In the spring of 1991, four attractive young women vanished from an unknown location, presumably on the western outskirts of Houston, Texas. But that was only an assumption, since their individual vehicles were found abandoned, scattered over outlying areas of western Harris County and beyond. Even the actual date of their disappearance wasn't known, since no one, not even family members, knew where they had gone, and when, or why. With the passing of the years, and none of the girls havin...

Harris County, Texas Homicide Detective Pete Scallion has obsessed for over two decades over what he knows to be a brutal murder on a supposed duck hunting trip to the marshy wetlands east of Galveston Bay. Unable to convince his superiors at the time it was anything other than a tragic accident, Scallion tries to move on with his life and career. That is made harder by the fact the man he knows is a cold-blooded killer, also a member of a wealthy, powerful Houston family, is now moving up...

Harris County Sheriff's Department detective Pete Scallion is wrestling with the decision of whether or not to return to his job of solving cold case homicides, while mired in the grief of the recent loss of his wife, Marti. Retirement looks like a better alternative, since he has lost the only person who has sustained him through his career. The realization that his work solving nearly forgotten murders is the only life he has left finally wins out, and he reluctantly returns to the depar...

Dan Kelly, a banking executive in exile, his personal life in shambles, has been dispatched by his Mississippi-based bank to gain a foothold in Texas, a precursor to eventual expansion throughout the moneyed Lone Star State. He settles in among the labyrinth of towering pines and thick hardwoods in the area referred to by natives as Deep East Texas, a region barely known to exist by those who have never ventured into the area. Surprised and intrigued by the amazing secluded beauty of his n...

This book concerns a Houston, Texas, stock broker, given a death sentence by his doctor due to pancreatic cancer. He returns to Destin, Florida, for a final vacation at his favorite resort. While there, he becomes entangles with a murderous drug dealer and his alluring young wife. His final act of courage is freeing the innocent woman from the dangerous world her husband has created.

BOOK THREE of the Cal Corwin Private Eye mystery-thriller-suspense SeriesAfter a woman is found dead in Cal Corwin's car and police detectives come knocking at her door, the case turns far more personal than first it seemed. As the ghosts of past cases rear their ugly heads, not only must she find out who murdered the victim, but why. Teasing the answers out soon reveals the disturbing question: Who is the hunter, and who hunted?Sli...

In his Shamus Award-winning first novel, The Innocents, Richard Barre introduced audiences to Wil Hardesty, "a person trying hard to survive a few of life's dirtier tricks" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). He's a private eye with a deep, dark past — and an uncertain future. In The Ghosts of Morning, Barre plunges even further into Wil's history, to a far-off place where murder and friendship collide.Denny Van Zant was Wil Hardesty's best friend. Together they surfed, drank and brawled the...

Twenty-five high-octane stories from the hottest thriller authors in one anthology, edited by #1 New York Times –bestselling author Lee Child.Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present an anthology of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, storie...

Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world -- with over 2 million copies sold! ( Booklist)Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old--a critical age for kittens--he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. He was found...

**The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren’t easily left behind...“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child**Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the...

The first book in the inspiring New York Times bestselling series about an executive who loses everything he holds dear and embarks on a walk across America that changes his life forever.What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. T...

**It’s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times–bestselling author Craig Johnson.The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+**Full of Longmire’s dry wit and good heart, Christmas in Absaroka County is a holiday must-have for every Longmire and Craig Johnson fan, and it also includes the first chapter of The Cold Dish...