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After his brother's tragic death, Detective Captain Juan Morales decides to take a well-deserved vacation. But as he stands at the Avenue of the Dead, staring at a corpse with its heart ripped out, he realizes this is not the peaceful retreat he had in mind. When Morales meets the beautiful archaeologist Sophia Kanakarides, he is instantly drawn to her.

Lefty is a black hitman working for the Chicago mob. Tasked with eliminating a mark, he kills the man and his wife, only to learn they have an infant daughter. Realizing the child is now alone in the world, Lefty takes her in and decides to raise her as his own. Years later, Lefty embarks on a trip across the country to pick up a freelance contract: A once-in-a-lifetime hit with a two million dollar paycheck. Together with two-ex-colleagues and his daughter, they head to Detroit to take on a sadistic mob boss's son.

The Suicide Game tells the stories of a black hit man who doubles as a university professor, a Catholic priest who longs to be a gangster, a would-be author from Kansas, a gay phone sex operator who claims he’s straight, a group of rich 20-somethings playing a deadly game of life and death, a ruthless Mafia boss, and a sleazy Hollywood movie director. As each of their stories intersect, bodies start piling up, and the action is nonstop in this tense, white-knuckle thriller by Andy Rausch.

Fifteen years ago, the innocence of the small town of Pleasure, Wisconsin, was stolen by a young boy. Now, he is back, leaving a trail of bloody carnage in his wake. The media has dubbed him Strawberries, and the country is mesmerized. Detective Harry Bland is a broken man and can’t find a single clue to catch him. It doesn’t help that his mind won’t focus. His heart just isn’t in it anymore.

After her father's death, Sabrina Brooks - heir to the Brooks Chemical Company - is putting her life back together. When she gains access to top-secret government archives, Sabrina uses her knowledge of chemistry to become a vigilante known as the "Nightcrawler" and wages war against the ruthless drug gangs of New York.

After Howard Greenfield's routine business trip ends with a reckless night of passion, he ends up with a gun and a mission. Meanwhile, the mysterious Irishman, Tommy Morgan, seeks a buyer for a large cache of heroin. It's the early 90s, and IRA bombs continue to threaten the British mainland. When it seems like IRA has forsaken its war on drugs, Tommy takes matters into his own hands, and is plunged into a raging whirlpool of danger and deception.

In 1950, a missing persons report turned into one of the most suspenseful stories of a double homicide ever recorded. It was the perfect crime: no motive, no clues, and no bodies. Against all odds, investigative reporter Gene McLain put his career on the line in pursuit of the killer and later became known as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time".

A continually bullied runt of a youngster, Chas Larkin discovers his chutzpah and decides to take on the London gangs. In the sleazy and violent East End, he is unwittingly assisted by Scotland Yard and MI5, who use the boy to delay an IRA campaign in the city. Together with the mysterious DCI Casey, an enigma amongst the bomb-damaged slums, they stir the pot of fermenting disquiet.

Alan Brodie, a highly decorated former Special Forces operative in the British army, is a trained killer with extensive experience in undercover black ops in the deadly battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other deniable war zones. Retired from the military and now working in the private security sector, Brodie has just agreed to buy a beach front bar/restaurant in the Almeria region of Spain.

Something evil lurks in the woods, on the outskirts of town. It lives in the shadows and strikes without warning, always with the same objective: to mutilate, kill and devour its victim. A monster with a cannibalistic craving for human flesh and a sexual appetite which, seemingly, cannot be satiated. No victim is left alive, and the scattered remains divulge very little to the police pathologist.

Tim Mulrooney is at a crossroads in his life when he meets Lauren: the beautiful wife of a prominent Long Beach physician who has been brutally murdered. In spite of the mounting evidence against Lauren, Tim fights to prove that she is not involved. But when Lauren suddenly goes into hiding, more savage murders occur in the exclusive Long Beach enclave of Belmont Shore.

Captured and imprisoned by the Mannikin Killer, DCI Grace Swan faces death in the fiery blaze that is Tetney Hall as her partner, DS Terry Horton races to the blazing ruin, putting his own life in danger to save her. At the same time a sexual predator stalks the streets of West Garside, putting young girls at risk, whilst a young woman dreads the imminent release from prison of her violent drug dealing ex-husband, knowing that he will try to exact revenge on her.

Evan Brown is a disturbed man. For over a decade, the tragic death of his beloved sister has tormented him. His inability to save her has filled him with grief and guilt and is slowly driving him insane. After a bizarre murder spree begins in Tucson, detectives Dan Felty and MacKenzie Bell begin investigating the case. They scramble to understand the killer’s motives and keep him from killing again. His victims appear to be chosen randomly, and the body count is rising rapidly. As the detectives get closer to the killer, he lashes out, leaving one of them fighting for his life.

Grace now faces a new threat: a ruthless serial killer who also has Grace in his sights. Meanwhile, having fled to Spain, Chloe now finds herself enmeshed in the clutches of a vicious drug dealing gang, unable to find an escape before she is dragged further into their murderous schemes.