Police Adventures

When special agent Kurt Hunter finds a boat adrift in the Biscayne National Park with the dead body of a famous treasure hunter aboard, the race is on to find his killer. Alliances shift and the bodies start to pile up as Kurt and Justine navigate the devious and dangerous world of treasure hunters to find the killer. From the iconic Intracoastal Waterway of Miami to the beauty of the Biscayne National Park, this new mystery from best-selling author Steven Becker reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of South Florida.

When a bridge collapses and kills six people, National Park Service Special Agent Kurt Hunter is drawn into a tangled web of political machinations. With the bridge debris scheduled to be turned into an artificial reef in the park, Kurt and Justine are in a race against time to find the party responsible. But things are not as simple as they appear, and soon powerful political figures turn the case into a power struggle to save one of the country's biggest universities.

Congress can’t pass a budget, and Biscayne National Park is paying the price. With Special Agent Kurt Hunter out of work, two rivals gangs start a turf war in the park. But when a body is found hanging from the railing of the iconic Boca Chita Lighthouse, Kurt refuses to sit back and fish while the gangs take over his park.

When the priest he's known his entire life is run down on the streets of Naples, Detective Dillon Storm sets out to get to the bottom of who was behind the horrible hit-and-run. The deeper he gets, though, the more he realizes it might not have been an accident, and that the truth might lead him down a rabbit hole he'll never escape from.

Was ist real? Jorina Rewerts möchte sich ihren Lebenstraum erfüllen, doch beim Besuch im Kinderwunschzentrum geschieht das Unfassbare. Gleichzeitig wird auf einem Containerplatz in Aurich die Leiche der jungen Bente Bleeker gefunden. Die Spuren weisen auf eine Überdosis K.-o.-Tropfen als Todesursache hin und der Täter scheint jemand zu sein, der in der Clubszene Ostfrieslands unterwegs ist, um junge Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Dirks und Breithammer müssen ihn finden, bevor es weitere Opfer gibt. Oder ist der Täter jemand, der Bente näher kannte und etwas ganz anderes im Sinn hatte? Während ein Strudel albtraumhafter Ereignisse Jorina nach unten reißt, wird der Fall um Bente immer rätselhafter und auch die Kommissare beginnen an der Wirklichkeit zu zweifeln.

When a body is found floating in the mangroves of Biscayne National Park, Special Agent Kurt Hunter has his first real case. He’s not looking for the spotlight or notoriety - he’s had both with disastrous results. But that seems unavoidable as the trail leads him to South Beach, and his introduction to the culture there is anything but comfortable. Follow Kurt through this new world as he unearths a crooked family's greed to solve the case.

En el tramo final de su carrera, el detective Josh Lauper, se encuentra ante uno de los peores casos de su intachable trayectoria. Junto a su compañera, Margaret Casidi, presencia el escenario de un crimen espeluznante: tirado en una orilla del río Kansas, yacen los restos de un muchacho con los genitales abrasados y evidentes signos de violencia. Los primeros indicios apuntan a un ajuste de cuentas, pero la realidad es mucho más aterrador e inquietante. Al margen, dispuesto a concluir lo empezado, el verdugo prosigue ejecutando su plan.

Beautiful and tenacious NYPD homicide Detective Sharon Davis investigates the unexplained death of a notorious escort girl who catered primarily to New York's elite. Many high-ranking officials want her to close the case and quit snooping around, but Sharon knows there's more to this than meets the eye.

La historia comienza cuando Stan Laurel (el actor cómico de la famosa serie del Gordo y el Flaco) acude al detective Philip Marlowe (el personaje creado por el escritor Raymond Chandler), también en el ocaso de su esplendor, para que averigüe por qué ya nadie lo llama para trabajar.

