There's trouble brewing in the cold waters of Kildevil Cove, and this time Danny Quirke may be hard put to stop it.Due to his suspected association with his former boss's human trafficking organization, Danny has been demoted and is no longer in charge. To make matters worse, he's broken up with his partner, Tadhg... who may be in serious hot water himself. But then a faceless killer begins targeting Kildevil Cove's most vulnerable, and Danny can't refuse when his new boss asks him ...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryThey say trouble comes in threes. Detective Danny Quirke is already mourning his wife and mired in an internal investigation that will likely spell the end of his career. Now he must return to the Newfoundland fishing village of his youth to bury his abusive grandfather. At least his three are up. Right?Then the bones of local boy Llewellyn Single, drowned thirty years before, wash up on the beach, and secrets Danny th...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryYou never know what trouble will rise from the bog.When the body of an unidentified woman is found in a Newfoundland bog, Inspector Danny Quirke must scramble his team of investigators to find her killer. But what initially seems like a straightforward case soon becomes mired in a tangled web of lies and deliberate obfuscation.With the strange mutilation of the body—one eye gouged out completely—evidence seems ...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryThey say it never rains but it pours. Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Danny Quirke would have to agree.First someone murders a vulnerable Kildevil Cove man and dumps him in an abandoned well. Then the body of a sex-trafficking victim washes up on a nearby beach. Danny has to get to the bottom of both deaths, but with few leads and little support from his superiors, he's spinning his wheels in a mud pit of a c...

When Feldwebel Horst Stussel is murdered in Jake Plenty's Moroccan brothel, local police chief Nicolas Renard suspects Jake's involvement in the crime. Renard has loved Jake since their service in the Legion Etrangère during the Great War, but in this era of concentration camps, gas chambers, and the infamous pink triangle, his love for the American dare not speak its name.When sadistic Nazi officer Major Danzig, a fanatic who excels at the arts of torture and interrogation, comes ...

In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical, tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Miriam Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable overseas investments designed to fatten their pocketbooks, Raft finds himself at loose ends without his companion, Constable Freddie Crook. Far from offering their help, the ton use ever...

South Carolina lawyer Calvin Amos is confident he can gain Thomas Basinger his freedom on appeal. Thom was convicted of a murder during an armed robbery gone bad. But Basinger's case proves more difficult than Cal anticipated, and the battle he assumed he'd win turns into a devastating failure. Remorseful over the personal defeat, after Basinger is executed, Cal throws himself out of his office window.Bizarrely, the fall doesn't kill him. Even stranger, Thom Basinger rings Cal's do...

Heartache Café: Books One and TwoThe Second World War touches Newfoundland in unprecedented ways, throwing spies and patriots together inside Jack Stolyes's Heartache Café.Heartache CaféAmerican expatriate Jack Stoyles embarks on a self-imposed exile to St. John's, Newfoundland. With good reason, Jack calls his place "Heartache Café." He's content—until Samual Halim walks into his life.When a constable goes missing, Jack fi...

The year is 1934, and disgraced federal agent Nathan Devereaux is escorting convicted felon John Banks to visit his dying mother. Banks is despondent, miserably ill with a heavy cold, and unenthusiastic about traveling by plane. It isn't a responsibility Devereaux wants, but something about the prisoner's plight resonates with him.Devereaux charters a plane to Wisconsin, hoping to get there before Banks's mother breathes her last. But a routine journey swiftly turns into a sojourn ...

Billionaire inventor Chase Gordon has just turned forty—and everything in his ordered little world is going to hell in an Hermès bag. His acerbic English butler Juliet Lavish has decided to retire. The humanitarian church founded by his late parents has suddenly gone broke. In Honduras. In the middle of the jungle. Lastly, NYPD detective Brian Schrade wants to use Chase's palatial mansion to hide Walter Godfrey, a newspaper reporter who might know something about a recent rash of mob-relat...

Veteran police chief Eli Gallagher doesn't ask for much, but he does insist that his officers uphold the "serve" part of "serve and protect." Conscientious young Deputy Stan Leach takes Eli's motto to heart, maintaining a high standard of personal accountability.When Eli's long-distance boyfriend, Gilbert Nees, telephones from Philadelphia, Eli thinks he intends to further cement their relationship. Unfortunately, Gilbert's news is anything but good. But Eli doesn't have time to wa...

Enjoy J.S. Cook's best mysteries, with a side of lust and romance, in this collection. In But Not for Me, gangster boss Nino Moretti rescues beautiful mob accountant Stanley Zadwadzki from a rival, but the consequences may cost them any chance at a relationship. In A Little Night Murder, insurance investigator Frank Boyle may have escaped from danger once with help from detective Sam Lipinski, but a new investigation is turning up trouble once again. In Come to Dust