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Join Sergeant Frank Hardy and Mette Hardy in three more gripping mysteries set in late-19th-century New Zealand: Dead Shot, Lying Under Water, and Come to Grief.

Hamburg 1947: It is the year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case. In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of "wolf children" - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and are now united in gangs. When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure....

1991: A plan to destabilise Hong Kong is emerging; the key players are being put into place, the wheels are in motion and innocent people will die. Frank Bowen is a Londoner on holiday in tropical Thailand. Half drunk and strapped for cash, he’s the perfect bait for a political plot that will leave him running for his life, with nowhere to turn.

It's 1940 - France has fallen, and Britain stands alone against the might of the German war machine; a fierce battle for supremacy of the air rages in the skies as the Battle of Britain hits full stride.

Nolan was still alive; his wounds healed and his money was safe - all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan’s birthday, and he was sitting happy. Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer; Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead, and the money was gone. Caught up in the sizzling crossfire of double-dealing, danger, and death, Nolan was up against the “Family” again.

A year ago today, my father died. That day, I nearly lost everything. But I'm alive and well in Sicily. It's 1947. My only desire is to continue my father's legacy by running his businesses. I've stayed away from the mob's influence. My late father, did as well. Now, one hitman's obsession to take me out has brought it to my doorsteps.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says it was an accident. The victim's wife says it was murder. Frank Adams, retiree from the NTSB, now independent aviation accident investigator, has been hired to find out. Mounting evidence and an additional murder of a former Amertec employee convinces Adams that there was indeed foul play.

The time is the immediate future, and the Caliphate is the enemy in the third Frank Adversego Thriller. Mullah Muhammed Foobar, the mysterious leader of a post-ISIS terrorist organization, has won control of much of the Middle East. Now he threatens to launch a horrific attack that will bring the United States and Europe to their knees. But how? The CIA turns to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the answer. In a race against time, Frank must overcome personal - as well as cyber trials - to save the Western world from destruction. 

Charles Hunter, a former United States Re-Con Marine working as an independent contractor with an international security outfit, reluctantly accepts an assignment to assist in the rescue of a widow and her eight-year-old daughter who were being held hostage by a gang of criminals in Venezuela. His reluctance had nothing to do with the nature of the job, he liked rescues, they made him feel heroic. It was returning to Venezuela, the circumstances of his leaving, and the pain he had caused the people he had left behind that worried him.

Gruppeninspektor Frank Karl wird zu einem Tatort in der Wiener Innenstadt bestellt. Der Kieberer wird jedoch unerwartet von dem Fall abgezogen, denn seinen Vorgesetzten quälen andere Sorgen: Seine Tochter liest, von ihrer Gymnasiallehrerin angeregt, obszöne Texte, die sich schnell als Zitate aus der Weltliteratur herausstellen. Frank Karl klappert die Wohnungen der empörten Eltern ab. Dabei begegnet er nicht nur einzigartigen Exemplaren der Wiener Gesellschaft, sondern stolpert auch ins Bett der Lehrerin—und über die Leiche eines prominenten Anwalts.

Herald Clairvaux, a Professor of Theatre, bears witness to a startling event: a pentagram (a blazing star) appears before him conveying an obscure message. He tries to link the vision to the ill health of his Great Uncle Bernie, an elderly Jesuit Priest, who is Herald’s closest living relative. Several other visions appear. Desperate, he recruits the help of two close associates to make sense of these mysterious events.