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He protected wildlife. They protected criminals. Only one survived.** Andrew Mackintosh was a conservation officer investigating wildlife crime in the Cairngorms. Poisoned raptors. Illegal trapping. Protected species are systematically destroyed to benefit shooting estates. He documented everything, built cases against powerful landowners, and refused bribes and threats. They shot him in a remote forest and left him for the ravens. Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lynch—recently promoted but still fighting for respect—takes the case. What starts as investigating a murdered conservation ...

FOR SIXTEEN YEARS, DETECTIVE JORDAN CROSS BELIEVED HER FATHER CHOSE TO ABANDON HER. For sixteen years, she carried the guilt of his suicide—the police officer's daughter who couldn't save her own dad. Then she discovered the pattern. Five autoworkers dead between 2008 and 2012. All ruled suicide. The same detective investigated all. All were murdered for what they knew about corporate crimes, including Michael Cross, Jordan's father, who was killed for testifying about a union organizer's death thirty-five years earlier. Now Jordan must do the one thing that terrifies her most: testify at...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death at Coombe Farm (Book 4) - An idyllic setting. A violent death! If it hadn’t been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn’t a pleasant sight. Death by a Dead Man’s Hand (Book 5) - Dead Men don't commit ...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Burial Mound (Book 7) - A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. The anticipation from those conducting the dig: an ancient body, historical artefacts, a deeper understanding of those who lived when Stonehenge was in its infancy. They did not expect to find a recent burial there as well. It’s another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Yarwood. The more recent of the two bodies, the brother of the mayor of Salisbury. The person responsible keeps ...

For fans of Tana French's complex conspiracies, C.J. Box's institutional thrillers, and Jane Harper's Australian crime fiction. Dr Sarah Thompson discovered the truth about Project Architect—the conspiracy beneath the conspiracy. A systematic programme that spent thirty years corrupting government officials, building networks of complicity, enabling crimes from weapons testing to elimination operations. Then someone murdered her to keep that truth buried. Former Superintendent Kate Hayes knows institutional corruption when she sees it. She exposed Protocol Seven. She revealed the weapons ...

A dismembered corpse floats in a canal in London. Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more? Whatever the reason, it's clearly a warning, and Isaac and his team are sure it's not the last body that they'll have to deal with.

Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Kyle Mills, and Tom Clancy The Ridge Line Trust was never just about trafficking. It was always about control. FBI profiler Alex Harlan joins a specialized task force hunting the Trust's governing Council—seven members controlling a global criminal empire. Their endgame: the Ascension Protocol, a three-part strategy to dominate the world's financial systems through regulatory capture, hidden banking networks, and quantum encryption technology. Target one: Philippe Rousseau, European banking specialist operating from Paris. Target two: Westfield, technology ...

Jacob Montfield, regarded by the majority as a homeless eccentric, a nuisance by a few, had pushed a supermarket trolley around the city for years. However, one person regards him as a liability. Eccentric was correct, a nuisance, for sure, mad, plenty thought that, but few knew the truth, that Montfield is a brilliant man, once a research scientist.

One murderer, two bodies, two locations, and the murders have been committed within an hour of the other. There's a connection, but what is it? They're separated by a couple of miles, and neither woman has anything in common with the other. Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Police Station are baffled as to why. One of the women is young and wealthy, the daughter of a famous man; the other is poor and hardworking and unknown.

He was thought to be dead, until he returns to exact revenge against those who had blighted his life. His only concern is to protect his wife and daughter. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim.

The town needed a doctor. They got one who killed patients. They protected him anyway. When Dr Henry Lawson is found murdered, Warragulla loses the only physician within a two-hour drive. Detective Maya Thorne is supposed to find his killer. Instead, she finds a town that's been burying secrets along with bodies. Lawson was an addict. His hands shook. His judgment failed. Patients died — deaths ruled natural, signed off by a doctor too impaired to know the difference. And the town's leadership knew. They protected him because the alternative was no doctor at all. Now, Councillor James ...

Maya Thorne is called to investigate when Dr. Amanda Parker is found dead. What begins as an apparent accident evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between drought-resistant crop research and powerful interests operating in the shadows of rural Australia. When evidence emerges that Parker's death was staged using the storm as cover, Maya must navigate both scientific sabotage and the deep-rooted tensions of a community divided by old grievances and new threats. As pressure mounts from university officials and corporate representatives, Maya uncovers links between ...