Former cop and ex-con Bruno Johnson and his wife, Marie, living in their safe haven in Costa Rica with the children they illegally rescued from certain death, find a message from their outlaw motorcycle gang enemies written on the back of one of their beloved children. The motorcycle gang, Sons of Satan, out for revenge, will stop at nothing to lure the now furious Bruno back into their web. Bruno and Marie, forced to return to Southern California, battle additional demons in the form of an ex-spouse's entanglements.

Bruno Johnson, a tough street cop, member of the elite violent-crime task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break the law. Now he's an ex-con, and his life on parole is not going well. He is hassled by the police at every opportunity, and, to make matters even more difficult, his former partner, Robby Wicks, now a high-ranking detective, bullies him into helping solve a high profile crime...unofficially, of course.

Hugo Burel se entrega en las págilas de "La misteriosa muerte de Eleanor Rigby" a su faceta más juguetona y beatlemaníaca. En la historia se zambulle de lleno en la famosa canción de los Beatles, y pone al servicio de la historia todos los dejes consabidos de la trama clásica de novela policial para ahondar en los últimos días del personaje de Eleanor Rigby, su relación con el padre McKenzie y toda una caterva de guiños tanto a la canción en sí como a toda la trayectoria de los Beatles.

Dying is easy. It’s living that’s hard....An eye for an eye. Cabhan Morton wants to leave the Russo crime family for good and live in peace with his daughter, Alice Rose. But the Russos won’t let him walk away without a fight. A tooth for a tooth...Franny Doyle would do anything for Cabhan and Alice, but helping them escape the vindictive Russo brothers won’t be easy. The only place they’ll be safe is back in Essex with Alfie Jennings. A daughter for a daughter...Franny knows she won’t be welcomed by Alfie with open arms....

Reporter Mckenzie Jones gets involved with a handsome, mysterious, and romantic man with a dangerous secret that could lead to her demise. Detective Sharkey is looking for a hit man who could turn state’s evidence with witness protection if they can keep him alive till dawn and find him before he leaves town. Chichi Ramirez returns from her business trip to look for Jerry Jamison who appears to have gotten involved with a blonde who is wearing Chichi’s new clothes.

NYPD Homicide Detectives Rahim Percy and Bobby Sullivan thought they’d seen it all; then they walked into a murder scene where “the body” was a layer of pink ooze splattered on an apartment wall. They quickly come into possession of a video that changes their question from “Who could have done this - and how?” to “What could have done this - and why?” As their investigation rapidly spins into a much larger, and more disturbing, set of questions: They’re not always sure they want the answers.

This new collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans features O'Neil De Noux's recurring characters - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau, and Dino LaStanza (he's back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.

When Dillon Storm's grandfather invites the gang to a "living memorial service" for himself over in his beloved vacation spot of Vero Beach, Florida, Dillon thinks it's a strange idea. Funerals are for the dead, and his grandfather isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Still, if it's what the old man wants, who is he to turn him down? When the daughter of Vero Beach's police chief goes missing along the shoreline and a man Dillon believes to be innocent is fingered for foul play, things take a turn.

After 12 years away from his coastal Florida home, Detective Dillon Storm is only now getting his sea legs back. When he pulls the body of a woman from the gulf while on an impromptu fishing trip with his nephew, Dillon thinks things couldn't get stranger. When that body is identified as a woman who was pronounced dead three years ago, he realizes how wrong he is. Now, with little more to go on than a gut feeling and the years' old files from a case that couldn't be colder, Dillon will put his skills to the test.

When Julie Crenshaw is offered a job as a news reporter on beautiful Vancouver Island she didn't expect to land in the crosshairs of a serial killer. Connor O'Rourke has seen his share of human depravities during his 14 years as a homicide detective, but is still sickened by the murderer terrorizing his island shores and threatening his key witness.

When a killer from his past threatens an old girlfriend, Lucky John finds himself drawn into a maze of danger, lies, and family secrets. After being instrumental in putting the killer named The Viper behind bars, Lucky John did his best to put the entire ordeal out of his mind. But when the man is released under mysterious circumstances, it throws everything he thought he knew for a loop.