Crime Conspiracy

During of the War of 1812, British troops ransacked the White House and made off with valuables that were never returned. Two centuries later, a British curator finds a vital clue to the long-vanished loot. Within hours, the curator is assassinated-and Ayesha Ryder, a Palestinian-born antiquities expert, is expertly framed for his murder. Who could be behind such a conspiracy? And why do they want Ryder out of the way? To find out, she picks up a trail leading from a mysterious nineteenth-century letter to the upcoming presidential election.

Eliot Ness presents the first complete picture of the real Eliot Ness. Both fearless and shockingly shy, he inspired courage and loyalty in men twice his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal from both his professional and personal lives. Through it all, he believed unwaveringly in the integrity of law and the basic goodness of his fellow Americans.

Mouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape. Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the listener with a cold perspective. Money is the aim, and young women are the product.

You are the only person aware of a massive conspiracy, a plot so large people have been killed to keep it secret. Your closest family is among those lost. Only you can bring the criminals to justice. Would you do it? Against terrifying odds? While your enemy is trying to kill you first?

National parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of Americans and foreign tourists flock to national parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.

The president in the crosshairs. A deep-state conspiracy. Can Secret Agent Steven Popoford expose the truth before he lands in an unmarked grave? California mountains, 1986. Retired secret agent Steven Popoford spends his days nursing his shattered mind. But when his cover is blown and he kills a stranger inside his home, he’s thrown back into the world of spies. And trapped in the twisted reality of the very agency that broke him, Popoford plunges into his most treacherous mission yet: Assassinate the POTUS.

Pain and Agony are two madcap masters of mayhem, but even they need friends. What are friends for? Companionship, support, and a helping hand when your luck is down. But the cost of friendship becomes something altogether different during their latest escapade. If you aren't going to help when things get rough, then what are you but a traitor? When longtime allies are at odds, and enemies new and old close in, the answer has lethal consequences.

Ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance. Loser Gordon Butts, recently fired at a dead-end job, happens upon a new job opportunity, where he cons his way through an interview with the company president, Walter Thornton. Butts claws his way to the top, removing all obstacles in his path. But ambition, lust, murder, and arrogance all have a stated price. Butts's outlandish and reckless behavior demands eternal justice. And justice is most assuredly served!

In Manhattan stürzt eine junge Frau von der Feuertreppe. Das Gesicht der Toten ist das einer Greisin. Der Polizist Ryan Ferland ermittelt. - Ein blinder Passagier wird von der Besatzung eines Schiffs entdeckt. Statt ihm zu helfen, übergibt man ihn an eine dubiose Hilfsorganisation. - Eine Ingenieurin macht in den indischen Labors eines Kosmetikkonzerns eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung. Doch niemand glaubt ihr. - Wie hängen diese Fälle zusammen? Ferland stößt auf eine unglaubliche Verschwörung.

When a man’s body is discovered in a Swiss glacier thirty years after he went missing, his son, Foster Treherne, hopes he’ll finally have closure on what happened to the father he never met. But then the autopsy reveals signs of a struggle, and what was assumed to be a tragic accident suddenly looks more sinister. Foster tracks down his father’s old friends, but when he starts to ask questions it becomes clear that there’s something they don’t want to tell him.

A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe.

México, Distrito Federal, 2006. Al final del largo pasillo del Servicio Médico Forense, en una fría madrugada, un joven profesor universitario que busca a su amigo desaparecido se encuentra con lo inevitable: el Diablo —como todos lo conocen desde la época de estudiantes—, su guía moral, compañero de juergas y de mil batallas políticas, yace inerte en una camilla. Aunque las circunstancias alrededor de la muerte son poco claras, un dolor acuciante carcome al protagonista: la certeza de saber lo que le robó el último aliento a su camarada.

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.

John Smith steht gedankenversunken auf seiner Veranda. Nur ist John nicht sein richtiger Name. Eigentlich heißt er Henrik Zimmer. Als dieser kann er aber in Deutschland nicht mehr weiterleben. Zumindest nicht straffrei... "Eiskalter Glaube" erzählt die Geschichte eines Familienvaters, der zum Mörder wird, weil er nicht an Gott glaubte. Doch das sollte sich ändern.

The media spotlight is the last thing art thief and forger Sophie Williams needs. But when one of three long-missing royal portraits turns up in Germany at her best friend’s art gallery, the spotlight is exactly what she gets. Since the tragic deaths of Princess Johanna of Neuhansberg and her two children forty years ago, the whereabouts of these portraits have been unknown … and the timing of their reappearance—just days before a new prince’s coronation—reignites questions surrounding the infamous accident.

Esta nueva serie de novela negra de Jordi Sierra i Fabra viene protagonizada por Magda Ventura, una periodista de investigación que en su experimentada cuarentena, y como buena heroína, no duda en poner en juego su vida si para la búsqueda de la verdad, es necesario. En una Barcelona actual se desarrolla este primer caso, que se inicia con el asesinato de una prostituta sometida a la práctica del shibari, para acabar convirtiéndose en una trama política internacional con repercusiones en la economía española. Prostitución, dinero, poder…

It is the mid eighties and successful theatrical agent Clive Spoke embarks on a quest to find the truth about his ex-lover’s early death. Travelling to the US he uncovers a devastating and destructive conspiracy aimed at the burgeoning gay community.

When an ancient papyrus linked to the lost city of Atlantis is stolen, Adrian West and Nick Harper are summoned to Athens to assist in the investigation, but they soon find themselves in a lethal game of cat and mouse with members of a shadowy yet powerful organization intent on finding the ruins of Atlantis for their own deadly ends.

Berit Lind har lånat ut sin lägenhet till den unga Annika som nyligen brutit sin förlovning med sin pojkvän och är i desperat behov av ett boende. Berit är i Rom och har inget emot att Annika bor i hennes våning under tiden. Men när Annika kommer in i lägenheten är det något som inte stämmer. Det luktar konstigt och det känns som att hon inte är ensam i lägenheten. När hon kommer in i vardagsrummet möts hon av fyra personers stirriga blickar. I en soffa ligger en livlös flicka. Annika lämnar snabbt lägenheten i panik. Men hon har redan sett för mycket.

An urgent plea from a former flame brings CIA agent Scott Stiletto to San Francisco. Ali Lewis was once a capable spy herself before striking out on her own, creating a fashion empire that stretches around the world. Now her father has been murdered, and Stiletto is the only man Ali can trust to learn the truth behind the killing. Evidence points to a growing international conspiracy orchestrated by Iran involving the smuggling of nuclear bomb parts, kidnapped scientists, and a decades-old mafia/Silicon Valley alliance the government has been powerless to stop.