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A long shadow looms above the wife of filmmaker Carlton Markham. Then a hand clamps over her mouth, and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Markham, who's been arrested for his wife's murder, but he says he didn't do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham's not giving up on his innocence that easily. And when Hope digs deeper into the victim's business—he finds she may not have been the perfect lady that she seemed.

In this audiobook, Jae shares his heart as he learns to see, to love, and to accept Cole and the way life changes, sisters of the heart look on the boys they love, and key players in Cole's life are interviewed about the man who brings mayhem and love into their world. This collection features special notes from Rhys Ford as well as Greg Tremblay, the narrator of the series, previously shared stories from blog tours, holiday posts, and spotlights an all-new story written exclusively for the celebratory collection.

Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators are highly skilled and trustworthy—but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer’s. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama, following the trail of a missing person, what should be a routine case turns into a complex chase for answers. Shady locals and a southern patriarch with dark secrets dating back forty years obscure their path.

This is the world of the undercover operative: a world of lies, treachery, and deception. A world where violence erupts without warning, like a ticking time bomb on a crowded bus. It isn't a matter of if that bomb will go off - it is a matter of how close you are to it when it does.

Corporate Asset takes RCMP undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies are being bilked out of millions of dollars. Multiple murders are taking place right under the cops' noses, but are thought to be accidental.

Taggart gets a whiff of what is going on when he captures a drug trafficker willing to expose one of the murderers connected to the plot. The problem is that the new informant is also a serial rapist.

Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. But the little girl’s body was never found—and Julia believes Lily is somehow still alive. Alone and broke, Julia opens her house as a writers’ retreat. One of the first guests is Lucas, a horror novelist, who becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Lily.

Matthew Scudder and his wife, Elaine, talk of the night they met while listening to music in various places around their part of New York.

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult–why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone? With no apparent motive, DS George Cross canvases the community for potential suspects but the man was known as generous, charitable, community-minded. Each interview about who the man is muddies the picture further. So Cross decides to look for who he was–revealing a past that is far less honourable than his present . . .

A fatal arson fire has both the cops and a cartel out for revenge. Buried in the ashes, though, lies a truth—about loyalty, fatherhood, and the price of justice. When a fire tears through a popular Los Angeles gym, two bodies are found in the wreckage—one a sheriff's deputy, the other a notorious fraudster. A hidden stash of heroin points to something darker. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department doesn't wait long to name a suspect: Eduardo "Lalo" Silva, the gym's charismatic owner.

Zane Holden, the founder of Stonewall Investigations, has been haunted by the same case for years. He's had loved ones taken by the serial killer known as the Unicorn, and his drive to find the monster is higher than ever. Finally, he feels like he's getting close. Something else that's getting closer? His wedding day to the man of his dreams. Lorenzo De Luca found the love of his life in Zane. He's the happiest he's ever been. His career as a high-powered defense attorney is at a peak, and his daydreams are filled with wedding bells and honeymooning.

Zane Holden hasn't had the easiest go of things. The only good thing in his life would be Stonewall Investigations, an investigative company he found to work primarily with the LGBTQ community. Lorenzo De Luca is a cocky defense attorney dripping in Italian charm. He's well known as one of the best lawyers in New York City, a title he worked hard to achieve. When he picks up a difficult case, he finds that he needs extra help. This leads him to Stonewall, where he meets Zane for the first time and instantly feels himself falling for the mysterious and stone-cut detective.

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who took that fateful trip and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.

Liam Wolfe isn't having the best of days. He's being falsely accused of things he'd never even think of doing and is now facing the loss of his career because of it. He has an idea of who's behind the attempt at assassinating his character but can't put the pieces together by himself. Mark Masters isn't having any better of a time. He's sitting in his office at Stonewall Investigations, getting work done, when his boyfriend of a year walks in with the sole goal of breaking up with him. He's blindsided by the development and thinks not much else can surprise him. He was very wrong.

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are a few things that bother Duffy just enough to keep the case file open, which is how he finds out that Bigelow was working on a devastating investigation of corruption and abuse at the highest levels of power in the UK and beyond. And so Duffy has two impossible problems on his desk: Who killed Lily Bigelow? And what were they trying to hide?

В театре «Новая Москва» совершается загадочное и непонятное для окружающих преступление – покушение на режиссера и художественного руководителя Л. А. Богомолова. Теперь уже частный детектив Анастасия Каменская и молодой оперативник с Петровки Антон Сташис приступают к расследованию, которое приводит их к удивительным и неожиданным результатам. Подозреваемых много, все они лгут, и у каждого для этой лжи есть свои причины: и родительская любовь, и слепая страсть, и гнусный шантаж, и жажда успеха, достающегося слишком дорогой ценой, и страх разоблачения.

Разбитое зеркальце на груди, сережка, вырванная из уха, – своеобразная «визитная карточка» убийцы. Кто убил этих двух почтенных женщин – маньяк, одержимый мрачноватыми легендами рода Вяземских, или его изощренный имитатор? Все версии неизменно заходят в тупик. Бизнесмен, чьи начинания в связи с этими преступлениями находятся под угрозой, решил прибегнуть к помощи частного детектива. Так Анастасия Каменская оказалась в провинциальном Томилине.

Frühjahr 1881. Wenige Wochen nach der Studie in Scharlachrot stirbt Dr. Phineas Vale, Watsons väterlicher Freund und Mentor, auf Marwood Manor. Gift. Watson bittet Holmes um Hilfe, doch der ermittelt bereits in einem anderen Fall. Watson reist allein – und wird im Porzellanzimmer von Marwood Manor Zeuge eines bizarren Rituals: ein Rätsel, dessen Enthüllung ihn in tödliche Gefahr bringt.

Odense, Dänemark. Ermittler Roland Benito ermittelt in den eigenen Reihen: Der 6-jährige Sohn eines Polizisten wurde vor den Augen seiner Eltern entführt. Sein Vater steht im Verdacht, einer skrupellosen Verbrecherbande Geld gestohlen zu haben. Hat der Kollege die Tragödie selbst zu verschulden – oder steckt womöglich etwas viel Abgründigeres dahinter? Zur gleichen Zeit wird in Aarhus eine junge Frau tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden. Die ungewöhnlichen Umstände ihres Todes rufen die Journalistin Anne Larson auf den Plan.

Tauchen Sie ein in die rauchgeschwängerte Atmosphäre der amerikanischen Noir-Ära: "Richard Diamond – Privatdetektiv" entführt Sie direkt in die Schattenseiten New Yorks, wo harte Kerle, gefährliche Frauen und dunkle Geheimnisse den Ton angeben. Hochkarätig besetzt mit den Synchronstimmen großer Hollywood-Stars.