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She is a woman with no identity and many names. She is a warrior, skilled in arts that the civilized world has forgotten or thinks it no longer needs. She hates to cause pain but she kills. She is wrapped in lies but searches endlessly for truth. When the law can not or will not stand for the victims, she hunts the monsters of civilization in the shadows and the dark. Today, her name is Felicity. A friend is savagely assaulted as a message from an unknown sender. Top level corruption? Normal investigative protocol is not an option.

Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. As the head of a major arms vendor, he is plotting a ruthless plan to supercharge his company’s profits by triggering a new cold war – and he won’t let anyone stand in his way. Meet Shaw, a man with no first name: a shadow operative working for a multinational organization that seeks to keep the world safe from men like Creel. Desperate to rebuild her disgraced reputation and rise to the top of her profession, Katie James gets the break of a lifetime when she finds herself on the same path as the mysterious Shaw.

What if your 12-year-old grandson’s fingerprints turned up in a missing person’s database? What would you do? Would you investigate? Or blow it off as a blip in cyberspace?

Black operative Richard Maxwell is skilled in ways inconceivable. Destined to protect the woman he was once assigned to kill, he begins investigating another enigmatic piece of her past. A mystery that could expose a reprehensible truth to England... The Bitter Truth.

1990: Holly is a fresher student at Oxford University. Out of her depth and nervous about her surroundings, she falls into an uneasy friendship with a group of older students from the upper echelons of society and begins to develop feelings for one in particular. He’s confident, quiet, attractive and seems to like her, too. But as the year progresses, her friends’ behaviour grows steadily more disconcerting, and Holly begins to realise she might just be a disposable pawn in a very sinister game.

To many, Shannon’s was the quintessential Irish pub - a brawl or two wasn’t out of the question, especially when interlopers decided to take matters into their own hands. The place where fishermen chose to meet, the fragrance of gutted fish was first to greet those brave enough to open the door. Most important? Tourists weren’t particularly welcomed. Keegan checked his watch, questioning whether he made the right decision - tipping a pint with someone he didn’t know wasn’t his thing, causing him to question ulterior motives.

One woman seeks to uncover the truth and protect whistle blowers from repercussions as they uncover corruption and unethical practices within large corporations around the globe. Ann Pierre is a one woman that you don’t want to be on her bad side. The founder and head of the largest website on whistle blowing throughout the world, Ann can find the deepest secrets on any organization.

Merci Lanard made peace with her past and is ready for a simple future of murders and larceny while protecting the heart of her city. The Truth has other plans. When her boyfriend gets a distressed call from his old pack in Scotland, she cashes in her vacation days to help Rafe pick up the pieces of a life he left behind 18 years ago. A life that included a pack and a hot ex-girlfriend.

Shortly before Christmas, Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called to the scene of multiple murders. Four people are found shot dead at the home of the wealthy Stahlberg family. Three of the dead are members of the family, and the fourth victim is an undistinguished author, seemingly out of place. As Hanne and her longtime police partner, Billy T., investigate, they unearth many motives for the murders. But Hanne doesn't believe that the full story has been revealed.

Chief Inspector Bish Ortley of the London Met, divorced and still grieving the death of his son, has been drowning his anger in Scotch. Something has to give, and he's no sooner suspended from the force than a busload of British students is subject to a deadly bomb attack across the Channel. Bish's daughter is one of those on board. Also on the bus is Violette LeBrac. Raised in Australia, Violette has a troubled background. Thirteen years ago her grandfather bombed a London supermarket, killing dozens of people.

Lifelong friends Barney and Tuck won the lottery, and through no fault of their own were caught in a series of dangerous situations in James Barnett’s previous novel, “Very Bad Lies.” As a result they solved a heinous crime and became great friends with one of the world's richest men. As they attempt to enjoy their fortunate lives, the ruined plans of a billionaire cast them into more danger and they find themselves once again tracking clues in a story that has its beginnings as the seeds of World War Il are planted. They again track down a crime of epic proportions in one of the ...

Anna has everything worked out - a successful company, all the comforts she needs and no ties. But when she stumbles across the body of a young girl on a deserted beach in Lithuania, everything changes. Anna is compelled to uncover the story behind the tragedy, despite concern from her partner, Will. Everything points towards sex trafficking, but as she searches, her own deepest secrets start to surface. When Will disappears without a trace, Anna is pulled further into the murky world of organised crime. Time is running out, and there's a killer out there who will stop at nothing.

Learning the shocking truth about her past rocks Anna Greenwood’s world and shakes her beliefs to the core. The information she discovers sets in motion a quest to bring justice to a man of position and influence who appears protected by his status. However, Anna’s efforts seem futile—until help comes from an unexpected source.

Art expert Alix Thorssen is asked to appraise the charred ruins of a friend's local gallery. The tragedy doubles when artist Ray Thornton's body is found among the debris. The death is ruled a suicide; the fire, arson. Case closed. But not for Alix, who doesn't believe the body was Thornton's.

As an investigative journalist, Merci Lanard always gets her story but she doesn't always get the truth she wants. After discovering her mother passed along a demon lineage, Merci goes to her mother’s active retirement community to ask the tough questions about their blood, their power, and the truth about her father’s death. Instead of answers, she is gifted a dead body and a plea to find out what happened. Since Philly is peaceful and things aren’t exactly perfect with Rafe, she stays in New Haven to hunt down a killer and answers about herself.

When the body of a young woman is found by the side of a quiet country road, police first suspect a hit and run. Then a darker side to the victim is uncovered–a dangerous addiction that led to her violent death. With little sympathy from a local population, Detective Mark Turpin faces a daunting task to track down her killer. When a second victim dies after a ferocious attack, Mark realises someone is determined to hide the truth. Both victims kept to the shadows of society–will their secrets die with them?

Fiction that mimics reality. A series of short stories of mysteries that often leave you guessing. Reality-inspired mysteries, each with a surprising twist, keeping you guessing until the end.

After the son of Papaya Springs’s most elite is involved in an accident that leaves a plethora of unanswered questions, his parents turn to Stronghold Investigations for help. While all indications lead Bexley Squires to believe the high school senior was planning the unthinkable, his parents task her with uncovering his true intentions. And just when she thinks her mysterious half-sister is out of her life following their father’s death, Bexley receives a call that both shocks her to the core and forces her to face unexpected challenges. With her boyfriend serving out his sentence in ...

Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father: What did he do for a living? How did he actually die? Those who know the truth are nearer than she imagines, and protecting their secrets is worth killing for.

The holy truth unfolds. When research leads best-selling author, David Lipton, to Stockholm for conferences and unplugging from the world, he doesn’t expect a murder mystery and a gang of hitmen after him for his legally purchased historic documents. Yet, it would appear the exchange has brought with it more than a writer could hope to unveil. A cascade of dangerous secrets surrounding the Temple of Scribes, an ultra-conservative religious society famed with being the keepers of the lost Ark of Covenant, may just kill his next book - by death of the author.