Book Summary Get a glimpse of law enforcement in a small town in Powers Trace II. Set in a fictional town located among the farmlands in southern Georgia, the police force struggles to protect and serve with limited funds and second-hand equipment. Like police in most small towns, they get the job done working long hours for low pay. The plague of illicit drugs is not unique to large cities. Small town USA is suffering from the affects of Speed, Methamphetamine, and ICE in an increasing sp...

Powers Trace is a fictional town located among the farms on a two-lane road in the lower left corner of Georgia. The five person police force struggles to protect and serve the people of their small town with limited funds and cast-off equipment handed down from the county sheriffs department. Like police in most small towns, they get the job done working long hours for low pay. This is their story

**Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in this electrifying novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.**Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard...

PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his cat, and reads lots of Faulkner books. He is pulled from his self-imposed retirement when his old high school football buddy Dino asks him to find a young girl named Sharon. As Tru begins his investigation, dead bodies begin to appear and Tru himself is attacked. His search for Sharon takes him to all sorts of interesting places on and n...

When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell's experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of...

Three years ago, a child’s death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattan’s lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter, and from the city he once knew so well. But for Joe, everything changes when a woman’s murder and a teenager’s rooftop freefall rip open old wounds—and reveal a shocking layer of rage and deception.It is Joe’s former partner, ...

41 writers. One cause.We've rallied a platoon of crime, western, thriller, fantasy, noir, horror and transgressive authors to support PROTECT's important work: lobbying for legislation that protects children from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.Powerful stories from George Pelecanos, Andrew Vachss, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, Ken Bruen, Chet Williamson, James Reasoner, Charlie Stella, Michael A. Black, Wayne Dundee, Roxane Gay, Ray Banks, Tony Black, Les Edgerton ...

Three stories about murder, drugs robbery and mistaken identity. Who The Hell Is Jack Snow? finds our consultant "trouble shooter" going under cover to bring down a drug gang. He meets a gorgeous ally, who he fears will turn out to be a member of a rival drug gang. Is she? Murder On H-1 Asteroid finds Intergalactic-Investigators, Steve Titanic and his partner, Gordon Gatt going to Mars and then off to H-1 Asteroid to investigate a muder on a food farm. There are 400 Venusians and 4 survivi...

Read the book that launched the John Keegan Mystery Series!When New York City's most famous man dies suspiciously, Homicide Detective John Keegan must follow a trail of corruption that may just lead to the top of city government...and the end of his career.Ronald Mullins had it all... money, power, and a happy family. Suicide seemed an unlikely end for him.Partnered with Rick Calhill, a rising star in the NYPD, Keegan hesitates to investigate, knowing the case would ...

TV reporter Rachel Williamson helps Chief Sam Jenkins with a classic fraud investigation. However, the case puts Rachel in jeopardy, and her abduction by a mentally disturbed man changes her life forever.Eventually Jenkins uncovers a significant clue and leads a team deep into the Smoky Mountains to rescue his friend. But once Rachel is safely home, they discover her problems are far from over.

A killer terrorizes a diverse Chicago neighborhood in this "impressive first mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).Private investigator Paul Whelan's specialty is tracking down missing persons. But when his good friend is found slain in an alley, Whelan is steered down a path of violence as he searches for answers in a murder case.His investigation is interrupted by the arrival of an attractive young woman who is on her own search for her missing kid broth...

For Jake Stewart, a simple background check turns sinister and seedy in this murder mystery based in the steamy Gulf Coast metropolis of Houston, Texas. Sue Webster, a young and naive secretary, hires the cynical, but honest, Stewart to check into the background of her new boyfriend, Darrell Slater. Later, when the girl's body is discovered slashed and dumped under the shadows of downtown Houston, Jake sets out to discover the reason and the person behind the senseless murder. Along the wa...