Historians will wrestle with the echoes of the cataclysmic events, psychoanalysts will engage in perpetual discourse, and scientists, in their ceaseless pursuit of understanding, will grapple with the enigma that unfolded. Yet, none will definitively fathom the depths of what transpired. In the realm of lesser wisdom, amidst the clamour of social media enthusiasts, resounding declarations arise, branding Benedict Verrall as a madman. Some assert that the events in the quaint southern hamlet were nothing more than a concocted tale, a sinister government conspiracy. They dismiss Samuel ...

In the relentless throes of a heart-wrenching drama, Kate McDonald's very existence teeters on the precipice of despair. Trapped between the insidious clutches of a merciless Slave Trader and the fervent desperation of her father, who holds the ransom for her release, the question looms: can Steve Case and his valiant team pull off a daring rescue in the dwindling hours? As the ticking clock casts an ominous shadow, the Baptist Mission becomes the grim stage for a tragedy in three acts. A fiery chapel claims the lives of the Pastor and his wife, while a courageous soul meets a bullet ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher When traditional owner Curtis Brennan is found dead among the sacred granite formations of Karlu Karlu—the Devil's Marbles—in Australia's remote Northern Territory, Detective Senior Constable Ruby MacKenzie finds climbing chalk on the rocks. No Aboriginal person would touch these sacred formations. Someone else has been here. Curtis wasn't climbing. He was murdered trying to stop them. Ruby's investigation uncovers an illegal tourism operation exploiting Aboriginal sacred sites for profit. Unauthorised visitors are brought ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher When journalist Ellie Kaplan inherits a cottage in Khancoban from a great-uncle she never knew existed, her father's immediate demand to sell it sight unseen triggers her investigative instincts. What is he so desperate to hide? Inside the cottage beneath the celebrated Snowy Mountains Scheme, Ellie discovers decades of hidden documentation: journals, photographs, and scientific samples. Her great-uncle Nikolai Popov spent his life gathering evidence of a deadly secret—the deliberate exposure of migrant workers to uranium ...

The favourite was scratched. The jockey was murdered. Maya's day off is over. Warragulla's Annual Cup is the biggest event on the calendar — a day of horses, dust, and money changing hands. Detective Maya Thorne is there to watch, not work. Then, jockey Cameron Walsh is found dead in stable seven, and the celebration turns into a crime scene. Walsh wasn't just riding horses. He'd been quietly documenting a race-fixing operation — drugged animals, coordinated betting, officials on the take. He had names. Dates. Proof. Now he's dead and his notes are missing. As a dust storm rolls in and ...

In the secluded valley of Hermit's Hollow, where property boundaries are measured to the centimetre and neighbours watch each other's every move, the disappearance of Malcolm Tierney breaks the community's fragile equilibrium. When Constable Jodi receives the call—from a community that never invites outsiders in—she knows something disturbing has occurred. Malcolm, a meticulous man who documented his neighbours' every transgression, has vanished without feeding his only companion: his dog. As Jodi and her partner Fletch investigate, they discover Malcolm's house filled with journals ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer Detective Jodi Brennan thought Wirramurra Bay would be the peaceful posting she needed after exposing corruption in Adelaide. She was wrong. When beloved postmistress Agnes Whitmore dies of apparent natural causes, the coastal town mourns a pillar of the community. Then, handyman Tom Mitchell is found murdered at an abandoned quarry—and the connection between the deaths reveals secrets forty years buried. Tom's renovation work uncovered hidden love letters and a birth certificate that challenges everything the town believed ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer When a savage winter storm batters the South Australian coast, Detective Jodi Brennan expects the usual aftermath—damaged boats, blocked roads, power outages. What she doesn't expect is for the tempest to expose human remains embedded in Wirramurra Bay's protective breakwater. Forensic examination reveals the victim as Melissa Hartley, a young woman who disappeared in 1987. What was dismissed as a missing person case becomes murder—and the investigation threatens to destroy Jodi's life in the coastal community she's come to ...