Showing results for "Hard Times" in Mystery

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad, he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. But when a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. He has to go undercover in a top-security prison, a world where one wrong move will mean certain death.

A newborn baby's abandoned. A five-year-old boy's abducted. A police officer's dead. And Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss thinks she's having a hard time. Struggling to cope after a vicious attack, desperate not to reveal what's happening under the skin, Bev is fighting for survival. But when you barely trust yourself-who can you rely on?

Johns are dying in Barnstow. It was bound to happen eventually, in a city where legal prostitution is a big part of the tourist industry, but not so many so fast. And of course, if there are dead bodies in Barnstow, Detective Jimmy Delaney isn’t far away.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Pulp Confidential authors Tim Bruckner and Derek Lantin bring listeners the experience of the shadowed corners of crime in the mold of the 1930s pulp magazines. First up is Tim Bruckner's "Scared Pretty": It is the 1930s and a sadistic serial killer is on the loose in Hollywoodland. What follows is writer Derek Lantin's Bangkok thriller "The Missing Beauty": British accountant Jack Walters is in Bangkok for a new job. What he finds instead is an exotic beauty - leading him into a web of kidnapping and murder!

Crime writer Julia Gooden has just completed the most important story of her life - a book about her beloved brother's childhood abduction and how she found his killer after 30 years. But that hasn't taken her focus off her day job - especially with what looks to be a serial killer terrorizing the city. Female runners are being snatched off jogging trails, then slaughtered in abandoned churches. As Julia begins investigating, with help from Detective Raymond Navarro, she realizes just how personal this case has become.