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41) The post
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Description
"Ten years have passed since the world's oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population. Sam Edison is the chief of police of the Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Edison and other survivors share the world with "hollow-heads": creatures who are no longer fully human. A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are welcomed into town. They begin to settle in, when suddenly both are murdered by an unknown...
42) All the devils
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 4
Description
Ten years ago, the daughter of Homeland Security Investigation agent B. D. Little vanished into thin air. So did seven other girls, the crimes all bearing the same signature characteristics. Now the disappearances have begun again. And Agent Little's efforts to investigate are being blocked by forces far above his pay grade. Desperate, he turns to Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, the most obsessive hunter of predators Little knows. Livia will...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
44) Fatal secrets
Author
Series
Sacramento FBI trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"When a top lieutenant in a notorious ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state's evidence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the illegal operation's devilish mastermind, Xavier Jones. But when an FBI sting on Jones's criminal enterprise collides with an ICE stakeout, Sonia is enraged: her informant's life and her evidence is in grave jeopardy." -- P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Mex Anderson volume 2
Description
Sex trafficking. Not Thailand. Or the Philippines. Or Russia. America. Rich or poor, black or white, girls disappear across this country every day, pulled into the nightmarish world of prostitution and drugs. Mex Anderson is back, tasked with finding three missing girls before it's too late. Three girls. Three girls who could live in your town, your neighborhood, or in your own home. Jayla Imani Thomas is fifteen. A smart kid from a poor part of town...
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Description
Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed. Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who...
47) Haunting Adeline
Author
Series
Cat and mouse duet volume 1
Publisher
[H. D. Carlton]
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Second edition.
Description
The Manipulator - I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow - I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Suffering a breakdown after a traumatic case three years earlier, former NYPD vice cop Dan Champion starts over as a small-town detective and is shocked by a case involving the murder of a woman he recognizes from a hallucination whose identity a group of expert killers would keep a secret.
49) Marked for life
Author
Series
Jana Berzelius novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Bestselling author Emelie Schepp introduces us to the enigmatic, unforgettable Jana Berzelius in this first novel of a chilling trilogy. When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects. But no one expects to find the mysterious child-sized handprint in the childless home. A few days later, the body of a preteen boy is discovered, and with him, the murder weapon that killed...
50) Complicit
Author
Series
Publisher
Compathy Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Kate Medina had been working as a forensic psychologist and loving every minute until a violent attack left her shaken to the core. She's retreated to her hometown where it's safe, accepting a job where the prospect of violence is slim to none. As a high school psychologist, Kate tends to the emotional needs of the youth. It's not the career she envisioned. Five years later, a student disappears, leaving the school in crisis. Roman Aguilar, the lead...
51) Devil's harbor
Author
Description
"With heart-stopping thrills, a Walter White-esque villain, and a fascinating hero, Alex Gilly's Devil's Harbor is a thriller unlike any you have read before Nick Finn and his partner and brother-in-law, Diego Jimenez, are used to rough water. As Marine Interdiction Agents for Customs and Border Protection, the two hunt drug smugglers, human traffickers, and other criminals who hide in the vastness of the waters surrounding southern California. One...
Author
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When the infamous foreman of three hills ranch reappears in Santa Fe looking to take revenge for his conviction for sex trafficking at the notorious ranch, Private Inspector Fernando Lopez finds himself a hunted man. Lopez alerts Santa Fe County Deputy Sherriff Jodie Williams, who accompanied him in the raid on Three Hills Ranch. Unfortunately, the notice comes too late. The Foreman kidnaps Williams' wife and leaves a note: "Meet Holy Ghost." Lopez...
53) Winter's end
Author
Series
Winter Black volume 9
Publisher
[Mary Stone]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
For thirteen years, FBI Special Agent Winter Black has been haunted by a man who performed heinous acts. Murdering her parents. Abducting her baby brother. Leaving her in a coma that changed her life forever. For thirteen years, she’s suffered mentally and physically. Often doubted her sanity and ability to move forward to achieve her goal of bringing that brutal man down. Thirteen years of regret. Of hope. Of fear. Of hate. But now, the boy she...
Author
Series
Jade de Jong novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Jade de Jong is hired as a bodyguard for Pamela Jordaan after her husband, Terrance, mysteriously disappears. Jade thought it would be the easiest job of her career. However, when both she and her client narrowly survive an assassination attempt and Terrance is found brutally tortured and clinging to life, Jade steps up her game. However, when her beau, David Patel, reveals his son has be kidnapped, Jade realizes that both cases connected her case...
55) The lullaby girl
Author
Series
Angie Pallorino novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Detective Angie Pallorino took down a serial killer permanently and, according to her superiors, with excessive force. Benched on a desk assignment for twelve months, Angie struggles to maintain her sense of identity--if she's not a detective, who is she? Then a decades-old cold case washes ashore, pulling her into an investigation she recognizes as deeply personal. Angie's lover and partner, James Maddocks, sees it, too. But spearheading an ongoing...
56) Storm's peril
Author
Series
Amelia Storm volume 02
Publisher
Mary Stone
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Knowledge is power peril... In a city as large as Chicago, the wicked never sleep. When an undocumented migrant teenager goes missing, military veteran and Special Agent Amelia Storm teams up with her partner to take down what could be the most shocking forced labor and sex trafficking ring her hometown has ever seen. The case reeks of mafia involvement, but even with an investigative reporter as an informant, there's little in the way of leads....
57) The magistrate
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--
58) Cold hunt
Author
Series
Ellie Kline volume 2
Publisher
[Mary Stone]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"On a farm in the backwoods of Charleston, South Carolina, a hunter stalks prey--the two legged kind. And it's not the first time. New players have emerged in the underground human trafficking ring lurking in the shadows of the dignified city, ramping up the stakes. Coming off the high of solving her first case as a Charleston PD detective, Ellie Kline has linked several Cold Cases together, leading her to the chilling discovery that a serial killer...
59) Nickel plated
Author
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Nickel lives by his wits on the streets, blackmailing pedophiles and selling marijuana, but when a young girl, Arrow, needs help finding her runaway sister, Nickel's investigation leads to the dark world of child traffickers.
60) The night trade
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Description
For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to go back to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the trafficking kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. But after a planned takedown in a nightclub goes violently awry, Livia discovers that she's not the only one hunting Sorm. Former Marine sniper Dox has a score to settle, too, and working together is the only way to take Sorm out. Livia...
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