Vigilante Crime

Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy - an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service - a team of flying medics - Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals.

Security specialist Sophie Ang goes off-grid into the remote valley of Kalalau on Kaua`i, where she stumbles across the disappearance of a young boy. As she races against time to save him, uncovering ugly secrets hidden in the heart of the jungle, the events she tried to flee on Oahu gather momentum. Special Agent Marcella Scott straps on her heels and wades in to help deal with what the cyber vigilante the Ghost has left behind, and trying to clear Sophie from a murder charge.

Engaged to be married, mysterious journalist Dylan Hunter and CIA officer Annie Woods are eager to put their violent past behind them for good. But then an intrepid investigative reporter is brutally, mysteriously murdered. A visionary presidential candidate is targeted for destruction. And a horrific day of unspeakable terrorism rocks Washington, DC. Soon, Hunter's investigation puts him in the crosshairs of a power-hungry billionaire and a cold-blooded assassin.

Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the navy and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D. L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are.

Wer andern eine Grube gräbt. Amtsrichter Siggi Buckmann sitzt in der Klemme: Während er seiner Lebensgefährtin und Journalistin Robin Bukowsky über seine Kontakte zu Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft bei ihren Recherchen in einem Mordfall hilft und der Wahrheit gefährlich nahe kommt, wird er plötzlich verhaftet. Unverhofft findet er sich hinter Gittern wieder. Der Vorwurf: Beihilfe in einem längst aufgeklärten Mord. Offenbar will ihn jemand ausschalten, das belastbare Material stammt ausgerechnet von Robin. Jetzt muss Buckmann sich selbst retten.

This is the memoir of the Supervillain known to the world as Iceblade. It chronicles his achievements and his failures, his loves and his losses. Learn about the theft of the Mona Lisa, the subjugation of Lady Victory, and the slaughter of the Holy Order of the Word. Hear for the first time about the death of Bytegeist. All from the point of view of the man himself.

When former Special Operations legend Xander King moved his Vegas celebration to a yacht off the coast of the Virgin Islands, he was supposed to be taking some much needed time off. When he woke up in the hospital a week later, all he had time to do then...was run. It's bad enough that Russia's most feared assassin is after him. But it's the man who sent this deadly killer, and why he sent him, that has Xander desperately scrambling every resource at his disposal.

When a group of homegrown attackers takes aim at cops outside a Fourth of July baseball game, black-ops specialist Jon Reznick and his daughter, Lauren, are caught in the crossfire. Jon hunts down two of the gunmen. But the last member of the group is at large and about to launch a fresh killing spree across the city. Cops are under fire, and Jon must stop this madman before more people are killed. But Jon’s renegade tactics and vigilante justice are starting to ruffle some feathers, and his friends in high places might not be able to help him anymore.

Joanna’s career ends after she kills a murderer and fails to cover her tracks. After serving a prison sentence, she struggles to pick up the pieces. The only person from her old life still keeping in touch is Vanessa, the Internal Affairs inspector who was the lead investigator in Joanna’s case. Guilt and open questions define their tentative friendship. When there’s a new development in one of Joanna’s old cases, she can’t stay away, even at the cost of losing everything...including Rue, the woman she’s been falling for.... Enough is enough....

If you were going to die, who would you kill? A hard-nosed former US Marine/retired cop receives a terminal prognosis. But when a local priest is accused of molesting children, he hears the calling of another mission. He enlists a coterie of like-minded patients to seek his own brand of vigilante justice. Tommy Borata has cancer. He realizes he can kill without consequences, and he’s got a list. A pedophile priest, a corrupt cop, a fascist political candidate—where to start? The hardest battles, the ones he hadn’t counted on, are right in his own home: an alcoholic, unfaithful wife and bringing himself to accept his son’s sexuality. In book one of this trilogy, Tommy befriends Moses, a black ex-con. As both seek redemption for their past misdeeds, and with nothing to lose, they set their sights on Father Damien Tarat. Will his fight against evil and his own internal demons come too close to home?

