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Middleborough Homicide Detective Jake Waterfield is questioning his faith as he investigates murder, police corruption, and the alleged abuse of children at the hands of a Catholic priest. The unsolved murder of 12-year-old altar boy Robert Anderson has plagued Jake Waterfield for nearly two decades. As a rookie patrolman, Jake was the first officer to respond to the scene of the crime.

Caught in the middle of a fatal car chase and drug-fueled gun battle, Clive Bradshaw decides to call it quits, leave the city and live a simpler life with his wife Emily and young daughter Amy. Emily drops him off at the foot of Detroit on his last day of work. Clive steps out of the car and into a city on the verge of collapse, rife with corruption, no city services, overworked and underpaid police and fire departments manned by skeleton crews, fighting a hopeless battle against brazen, uncontrolled crime...then the pulses hit. Everything that produces or relies on electricity is destroyed.

The conspiracy is over the mistakes and cover up are hidden and buried for good. Both sides of the Atlantic can concentrate on the threats from Islamic Terrorism. That is what they all hope. They want to enlist a hidden black asset in the chase, but there are risks to that approach. Meanwhile the FBI is still investigating what really happened. Is the conspiracy really over?

When a single mother is wrongly accused of murder, Zack Taylor must work to clear her name. Not an easy task, as everyone in the Maine town of Mill Springs thinks she's guilty. Zack finds, however, plenty of people who wanted the victim dead. As the events around him begin to spiral out of control, Zack begins to do the same.

Tour rookie Kevin Turner is within one bad bounce of quitting. If he fails to win a check in Las Vegas, he’s out of money and down the road. Foot, his semi-retired businessman caddie will let him go, too. He hates quitters. Just before the first round, ambitious tour official Bill Henson complicates Kevin’s life by asking help to nab a suspected cheat, veteran player Ben Amaya. Amaya’s disenchanted wife throws herself into the mixture when she finds Kevin in an out of the way bar. It is Tour golf with a few murders, a beautiful woman, a rich caddie and a desperate rookie.

If you’re like most people, your ideal life would include joy, love, happiness, fulfillment, and success. And you would probably like to avoid things like despair, failure, loneliness, fear, and hurt. The problem is, you can’t control life. Nobody can. But unlike most people, you can control your life. You do that by the decisions you make. When earning his doctorate, Robert Brown learned critical life skills from such luminaries as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Viktor Frankl, among others.

The Demise operation was shut down the killer allowed to disappear. But the conspirators have not all been caught and the efforts of MI6 and the CIA to cover up the dirty deeds of the security services only results in more deaths and destruction. Slater returns to tidy up, but how can he reconcile his new life with what he is asked to do. What happens to Jess and Michael? Will the newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Hooper really allow the suspected killer to go free?

What is the truth about sex through a hole in the sheet? What are the Rabbis doing with the foreskins that are cut off? Why do women have to show their panties to a Rabbi? Did you know that the Rabbi sucks the blood of the circumcised penis of a baby? Have you heard there is a special way that Jews are supposed to put on their shoes? Why do Jews take a live chicken and swing it above their heads? You will be shocked by the strange practices of the Jewish community.

Pregnant women in Albuquerque, New Mexico are being tortured and mutilated in secluded areas of the city. Cut out of their mother's bellies, the babies that once squirmed happily inside them are nowhere to be found. Albuquerque Homicide Detective Peter Kostas has been chasing the monster responsible for these heinous crimes for almost a year now. But the latest victim is alive at the University Hospital. The only clue she has to offer Peter is a unknown medical device that protrudes from her once pregnant abdomen.

Intelligence analysts and agents have gone missing, some may have been killed. The press and the police suspect there is a serial killer on the loose. John Slater was near the latest victim, he is evasive, appears to have no history, and he might be the killer. The second Iraq war and the intelligence network may link the victims and so The Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch investigates, with the help or hindrance of the Intelligence Agencies.

