Modern Detectives

After years behind bars, former drug kingpin Bosco Maximuke is back on the streets, insisting he’s turned over a new leaf, and determined to win back the trust of his daughter.

How far would you go to bury the truth? While searching for a missing hill walker, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team uncovers a body - just not the one they were looking for....

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. Web of Lies, Book 1 A trail of secrets. A dangerous discovery. A deadly turn. Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But...

The hunter has become the hunted. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper. Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped....

After 20 years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong....

When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered. While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer....

After a violent home invasion in the remote wilds of Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, DCI Jack Logan and his team are brought in to lead the manhunt....

Contains books 4-6 of the bestselling, fast-paced Detective Sebastian Clifford series. Hidden from Sight, book four: A million-pound heist. A man on the run. A gang hellbent on seeking revenge. When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to...

When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major Investigations team are dispatched to investigate. At first, the case appears to be fairly open and shut....

When a drone uncovers a dead cyclist in the West Wales countryside, DCI Evan Warlow is pulled into a case where the clues are scarce, the suspects slippery, and the motive buried deep beneath layers of power and deceit.

They thought they could get away with murder, but then Keeler showed up. Ex-Special Forces operator Tom Keeler is a rambling man. He’s just passing through the town of Alencourt, France, and in less than an hour, someone tries to kill him. Nice place, nice try. But it’s a case of mistaken...

A mother's murder. A daughter's quest for truth. A killer ready to strike again. When Daryl Brackstone approaches private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda "Birdie" Bird about her mother's decades-old murder, she's hoping to finally uncover the truth. Her father died in prison for...

DCI Jack Logan should’ve known things were going too well. Genuinely happy for the first time in years, Jack has almost fooled himself into believing that the world is a decent place....

When a sadistic killer begins picking off victims on the streets of Inverness, Jack’s boss decides to bring in some outside help. But the new team member is an old flame from Jack’s past who isn’t quite ready to let him go....

Just when he thought he was out.... Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan has spent the past nine months living in self-imposed exile....

It is the first murder that the remote Highland village has ever seen. It will not be the last. Someone is targeting the elderly and vulnerable in their homes. Someone they know. Someone they trust....

Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers–and families–in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts.

When a badly burned body is found near the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland, it feels like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team....

Milford Haven has a dead man, and too many dangerous assumptions. A carefully planned street killing draws Jess Allanby into a slow, politically charged investigation where every breakthrough creates new risk.

It all started harmlessly enough. An egged window, a deflated car tire, and a few garden gnomes knocked over. But then, the silent calls began–late nights and early mornings to landlines and mobiles, and numbers that no one should have access to....

Wyatt steals $ 50,000 and a sought-after piece of jewelry in a burglary of a politician's house. Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart. It’s the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl...

When the body of a teenager is discovered several months after she disappeared, DCI Jack Logan and his team journey across the Highlands to investigate. But when a second girl goes missing in similar circumstances, it isn’t just a murder investigation that Jack finds himself running....

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games A killer's playing cat and mouse - and winning. DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer...

Among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide....

The next BRAND NEW instalment in Wes Markin's gripping, gritty, Yorkshire Murders series. To expose the truth, she must risk everything she has left. DCI Emma Gardner has retreated to Salisbury, leaving North Yorkshire – and her complicated relationship with DI Paul Riddick – behind her. But...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes the much-anticipated sequel to The Color of Death, a twisty and chilling murder mystery in which vengeance and justice are interchangeable and the law becomes a tool for corruption. When a confidential informant is...

A blood-soaked mystery. A town full of suspects. A detective who won’t quit until justice is served. When a high-profile pool hall owner is discovered brutally murdered in his own home, Detective Jack Lisbon and his partner Claudia Taylor are thrust into a high-stakes investigation. With...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes novels and a masterpiece of detective fiction. Set against the eerie landscape of Dartmoor, the story begins with the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and the legend of a terrifying supernatural hound said to haunt his family. When Sir Henry Baskerville arrives to claim his inheritance, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a case filled with ancient curses, hidden motives, suspicious neighbors, strange sounds on the moor, and a threat that seems both human and otherworldly.

"Zigzags of Treachery" is a hard-boiled story by Dashiell Hammett featuring his unnamed, legendary detective known as the Continental Op. The book is set in San Francisco, where the Op is hired to investigate the suspicious death of Dr. Estep, a respected surgeon with a secretive past. What begins as a murder inquiry quickly becomes a tangled case of false identities, blackmail, and shifting loyalties.

Every favour has a price. Prison collects in full. Nicholas Glass is a young prison officer already at the end of his rope. The job is grinding him down, the inmates smell weakness, and his colleagues aren’t much better. Every shift stretches longer than the last. When a group of cons reach beyond the walls to threaten his wife and daughter, Nicholas does what he thinks any husband and father would do. He agrees to a small favour. Just once. Just to make it stop. It doesn’t stop. The threats escalate. The favours multiply.

