Britain is flooded with forged banknotes. This is no independent back-street forger. There are powerful men involved who will kill to keep their secrets.Jim Radford and the Police and Bank Liaison Organisation have been called in to investigate. Jim is helped by Carlotta Mason, his new, mysteriously wealthy girlfriend. Car chases, arson, treachery and violence are a baptism of fire for the desk-jockeys. The trail leads them blundering around Britain, Toronto and Niagara Falls, resul...

Violent deaths, fire and other mishaps hit businessman Mike Tavistock when he buys a long disused copper mine on the foothills of Dartmoor and tries to develop a mining theme park.Too much is going wrong for it to be just bad luck.Historical events come back to haunt the 1990s. Facing sabotage in the present and a dangerous legacy from the past, Tavistock and his enigmatic girlfriend Amanda fight for the business, their future, and ultimately their lives.

It's the late 1980s and Sharmouth Borough Council is having a difficult time. Money has been lost on speculative financial deals, budget cutbacks threaten redundancies and the whiff of corruption is in the air. Worse still, one of the accountants dies in a car crash and Chief Accountant Dave Winner finds ten thousand pounds in banknotes hidden in his desk.Winner teams up with auditor Sally Travis to get to the bottom of things, but their investigations soon bring them into conflict ...

A high tech software and medical conglomerate is capitalizing on decades of advancement and the evolution of medical and computer science, which may enable the seamless merging of the human mind with the modern electronic world. Created and born in a laboratory, seven-year old Toby Crawford is an engineered test subject for new research on human simulation and artificial intelligence. Toby is a genius with a photographic memory, otherwise enviable gifts; Toby was born with a limited short-...

Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was responsible for the murders. That other is Belgad the Liar, a former barbarian chieftain who is now boss of the city's underworld.Following his path for blood, Kron comes across the magical healer, Randall Tendbones, and accidentally reveals Randall's darkest s...

Adam Martin Swope was driven out of his beloved Chicago by his self-created but ill-advised celebrity status as a "finder." To avoid the emotional turmoil taking a toll on his psyche, he fled to Cancun, Mexico. Forced back to the United States by the resurgence of his mother's cancer, he decided to take a job as columnist for the Tweet; the newspaper purchased by his long-time friend Larry Archibald in the small West Virginia town of Canary Corners. He moved into the Canary House, an apart...

Among the ancient vineyards sits the chapel, Notre Dame de la Salette, in which has occurred the brutal murder of two young lovers. Why? When? How? Who? A crime so horrid rarely occurs in Catalan country, let alone in the peaceful village of Banyuls-sur-Mer, comfortably nestled at the base of the precipitous Albères as they plunge into the sea – the eastern end of the lofty Pyrénées, the border between France and Spain.Told by an American anthropologist, Peter Phillips, friend and ...

At the request of a trusted colleague, ex-soldier Savio Mendes departs for Mexico City with the goal of gathering data on a drug network. When circumstances force him to get involved in locating a runaway family member for the head of the cartel, his role as clandestine observer is compromised. To complicate his already screwed position, Savio soon discovers he’s been directed to undertake a different job than the company authorized. Unsure who to trust and no longer certain who he’s actua...

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them.From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing.Heather SmythePretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get.Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches.("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage and Bake Sale...

Adventure strikes Risgan, treasure-hunter, gambler, collector of magic relics.From jungle pygmies to powerful shamans to sea pirates, it's a fight to the end, on land, sea and air.Shipwrecked off a dangerous coast in an unknown land, Risgan stumbles upon a mysterious cult in the ruin of ancient temple grounds. An odd but alluring acolyte takes him under her wing, but the legend of their long dead saint leaves Risgan's blood running cold. The miracle-working...

Now with all new content by John Ringo!Paradise LostIn the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and sma...

Lance Michelli is on a quest to discover the secrets his grandmother cannot tell. What happened all those years ago, and what is it she so desperately needs him to find? The old villa in Sonoma holds the answers, but it is now owned by a young woman who neither knows nor cares about his mission. But Rese Barret is a force to contend with, and her own impending storm could sweep him up as their sparring creates a fierce and uncomfortable attraction. From bestselling author Kristen Heitzmann...