When Ellen Dumont visited her parent’s gravesite alone, it never occurred to her that quiet winter night would be her last moment on earth. Four hundred fifty murders is a slow year for the top Chicago homicide detective, Aaron Wolfe. He remembers everyone as if they just happened. Wolfe carries them with him everywhere he goes. Although he could not stop the memories, long ago he learned how to bury the pain so he could navigate the heinous carnage and hunt the monsters.

It was supposed to be an exciting golf tournament, not a life or death struggle. This is a golf story that takes place in the 1990s, when change was slower, before metal woods, before Tiger Woods soared, before some of the greats exited the game and before some of the more powerful antipsychotic drugs were invented. Young pro Kevin Turner travels to St. Andrews, Scotland to play in the oldest major golf championship. Although his caddie Foot is not with him, he has vowed to make the cut, and even contend.

Thin, pale, awkward, bullied, Sam Every is a 13-year-old who finds comfort among his friends and his days at the beach. The ocean beckons to him. It is where he feels safest. Fitting in no longer matters when he is near the Pacific’s rolling waves. Gazing toward the endless blue where it touches the horizon, he imagines the ports he might someday reach and ponders his future. Little does he know an apparition - a hauntingly beautiful girl from the sea - will lead him farther from his home than he could ever dream, for destiny has given him a dangerous legacy.

Baltimore homicide detective Lane O'Reily takes on the case of a lifetime when he is handed a murder investigation involving a string of young women. Desperate to solve the case before another victim turns up, he must rely heavily on his only witness, a survivor to the crimes. She begins harassing and stalking him, and with his marriage, career, and life on the line, he must decide if the obsessive witness is leading him down a path to the murderer, or down a trail littered with lies, betrayal and, ultimately, a dead end.

In The Tortoise and the Hairpiece, Jake learns that true friends love him for who he is inside, not what he looks like. In The Watch Cat, an ordinary cat becomes a neighborhood hero by saving his house from a burglar. In The Incredible Martin O'Shea, Martin learns that by paying attention in school, he can make his dreams come true. In Shelby the Cat, Shelby resists bullying and peer pressure by staying true to what matters most to him.

Mr. McKelvie (America's answer to a well known English detective) confronts a truly evil person in this exciting novel: "My mind remained appalled before the contemplation of the devilish ingenuity of this man, who could plan the murder with such diabolical cunning."

After taking down a major drug operation in Detroit, Agent Ann Peabody quits the DEA and heads south of the border to avenge the death of her brother, a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The trail leads to Escobara, a suburb of drug cartel controlled Juarez, Mexico. After an assassination attempt Peabody becomes a security consultant to the newly elected Mayor of Escobara and struggles with the Mayor and her brother to rid Escobara of the rampant drug trade. Along with multiple, horrific drug-related slayings a serial killer is on the loose, and he's prolific.

They all had a system: the professional car thief, the cop, the sex trade operator, the heroin dealer, the DEA agent. But in Detroit all bets are off and you're on your own. Follow Elena Krizi, duped into sex slavery on the promise of a job, dancing and hooking in an 8 Mile Road strip club owned by Vlad "The Dragon" Dragovic. Ride with professional car thief Chris Wolfe boosting Escalades and busting them down at Eddie Siegler's chop shop, deep in Detroit. Take a wild ride on the lawless streets of Detroit in The System - A Detroit Story by John Silver.

It's 1980 and Clay Cooper is now running Cooper Investigations with his father, Matt, helping out as needed. Matt decides to join a lonely hearts club to try to find a companion his own age. He finds one and they have a wonderful night of coffee and talking. The next morning when he goes to call her, Sergeant Dean Hollister (Dan's son) answers the phone. The woman has been murdered and Matt was the last one to see her alive. He's been framed but he and Clay won't sit still for it. What they find during their investigation is a case of major proportions and a lot of people will die before this story is over...some you'll know and some will be strangers.

Sandy's Miracle, delves into some of mankind's darkest depravities - including physical, mental, and sexual child abuse. Patsy Giddings personally experienced extraordinary incidents of cruelty and rape from those in her own family and eventually in the clutches of her adoptive family. But her 'miracle' came when least expected, as God intervened in her life offering salvation and rescue.