Vigilante Crime

A major breakdown in society has descended and everything is spiralling out of control on council ghettos across the city. The police don’t have the ability to deal with it and are demoralised.

James Ryker thought he’d gotten the gangsters out of the Norwegian town of Blodstein, so when he hears of a wave of murders, it gets his attention. Then he discovers that an unidentified teenager has been found dead in Crete, and the description of the victim raises an alarm—could the boy be Henrik Svenson, who Ryker had once rescued in Blodstein? To get some answers, Ryker heads for Athens—and meets the seductive but duplicitous Eleni. Soon the search begins for a known associate of the elusive Eastern European drug kingpin known only as Jesper.

There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims all seem to be lowlifes. The more Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne investigates, however, the more he gets a bad feeling-one that only gets worse when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the hits, even though Payne knows it can't be true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can't figure out who's behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all.

Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour has learned to be tough. The places she’s been and the stories she’s covered, she’s had to be. Her experience stands her in good stead for a grisly new investigation: the body of a refugee in a Glasgow canal, missing limbs and vital organs. He’s not the first person to go missing – are there vigilantes at work or is there something far more sinister going on? It’s up to Rosie to find out – but will what she discovers leave her with murder on her hands?

Vigilante heiress Gia Santella is facing her most dangerous enemy yet. When a hate group infiltrates Gia's San Francisco neighborhood, a student journalist at U.C. Berkeley reporting on the group disappears. Gia's search for the missing student unravels dark secrets that threaten to destroy her beloved neighborhood.

Вот и трое жителей сонного американского городка, затерянного среди холмов Пенсильвании, независимо друг от друга принимают судьбоносные решения, которые разделят их жизнь на «до» и «после». Пересекаясь, сплетаясь и снова расходясь, линии трех героев — пожарного Нейтана, нашедшего мешок с деньгами, самоотверженной медсестры Келли, страдающей от внешнего уродства, и бывшего наркомана Энди, потерявшего всех, кого он любил, — двигаются к неизбежному финалу, где всем воздастся по грехам их.

Jenny Pepper never expected to end up like this. Tired of her job and her lacklustre marriage, increasingly marginal in her teenage daughter's life, Jenny stumbles into a vigilante rescue one night; suddenly her world is exciting again - and she's a hero. In secret - in costume - she walks the streets of her small town, seeking to right wrongs. But secret identities are tricky to maintain, and Jenny's need for adventure is beginning to cost her dearly. Then, amidst the petty crime, a terrifying villain appears.

Intrigue, illusions, and insidious motives... Still recovering from testifying against her abuser, Chief Inspector Sara Vallén is called out to investigate a mysterious death in an idyllic allotment on the outskirts of Lund. The victim - a beloved social worker - is found brutally murdered inside one of the potting sheds. But when Sara and the police dig deeper into the case, they begin to unravel a web of dark secrets surrounding the victim's seemingly perfect life.

When Case’s psychic friend, a child, and a cop are all threatened by a serial killer, it pulls him and his team into a deadly hunt. What started as a hunt for one serial killer gets complicated. Case got more than he expected and his search exposes serial killers in Houston, Boston, and Miami. Case can’t let them go on killing, and he doesn’t. This stretches Case and his team as they race in three cities at once to bring these serial killers to justice and prevent innocents from being murdered.

Vigilantes occupy a curious space in our collective psyche. On one hand, they are seen as almost modern knights, seeking truth and justice where the law has failed, while on the other they are no better than the criminals they seek, operating outside of normal societal conventions. In this audiobook, Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes, we examine the lives of real vigilantes who often had their own agendas.

One man's angel is another man's devil. One man's hero is another man's killer. It's a blurred line between hero and villain, between vigilante and criminal, between decent citizen and maniac - and this is where Jack finds himself. Jack is a man haunted by the failures of a justice system he feels is broken and the seemingly arbitrary punishments measured out to those who have offended the state.

If you were going to die, who would you kill? A hard-nosed former US Marine/retired cop receives a terminal prognosis. But when a local priest is accused of molesting children, he hears the calling of another mission. He enlists a coterie of like-minded patients to seek his own brand of vigilante justice. Tommy Borata has cancer. He realizes he can kill without consequences, and he’s got a list. A pedophile priest, a corrupt cop, a fascist political candidate—where to start? The hardest battles, the ones he hadn’t counted on, are right in his own home: an alcoholic, unfaithful wife and bringing himself to accept his son’s sexuality. In book one of this trilogy, Tommy befriends Moses, a black ex-con. As both seek redemption for their past misdeeds, and with nothing to lose, they set their sights on Father Damien Tarat. Will his fight against evil and his own internal demons come too close to home?

When you hunt a vigilante, you may well become the hunted. Tommy Borata is a dying vigilante ex-cop who finds himself under investigation by a racist, corrupt detective. Detective Carson crosses a line and involves Tommy’s family. When the unthinkable happens, Tommy switches from prey to predator and partners with a one-eyed Korean martial arts expert and a black motorcycle gang to seek his revenge. Will justice or vigilante justice be served?

It's 1998. The Internet age is still in its infancy. Google has just been founded. Eighteen-year-old supermarket shelf-stacker Nigel Carmelite has decided that he's going to become a vigilante. There are a few problems: how is he going to even find crime to fight on the streets of Derbyshire? How will he create a superhero costume - and an arsenal of crime-fighting weaponry - on a shoestring budget?

Welcome to the city of Greenville, where murder is never what it seems. Detective Lynn Pocker and her team are battling crime on several fronts: two serial murderers and a secret organization that has been pulling the strings of crime and justice for decades. Our heroine will have to fight this and her own personal struggles as she herself becomes ensnared in the game of foxes and hounds.

Eiskalte Rache. Vanilleeis mit Kirschsauce: Die zwölfjährige Claudia stirbt einige Stunden nach dem Genuss ihres Lieblingsdesserts im Kreis ihrer Familie. Wer hatte einen Grund, das Mädchen zu vergiften? Diese Frage zerstört die Patchwork-Familie und drei Menschenleben, denn auf jedem von ihnen liegt ein schrecklicher Verdacht. Claudias Mutter braucht sechsunddreißig Jahre, um endlich die Wahrheit zu erkennen. Sie schmiedet einen perfiden Plan.

It's corrupt to the bone and under the ever watchful surveillance system known as the Eye. Money has been abandoned in favor of the credit system. All citizens are required to carry hand held devises containing their credit score and personal information. Dylan is recovering from the government attitude adjustment program known as the Punch since his credits reached zero. His adopted son Jimmy is missing presumed dead and his basement office is infested with contrarian rats.