazed how a writer can cram so much into such a short space of narrative. You hit the ground running and it’s a sprint finish."Crime Book Junkieand“a short but snappy read that gives a fresh glimpse into a life of crime and where it can lead you.”Writing.ie

Hardened by the mean streets of Belfast, ex-cop Brian Caskey works as a struggling PI. He is isolated and erratic, often losing the battle to maintain his fragile mental health. Caskey escapes the real world by writing crime fiction stories about a 1940's PI investigating mysteries during the Belfast Blitz.'A Chaser on the Rocks' follows both of these characters in parallel as a ‘novel within a novel’. The two stories collide in adramatic conclusion set against the backdrop of The Giant's Causeway.Simon Maltman has created a modern noir with a new twist, a dash of black humour and a ...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very problem. In Leamington Spa a deep cover operative has given himself away. And in London Jonas Merrick watches all, assessing, planning. A moment, perhaps, for him to strike a blow to China's espionage network in the UK. One thing he does not see, however, is in Moscow.

Ever intrepid, Boone Linsenbigler is enlisted to rescue his sister Crockett from a Russian extortion plot hatched in Canada and in full flight across the Mediterranean aboard the Swedish Royal Yacht - a journey bewitched by the wiles of Olympus. This is Novel # 5 in the Linsenbigler Series.

Shaken, Not Stirred once again reunites Tough Luck bartender Stacey Jennifer Longacre with Nicholas Densmore, International Man of Mystery and Danger. In this mile-a-minute thriller, Stacey and Densmore crush a multinational global conspiracy, round up a beaucoup badguy and - wait - do they almost fall in love? The Blue Ferrari is back, along with a Cigarette Speedboat while Stacey's precious '87 T-bird, The Mir, has a nice rest this time out.

Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, the story follows journalist Rebekka Franck, who returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and start a new life for her and her daughter when the sleepy small town experiences a murder. One of the kingdom's wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde.

Lawyer-turned-investigator John Costa and tech genius Jillian "Mack" MacDonald are on holiday in the Irish town of Trim. They're meeting a previously unknown branch of Mack's family, only discovered when she took a DNA ancestry test. Everything is going wonderfully until the body of an American tourist is discovered at historic Trim Castle. John does everything he can to avoid getting involved in the ensuing investigation, but at Mack's urging, the investigative duo soon finds themselves in the middle of a case far more complex and intriguing than anyone ever imagined.

In his vivid hybrid novella Vertical Sleep, author David Alexander creates startling narrative pyrotechnics whose brilliance challenges the reader at every turn of the page and forces a rethinking of individual personality and its ultimate relationship to the nature of reality. Alexander's extraordinary gifts as a storyteller have been recognized by many. Here are two examples: "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borges-esque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. ...His stories transcend interpersonal morality and ethics in a ...

Kadmon wants to open the portal between our world and Hell, to create a twisted, demonic version of our world over which he will reign supreme. Now, Morgan and her partner — Jake Timber, the enigmatic agent who recruited her for ARKANE — are on the run. From the holiest cities in Israel to underwater cities lost to history, they must follow this trail to the end. To find a way to stop Kadmon before he offers the final sacrifice.

When a threat emerges that's too big for the CIA, too dangerous for MI6 and too frightening to contemplate, there's only one secret agent who can prevail against it. When he joins forces with a talented group of covert action operators, this impossible mission becomes just another day in the spy business. I Kinda Spy is a global superthriller that pits masters of espionage and mandarins of supercrime against each other in a winner-take-all fight to the finish. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A deadly terrorist organization threatens global security and a deep black espionage agency tasks its ...

Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets. The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief. Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes.

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead of his head, Samson is left an orphan, with only his father's collection of abacuses for company. Until, that is, his flat is requisitioned by two Red Army soldiers, whose secret plans Samson is somehow able to overhear with uncanny clarity.

Finlay and Vero need a girls' weekend away... Some peace and quiet to negotiate with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and find a stolen car. But Finlay's mother and ex-husband Steven are dead set on catching a ride to Atlantic City. At their casino hotel, the trip takes a nosedive. Javi's kidnapper, Marco, won't negotiate, demanding to know the whereabouts of his missing nephew, Ike. Then Marco turns up dead - leaving Finlay and Vero as main suspects in his murder.

Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, former NYPD detective Nico Doyle has figured out a thing or two. The locals have not only welcomed him, but are giving him rave reviews on his cooking, and his budding relationship with a local woman is healing old wounds. When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble. Sure enough, it’s Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home.

Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats to take her to court and has stopped answering his calls. Which is why she doesn’t know he’s waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette as she leaves a client’s office late one night. When she finds him there, bleeding in the canal, he has just been stabbed by an assailant, who knocks Aimée unconscious and plants the bloody knife in her hands.

Turn of the Key: A novel of the Cold War and family secrets revealed Can she find the missing pieces of her early life? 1980, Washington DC: Margaret Richardson dreams about an emaciated little girl in torn and dirty clothes who speaks a language she cannot understand. Margaret discovers that she is that little girl born in the turmoil and destruction of World War II Germany. But who was Margaret's mother and why did she abandon her?Margaret finds two documents and a newspaper clipping in a secret compartment in her father's desk. A woman in the 1944 newspaper article standing next to ...

Delve into the clandestine world of Group 15, the covert organization also featured in the acclaimed John Milton series. Charlie Cooper, an elite Group Fifteen agent, faces a complex mission: eliminate Igor Sidorov, a security-obsessed Russian oligarch implicated in international subterfuge. The only avenue to reach the paranoid Sidorov? Through Crispin Fairweather, the owner of a small yet influential reputation management firm.

Edge of the Abyss by Robert Fisher is a novel that manages to pack together a poignant love story and a thriller that will keep you glued to the book for hours. Three months have passed since Simon Kane decided to pursue Networc, the organization that was behind the murder of his wife Sheila. Simon and Sheila were agents at Silhouette until Sheila was shot right in front of him by the Networc’s mysterious agent, Counselor Black, while both were on a mission in Belarus. Meanwhile, Mai, the daughter of Lin Yunao, the leader of the Heise She li Triad, the largest criminal organization in ...

After the climactic events at the end of Château des Corbeaux, there were still a few loose ends. These are tied together in this bonus epilogue, The Tomb. Read on for all the juicy secrets revealed in the ancient sarcophagus found in the ruins of the abbey at the vineyard. This bonus story is for readers who have already read Château des Corbeaux (Castle of Ravens). It will not make sense to you unless you read the full novel first! Readers who would like to join Lise McClendon's mailing list can get this epilogue as part of the program. Visit www.lisemcclendon.com to get more information.