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Old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Fix in the fourth gripping Felix Castor novel. Names and faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface in London, bringing Castor far more trouble than he'd anticipated. Childhood memories, family traumas, sins old and new, and a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell... These are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with as things go from bad to worse for London's favourite freelance exorcist.

A near death experience is only the beginning of Jeff Resnick's troubles. Family comes to town, but one of them, a nephew who reminds Jeff of the thugs who mugged him, has unsettled him. He's on edge. The fact that his brother has taken possession of an expensive boat through an IRS auction takes his mind off the bad vibes he's getting from other relatives. But that yacht holds a deadly secret, one destined to turn his world upside down. Will Jeff figure out the puzzle before his vision of near death becomes a reality?

As a single mom and deputy coroner of Sorenson, Wisconsin, Mattie Winston is used to her life being a juggling act. But now that she's moved in with Detective Steve Hurley and his teenaged daughter, and has started planning their wedding, her home life is looking more like a three-ring circus. At least her workload at the Medical Examiner's office is lightened by the new hire Hal Dawson. But before Hal can even cash his first paycheck, he's murdered on a fishing trip with his girlfriend, who's gone missing. To keep her life from going completely under, Mattie will have to dive deep for clues.

Failure has never been an option for Rachel Hatch. A promise made to a teenage girl trapped by a powerful human trafficking ring must be kept. Hatch's search takes her deep into Mexico, where the rules are different and the enemies are numerous. Finding the girl is only half of the problem. Getting her back home proves to be just as difficult, if not more so. With two rival cartels on the brink of war and Hatch caught in the middle, she must use everything in her arsenal to survive.

It's 1978. Now retired from the LAPD and captain of his own fishing charter business, Calico Jack Walker pays for ignoring his instincts when he hires out to two shady characters who try to hijack his boat and almost murder his son. Walker's ex-partner and lover, Tina Tamiko, has been promoted to detective. She's deep into an investigation leading to a plot to hijack an LAPD property barge loaded with confiscated drugs and weapons slated for ocean dumping.

When the badly decayed body of an elderly woman is unearthed, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, are called in on the case. The body provides only two mysterious clues to the identity of the murderer: someone with a deadly knowledge of household plants used shears to clip the fingertips off the corpse's right hand. But this dearth of evidence is not Lapslie's only problem.

Back in 1964, tragedy struck when Peter Redburn and his friends were playing together. Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his feelings of guilt. A funeral forces him to confront the rivalries and secrets of the past.

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is where people go to hide. Neo-Nazis. Corrupt politicians. Mining men with buried secrets. In 1972, 91 men were killed in a mining "accident" sparked by a fire lit nearly a mile underground: the mystery was never solved. After the rest escaped, only three miners survived underground. More than 20 years later, Matt Worthson is a sheriff's lieutenant and the disgraced son of mining hero and Sunshine Mine survivor Stanley Worthson.

LA private detective Kip Yardley is hired by an aging actress to find the remains of her husband, a WWII pilot shot down in the South Pacific. A few days later the actress is found dead, shot in the head. All Kip Yardley has to do is sign the contract to make it binding, and find the remains, to collect a quarter of a million dollars. There are some influential parties who do not want Kip to succeed, some don't want him to even try! But when the girls on tiny Kira Bali island won't play straight with Kip, that's a sure sign of trouble!

Two missing wives—one rich and one poor. One of them may have gotten a divorce and married a gigolo, and the other may be dead. Lucius Anoraq’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care.

1996 wurde ein 16-jähriges Mädchen in der Nähe des Schwarzen Wassers, einem See nahe der kleinen Stadt Weverlo, ermordet aufgefunden. Der Fall wurde nie aufgeklärt. Jetzt, fünfundzwanzig Jahre später, werden die Ermittlungen wieder aufgenommen, da die sogenannte familiäre DNA-Analyse neue Ergebnisse verspricht.

Johnny, a mysterious biracial man, and his Asian-American female friend visit a Virginia dirt track—as out of place as their fancy BMW out in the parking lot—but they aren’t there for the “redneck racing.” They’ve come to scout young driver Tony Trivette.

When criminal elements collide, the rules of the jungle will prevail, and those unprepared will pay the highest price.