A blizzard seals the town. Murder opens the door to hell. Stranded in a South Dakota snowstorm, John Sole only wants to keep moving and stay invisible. But when a deputy is gunned down and a truck filled with secrets is uncovered, the town's quiet streets turn lethal. Drawn into a web of murder...

Retired police detective Hans Schmidt spends his quiet, lonely days on the outskirts of town, haunted by the loss of his beloved wife and wrestling with his own dark memories. Ten years ago, while serving as the village policeman, Hans investigated the brutal murder of an eighteen-year-old...

This debut novel from a former NFL player is a hard-hitting, heart wrenching crime novel that brilliantly blends elements of jazz, football, and a gritty portrait of a city divided—perfect for fans of S.A. Cosby and Walter Mosley. Coltrane Davis is at once a knight and a hustler. He has risen...

Jimmy Homestead’s glory days as a high school stud were a distant memory. His adulthood had amounted to little more than temporary jobs, petty crime, and discount whiskey. But he always felt he was special, and winning a $43 million lottery proved it. With all that money, everything is great...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Someone saved Maxine Latin’s life eight years ago. Now they want to be repaid. Maxine is the woman Los Angeles’ rich and powerful call when their problems are too dangerous, embarrassing, or illegal for anyone else. But behind the crisis manager’s...

Monica Hardin’s badly destroyed body is discovered in the trunk of a car. She had been shot, then acid was poured on her. The bullet that killed Monica is traced to a weapon owned by Detective Jake Thomas, who previously had a relationship with Monica. Police seize Jake’s weapon and determine it had recently been fired. Based on this evidence, Jake is arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Because Jake is a local homicide cop, the Lexington police hand over the case to the Kentucky State Police. Miranda Bailey, a KSP detective, is brought in to investigate.

Magic runs the city. He’s the one man it can’t touch. Maxwell Graves doesn’t cast spells. He doesn’t need to. As the only detective immune to magic, he handles the cases no one else can. When a witch hires him to find a missing werewolf teen, Max is thrown into the middle of a ticking time bomb. If the teen isn’t found soon, her pack won’t wait. They’ll tear the city apart looking for her. But the Wizard Council won’t help. The vampires deny everything. And something big and ugly won’t stop watching Max from the shadows. Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking.

Charlie Leblanc is a distracted man barely holding it together. By day, he’s holding onto his job at the hospital by a thread. By night, he’s haunted by brutal flashbacks from his time in the Army—the friend he couldn’t save, the mistake he can’t forgive himself for. The zone-outs are getting worse. The guilt is suffocating. When a psychotic patient rambles about an impending murder, Charlie brushes it off as delusions. Until a young woman’s mutilated body is discovered in an abandoned house… with a chilling detail that matches the patient’s warning exactly. Suddenly, Charlie can’t let it go.

SOME RISKS YOU CHOOSE. OTHERS CHOOSE YOU. Exiled from Texas, disbarred, and white-knuckling sobriety in the Midwest, criminal defense attorney Larry Welk has learned to manage risk the hard way: by living inside it. A carefully curated dating profile lands Larry a date with Birdie Thurmond, a brilliant state auditor who believes risk is just a math problem waiting to be solved. Birdie has a spreadsheet for everything, and Larry can't shake the feeling he's already been reduced to a set of variables. The night ends awkwardly, and they part ways.

Step into a gritty historical crime thriller where haunting cold cases expose the dark underbelly of a divided city. Perfect for a daily commute or a late-night binge listen, this immersive investigative journey tracks ten chilling crimes across distinct eras. Follow a relentless contemporary...

A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas. Just days before Estancia's annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions. The victim wasn't just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail.

Detective Mark Young is caustic, dark, and funny... when he’s in a good mood. If not, he’s downright dangerous—especially to himself. Detective and family man Mark Young seems to be losing his mind as the bodies pile up around him. He stalks young women, unloads his duty weapon at shadows in the night, and worst of all, finds hacked-up children in his neighbor’s yard with no clue as to who killed them. His family has abandoned him, his neighbor is nuts, and his Captain wants his badge. Everyone seems to be against him—but they all have their own secrets as well.

Rodney McCready has a dream. He’ll have to lie, cheat, and murder to get it. Rodney McCready hopes to join a Central Washington crime family. Belonging requires loyalty and ruthlessness—two qualities Rodney has rarely embraced, but now must exemplify. Failing to become a member carries disastrous consequences for Rodney, so he’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goal. To prove his dedication, Rodney commits a crime so heinous that his life will never be the same. Now, dangerous acquaintances surround him on all sides.

The system is broken - and it wants you dead! An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares. The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father." DI Thomas Ridpath is called...