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"Doc" Turner was one of the least likely heroes that appeared in the pulp magazine stories. He was a little old pharmacist who ran a drug store in the slums of New York, where just about everyone came to him when they had problems. Oh, and what problems they had! Werewolves and vampires mixed in with extortionists and gangsters. And solve their problems he did, with the aid of his strapping red-headed assistant, mechanic Jack Ransom, and his young stock boy Abe Ginsberg.

In the early 1960s, Hallowell, Maine was a sleepy small city on the Kennebec River. Dip Barrett runs a beer store where he socialized with local criminals and took bets for horse racing tracks around the state. Law enforcement agencies turn a criminal investigation into a hunt for a secret item. Phil, a local hoodlum, establishes unusual relationships. Forbidden and secret romances are revealed. Martha, a liberated seeker of sexual enjoyment, is harassed. People mysteriously rise from the dead.

Was ist real? Jorina Rewerts möchte sich ihren Lebenstraum erfüllen, doch beim Besuch im Kinderwunschzentrum geschieht das Unfassbare. Gleichzeitig wird auf einem Containerplatz in Aurich die Leiche der jungen Bente Bleeker gefunden. Die Spuren weisen auf eine Überdosis K.-o.-Tropfen als Todesursache hin und der Täter scheint jemand zu sein, der in der Clubszene Ostfrieslands unterwegs ist, um junge Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Dirks und Breithammer müssen ihn finden, bevor es weitere Opfer gibt. Oder ist der Täter jemand, der Bente näher kannte und etwas ganz anderes im Sinn hatte? Während ein Strudel albtraumhafter Ereignisse Jorina nach unten reißt, wird der Fall um Bente immer rätselhafter und auch die Kommissare beginnen an der Wirklichkeit zu zweifeln.

Serial Killer Max Baxter escapes from federal prison and has struck again. Three young women have gone missing from malls across the Midwest and are feared dead. But Max wants to play. He has challenged the best of the best, modern day United States Marshal Jake Mathews, to find and kill him within 48 hours or the girls die a horrible death. Deputy Mathews is plunged into a nightmare of treachery, violence and non-stop action until one of them is dead. This is the second book in the Jake Mathews series.

After a beautiful woman with ties to a local matchmaking service falls to her death on Valentine's Day, Franklin County demands answers. So when Captain Joe Davenport assigns the investigation to Detective Skylar Reid and Harvey Baker, it’s only a matter of time before trouble ensues. And when Harvey discovers the unscrupulous Callum Jackson may be behind it, nothing will stop him until he proves it, even if his witch hunt could cost him his marriage, his sanity, and his badge.