homicide

"At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the demented caller seriously--and is drawn into an underground criminal world of terrifying depravity"--Provided by publisher.

"A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.

"A stranded alien continues to hide in Patience, Washington, posing as the town's doctor. He has no intention of leaving--unless it's to get back to his home planet! When a startling new mystery catches his attention, he takes a trip to New York City with the hope of finally finding a way to communicate with his home world"--Provided by publisher.

"When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular"--Provided by publisher.

All signs point to murder when a wealthy businessman plummets from his office window, but with no evidence, witness, or apparent motive, the investigation becomes a cold case. Months later, Detective Inspector Sep Black of the Cold Case Unit is approached by an attractive widow who wants him to look into the murder of her husband, a reporter who seems to have been close to breaking a big story, for which someone had him killed. Black discovers the connection between the two murders, then an attempt is made on his own life.

"Accused of the murder of their disgraced detective father, teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy team up with femme fatale Nancy Drew to prove their innocence and find the guilty party in a twisty hardboiled noir tale of dives, double-crosses and deceit in modern-day small town USA"--Back cover.

"As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past"--Provided by publisher.

Private detective Leonid McGill struggles with hard times, personally and professionally, reluctantly accepts a job from a beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of money, but after he learns the reasons why she fears for her life, Leonid is certain that if his family's misadventures do not kill him, this case will.