When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they discover something they didn't expect: there's a new member of the Wong family. Daisy and Hazel think baby Teddy is enough to deal with, but as always the girls are never far from a mystery. Tragedy strikes very close to home, and this time Hazel isn't just the detective. She's been framed for murder! The girls must work together like never before, confronting dangerous gangs, mysterious suspects and sinister private detectives to solve the murder and clear Hazel's name - before it's too late . . .

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group-Covert-One-only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out. In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West. Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play-forces that can be traced to Washington itself.

Sometimes doing a favour ain't such a great idea. The private eyes of Chase Investigations take on the case of a young cop accused of assault. With some heavy political interference and a drug-fuelled fixer involved, plus Dan Crowley's old enemy DI Kennedy leading the charge, this is a case they quickly wish they had never taken on.

The world is in economic meltdown but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime - or a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. But Kwong faces powerful opposition when his investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturbs an even darker criminal mind.

"If you love Westerns, and can stand just a Little Sci-Fi or Steampunk, Then You'll Love This Series!" 5-Star Reader Review"I can promise the most unusual Wild West romp you've ever experienced," 5-Star Reader ReviewCombining the best of gritty westerns like Tombstone and The Wild Bunch with the sci-fi inventiveness of Firefly and Star Wars, Bernard Schaffer's Guns of Seneca 6 series is an Old West romp on a remote planet where gunslingers, outlaws and lawmen battle over the frontier.  In this short-story prequel, fan-favorite Sheriff Sam Clayton returns, and readers will finally learn the details of what happened to Zeke, the accused child-molester, on the day Sam took him out to the desert.  Zeke is about to take a short walk off a long cliff unless he can somehow manage to convince the Sheriff that it was all a big misunderstanding.  Sam Clayton's brand of justice is swift and permanent, especially when it comes to people hurting children, so Zeke better do some fast talking if he wants to survive. Seneca 6 is a world where legends like Doc Holliday and Jesse James would all feel comfortable in. Readers will too.  The Guns of Seneca 6 series blends the best of the Old West and science fiction for all-out adventure.  Sheriff Sam Clayton chewed and spat and wiped off his mouth.  He chewed again and spat again.  He started to chew once more, then stopped and said, "Prepare the prisoner for transport to Seneca 5 to see the judge." Tom Masters looked up at him, not moving until the Sheriff looked back at him.  "Yes, sir," Tom said.  The deputy walked into the office and pointed at Zeke, "Get your hands up against that wall." "I'm going to tell that judge what you been treating me like," Zeke said, turning around and sticking his hands against the bricks above the cot.   Tom stuck the iron key into the door's lock and turned it.  "You stay like that until I say otherwise, else I'll shoot you in the spine and leave you pissing in a bag for the rest of your life." Zeke giggled, "I bet you'd like that.  We'll see how tough you are after I see that judge." Tom snatched Zeke's wrists and pulled them behind his back and slapped cuffs on them.  He leaned close to Zeke's ear and said, "There ain't no judge at Seneca 5, stupid." Old-Time Lawmen is a short-story prequel to Guns of Seneca 6.  For readers of Cowboys and Indians books who love old west outlaws and old west fiction.  This scifi western is reminiscent of the old west stories about Doc Holliday, Jesse James and Wyatt Earp, while being a new kind of gunslinger kindle book completely.   

The Cocaine Chronicles joins The Speed Chronicles in launching Akashic's new anthology series styled after the Noir Series.Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers.Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

Detective Inspector John Rebus and Frank Lauderdale start the book with a car chase across Edinburgh, culminating with the two youths they are chasing throwing themselves off the Forth Road Bridge and in Rebus being injured in a car crash. Rebus' upset over this allows Rankin to show the character in a new light, revealing his isolation and potentially suicidal despair. After the unconnected suicide of a terminally ill con, Rebus pursues an investigation that implicates respected people at the highest levels of government, and due to the politically sensitive nature of what he is doing, faces losing his job, or worse. He is supported by his daughter Sammy, allowing their distant relationship to be built upon. The title refers to the Rolling Stones album Let it Bleed .

Have you ever made a mistake? A big one? I’m back in Chicago and back in business with my boss, Rinaldo Moretti. So much for my run at a normal life. There are some new faces in the organization, and someone’s been cooking the books. Personally? I think they’re after more than a just little cash. If I have any hopes of flushing out the traitor, I’m going to need to find a good hooker to help me sleep at night. As the bodies pile up, I find solace in Alina. There’s something about her, something different. She understands me without asking a lot of questions. It’s as if she’s known me for years, yet we’ve only just met. If I weren’t so distracted by business, I’d try to figure out her story. She’s the only one keeping me grounded as my world spins out of control. I’m going to lose the one man who has ever meant anything to me – the only man to ever call me son. I want to deny his request, but there is no avoiding what awaits me. I never wanted any of this, but I’m out of options, and time is running out. Some choices have unforeseen consequences, and some choices are simply irrevocable. **