Con man Max O’Brien takes a personal investigation into his own hands.Max O’Brien’s nightmare has begun again. Eleven years after the tragic disappearance of his brother, an ambassador in Central America, Max’s nephew, also a diplomat, is assassinated in New Delhi. Max is on the run from police, and this time the professional con man decides to find those responsible for the crime. Determined to track down the truth, he arrives in India just as the country is prepa...

Max O’Brien is in a race against time … and someone else’s past is catching up with him.Max O’Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him in a bind. So when he hears that his old friend Kevin Dandurand is a wanted man over a seemingly racially motivated killing spree, he heads to Bucharest to try to make sense of what looks like an impossible situation.The buried truths he uncovers reach back to the Second World War, th...

Con man Max O’Brien gets pulled into a grisly conspiracy while investigating his lover’s murder.Distraught by the murder of Tanzanian lawyer and ex-lover Valéria Michieka and her daughter Sophie, Max O’Brien travels to Tanzania to track down those responsible. What starts as a fight for justice quickly becomes entangled with the persecution of albinos in the East African state. Thought by some to have supernatural powers, many albinos find themselves targeted for t...

It’s not easy to have enemies everywhere … but con artist Max O’Brien is a man of the world. Read all three of Max's adventures in this special ebook collection.The Kashmir Trap — Book #1Professional con man Max O’Brien is on the run from police when he learns that his diplomat nephew has been assassinated in New Delhi. Eleven years earlier, Max’s brother mysteriously disappeared while serving as an ambassador. Determined to find answers th...

“Mom had a brother she’s never mentioned, who died a couple of months ago. She says he was...bad.”Bud Anderson’s surprise that he has a long-lost uncle is matched by his discovery that the man has met an untimely end. With claims by Bud’s mother that her brother was a bad child ringing in their ears, Cait Morgan joins her husband in accepting Uncle Jonas’s invitation - from beyond the grave - to visit Amsterdam, where he’d built a life for himself, founded on his p...

The line was dead...as dead as the chance of two more romantic days at sea for Cait and Bud.Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson have finally said “I do”, and happily celebrate with a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon cruise. But then a man drops dead right in front of them.The sudden death appears to have been from natural causes, but Cait suspects something much more sinister. With only two days left at sea, the head of security is eager to solve the case and invites C...

“Don’t panic, Cait. This death will not spoil our wedding. I promise.”It’s Cait and Bud’s wedding weekend and nothing is going as planned. The weather in Wales is terrible, the “romantic” castle they chose for their destination wedding feels creepy, and now there’s a dead man at the foot of the stairs.Bud assures Cait that the death of the choirmaster is nothing more than an unfortunate accident, but she can’t help but suspect the worst. With the o...

Criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan was looking forward to her dream vacation in Mexico with her boyfriend Bud Anderson. She wasn’t anticipating a fresh corpse on the floor of a local florist’s shop, and she definitely wasn’t expecting Bud to become the prime suspect.With Bud’s freedom, and maybe even his life, at stake, Cait has to fight the clock to work out which member of the small community living in the seemingly idyllic municipality of Punta de las Rocas might have killed t...

The third instalment in the Arthur Ellis award-nominated Forsyth and Hay mystery series.Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Hay of Scotland Yard believes he is dealing with a serial killer. Two young female victims bearing a superficial resemblance to each other are found asphyxiated and posed, with indecipherable writing on their right hips. A hostel caretaker, a journalist and his photographer, a bariatric specialist, the Canadian High Commission in London...

In Tokyo, Charlie Hillier discovers you can’t always bank on the truth.Fresh off a harrowing experience in Russia, Charlie is keen to lay low, and his latest posting to Tokyo offers him the chance to immerse himself in a truly foreign culture.Charlie is soon drawn into his first consular case when a successful young investment banker winds up in a coma following a car accident. After a man claiming to be a friend of the banker’s turns up dead, Charlie and t...

“So...she thinks her sister was murdered, and she’s invited you to an exclusive foodie event to grill the suspects?”A heartfelt plea to look into the death of a world-famous vintner goes hand in hand with the opportunity to attend an exclusive gourmet event in British Columbia's stunning wine country. How can overindulgent foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan resist?Sure that the award-winning owner of a family-run vineyard was murdered, Ca...

Hush, hush, hushHere comes the Bogeyman…London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs, and cafés, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls — and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone.But out on the streets, something nastier is stirrin...