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.

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...

When the real enemy is closer than you think...Lucky Dey is at it again. This time, the on-again/off-again Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective is more willful and acerbic than he's ever been before. Awaiting his official reinstatement, Lucky accepts a one-time gig to track down the missing teenage daughter of a Midwestern millionaire.Driven to find the girl, Lucky tangles with Tinseltown's dark underbelly to locate the millionaire's daughter. Winding his way through an L...

Gino Cataldi loved three things: his wife, his son, and his job as a cop. Cancer took his wife. Drugs have his son. And Gino is pulling desk duty, suspected of killing a drug dealer.Every night he dreams of a chance to make things right. That chance comes when a high-society woman is brutally murdered, her body parts spread all over town. The investigation quickly hits a dead-end…until a late-night caller with too much information contacts Gino. Between the mystery surrounding what...

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.

BOOK FOUR of the Cal Corwin Private Eye mystery-thriller-suspense SeriesThirtysomething ex-cop-turned-P.I. Cal Corwin faces her most puzzling murder case yet. When a friend of a friend dies in suspicious circumstances, the police believe it's open-and-shut. As Cal digs deeper to get to the bottom of the mystery, she finds herself a target for those who want the truth dead and buried.The Girl in the Morgue is the fourth novel

Welcome to the Silicon Valley law firm of Tweedmore & Slyde, where multimillion-dollar deals are the order of the day, ambition runs high, and stabbing a colleague in the back could be taken all too literally.T&S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde—the company’s chief rainmaker, its king of the “billable hour”—is found stabbed to death in his corner office. It falls to T&S’s brightest, most unjustifiably insecure young associate Howar...

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...