Showing results by publisher "Tantor Media" in Crime Thrillers

When fourteen-year-old Hollie Jardine disappears on her way home from school, DCI David Jones must determine whether she ran away or was abducted. Instinct tells him the clock is ticking, and every minute lost could mean the difference between life and death. Entries in Hollie’s diary mention a mysterious older man known only as "E." With nothing else to go on, Jones and his colleague, DC Alexandra Olganski, follow a trail that leads from the West Midlands to rural France, uncovering a web of predatory lies and long-buried crimes.

Sunday morning phone calls from work are always bad news, and this one is no different. An agent in El Paso has just been murdered. But for Special Agent Hank Rawlings, the news quickly veers from bad to a whole lot worse when he hears who the agent was, where his body was found, and who the bureau thinks is responsible for the murder. All of it has disturbing connections to Hank and his team.

Bodies, strangled and dumped along the interstate, send Agent Hank Rawlings and the rest of his team to Texas. The method of homicide, as well as the locations where the bodies are found, are identical to those from a six-year-old investigation. When the wheels touch down in Dallas, the team is greeted with another body and a possible eyewitness. They quickly put together a suspect profile, a profile that leaves the agents with more questions than answers.

When fugitive Ryan Kaine asks DCI David Jones to reopen the case against a missing prisoner who escaped from custody, Jones is intrigued to know more. Melanie Archer was awaiting trial for the murder of her husband when she disappeared without a trace. Kaine knows where she is but he's also confident that she isn't a killer. Jame Archer, multi-millionaire and invalid, drowned in his hydrotherapy pool in suspicious circumstances. The Archers' marriage was far from a happy one and Melanie certainly had a motive: get rid of an abusive husband and get rich in the process.

Roach has always done what he believes is right. Which is why he can't walk away. Roach witnesses a woman being assaulted. Saving her sets him on a dangerous path he can't help but follow. With violence and betrayal at every turn, he fights to uncover the truth behind the secrets hidden in plain sight in this seemingly idyllic town. What he discovers is worse than he could ever have imagined . . .

This bundle contains A Wicked Mercy, Death in Pieces, and Splinter the Bone.

Attorney Michael Gresham has a new go-to person. Her name is Annie and she's twelve. Annie is a savant. She can look at you and, like her idol, Sherlock Holmes, tell you where you're from, whether or not you're happily married, and where you went to school. But now she must use her skills to discover who murdered her entire family, because it looks like the killer was actually looking for her. Annie must profile the killer before he kills her. It will take all of her brilliance and all of the lawyering skills of Michael Gresham. But will even that be enough?

Macy Mercer only wants a little independence. Eager to prove herself grown up, she goes to a dark, secluded park. She's supposed to meet the boy of her dreams who she met online. But the cute fifteen year old was a fantasy, his pictures fake. She finds herself face to face with Chester Woodran, a man capable of murder. Distraught over his own missing daughter, Chester insists that Macy replace his lost girl. He locks Macy up, withholds food, and roughs her up, demanding that she call him dad.

A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body. Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this. It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse. The postmortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds.

Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims. The first victim, a young man, lies spreadeagled in his stylish Soho flat. Carved deep into his hairless chest—while he was still alive—are the numbers 1-4-3. The second victim is a vicar—murdered and mutilated in his own church, his body posed kneeling in the front pew. Etched into his torso are more cryptic numbers.

Dark romance books were always my favorite. Now I'm living one. Thanks to Joker, a man I fell in love with hard. He wooed me with lies, told me everything I wanted to hear and more. Then he chained me up in a room and promised he'll break me. To get revenge on my father.

Mike Nash is away on compassionate leave, but that doesn't mean the criminals are going to take a break. Detective Clara Mironova and the Helmsdale team face a sudden increase in crime. Minor offences ranging from theft, shoplifting, and poaching, pale into insignificance when a violent turf war breaks out between rival drugs gangs.

When a car crash kills a woman and leaves her husband in hospital, Ryan Kaine answers the call. One of The 83 is in trouble, and the police believe he's to blame. But Kaine knows better. As he digs deeper, Kaine uncovers a web of lies and intimidation that leads straight to a violent crime family who will do anything to bury the truth.

When Michael Gresham and his wife offer to help their priest, life takes a dark turn. The holy man has a son, illegitimate of course, and he's on a first degree murder charge. It's time for Gresham to step up, and this time it includes having the boy in their home. Neither he or his wife were prepared for what happened next.

When a drug cartel gives Dallas defense lawyer Cash McCahill an ultimatum, he must make the choice to betray his client or face death. After a cartel places a bounty on the head of Dallas criminal lawyer Cash McCahill, he hides in plain sight by hiring a surgeon to give him a new face and...

When a package containing macabre photos of four dead women is mailed to a Louisville newspaper, the Manassas FBI office is called upon. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper are immediately dispatched to the scene. The man responsible for the murders, along with horrific acts upon the remains, has referred to himself as The Sportsman. A letter included with the photos pledges more killings to come.

Westbury's attics aren't the only places harboring secrets . . . Maggie Martin isn't hosting Rosemont's annual Christmas potluck. Her Christmas cheer has vanished until an exciting piece of news and a call for help propels her into action. Meanwhile, Anita Archer's sewing machine museum is...

She's reached the top. And the drop is deadly . . . Ruby Byrne took Hackney's underworld by the throat. But everything changed the day she became a mother. Now, with a four-year-old child to protect and a growing empire, she must play a new kind of game—one with higher stakes and fewer rules...

While building his career as a private investigator in the Maine countryside, Ryan Tapia takes the case of Dr. Ed Healey, a local physician suffering from an acute case of cobalt poisoning. A mine has recently opened in Pushaw county, extracting the valuable minerals needed for batteries in electronic devices and electric cars. But a deadly "Fan" of poison is seeping out . . .

When two CIA operatives uncover evidence of a massive weapons shipment entering the U.S., their investigation takes a perilous turn. Arrested in Moscow and facing trumped-up charges, they need a miracle to escape a Russian firing squad. Enter Michael Gresham, a brilliant American lawyer tasked with defending the accused in a hostile foreign court. As the trial descends into a sham of justice, Gresham finds himself embroiled in a web of corruption, secrets, and lies.