Hugh Holton, the highest-ranking active police officer writing books today, is well-known for powerful, passion-charged novels. Reviewers compare his books to hurricanes and firestorms, descriptions that are especially apt in the case of Time of the Assassins. The most controversial story in today's inner cities is the CIA's apparent funding of counterinsurgent druglords in Latin America, who, instead of fighting revolutionaries, have used that funding...

Alors qu'un notable de Tours est retrouvé mort, Josselin Maroni est nommé directeur de l'enquête par la capitaine Bertaut, ce qui n'est pas au goût du commissaire Albert Dumont... Un chaud dimanche après-midi de juin, un notable tourangeau est retrouvé assassiné dans sa cuisine. La capitaine Émilienne Bertaut, chef de groupe de la brigade départementale de police judiciaire du commissariat de Tours, nomme le brigadier major Josselin Maroni,...

Dans le Cap Sizun, à Pont-Croix, une vieille dame sans histoires est assassinée. D'autres victimes vont suivre... Cette série de meurtres, sans lien apparent, dénués de toute logique et de tout mobile, installe peu à peu la peur sur cette presqu'île à la beauté sauvage balayée par les vents. Le Capitaine Franklin Clermont-Tonnerre de la PJ de Strasbourg, en visite pour quelques jours chez un ami, est malgré lui associé à l'enquête menée...

Tout le monde court, qu'elle qu'en soit la raison. Mais en Bretagne, l'Ankou court aussi... Ils courent: de Landerneau à La Roche-Maurice, des bois de Pencran à ceux de La Forest-Landerneau. Combien sont-ils à enfiler leurs chaussures de sport pour s'élancer sur les chemins, les trottoirs, les pistes ou les sentiers? Ils courent le matin pour bien commencer la journée, durant la pause déjeuner pour s'aérer les bronches et l'esprit, ou le...

1941 Britain: Children are vanishing from the village. Is it the powers of an ancient stone circle at work, or a modern predator? In mid-1941, children evacuated to the remote Shropshire village of Noddweir to escape the Blitz begin to vanish. It was not uncommon for city children faced with rural rigors to run away. But when retired American professor Edwin Carpenter, pursuing his study of standing stones, visits the village and discovers bloody...

Money isn't everything. It's the deadly thing. After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo's wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo's elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager. The abducted girls are the daughters of an international...

FBI Agent Jade Monroe has fond memories of Savannah. She loves the Southern charm, the history, and the South's slower pace, but arriving there as a serial crimes investigator, she finds a different side of the city.A request for help has come in from the PD because people in the Hostess City of the South are literally falling over dead in broad daylight after consuming a dangerous drug cocktail.When Jade disappears during a victim's funeral, the...

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the children born as a result of Dumas' programme. Detective Inspector Harry Houston is assigned to piece together the case and bring the killer to justice. But with little time and even less clues, can...

5 novelas from the Clint Fataday MysteriesRoad Kill"Why call me about something like road kill?""Because we have a body.""Oh. That kind of road kill."Dead StillThey were dead still from a bullet between the eyes, not for watching a bird.The Murder OptionIt was just an expression! I didn't mean it literally!Dead Giveaway"Does that sound like some kind of scam?""It's a dead giveaway!"Then her ex-husband and brother turn up dead.Bloody SunriseSometimes,...

Le lieutenant Alban, confronté à différentes vilaines affaires laissées... Le lieutenant Alban, de la Brigade criminelle de Vannes, n'est pas gâté. Son supérieur, le divisionnaire Cazaubon, vient de partir pour le Japon, lui laissant sur les bras différentes vilaines affaires. C'est le moment choisi par Marie Lafitte pour demander de l'aide; un clochard lui a remis un sac plein de drogue au port de Saint-Goustan, alors qu'elle promenait le...