The savage murder of one of their own shocks the force.Police and Crime Commissioner Lionel Hall-Hartington is shot dead at his farm, alongside one of his employees. His wife is found suspended upside down in an ancient well in the cellar.DI Jan Talantire is at a loss. There's no clear motive the farm was ransacked but nothing has been taken. There are bloody footprints, but no obvious perpetrator. And the farm's CCTV has been disabled. The only clue they have is a bizarre Victorian-style doll from the wife's collection which was hung on the door to the cellar.The trail leads Talantire across the country and even further afield. Can she look past her first assumptions and unravel this complicated case?A dark, page-turning crime thriller from the million-copy bestseller. Perfect for fans of Kate Ellis, Sally Rigby and Elly Griffiths.

Scott Drayco is not your typical detective.Trained as a concert pianist, he was forced to give up his dreams of a music career after a violent carjacking permanently damaged his arm. Deciding to follow in his estranged father's footsteps, he became an FBI agent then a private crime consultant, earning the reputation of being brilliant and sometimes unorthodox.His unusual background, eidetic memory, and chromesthesia — a form of synesthesia where he "sees" all sounds as colors, shapes, and textures — gives him unique tools and insights as he tackles thorny and complex cases others often don't want to touch.This box set includes the first three novels in the engrossing Scott Drayco mystery series readers describe as "not a stereotypical detective" and "an extremely complex character." If you like heart-tugging mystery, thrilling suspense, and twisty mysteries then you’ll love the Scott Drayco series. Finalists for the Shamus, Silver Falchion, Daphne, Foreword Book Reviews, and Kindle Book Awards.PLAYED TO DEATH: When a former client bequeaths crime consultant Scott Drayco a rundown Opera House in a Virginia seaside town - complete with a body inside - Drayco gets trapped in a tangled web of music, madness, and murder.REQUIEM FOR INNOCENCE: Crime consultant Scott Drayco is lured back to the Eastern Shore of Virginia to investigate an attack on a disabled girl and wades into a sea of lies, seduction, and secrets to keep the girl safe ... and stop a murderer from killing again.DIES IRAE: After a mysterious music code is left at a crime scene, Scott Drayco plays deadly games with a killer. But is it voodoo, vengeance, or pure villainy?

"A definite must read . . . What a brilliant book. I was hooked from the first chapter . . . fantastic!" —Amazon reviewer, five starsShocking evidence is unearthed in the cellar of a British couple's mansion—and the crimes of the past may lead to tragedy in the present . . .Its name is Laurieston, but the villagers call it Sausage Hall—a Victorian mansion belonging to tycoon businessman Kevan de Vries and his ailing wife, Joanna. The couple are staying at their St. Lucia house until Kevan gets a call from DI Tim Yates saying that the mansion has been broken into—and insisting that Kevan return to the United Kingdom to explain the passport-forging operation the police have discovered in the cellar.Kevan knows nothing about the illicit activity and is horrified about the human remains that are also eventually unearthed at Laurieston. As he tries to take care of Joanna and their autistic son, Kevan fears that the investigation may reveal a different kind of crime, one he committed long ago. And as the South Lincolnshire police dig deeper, will shocking events both historical and present-day change his life forever?

In this thrilling crime novel by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, a student's last words are all that Detective C. D. Sloan has to go on in his latest caseThere are rumblings throughout the campus of the University of Calleshire, talk of a sit-in, of revolt, of H? Chí Minh, of discontent. Malcolm Humbert has been expelled, and the students are livid. Meanwhile, the faculty is equally out of sorts—Hilda Linaker just wants to finish her treatise on Jane Austen, Bernard Watkinson is tired of dealing with the female students' vehement—and possibly dangerous—opinions, and Simon Mautby can't find a lab tech to help with his ecology experiments. When someone breaks into a dorm room, leaving behind little evidence but a single kernel of corn, it's time to call in the police. But no one—not the professors, the students, or even the great detective C. D. Sloan—could have predicted murder. A young woman finds a second-year student slumped against a cloister's column, covered in blood. Before he dies, he manages to breathe the words "twenty-six minutes." The brilliant and acerbic inspector C. D. Sloan, recently reunited with his assistant, Detective Constable Crosby, must connect a seemingly unrelated burglary to a senseless murder—with nothing more to go on than those eerie last words.

Sometimes the truth can bite back..In the quiet town of Lost Trail, Montana, the apparent abduction of long-time librarian Sybil Tombe shakes community to its core. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. New Sheriff, Zak Waller, plunges into the investigation but keeps uncovering more questions than answers.As Zak peels back the layers of Sybil's life, he discovers she was a master at keeping secrets. When reports surface of an old man lurking near a young girl at the local school, Zak wonders if its somehow connected to Sybil’s disappearance. But what possible link exists between a young girl and 60-year-old woman?With time ticking away, Zak races against the clock to unravel the truth behind Sybil’s disappearance, all while trying to keep his relationship with Deputy Nadine Black alive. As the investigation intensifies, Zak confronts the possibility that the truth he seeks may hold devastating consequences for a beloved member of his community. Will he uncover the answers in time, or will the darkness lurking beneath Lost Trail's tranquil surface consume them all?

How did former Chicago cop Jim McGill become the first P.I. to live in the White House? He married Patricia Darden Grant the first woman to become a U.S. President … not long after he solved the murder of her first husband.
Winning an election was one thing. Finding work after moving to Washington was another. McGill decided to be his own boss and took out a private investigator’s license. That wasn’t a politically correct occupation, but then McGill refused to allow himself to be addressed as the First Gentleman.
He nicknamed himself The President’s Henchman.
McGill’s first case is to find out who is stalking a woman in the White House press corps. Then his wife asks him to be a shadow advisor to a young Air Force investigator looking into a he-said-she-said charge of adultery leveled against a female colonel working at the Pentagon. Both cases have the potential to become politically explosive.
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