by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
????? ‘The best thriller I have read this year, just wow!’ Martha B.Meet Paterson and Clocks. London’s most outrageous detective duo.YOU WON’T WANT TO PUT THIS DOWN, PAGE AFTER PAGE OF ACTION, DARK HUMOUR, AND CLIFFHANGERS . . .Monday morning. 8.30 a.m. Chris Striker has seen it all. But nothing like this. He’s in charge of London’s Traffic Management System. Now he stares at his screen in horror. A woman deliberately steps into the path of an oncoming lorry at Tower Bridge. Killed on impact.At the same moment, a man steps in front of a bus on London Bridge. Two other people stare at their phones, then launch themselves into the rush hour traffic.Just who — or what — is controlling them?Something about Striker’s account doesn’t add up. Detectives Paterson and Clocks race to his flat — and find the place ransacked. A note is taped to the kitchen door. One word: Retribution.Paterson and Clocks are about to encounter their most powerful enemy yet. A sinister mastermind with a frighteningly long reach. Are they about to be thrown under the proverbial bus?Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Damien Boyd, Rachel Abbott, C.J. Grayson or Martina Cole.READERS LOVE THROWN UNDER THE BUS:????? ‘A proper page-turner. My mind is literally blown! Genuinely unputdownable.’ M.????? ‘Totally hooked. Unputdownable. The most powerful book in the series.’ Booklover Bev????? ‘Unputdownable . . . Fantastic!’ Jan T.????? ‘Full of surprises.’ Carol S.????? ‘It really sucked me in . . . Action-packed and thrilling.’ Katherina M.????? ‘Oh, wow! A few pages in and I’m riveted . . . Steve certainly knows how to grab a reader’s attention.’ Misfits Farm????? ‘Impossible to put down. A real page-turner.’ Phil R.????? ‘This book grabs you by the scruff of the neck and doesn’t let you go until the end . . . One of the best books of the year.’ Diane T.THE DETECTIVESDetective Superintendent Ray Paterson is a young and (thanks to family money) wealthy womaniser. He was recently widowed under tragic circumstances. He knows he’s weak when it comes to practical policing and struggles to find a place among his peers, desperate to be a good policeman and not just a ‘climber’.Detective Inspector Johnny Clocks is a foul-mouthed, working-class officer. He grew up surrounded by rogues and villains to become a first-class thief taker with the Met police. However, his childish attitude has short-circuited his career and he spends his days antagonising as many people as he can.THE AUTHORSteve Parker is a retired police officer who served for 20 years in numerous high-profile squads.
by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Book One of the best-selling Mackenzie and Manny mystery-thrillers. A homicide detectivehunts a killerinside a city high school.Mackenzie August’s new life doesn’t suit him. When he quit the LAPD to open a private cop shop, he expected to settle into a quieter lifestyle, hiring out to law firms, home by dinner. Now, however, the feisty detective is bored and missing the action of a hot homicide investigation. Sheriff Stackhouse comes knocking at the right time. Three teenage girls have been murdered in the past twelve months, victims of a brutal rite-of-passage ceremony. Clues indicate the killer has ties to the inner city school, but the police can’t catch him. They need a man on the inside. They need Mackenzie, an outsider, to go undercover as a teacher… Book One of the best-selling Mackenzie and Manny mystery-thrillers.????? “Not your standard cops and robbers. Fast paced, quick-witted, and intelligent.”????? “I haven’t devoured a series like this in a long time.” – Nathan Van CoopsStart reading Mackenzie August today!
by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega-tsunami, with waves of more than 150 feet in height, would ravage Europe, Africa, and ultimately the East Coast of the United States, causing immeasurable loss of life and destruction . . .After Professor Paul Landon, the world’s most prominent geophysicist, is found with a bullet in his head, it is discovered that Ravi Rashood—America’s nemesis and the former SAS officer who is now the head of Hamas—has hatched a diabolical plot against the West: to fire a nuclear-tipped guided cruise missile—Scimitar SL-2, named for the curved sword of the Muslim warrior Saladin—into Cumbre Vieja.United States Admiral Arnold Morgan, the retired National Security Adviser, and the Pentagon know it’s not a joke when Rashood, accompanied once again by his wife, the Palestinian Shakira, explodes Mount St. Helens. Morgan knows something even more horrific is to come.But stopping them won’t be easy.Rashood and his Hamas crew are deep in the ocean, in an undetectable sub, which he managed to procure from Russia via communist China. Perhaps worse, a new President, a weak-willed liberal in the White House, worries about taking a stand. As the terrorists’ deadline approaches, the newly implemented and unseasoned National Security team must consider the unthinkable. They must assume the daunting task of organizing a mass relocation of major population centers along the East Coast to safer ground.Morgan once again finds himself at the center of a desperate cat-and-mouse chase, battling his greatest enemy yet as he races against time to locate the silent underwater marauder and stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens.With his trademark authentic research and grasp of military hardware, geopolitics, and cutting-edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale.
by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Old evil never diesWhen private investigator Charlie Slater is found shot dead in his car on historic Lepe beach, DI Max Angel and his team find themselves torn between the present and the past. Did Slater’s own chequered past lead to his death at the hands of the family he wronged? Or was it the forgotten secrets from a lifetime ago he unearthed, old evil spawned in Lager Sylt on Alderney, the only Nazi concentration camp ever to sit on British soil?As long-dormant, bitter grievances come alive amid rumours of collaboration and black-market racketeering, whispers of a government cover-up protecting the informer known as Father Coutanche suggest Slater isn’t the first person to die in an ill-advised attempt to shine a light on war crimes unpunished for eighty years.Angel knows he’s getting close when an agent from the Security Service MI5 hijacks the investigation, his sole aim to bury it for the next eighty years. Except nobody tells Angel to back off, least of all a jumped-up spook in a regimental tie. Angel answers to a higher power, and God help anyone who gets between him and the truth.Old Evil is the second book in the new Angel & Kincade series of crime thrillers from USA Today bestselling author, James Harper, a gripping murder mystery you won’t be able to put down until you’ve turned the final page.
by admin | Apr 6, 2025 | Historical Romance |
Shadows of a Broken MarriageMorgan Whittaker is a mere shadow of his former self. Burdened by personal tragedies, a failing marriage, and injuries from his last military mission, all he desires is solitude. Cara Whittaker, though resigned to their marriage ending, finds it both painful and frustrating to see her husband deteriorate. As a quantum physicist, she offers him an incredible opportunity: a chance to travel back in time.What Morgan discovers in 1880 Kansas exceeds his wildest dreams. Mistaken for a long-lost son, he suddenly finds himself embraced by a family—a loving mother, brothers, and a sister thrilled by his return. Despite being cautioned not to disrupt the delicate balance of the future, a looming threat emerges. Can he prevent it and change his fate, or will time work against him? Will he adhere to the rules, or take a leap and become the man he is destined to be?If you enjoyed books like Outlander and The Time Traveler’s Wife, you’ll love the Threads of Time series!The novel has been previously published. It has been extended, re-edited, and is offered for your enjoyment by the original author.This book contains elements of the familial discipline relevant to the era in which it’s written. If physical punishment offends you, you may not want to purchase this book.
