How far would someone go to protect corporate profits?Just days before Morris Cutter, a retired powerful oil executive, is scheduled to give a pseudo-scientific report to Congress that will delay crucial action on climate change for decades, he and his wife are found shot to death in their Greenwich, Connecticut, home. The police call it murder-suicide. The couple’s son refuses to accept the official conclusion and hires Geneva Chase, crime reporter turned private ...

Sex, blackmail, and murder … welcome to the Whisper Room.When video footage of a local TV news anchor having sex with an underaged paid escort goes public, he takes his wife hostage in a desperate attempt to salvage his crumbling life. Although other reporters at the scene go home when the situation resolves peacefully, veteran journalist Geneva Chase knows there’s more to the story. Following leads, she traces the blackmail attempt to an exclusive app called the W...

Time is running out …The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader with a proclivity for bondage and S&M who had recently broken out of prison. In the videotape, he’s wearing a black leather bondage mask.With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, journalist Ge...

It’s a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless that it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase, whose career may be dying alongside that of her small-town newspaper.The Sheffield Post headline shouts, “Cops Call Murder Scene ‘Slaughterhouse.’” On the scene, Genie spurs the deputy police chief to tell her quietly, “Six bodies … all nude … hacked to pieces.” Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen...

Random Road introduced Geneva Chase—“a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues,” says Library Journal—to murders straight out of a nightmare—six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.Having survived this and a personal tragedy, Geneva’s story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she’s working...

Ein mysteriöser Leichenfund im Markermeer ruft Kies van Beek und seine Kolleginnen und Kollegen von der Amsterdamer Polizei auf den Plan. Während der Ermittlungen, die Kies wie gewohnt auf seine Weise durchführt, geschehen unvorhergesehene Dinge und unangenehme Geheimnisse tauchen auf. Kies kann aber auf die Hilfe seiner Freunde bauen...

Die Schlagzeilen in der niederländischen Presse zwingen die Polizeiführung in Amsterdam zum Handeln. Ausgerechnet Kommissar Kies van Beek, ein Mann, der von seinem Vorgesetzten auf die Abschussliste gesetzt wurde, soll nun helfen eine Serie von Verbrechen in der Amsterdamer Unterwelt aufzuklären. Kies, der seit Jahren trauernde Witwer, der sich eigentlich nur noch für seine Kneipe und Fußball interessiert, bekommt eine letzte Chance. Die Ereignisse führen ihn nicht nur beruflich zu überras...