Vigilante Crime

Having lost everything after a failed marriage, Beverley Sanders now lodges in the basement flat of a house owned by her best friend Sophie and husband, Tim. With her former glittering marketing career in the gutter, she begins to do investigative work for other wronged women (gathering dirt on philanderers, bosses and exes). Beverley takes on the case of Sophie's friend, Angela who is seeking to uncover grounds for divorce from her husband, Jerry, the shadow Science Minister, who is knee-deep in corruption, sleeping around and leeching off her money.

Two pulp adventure stories set in 1940s Chicago: In the first story, the city is under the control of a ruthless crime boss who seeks to unite all illegal activities under his control. Unexpected competition arrives in the person of a masked killer, The Inferno, who uses flame as a weapon. Opposing them both is The Eclipse, a masked vigilante. In the follow-up story, a new crime lord has stepped in to take the place of the fallen gang leader. He sets his sights on obtaining a powerful new weapon that will guarantee him a stranglehold on the city.

The kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of Dr. Joshua West’s nine-year-old daughter, Mattie, shatters his life. He lives for the capture, trial, conviction, and punishment of her killer. Fate, however, has its own grotesque form of justice - the killer’s release on a technicality, never to be tried again. Listen to the hard truth about what happens when law fails the innocent and leads them down a dark path from which they may never return.

Eine brutale Geiselnahme. Und die Welt schaut zu. Ein spektakuläres Verbrechen hält eine Kleinstadt in Atem: Drei Neonazis werden in einem Turm gefangen gehalten. Ephraim Zamir, der Geiselnehmer, konfrontiert sie in einem Verhör mit ihren Gewalttaten und überträgt das Ganze live im Netz. Die Zuschauer sollen abstimmen: freilassen oder hinrichten? Es ist der Beginn eines weltweiten Medienspektakels. Für die Polizei ist es ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Womit sie nicht rechnen: Sie haben es mit einem ehemaligen Mossad-Agenten zu tun, der nicht bereit ist zu verhandeln.

Una semana antes que el asesino de su hijo salga en libertad, Pedro Montes recibe una llamada telefónica donde le ofrecen la oportunidad de vengarse. Han pasado cuatro años desde aquel crimen, pero él no ha podido superar el dolor de la pérdida ni seguir adelante con su vida.

You don't lead a life full of action and close scrapes without making a few enemies. This is the hard lesson ex-boxer and retired fixer Shelby Alexander learns when he travels to his boyhood town in northern Michigan to "settle down". As it happens, the bad guys have other ideas. This explosive four-book collection is a roller-coaster ride filled with drama, innuendos, twists and turns, secrets, and betrayal, and a bombshell ending that will leave you spinning.

Three victims have been found, all killed in the same manner. Drowned when their cars were submerged in the Sacramento River. The killer’s trademark is an obscene word written on the side of each victim’s car. The police have few clues, but the victims all have one thing in common: they were aggressive, inconsiderate, mean drivers. They paid the ultimate price. When the vigilante is classified as a serial killer, the FBI steps in to help.

Eiskalte Rache. Vanilleeis mit Kirschsauce: Die zwölfjährige Claudia stirbt einige Stunden nach dem Genuss ihres Lieblingsdesserts im Kreis ihrer Familie. Wer hatte einen Grund, das Mädchen zu vergiften? Diese Frage zerstört die Patchwork-Familie und drei Menschenleben, denn auf jedem von ihnen liegt ein schrecklicher Verdacht. Claudias Mutter braucht sechsunddreißig Jahre, um endlich die Wahrheit zu erkennen. Sie schmiedet einen perfiden Plan.

Kriminelle lassen Unschuldige durch ein grelles Licht erblinden. Was steckt dahinter Als auch Tony Quinn dem blendenden Licht ausgesetzt wird, bedeutet das den Tod für die Schwarze Fledermaus. Auf die eine oder andere Weise.

Eine geheimnisvolle Stimme, die sich die Stimme der Gerechtigkeit nennt und nur über ein Radio kommuniziert, behauptet, die Polizei bei der Verbrecherjagd unterstützen zu wollen. Aber ist das wirklich ihr Ziel? Und warum setzen entlarvte Ganoven ihrem Leben selbst ein Ende, kurz bevor die Polizei sie findet?

