Crime City

A frustrated crime scene cleaner...an off duty cop in a jam...a patrol officer who believes in a strange fate...a holier-than-thou Internal Affairs whose world gets turned upside down...plus those that are crazy, surrounded in sadness or just trying to get by - these are the many and varied characters of River City, brought to life in 17 short stories by the author of the River City crime novels.

Following a deadly anthrax attack, TCD’s biological weapons expert Carly Welsh springs into action. Problem is, the Amish trust no one - especially not an FBI special agent. That’s where Noah Miller comes in. Even though the rancher left the fold decades ago, the community trusts him...and so does Dr. Welsh. But even their combined courage and smarts might not be enough against sinister forces that want them both to perish.

Three racist cops plan a takeover of the city of Chicago. The plan has been gestating since they were recruited in high school. They need one more recruit Philip Black, a part of their academy unit section. When his life is struck by tragedy, the cabal moves in a recruits him. If he accepts, he will be part of the takeover. If he declines, he will be "taken care of".

When K-9 handler Selena Lopez discovers her half brother’s a fugitive from justice, she must find him - and his dangerous crew. It’s a good thing that her partner is infuriatingly efficient and handsome lead agent Axel Morrow. But as smart and cunning as the duo may be, it’s a race against time to catch the armed and dangerous criminals before they kill again.

كما شاهدنا في الجزء الأول من هذه الجريمة المعقدة فقد وصل "أمير الوكيل" إلى العاصمة منذ يومين لقضاء إجازةٍ قصيرة بين أهله وأصدقاءه لكنه وجد نفسه متورطًا بإرادته الحرة في قلب عمليةٍ بوليسية معقدة أطلق عليها مكتب البحث الجنائي "عملية رأس الهدهد"

Esta historia sucede en calles calientes, húmedas y oscuras, propicias para criminales y sicarios, tanto privados como a sueldo del Estado. La ciudad duerme intranquila, respira como una fiera peligrosa que no conviene despertar. Hay un clima de rencor concentrado, de deseos de venganza, una danza de malos espíritus que se ocultan entre las sombras. Siluetas furtivas que espían desde sus escondrijos con ojos fosforescentes. Seres dispuestos a matar por una chaqueta o un reloj, por cualquier botín mínimo que permita reducir el hambre constante. Hay odio en cada latido de estas calles sin alma.

A pregnant woman has been murdered in a brutal, ritualistic way: burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. When Unai “Kraken” Lopez de Ayala discovers the victim is his first love, Ana Belén Liaño, memories of their time together come flooding back, and with them reminders of a dark secret long buried.

This first volume of an investigative series into the Buffalo mob includes: an introduction into the history of crime in Buffalo, the beginnings of Mafia activity in the Queen City, past and present alleged leaders, soldiers, and associates of The Arm and its affiliated operations, government sources and witnesses imperative to understanding mob activities, and an introduction to recent criminal activity indicating the Mafia in Buffalo is anything but dormant

Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey gathered data from across the country to understand why this happened. Sharkey puts forth an entirely new approach to confronting violence and urban poverty. At a time when inequality, complacency, and conflict all threaten a new rise in violent crime, and the old methods of policing are unacceptable, the ideas in this book are indispensable.

Black voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party for the last fifty years - and for their loyalty, black Americans have been rewarded with worsening schools, collapsed families, skyrocketed incarceration rates, disappearing jobs, and rising crime. Crystal Wright, editor of the blog Conservative Black Chick, exposes how the Democratic Party has systematically betrayed black voters.

One of America's most historic and enduring cities, New Haven has wrangled with a perpetual identity struggle, torn between worlds that occasionally converged in chaos and violence. In the 1930s, Connecticut became a region where Mafia families like the Genoveses, Gambinos, Colombos, and Patriarcas shared turf—working together with enough profits to go around or descending into open war to rival that experienced in any major city. Central to this conflict were three men who were, at different times, cautious allies or sworn nemeses.

Those dark and terrible things from your nightmares are very real. They walk among us, masquerading as your neighbor, your lover, even your friend. You see, Empire City is full of them...if you only know where to look. How do I know this? Well, for starters the name is Detective Tom Holliday. I work homicide for Special Crimes. My friends, what few I have, call me Doc. And the other reason? I’ve got magic of my own. Welcome to Empire City, where magic and technology co-exist, and humanity endures behind walls of stone and spell-forged steel.

This is a new start. A clean slate for not just me or Scarlett, but for everyone else that’s trusted me to make their life better. Deciding to keep the Atlantic City chapter name was the right move. Not only is the weight of the members on my shoulders, but the immense responsibility of proving ourselves to the city. I need the community to accept us, to come to us when we need help, and most importantly, I don’t want them to fear us. But it isn’t going to be easy.

An airline pilot arrives home on Easter Sunday to discover his wife's lifeless body. Experienced detective Kate Walker, and her young partner Tanner Austin, are assigned the case. They have little to go on, and their frustration quickly builds. When a second body turns up, it only deepens the mystery. Fearing there are more victims to come, the detectives push themselves to unravel a bizarre case of Denver Homicide.

En marzo de 2016, en un apartamento situado a las afueras de Roma, dos jóvenes de buena familia se pasaron varios días de fiesta, poniéndose hasta arriba de cocaína, pastillas y alcohol. Decidieron invitar a alguien y tras llamar a varios amigos que no podían o no contestaban, dieron con Luca Varani, un chico al que apenas conocían.

Detectives Finch and Elias have seen a lot - murders, assaults, rapes, missing persons - but they've never investigated a missing mummy before. Follow the two partners as they sift through a half dozen different suspects and try to solve the mystery of a stolen child mummy from the River City museum. Part whodunit mystery, part procedural, with more than a little wise-cracking along the way, The Bastard Mummy has a little something for all kinds of mystery listeners, set in Frank Zafiro's River City universe.

Producto de una década de investigación, Fernando del Collado reconstruye, con ternura y valentía, buena parte de los casos que evidencian el rostro intolerante y homófobo del odio. Relata el sinsentido de más de cien asesinatos.

A report of a body sends homicide detective Peter Brandt to a murder scene in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. Without realizing it, he has just stepped into the case of his life. It will take all his experience and skill to find a killer unlike anyone he's encountered.

Two teens make a horrifying discovery in the sand of Miami Beach. Detective Eva Hernandez is called in the middle of the night to a scene with little evidence to identify the victim. She has no way of knowing the series of events ahead that will draw her into a complicated web of deceit and murder.

Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals.