Police Family

How far would you go to save the ones you love? The first book in a stunning new crime series featuring DCI Anna Tate. When nine children are snatched from a nursery school in South London, their distressed parents have no idea if they will ever see them again. The community in the surrounding area is in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. But DCI Anna Tate knows that nothing is impossible, and she also knows that time is quickly running out.

When a hometown girl is brutally murdered, detective Scott Aylward vows to bring a killer to justice. His focus on the case further damages his failing marriage and reinforces the knowledge that he always fails those who matter most - his parents, his boss, his wife, but most of all the victims who expect him to bring them justice. His search for the killer takes him back to his roots and crosses his path with the missing piece of the puzzle. When the truth is finally revealed, he finds himself unarmed and face-to-face with the killer. This time, failing might cost him his life.

In einem beschaulichen Dorf an der Ostsee wird eine junge Frau auf grausame Weise ermordet. Die Dorfbewohner verdächtigen Flora, die als Jugendliche eine Mitschuld am Tod eines Nachbarjungen gehabt haben soll und die nun wieder in ihr Elternhaus zurückgekehrt ist. Die Mordkommission Lübeck ermittelt. Auch Kommissarin Pia Korittki, die gerade ihre Hochzeit plant, sieht einen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Ereignissen und rollt den früheren Todesfall wieder auf.

For 16 years, Ben Shepard loyally served the Long Beach Police Department. Then he took a bullet to the head, and his life was shattered. No one expects much of anything from him anymore - except his father, an old man receding into a fog of his own. And except maybe his tenant, Grace, who's been a warm and friendly constant in his and his father's bleak lives. Until the day she vanishes. After an official investigation stalls, Ben moves forward on his own. But stepping into Grace's past - and all she was hiding - is a dangerous move for a man who can't trust his memories from one day to the next.

When an old man is found dead on the road - seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair - police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she begins to unravel an increasingly complex case, she’s led on a deadly trail where illegal immigration, drugs and ultimately murder threaten not only her beliefs but her life.

Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case. Her investigation leads straight to her own family, to closely guarded secrets concealing a horrendous travesty of justice that threatens them all. How long will it take before everything explodes?

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

When former New South Wales District Court judge Duncan Munro is found lying unconscious in a hotel room surrounded by evidence incriminating him in an affair, his close-knit family is rocked to their core. Marguerite Munro is unwilling to believe her husband of 40 years has been cheating on her, but the evidence doesn't lie. Roses, champagne, massage oils, lingerie. It's obvious he was expecting a woman and she knows darn well it wasn't her.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Mary receives a call from her mother telling her that her father had died. Mary and Russ go back to Mary's home town and discover more than the heart attack that was reported. They dig into the death and find it was murder.

When mother-of-two Louisa doesn’t return home from work one night, her husband raises the alarm. Investigating the workshop where she ran her mail-order business reveals signs she was taken by force – and DCI Warren Jones is put on the case. As Warren and his team begin to dig into the missing woman’s life, a complex network of relationships emerges. Who is Louisa’s husband talking to on his second, secret phone? What’s the truth about her relationship with the convicted criminal who works next door? And what happened to Louisa’s university housemate a decade ago?

Katy Pope was 17 when she was brutally murdered on a family holiday in Majorca. Despite her mother’s high rank in the Met and the joint major investigation between the British and Spanish police, Katy’s killer was never caught. Ten years later, Katy’s family return to the Spanish island to launch a fresh appeal for information, taking with them the now skeletal team of investigating Met detectives and newly seconded Maggie as the family liaison officer.

Having been brought up amongst the hardest gangsters and faces of London, Franny Doyle learnt never to let love be her weakness. But she’ll do anything to protect those close to her, and at whatever cost. Her partner Alfie Jennings is under pressure. The only person he ever sent down has recently been released from prison, and his Soho nightclub is under threat from his rival Charlie Eton - a man who doesn’t respond kindly to people taking away his business.

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....

Twelve-year-old Nella Sabatini's life is changing too soon, too fast. Her best friend, Clem, doesn't seem concerned; she's busy figuring out the best way to spend the "leap second" - an extra second about to be added to the world's official clock. The only person who might understand how Nella feels is Angela, but the two of them have gone from being "secret sisters" to not talking at all. Then Angela's idolized big brother makes a terrible, fatal mistake, one that tears apart their tight-knit community and plunges his family into a whirlwind of harsh publicity and judgment.

Detective Susan Ford notices a missed call on her phone from a number she doesn’t recognize, and when Madison Garcia, a woman with past ties to the town of Monticello, New York, is found stabbed to death the next morning, Susan realizes that Madison was the one who had called her. But why? Susan teams up with her father, retired Detective Will Ford, to find the killer, and their investigation soon threatens to uncover Madison's family secrets—an inheritance, accidental death, money laundering, extramarital affairs, and family rivalries, just to name a few.

La carrera de Leopoldo Bonavista pende de un hilo. La reputación del famoso articulista de la socialité española está por los suelos tras su último escándalo. Un extraño encargo puede devolverlo a su vida de lujo y vanidad. La oferta: una gran suma de dinero a cambio de un reportaje biográfico sobre Silvia Domenech, la matriarca de una de las familias más ricas e influyentes de toda la Costa Blanca: los Fonseca.

La carrera de Leopoldo Bonavista pende de un hilo. La reputación del famoso articulista de la socialité española está por los suelos tras su último escándalo. Un extraño encargo puede devolverlo a su vida de lujo y vanidad. La oferta: una gran suma de dinero a cambio de un reportaje biográfico sobre Silvia Domenech, la matriarca de una de las familias más ricas e influyentes de toda la Costa Blanca: los Fonseca. La letra pequeña del contrato: Bonavista debe pasar una semana en la residencia de verano con la familia. Mentiras, disputas familiares, traumas y un cadáver.

After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, Great Aunt Gracie, and her childhood friend, Officer Cass Wylander, as she begins to rebuild her life from the ashes of what she once had. In book four of The Cat in the Attic series, Cass investigates a grisly murder, while Callie is busy working on an anniversary story relating to the cold case disappearance of a 12-year-old boy who went missing from a camping trip to Logan Pond 25 years ago.

It’s been more than four months since young PC Kenny Hughes was run down and killed while trying to arrest a suspect, but his parents, Gavin and Chrissie, are still reeling from the shock. To make things worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed down the crown courts, and it’s looking as if the trial of Kenny’s killers will be delayed for months.

A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something doesn’t feel right to DI Ford; the whole scene seems staged. Convinced of foul play, and despite fierce opposition from the army brass and his own superiors, Ford launches a murder investigation.