Der Richter, dein Henker. Als junger Student träumte Siggi Buckmann davon, die Welt ein Stück gerechter zu machen. Als alter Hase im Richteramt schiebt er nur noch Dienst nach Vorschrift. In den Behörden regiert die Bürokratie, und sämtliche Urteile, die Siggi fällt, werden in Berufungsverfahren wieder aufgehoben. Wozu sich also Mühe machen? Doch als ein Obdachloser ums Leben kommt, ohne dass die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden, beginnt Siggi, die Dinge anders zu betrachten. Vielleicht ist die Arbeit im Justizapparat ja doch zu etwas gut.

Cuando Eugenio Casasola, reportero de El imparcial, transita un momento de quietud en su carrera y su vida personal, un fantasma del pasado reaparece para robarle la tranquilidad: el asesino conocido como El Chalequero - quien se pudre en una celda del castillo de San Juan de Úlua por asesinar prostitutas veinte años atrás - misteriosamente parece estar de regreso. Aunque Eugenio sospecha que quizá la tormenta que se cierne sobre la Ciudad de México sea la encarnación de un mal aún peor.

Hall’s latest case involves a woman who’s receiving threatening notes - though as soon as he’s hired, the woman turns up dead. But that’s not the end of the case for Hall. Even though his client is dead, that won’t stop him. He’s going to get to the bottom of this case and find out who the murderer is.

In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of 12 men. Most accounts of this event have linked Standing's murder to the virulent 19th-century anti-Mormonism that also took the life of prophet Joseph Smith and to an enduring southern tradition of extralegal violence.

After five years’ hard time, ex-soldier Hugh Marlowe emerges into the free world ready to fight anyone who stands in his way. Rough justice is all he knows. But when a beautiful, vulnerable woman asks for his help, Marlowe quickly finds himself a world away from the London gangland that he knows in a different life with its own problems.

Even while Rich Mallette is in prison, he’s still calling the shots. Brett Jacobs may have taken out a dozen of his men, but he’s not ready to throw in the towel just yet. He’s still got a few things up his sleeve for the former detective, one of which is another heinous act aimed to destroy what’s left of Jacobs’ soul. While Jacobs battles more of Mallette’s Maulers, he also learns the identity of the second man who was with Frazier when his family was killed.

Steady Teddy is back, and this time the stakes couldn’t be higher. One man stands between her and everything she needs to reconcile her past and secure her future. Her mission is simple. Deliver Gordo to Jonathon, and Teddy will be well on her way to getting her life back, but, of course, nothing goes smoothly where Gordo is concerned and finding him may prove to be an impossible task to pull off. He knows all the tricks and always somehow manages to stay one step ahead, but Teddy is driven beyond reason and will stop at nothing to track him down.

The werewolf without a pack: By night, Jackie Langdon is the outlaw vigilante White Fang, fighting crime in Reno...except when the moon is full, and she transforms into a savage werewolf with an indiscriminate blood lust that can only be contained by locking her in a cage until sunrise. The vampire hunting her: For the last century, vampire Charlotte Pastor has slain werewolves for her secret society, The Midnight Collective. When assigned to shut down White Fang, she figures it's just business as usual.

Smart-mouthed Nicole Fontane has a way of getting herself into trouble. She’s been fired from every job she’s had but still refuses to work in her father’s apothecary shop because of his practice of Earth Magick. On Tulare Island where Nicole grew up, Magick has always been a way of life - one she’s determined to avoid at all costs. With less than 200 dollars in the bank and rent due, Nicole is forced to take a job at Tribec Insurance as a last resort. Little does she realize, the moment she sets foot inside the building, she becomes a pawn.

Whenever Terry Mangel's body acceptance revival meeting rolls into town, local diet execs and fat shamers turn up dead, often in grotesque, ironic ways. All single murders in small suburbs. No one's noticed a pattern - until rookie investigative reporter Camarin Torres takes a closer look. Torres is a crusader against discrimination. She reluctantly accepts a job offered by handsome publisher Lyle Fletcher, a man with a vendetta, who sees the recent college grad as salvation for his fledgling fashion magazine. Torres, however, detests everything the publication stands for.