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The DI Sean Corrigan Short Story Collection includes four short stories from Luke Delaney’s terrifyingly authentic DI Sean Corrigan series: REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD, THE NETWORK, THE RAIN KILLER and AN IMPERFECT KILLING. REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the...

Since the publication of The Butler Did It by Sean Joseph, Johnny Butler’s life has taken on new meaning. In the sequel The Butler Really Did It, Johnny has had amazing highs and lows, albeit natural and not from alcohol and or other mind-altering substances. He now has over 14 years of continuous sobriety. He certainly enjoys emotional sobriety for the most part. As his life continues to unfold his adventure and shenanigans continue. This novel's plot twists and adventures unfold around recovery, women, sex, and scandal before Johnny is on trial again. This time his life is on the line.

Follow military veterans Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson as they confront a dark conspiracy in a remote college town (The Innocent), hunt down a cult group snatching young women from the streets of Los Angeles (Fire Point), broker a kidnap exchange in Budapest (Budapest/48), and help a desperate father save his only child from an abusive school for teens (The Edge of Alone).

Detective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead. While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home. Running out of time, he plummets into the depths of darkness. And from there, he vows to bring the masterminds down, no matter the consequences.

While suspended from the Philadelphia Police Department, Mitch Tanner travels to Savannah, Georgia, to visit Cassie, the medium who assisted on his last case, in hopes of uncovering a clue to the whereabouts of his estranged wife and son. When he arrives in Savannah, he finds himself embroiled in a triple homicide and kidnapping that Cassie has been called upon to assist in by the local detectives. It isn't long before the case gets personal. Very personal. Now, Mitch is in a race against the clock to stop a deranged madman before he kills again.

It's the middle of a sweltering late-summer heat wave in Los Angeles. In the nearby mountains, a seasonal wildfire burns out of control. If not for this fire, authorities might never have discovered wreckage of an Alfa Romeo convertible - or the body of the car's driver - in the dense underbrush at the bottom of Topanga Canyon. But when firefighters happen across the crash site while battling the nearby blaze, it's only a matter of time and basic forensics before the apparent accident is upgraded to homicide.

It's time to finish what he started... A young girl is snatched in broad daylight from outside her school and later found brutally murdered and hanging from a tree. When recently retired San Francisco Police Inspector, Bob Farrell, sees this on the news, he realises his worst nightmare has just come true. The same brutal killer a government agency stopped him from putting away twenty years before is once more on the loose....

It was one hell of an inheritance for former Chicago reporter Tom Coleman: a broken-down pickup truck, ramshackle campground, a canoe livery - and one pot-smoking, barely working employee he doesn’t need, doesn’t want, and can’t afford. But the truth is, after losing a child and a marriage, Tom doesn’t really care.

Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he’s a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detective. Busted to night patrol at a robbery-prone Omaha supermarket, Worth is doing time, wearing his uniform and asking shoppers if they want paper or plastic. If that isn’t enough, he suspects he might be falling for Gwen, the shy checkout girl who may be an even bigger mess than he is. It couldn’t get any worse. Until it does.

When the daughter of a Chinese billionaire is kidnapped from her mansion in Arcadia, California, Ryan and Ty find themselves caught in the middle of a vicious standoff. Emily Yan is a Chinese "parachute kid", one of thousands of children sent to study in America by their ultra-wealthy parents. Living in a multi-million dollar mansion in Arcadia, California with her hard-partying cousin Charlie, it's not long before their ostentatious displays of wealth attract the wrong sort of attention in the form of some MS-13 gang members.

It was the 1930s, and America was locked in the grip of the Great Depression. Gangsters controlled the major cities, while outlaws roamed the rural back country. It was a time of speakeasy gin-joints, tommy-guns, fast cars, and even faster dames. This is the world of New York-based Private Investigator Rick Ruby. From the back alleys of Gotham to the gold laden boulevards of Hollywood, Ruby is the shamus with a nose for trouble and an insatiable appetite for justice.

Over the years, former military bodyguard Ryan Lock has made more than his fair share of enemies. It was only a matter of time before one of them came looking for payback. A serial rapist brutally murdered inside California's highest-security prison for women. A frantic gun battle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. A beautiful, young defense attorney violently abducted from her office. A series of apparently random events that are anything but. Someone is hell bent on revenge, and their target's name is Ryan Lock.

An isolated school for troubled teens. A series of mysterious deaths. A father frantically trying to rescue his daughter before it's too late. But when the law won't listen, who can he turn to? Private security operator Ryan Lock is back in the brand new novel from the master of the modern thriller, Sean Black.

When college basketball coach Malik Shaw goes missing after a family tragedy, it looks like just another retired athlete gone off the rails. But Malik's childhood friend, private security specialist Ty Johnson, quickly begins to suspect that there is more to it. Chasing the truth, Ty and his business partner, Ryan Lock, begin to uncover a sinister conspiracy of silence in a sleepy Minnesota college town.

A routine investigation of an open-and-shut case is just what PI Ray Dudgeon needs to recover from the physical and emotional consequences of confronting the Chicago Outfit - until "routine" spirals out of control. The victim was no quiet, unassuming, unlucky single woman; she lived a double life in the shadowy realm of covert intelligence...and she died for the truth.

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan’s days as a detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of COLD KILLING. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered as...

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first published in 1930, is one of the greatest crime novels of all times, inspiring numerous spinoffs in film, television, and theater. The hero, Sam Spade, is a hard-bitten and ethically ambiguous detective who is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Miss Wonderly to track down her missing sister. Spade’s partner, Miles Archer, steps in, only to be shot that very night. Spade’s honor as a detective requires him to track down Archer’s killer.

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan’s days as a newly minted detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of Cold Killing. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South...

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he...

Tout juste de retour de leur mission d'infiltration dans la prison de Pelican Bay Supermax, au nord de la Californie, l'agent de protection rapprochée Ryan Lock et son associé Ty Johnson se retrouvent à Los Angeles pour assurer la sécurité d'une actrice d'Hollywood. La jeune femme craint en effet les représailles d'un petit ami violent, lui aussi star du grand écran, qui refuse d'accepter la fin de leur relation. Or comme Lock ne le sait que trop bien, et comme Ty va le découvrir, protéger quelqu'un envers et contre tout peut se révéler plus difficile qu'il n'y parait, et le danger peut surgir sous des formes auxquelles on ne s'attendait pas.