ONE MAN'S PASSION FOR JUSTICE HAS NO TIME LIMIT After a high-profile shooting incident, Dell Hinton left the Boston Police Department and moved to a quiet community in rural Maine. Living by the lake for a year, he enjoyed the tranquility and considered his future. His friend, the local minister, convinces him to run for the office of Castaway County Sheriff. Once elected, Dell assumes the new position and finds that being a sheriff is very...

Gordy Sanders had just less than two years to go until he could retire with full pension and full Social Security.He was police chief (and entire staff) here on Isla Fortuna, a little US possession not too far from Puerto Rico.It was upper middle class and super rich. In his past six years here he had one burglary and several arguments and some traffic tickets and such. He was everybody's friend. It would be a snapHe had been a good cop in California....

You would think finding a body in a morgue was easy. The search was just routine, but the result was a complete surprise. His old friend Fate was back with a vengeance. The second story of crime fighting Gary's way.

In this fascinating book, the reader is taken on a journey of real life accounts of Victorian children, how they lived, worked, played and ultimately died. Many of these stories have remained hidden for over 100 years. They are now unearthed to reveal the hardship and cruel conditions experienced by many youngsters, such as a traveling fair child, an apprentice at sea and a trapper. The lives of the children of prostitutes, servant girls, debutantes...

What happens when you're pulled into an alternate version of your life? Cassidy Marchand is abandoned, on the run, and out of money. She's just gotten arrested for stealing, but that's the least of her worries. When she wakes up, everything seems normal-at first. She soon discovers she has entered an alternate reality where she encounters devoted and loyal friends she's never met, meets the golden-boy doctor she's engaged to, and finds out the...

Willow Darby hasn't stepped inside a church since her childhood. A recent pair of gruesome murders has shocked one religious community reopening its scandalous wounds. The high-profile crimes have caused the Vatican to send a mysterious emissary to assist Willow with her investigation. But now this has forced her into walking a diplomatic tight rope between church and state to catch a killer.

Eleven celebrated short stories-from the darkly criminal to the twisted depths of the supernatural-by the writer whose work USA Today Bestselling writer Alison Gaylin called "Absorbing, addictive, and chilling." A Paler Shade of Death-Tragedy has destroyed Becca's marriage and driven her to live among strangers. Her unraveling sanity exposes the truth of her past and deadly state of mind. (Edgar Short Story Award nomination) Witches, All – A has-been...

Nach kurzer Liaison mit der Polizistin Liz Redding will Wyatt schnellstens untertauchen. Doch er trifft seinen Neffen Raymond wieder, der ihm den Raub einer Kunstsammlung schmackhaft machen kann. Doch Wyatt ahnt nicht, dass sein Neffe auch andere Deals am Laufen hat. In der Meerenge vor Tasmanien will er mit zwielichtigen Abenteurern eine versunkene Barke voll spanischer Goldmünzen bergen und nebenbei auch noch einen Klienten seines Anwalts aus der...

Someone's murdered Brayton Spites! Nobody's sorry he's dead--with one exception. A ruthless, unscrupulous businessman, notorious womanizer, and heartless father, he turned his back on his only legitimate son after the boy's grandfather abused him. So when Spites's body is found in a dark alley in Coyote Springs, the question is not who killed him, but what took so long? Jason Crow, rancher, vintner, and double amputee, is invited to help find his...

A seventeen-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Three days later, her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, but Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young athletes, drugs, and teenage sexuality. Then a social worker who knows too much disappears, and blood is found in the house of a star with NHL prospects....