When you hunt a vigilante, you may well become the hunted. Tommy Borata is a dying vigilante ex-cop who finds himself under investigation by a racist, corrupt detective. Detective Carson crosses a line and involves Tommy’s family. When the unthinkable happens, Tommy switches from prey to predator and partners with a one-eyed Korean martial arts expert and a black motorcycle gang to seek his revenge. Will justice or vigilante justice be served?

Crime reporter Sawyer Brooks still grieves for the family she and her two sisters never had. Raised in a house of horrors, they continue to fight through the trauma - releasing their rage by seeking justice for those who are just as vulnerable as they were. When a little girl’s bones are unearthed in Sacramento’s Land Park and 12-year-old Riley Addison disappears, solving these cases becomes an obsession for Sawyer - one that puts her job at risk. Yet she can’t turn back, and the deeper Sawyer’s investigation goes, the darker it gets.

Marcus Williams and Francis Ackerman Jr. both have a talent for hurting people. Marcus, a former New York City homicide detective, uses his abilities to protect others while Ackerman uses his gifts to inflict pain and suffering. When both men become unwilling pawns in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of our government, Marcus finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse trapped between a twisted psychopath and a vigilante with seemingly unlimited resources. Aided by a rogue FBI agent and the vigilante’s daughter, Marcus must expose the deadly political conspiracy.

In Who Killed Una Lynskey?, award-winning journalist Mick Clifford has built a compelling portrait of the case from interviews with the surviving main players, as well as exclusive access to the files of a private investigator who uncovered information the gardaí missed - or ignored. A timely, humane and compulsive listen, this is a groundbreaking account of the botched investigation and its devastating consequences for not just four devastated families, but also the reputation of the gardaí.

When amiable Italian immigrant Pigeon Tony discovers that local drug dealers are pressuring his young neighbor into joining their ranks, he resolves to put an end to the crime wave before it can take over the community. Pigeon Tony knows the law isn’t always on the right side, but it takes only one person to rally a revolution.

Ein Serienkiller namens Ghost hinterlässt auf dem Kontinent eine unübersehbare Blutspur. Seine bevorzugte Beute: Männer, die zur Befriedigung ihrer kranken Gelüste Kinder ermorden. Jeden Tatort signiert er mit einem in Blut geschriebenen Symbol. Agent Paula Tennant hätte nach der nervenaufreibenden Ermittlung in Italien, bei der sie schwer verletzt wurde, eigentlich Urlaub nötig, doch als ihr Boss Robert Bernstein ihr den Fall vorlegt, reist sie sofort nach London. Kaum dort gelandet, geschieht ein weiterer Mord.

Desde que Patrik se ha reincorporado al trabajo, Erica se dedica de lleno a sus gemelos, que nacieron prematuros. Apenas tiene tiempo para ir a visitar a Annie Wester, una compañera de instituto que acaba de regresar a Fjällbacka después de muchos años. Junto con su hijo Sam, Annie se ha instalado en el faro abandonado de la isla de Gråskär, propiedad de su familia. A pesar de los rumores que circulan por el pueblo sobre la leyenda de la "isla de los espíritus", en la que los muertos vagan libremente, no parecen importarle las voces extrañas que oye por la noche.

It’s been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price. The lucrative positions handed out to them by the Global Securities company have turned out to be golden handcuffs - scattering them around the world, cutting off communication, and leaving them in miserable isolation. But a homecoming at the old Virginia farmhouse is marred by the hijacking of Nikki and Kathryn’s private jet.....

A former US Marine and retired cop, Tommy's days are numbered, and he's got a list. A pedophile priest; corrupt, racist cop; and a hateful, divisive US presidential candidate enter his radar as his disease slowly begins to overtake him. Tommy's resourceful. He enlists the help of a coterie of unlikely fellow patients: a black motorcycle gang, a one-eyed Korean martial arts expert, a hippie, and a Native American. Along the way, he finds love and a faithful companion.

Before he was trying to save the world, he just wanted to save his own ass. Bill Ryder has a problem: the vampires under his rule don't respect him. Unfortunately, in the world of the supernatural, that makes him as good as dead.