Showing results by publisher "Tantor Media" in Crime Fiction

I'm the girl who was always too shy to be the center of attention. I hid behind books, doing all the things a good girl should. Perfect grades. Perfect friends. Perfect life, even if I was lonely. Too bad none of it mattered after I was kidnapped.

When a mysterious flash drive arrives at the Murder Force headquarters, the team is unwittingly drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer who bears a grudge against one of its members. A series of deadly traps. A detective in danger. This will be Murder Force's most difficult case yet.

The Exceptional Crimes Unit stopped another criminal: Lucy Speckle. The brilliant FBI agent, Christian Windsor, pushed her to suicide....watching as she cut her own throat. It changed Christian, though, and those around him are starting to notice. He's darker. Harsher. Crueler. His partner, Luke Titan, couldn't be happier because he engineered the whole thing. If anyone knew Titan's true intentions, they'd call him a psychopath. They'd lock him up. They'd put him in the electric chair. Too bad his genius keeps him hidden in the shadows.

What appears as a simple case soon escalates into a pulse-pounding journey through Berlin's darkest streets. From the dance floors of underground techno clubs to the chilling silence of a defunct Cold War espionage outpost, danger lurks around every corner. Colliding with Berlin's most dangerous man, a shadowy figure determined to hide the truth forever, the stakes skyrocket. Now, Leo and Allissa's every move is a dance with death.

A trauma patient's dying request of AJ Docker leads him and his retired police dog, Banshee, to embark on their latest adventures. Partnering with his patient's sister, they embark on a quest to uncover powerful research that could alter the course of humanity. Shadowy enemies pursue them in Washington, D. C., in a race to capitalize on the information, while a new threat reveals itself at Doc's hospital. A greedy corporation is attempting to take over the emergency room, threatening the quality of healthcare nationwide.

A judge's wife is dead, and the public are demanding blood. It's the sort of case that will end a defense attorney's career. But Michael Gresham doesn't have much left to lose and when he smells a rat in this headline grabbing story, it's the justice establishment that needs to be worried. A brilliant legal mind with nothing to lose becomes a formidable adversary to those who abuse their power.

It could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns about his withdrawn and mysterious wife, Flavieres didn't have the heart to refuse. Soon, he would be scouring the streets of Paris in search of an answer - in search of a girl who belonged to no one, not even to herself. Intrigue would be replaced by obsession, and dreams replaced by nightmares.

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After 12 years, with 95 confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it's not to reunite with his family, it's to bury them - victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan's own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone.

It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen - a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot. Upon closer inspection, Mattie and Detective Steve Hurley are convinced Jack was murdered to steal his winnings, giving the phrase Black Jack a whole new meaning....

Four victims. Four murders. No connection. Except their hearts have all been removed. Detective Mike Nash races against time to find a link between these grisly crimes. Who is wreaking a trail of destruction and what do they want to prove? There is one more victim to go.

Grieving the death of his former lover, all Mariner wants is some peace and quiet. But his walking holiday is ruined by the discovery of a body in the woods. The remote stone farmhouses of this beautiful valley hide many buried secrets. As more bodies are discovered, can Mariner clear his name and avoid becoming the next victim?

When Trevor Hawkins hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police, and MI5. Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well-paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she?

Sarah Kelly goes for a night out at a club. She leaves around 2 a.m. No one sees her again. Detective Mike Nash has nothing to go on, until a chance remark causes him to look deeper into other cases. Young women who have vanished without a trace.

In an age of facial recognition and constant electronic surveillance, Kaine is struggling to keep a step ahead of the world's security agencies. When a child, orphaned by flight BE1555, needs The 83 Trust's help, Kaine has to find a way. In deepest Wales, he and his team are the only people between a gang of violent thieves and the boy's new family. But while Kaine looks out for the boy, who's looking out for him?

When Mattie Winston catches her husband, Dr. David Winston, receiving some very special loving care from RN Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend, Izzy, offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers. But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her ex in a heated argument with the newly deceased the night before, she refuses to believe David could be a killer.

Remember when I said Two Tricks doesn't work with MC gangs? Well, the leaders of the Phantom Saints MC kidnapped me in order to broker a deal with Tricks. Joke's on them when they find out the truth. But that is the least of my worries right now. Fun fact—turns out I'm now number one on everyone's hit lists. Someone out there doesn't like me, or the fact that I joined forces with the Phantom Saints. They are pulling out all the stops to make sure I don't break up this alliance. Too bad for them: I'm not that easy to kill. F--k with my family and I'll end your life, simple as that.

When a new girl, Becky Rusett, joins the Evermore Publishing team, she'll start to realize no office setting is as safe as it appears. The secrets, lies, and underhanded dealings of the publishing house are unsettling enough—but now some sinister events are putting the entire office in real danger. Decades before Evermore Publishing existed, a group of five meanspirited children terrorized a young child in a small town. The Fab 5, as they were called, set off the chain of events that would lead to the horrific events at Evermore.

Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner, Mattie Winston, is back on the job...in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase - the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors - who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much...and the patient who found him can't remember a thing.

In the Chizurui family mansion, a haunting presence casts a shadow over its residents. By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate—but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes. Within the confines of a locked study, the head of the family is found dead, with only an ominous Hannya mask lying on the floor by his side and the lingering scent of jasmine in the air.

He sends you the clues . . . and leaves his victims in pieces. When forensic psychologist Harriet Quinn receives the random pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, she knows they hold the key to identifying a sadistic killer's next victim. A victim who hasn't yet been taken. Racing to identify the intended target, she realizes that she has been chosen as Puzzle Master in a deadly game concocted by a twisted serial killer. Teaming up with DI Drew Haskell, she must put personal differences aside if she is to save a life.