Seventeen years after an unidentified killer murdered three women in Los Angeles, detective Alex Delillo, whose own father had been the prime suspect, reopens the case as a means of solving the murder of the brother she never knew. Reprint.
In Scott Frost's outstanding third novel for Headline, Lieutenant Alex Delillo is embroiled in the sinister disappearance of an ex-LAPD officer last seen in war-ravaged Iraq.Cathy Salem is desperate for Lieutenant Alex Delillo's help. Her husband, Jack, an ex-LAPD officer now working for a private security firm, has officially been listed as missing after he failed to return home from an eleven-month placement in Iraq. Cathy knows that he is in hiding in the States but it is all too apparent that he is too scared to come home. Her only clue to his whereabouts is a package sent by him to her, posted in Trona in Death Valley, with a letter inside it addressed to Alex. Alex barely remembers Jack Salem. They met once years ago and have never spoken since. Aware of Cathy's distress but unable to see how she can help, Alex nevertheless agrees to look into Jack's disappearance. It is only when Cathy herself vanishes and Alex is nearly run off the road whilst following a lead as to Jack's whereabouts, that she realises that this goes far beyond a simple missing persons case...
A riveting thriller from the screenwriter of Twin Peaks and The X-Files. LAPD homicide detective and single mother Alex Delillo knows the risks of the job. But when a series of explosions is detonated by a serial bomber and Alex’s teenage daughter is kidnapped, she discovers the catastrophic stakes as well. The bomber’s next plan: to unleash his incendiary powers on live TV. No one can stop him—because no one can find him. What he’s igniting in Alex is more than a contest of wills and a race against time. It’s white-hot rage. And a mother’s revenge.
Lieutenant Alex Delillo must face a dangerous serial killer in Scott Frost's fourth book for Headline. It starts with a body found lying in the centre of the Rose Bowl’s dark field, surrounded by thousands of empty seats. For Lieutenant Alex Delillo, it’s the beginning of a nightmare. The sixteen-year-old girl is found wrapped in a sleeping bag and as Delillo opens it she discovers that the body is frozen solid. The mystery deepens further when her partner, Harrison, recognises her as the daughter of a prominent lawyer who disappeared three years before. A search of the stadium reveals the only other clue – a copy of an etching by the nineteenth century artist Francisco Goya. It’s a picture of a dead woman in the exact same pose as the frozen young girl. The girl’s death is swiftly followed by others. All of the victims are prominent in the community and each body is posed as a copy of a Goya painting. For Delillo and Harrison, one thing is clear – their killer is treading in the footsteps of a great artist who despised the Establishment and now it seems no-one in power is safe. Not even their boss, Chief Chavez...
Scott Frost is back with another explosive crime novel featuring Alex Delillo. As the heat rises, LA begins to experience a series of power blackouts. As the situation worsens, LAPD is put on tactical alert in preparation for nightfall. With every available cop on the streets, Lt. Alex Delillo and her partner, Harrison, are holding the fort at headquarters, waiting for the first homicide call. But when that call comes in, the voice on the other end isn’t a victim pleading for help. It’s a voice talking in riddles, pointing to a murder that is about to be committed once night falls. Delillo and Harrison pinpoint the call to an office in a brokerage firm in the building across the street. But as they arrive, only a ringing phone awaits them. It’s the caller again, warning them that it’s almost dark, and they don’t have much time to stop what is about to happen to the office’s occupant. Now the killer has Delillo’s attention and his plan is in motion. Dark is coming and it doesn’t wait for anyone. Can Delillo find the killer before it’s too late?
Quantum computers are the next big thing. A router capable of allowing those computers to talk to each other, securely and near instantaneously, will be worth billions of dollars. As the first "Quantum Router" nears completion, the lead inventor is murdered. When the surviving creator doesn't believe the story of his 'suicide', she hires Trace Conner, a master Ninjutsu instructor, for protection. The simple bodyguard job quickly evolves into non-stop action as kidnapping, murder, and high-tech treachery chases them around the world after the enormous prize.
Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody." -- J.A. Konrath, Origin The thrilling conclusion to the ZAPHEADS post-apocalyptic series. Five months after a doomsday solar event, Mackie Dailey has settled in with a group of survivors at a remote college campus. Mackie is haunted by his former life as a hired gun for ruthless drug lord Lucas Krider, but even the apocalypse offers no escape from the past. Krider has established his own camp and preys on Mackie’s addiction and rage. But their personal battle is buried in a larger war with the mutant Zapheads who threaten the extinction of the human race. Then a mysterious infant turns their world upside down. Can Mackie save his friends and help them build a better future, or will he destroy them all in his quest for revenge? Look for the other post-apocalyptic series in the ZAPHEADS universe, AFTER and NEXT. ------------------- "Always surprises and always entertains." - Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero "One of the most thrilling writers working today." - Blake Crouch, Wayward Pines keywords: dystopian, science fiction, horror thriller, mutants, crime, action adventure, J.L. Bourne, Justin Cronin, Brian Keene, Walking Dead, zombies, post-apocalyptic survival horror, Doomsday fiction, Guillermo del Toro, fallout, David Wellington, technothriller, military, science fiction, T.W. Piperbrook, Bobby Adair, Hugh Howey, D.A. Wearmouth, A.G. Riddle, Matthew Mather, Nicholas Sansbury, Thomas Abrahams
On a whim, Scott Allen Frost went for a dirt bike ride on a beautiful afternoon. In a moment that changed his life, his motorcycle went off a wall leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Terrified, Scott had a choice: Give up on life, or make it better than ever before. Motivated by a series of miracles that followed a cryptic commandment heard in the dark of his hospital room, Scott chose to live life in the face of tremendous adversity. This is the story of Scott s journey from lying helpless in a ditch after his accident to discovering the power of faith and love as he persevered through grueling physical rehabilitation. You will be moved and inspired by the lessons Scott learned from his new life in a wheelchair, and you ll be left pondering the power that resides in and around all of us.
Crocodiles and Alligators are the subjects of one African American, super scholar, and business icon Vicky Slate's life studies. Vicky leads an all female PHD team of scientists into an uncharted African Jungle, filled with crocodiles, to find proof of a giant crocodile's existence that will seal their entry into the elite field of professorships. The teams survival depends on their success. They are faced with unending challenges from minute to minute as they thread their way through the maze of deadly encounters of a long past world of nature. Vicky must be inventive and ingenious again to rescue the team and find the evidence that they need. Vicky must succeed while learning about an undiscovered and almost super human, family of Africans known as the Umgalama tribe. Can the team survive? Will they find the crocodile evidence they are looking for? Will they return at all from their encounter with the crocodiles from No Come Back Valley?
Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective. Research plays a key role in identifying health disparity trends and evaluating interventions to improve the health and well-being of the populations at the individual, local, national, and global levels. Conducting ethically sound research is imperative in these contexts. This book (a) uses case studies to offer examples of current research ethical dilemmas and (b) considers regulatory and cultural frameworks in a number of country contexts that highlight diverse methods of identifying and managing these ethical dilemmas. Chapters cover different types (groups) of participants, issues in research, and ways of doing research; then each chapter looks at least three exemplar case studies with at least two analytical commentaries. Case studies include health and social care research, and originate from countries such as Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the U.S. and U.K. The different viewpoints showcased will allow for dialogue to ensue about the ways in which populations and topics in research need to be conceptualized. Global Research Ethics is suitable for all undergraduates and postgraduates on research methods courses in the social and health sciences. It provides academic researchers, students, and community partners with guidelines to reflect on as they develop their own research studies.
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HardScape and StoneDust, the first Ben Abbott novels, established Ben as one of the most engaging and canny investigators to have appeared in a long time. Britain’s Literary Review terms the Abbotts “Smooth, sardonic, impeccably argued, immaculately written” while author Lawrence Block says: “Frostline is the best book in a series that started strong and keeps getting better.” When Newbury’s newest resident, ex-diplomat Harry King, the close confidant of Kissinger and reputed to have been heavily involved in the Vietnam War, summons real estate agent Ben Abbott to his new McMansion, Ben dreams of big dollar signs. The commission from selling the Fox Trot estate would be huge. But King doesn’t want Ben’s selling expertise, he wants him to act as a mediator between him and his troublesome neighbour, surly Vietnam vet Ronnie Butler. A strip of Butler’s land cuts straight into King’s estate like a knife, acting as a red flag for two neighbors who are as ornery and quarrelsome as a pair of rival bulls. In fact, the testoserone is flowing heavier than the waters in the stream King is damming up for a picturesque lake. Before Ben can mediate, an explosion rocks a lavish party on the Fox Trot lawn. The blast blows up the dam—and Butler’s ex-con son, Dickie, along with it. Butler, an army-trained sapper, is arrested for setting the dynamite. Ben, whose childhood friend Dickie had tried his patience and loyalty many times before, refuses to accept Butler’s guilt. Besides, too many things don’t add up. Could it be the work of terrorists? Of one of the many groups holding a grudge against King? Or just someone with his own axe to grind? With the Feds on the scene, caught in state and locallaw enforcement jockeying, Ben negotiates an unpopular course through the usual minefield of his various loyalties to friends, family and lovers, of whom there are plenty....
We need to talk," said a hushed voice on the other end of Patrick Brophy's phone. With that call, Patrick Brophy plunges unknowingly headfirst into a conspiracy to kill his friend Senator Glenn Hayes. In Washington where friends and enemies are one in the same, Patrick Brophy doesn't know who to trust and time is running out. With the help of a computer hacker, Patrick Brophy stalks his prey electronically, chasing them from Ireland to Washington and finally to Chicago where the trail turns deadly. With only his reporter's intuition to rely on, Patrick Brophy must solve this case before he becomes the next victim. AUTHOR BIO: Scott Connors is a musician, writer, ex-altar boy from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. This is his first novel.
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