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Newly licensed attorney Aspen Wilde joins Denver’s largest law firm to discover that an attractive, up-and-coming associate mysteriously vanished several months earlier and is presumed dead. She secretly embarks upon a brilliant but dangerous plan to trap the killer, only to find herself increasingly intertwined in a complex web of murders involving several different women killed in very different ways.

Tommy Pierce is not a nice man. Ask anyone in Denver, they’ll tell you. He owns the Blue Note, a nightclub that poisons the city after dark. Cops hate him. Criminals orbit him. Rumors cling like cheap cigar smoke—and so do bodies. When he crashes his car one night and the police find a dead woman in the back seat, no one’s shocked, and he’s charged with murder. He claims he’s being framed. Swears it, up and down. PI Bryson Wilde is brought in to help get to the bottom of things. Wilde doesn’t like courtrooms, and he doesn’t like Pierce, but work is work. As he digs into the ...

Denver was built on ambition—railroads, cattle, oil, and dangerous deals made behind closed doors. But when power starts to rot, it doesn’t collapse quietly. It kills. Private investigator Bryson Wilde isn’t a hero. He works out of a tired second-floor office, takes cases that pay in cash, and knows better than to dig too deep into men who own judges for sport. He finds the missing. He asks the questions no one else will. And he survives. Until Taylor Calder walks in. She’s rich. Poised. Smarter than she lets on. And she’s certain her husband intends to murder her. He doesn’t ...

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In R. J. Jagger’s riveting noir thriller, A Way with Murder, Wilde finds himself entangled in two deadly assignments, one for a young, raven-haired attorney on the run after visiting an archeological site in Mexico, and the other for a pretty, little doll-face, who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist.

Miami homicide detective Nicole Stone’s first case is as dangerous and threatening as it is terrifying. An up-and-coming actress has been violently snatched from her bed. If the taker's MO holds true, she will be killed within the next few days. She’s the most recent victim to be abducted in this manner but certainly not the first. There have been at least eight others before her, with no survivors. At first it might seem that murder is the endgame. As Nicole is about to find out, however, it is all just the start of something much more personal.

Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger is used to chasing monsters—but nothing prepares him for a woman who claims she can see through a killer’s eyes. A mysterious woman insists she knows who will die next, and when her visions begin to align with brutal reality, Teffinger realizes he’s hunting a predator who may already be watching him. The trail leads far from the streets of Denver and into the shadowed heart of the Caribbean, where superstition and violence collide, and every answer uncovers a deadlier secret. As Teffinger digs deeper, the rules he lives by begin to unravel, and...

Five years ago, Jori-Ray Rose was Senator John Stone’s very beautiful and very secret lover. She was also the person who broke into his house one night and killed his daughter. It was one of Nick Teffinger’s first homicide cases. Every shred of evidence pointed to her—blood, DNA, surveillance, all of it. Teffinger never even had to seriously consider any other persons. The jury agreed and convicted her. Now, five years later, she has escaped from prison and is on the run. Instead of disappearing into the recesses of the world, however, she’s back in contact with Teffinger.

Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in Denver's prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope.

In this frantic thriller from acclaimed author R. J. Jagger, an up-and-coming associate attorney discovers that she's on a murder list and frantically searches for answers, not only to save her life but also to find out whether she was tricked into participating in a murder herself. Jim Michael Hansen, sometimes also writing as R. J. Jagger, is the author of over 25 hard-edged mystery and suspense thrillers, including the Nick Teffinger thrillers, the Bryson Wilde thrillers, and the Nicole Stone thrillers. In addition to his own books, he also ghostwrites for a well-known, bestselling author.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself in a deadly game with an elusive killer who has given a young lawyer a chance to save his next victim.

In his most dangerous and personal case yet, Denver homicide detective, Nick Teffinger, promises a mysterious young woman from Hong Kong that he will not let anyone murder her.

Private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where nothing is black and white, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and even the simplest case has more dangerous twists than whiskey-soaked jazz. He's had gritty murder investigations before. Lots of them. But this one's different. In this one, he's the prime suspect. In this one, more than one person is out to kill him, and for more than one reason.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last end, homicide detective Nick Teffinger witnesses a murder from a place he shouldn’t be and soon finds himself pulled into the edgy world of an exotic young lawyer who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist. The Nick Teffinger thrillers are all self-contained within their own four corners and can be listened to in any order.

In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last minute, a beautiful young lawyer is hired by a colleague to find out if one of his clients is trying to kill him.

In this thriller that will have you gripped, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself in a frantic run when he receives confidential information that a killer he thought was dead is not only alive, but has plans to take his next victim in just a few hours.

In this riveting thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger frantically hunts for a vicious killer only to find himself increasingly tangled in the hypnotic web of a beautiful private investigator who is working for a high-profile attorney.

When a woman walks into Bryson Wilde’s office with murder in her eyes and cash in her purse, the job sounds simple: find out who killed her sister. No cops. No headlines. No courtroom speeches. Just the truth. Wilde has made a living chasing truth through the shadows of Denver. He knows what it smells like. He knows what it costs. And he knows something else the moment the woman finishes talking— She doesn’t want justice. She wants a name. And once she has it, she won’t be dialing the police. The dead girl wasn’t an angel. She ran with the wrong crowd, whispered to the wrong men, ...

In this thriller that will grip you from the first minute until the very last twist, a young lawyer suffering from traumatic memory loss peels back her past to discover that she might be a killer.

Nick Teffinger never follows orders, but this time it might cost him his job as a Denver homicide detective. Unsolved murders prey on Teffinger’s psyche, and when an on-the-loose killer taunts him with plans for his next kill, Teffinger has do so something, especially since he ignored the first warning with dire consequences. His unlicensed pursuit of the killer takes Teffinger across three continents and, as series fans have come to expect, into the arms of numerous exotic women along the way.

In this edgy thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds his life shaken to the core as he hunts two criss-crossing assassins, one of whom may be targeting his attorney-lover and the other of whom may be in a unique position to prevent the kill.