Armand Cole kills a snitch. He is supposed to take him to Monticello's infamous Pier 9, but a snowstorm forces him to leave the body on the freeway. A related murder at the pier is assigned to the MPD's Special Investigations squad. For Jessica Branson, this means she gets to do something she hasn't done in years: Real police work. But she must do so under the former Internal Affairs officer who sent her into exile.Armand is soon the point man for the drug operation's money man, a ...

Fentanyl. The latest scourge of Monticello's street. A detective, a street-level dealer, and an ambitious police official, it will weave its way through their lives and change their fates.For Detective Jessica Branson, it makes the house she can't afford unlivable and unrentable. When her tenants overdose, one fatally, her career teeters toward a crash.For Marcus Lincoln, it's the latest product, his ticket to the top of the Game as he moves up in the gang that still rules ...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence.Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anythin...

In the world's most dangerous workplaces, everything feels like it's plotting your demise. The tools you rely on. The materials you handle. Even the air you breath. Stored energy becomes a coiled viper, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Owners, manufacturers, and contractors have built entire systems to combat STCKY—Stuff That Can Kill You.This collection brings you twenty original, custom crafted stories, each built around one challenge: How do you turn everyday hazard...

Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North Ameri...

NINE BOOKS FOR ONE GREAT PRICENine great crime stories to keep you up at night. Nine ways to be thrilled by nine award-winning and acclaimed crime fiction authors!Get to know each author and solve the mystery with their sleuths.TITLES INCLUDE the following crime fiction books by award-winning and notable authors interviewed on the Crime Cafe podcast:RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Austin CamachoAN ALL-CONSUMING FIRE by Donna Fletcher CrowSAVAGE NIGHTS by W...

The only book offering a comprehensive guide to using the internet to develop your career, providing an overview of both the online tools needed for profile building as well as online job searching and the recruitment processes.Written for a digital twenty-first century audience, this book explicitly addresses the impact of new technologies on the world of work and recruitment.

Arthur Bright only ever dreamed of one thing – being a world-famous pop star. Thing is, just recently, there are certain elements of Arthur’s life that have started to get a bit… strange. A man calling himself Merlin, who Arthur considers quite mad, is following him around the country. Merlin is convinced Arthur is King Arthur and is keen he wakes up to this undeniable fact. Merlin even has a sword he believes is Excalibur, a group of men loyal to him – Knights of the Round Table – and an ...

GoodCopBadCop is a modern crime take on Jekyll and Hyde where the ‘good cop’ and ‘bad cop’ are the same person. It is a modern day police procedural story where our main character tries to juggle the various crimes he’s investigating while juggling the psychotic impulses inside him. This is not a story about a good man turned bad, or a bad man turned good. Both good and bad arrived at the same time.

"An engaging new history. . . . Filled with enjoyable anecdotes and fast paced tales. . . . A must for Deep South aficionados" — The Greenwood CommonwealthThe people who live in towns and cities along the Mississippi River in the southern United States are a special breed, steeped in 500 years of history as rich as the coffee they drink, or the soil where once the river ran.Mississippi River Country Tales is a fast-paced, easy to read hist...

GoodCopBadCop is a modern crime take on Jekyll and Hyde where the ‘good cop’ and ‘bad cop’ are the same person. It is a modern day police procedural story where our main character tries to juggle the various crimes he’s investigating while juggling the psychotic impulses inside him. This is not a story about a good man turned bad, or a bad man turned good. Both good and bad arrived at the same time.

This third edition of Them Days Magazine from 1976 covers stories about the Moravian Church, memories of the HBC, komatiks and the dogs who pull them, and other reminisces of Labrador.