Whose side is he on? The drug company curing dementia or the animal rights activists protesting outside?Brody Taylor loves hacking humans. After all, people are the weakest link in all computer systems. If he’s hired to break into your network, he will find and exploit the weak point. You.The problem with always manipulating people is that even those closest to you don’t trust you.And Brody’s just fallen in love with Melanie, a zany, beautiful Frenc...

Your private life is streamed live to a global audience. But no one told you about the cameras hidden in your home. And now a killer is watching, learning, planning . . .Jenny Price, talented and ambitious police detective, leads the investigation into the murder of a beautiful young cellist. Baffled by the killer’s intimate knowledge of the girl's dreams and desires the case begins to run out of steam.Out of leads, Jenny reluctantly accepts the ai...

Would you kill yourself to save your loved one?When Brody Taylor receives a 'death letter’ from a fellow elite hacker, sent a week after his murder, its contents present Brody with an offer even he can't refuse. But the investigation is being led by Brody’s girlfriend, talented police detective Jenny Price. Unaware of the victim’s true profession, Jenny is stumped. How and why would a disabled Afghan war veteran could come to be poisoned by one of the world’s deadl...

What are the main characteristics of effective leadership?How can we understand leadership today?This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practised and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences.

From the New York Times bestselling author, an exciting psychological thriller about a woman whose attempt to shake up her life may cost her everything.Bold and adventurous in her work as owner of one of Manhattan's boutique interior design firms, Kit Finn couldn't be tamer in her personal life. While on vacation in the Florida Keys, Kit resolves to do something risky for once. When she literally bumps into a charming stranger at her hotel, she decides to ...

For a war-haunted bounty hunter, flirting with death is the only thing keeping him alive, in this powerful new crime thriller by "a knock-em-dead writer"(Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear).Jack Keller is a man on the edge. Numb from the horrors of Desert Storm, he lives only for the adrenaline rush of his work as a bounty hunter. But when a routine job to capture a petty criminal spirals out of control, Keller is thrust into a brutal whirlwind of viol...

"Exceptional... Offers no easy solutions to the various security threats America faces today... As Hellman's convincing, conflicted characters face impossible choices, the tension is real and memorable." Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"Hellmann's writing sparkles...plenty of suspense in this richly detailed thriller, but Hellmann’s characteristic wit and warmth are evident, too." —BooklistChicago video producer Ellie Foreman has ...

"Difficult to put down." - Amazon Top 1000 ReviewerWhen the bestselling true crime author is poisoned during a book signing, investigators believe they're searching for a killer.They're wrong.They're searching for a manuscript.As fellow author Joss Jax retraces Alexandra's final days, she uncovers a hidden memoir capable of destroying reputations, exposing decades-old betrayals, and revealing a truth that should have remained buried...

Drake, Allie, and Spencer reunite in Emerald Buddha, the second Drake Ramsey adventure - a quest to locate the lost treasure of the Khmer Empire, secreted away in a hidden temple somewhere in Myanmar. But nothing is as it seems, and their archaeological expedition soon turns deadly when desperate factions target them in order to keep a secret that could topple the U.S. government.

Honors:Finalist in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense.Finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award, Best PI Indie Novel.Finalist in the Chicago Writers Association — Fiction CategoryShortlisted for the Kindle Book Review Awards: Mystery/Thriller categoryFinalist in the Fiction: Mystery/Suspense — 2015 USA Best Book AwardsIn Hellmann's 11th crime thriller and the 4th Geor...

On June 28, 1980, Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-olds motives. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom-but keeps her secrets to herself.Thirty years later-and five years after her release from prison-the past has come back to haunt Kelly. Her father-in-law, movie legend Sterling Marshall, is found in a pool of blood in his home i...

A cop and a mysterious vigilante search for vengeance in this romantic suspense series opener by the USA Today–bestselling author of The Blackest Crimson.Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain—and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as the Storyteller is next on his list.Nick kno...