Showing results for "run" in Modern Detectives

Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The other was a wife and mother of two children and has Madison seeing a ghost from her past. She’s convinced the woman is her missing college friend, but why would she change her identity? And where has she been all this time?

Second day back at work. Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis drops off her seven-year-old son at school. As she drives off, a car breaks fiercely with a squealing sound. Janine sees the child flung to one side, the small body flying limp like a puppet, then landing hard. With a sickening feeling, Janine recognizes her as Tom’s classmate—Ann-Marie Chinley. Janine gives chase, but the hit-and-run driver gets away. When she finally gets to work she hears a body has been fished out of the river. The victim is in her early twenties, newly pregnant, malnourished as a child.

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series. The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice and snow with no end in sight. A growing stain. A mess of flesh and blood. A corpse buried six inches under the snow. Enter Rocco Schiavone, Deputy Police Chief and a man who has more beautiful women in his bed than sensible shoes under it. He's stuck in this backwards Alpine town after getting on the wrong side of the wrong people...

Jack is a down-on-his-luck retired NYPD detective who is living in a flophouse and going through a nasty divorce. He's distraught over his missing daughter and suicidal. He gets asked to look into the unsolved murder of his childhood friend. Jack's investigation takes him to the dark side of the local skin clubs, and he butts heads with the local crime boss, who has a bigger secret to hide.

In this riveting novella that will keep you guessing until the very last word, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger is dragged into an impossible effort to save a beautiful TV correspondent who is chasing a deadly story that is now chasing her back.

Denver Homicide Detective Nick Teffinger has made mistakes before, lots of them, but never as bad as this one. This time he’s put a witness in harm’s way by inadvertently disclosing her identity to the killer she saw. She’s protected herself as much as she could by abandoning her life in Denver and running away, all the way to Paris in fact, where she’s taken an alias identity and settled into an unassuming life. That worked for awhile. It’s not working anymore. And everything's about to go wrong.

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West, getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow.

A case 35 years cold. No witnesses, suspects, or leads. Two detectives who won’t let go. My name’s Harry Starke. I’m an ex-cop turned private investigator. It was a rainy Monday morning in June 2012 when Peter Sheffield walked into my office and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Two weeks in sunny Florida; all expenses paid. The catch was I had to solve a 35-year-old cold case. Sheffield’s parents were killed in a particularly nasty hit-and-run accident. The driver and the pickup truck that hit them were never found.

In this riveting Nick Teffinger thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, a young lawyer is hired to find out if her client has been marked for murder. Formerly a longstanding trial attorney before taking the big leap and devoting his full time attention to writing, RJ Jagger is the author of over 20 hard-edged mystery and suspense thrillers. In addition to his own books, Jagger also ghostwrites for a well-known, best-selling author. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers as well as Mystery Writers of America.

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the odds say the attorney is a marked man. Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city's forgotten underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future.

After narrowly surviving a vicious knife attack, gangland detective Eoin Miller thinks he’s earned a break from hunting down thieves, runaways, and stolen drug money. But when crime boss Veronica Gaines tips him off to a particularly sensitive new case, his Romani blood won’t let him say no.