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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...
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Bass Reeves was a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. For thirteen years he was sided by deputy marshal Dave Adams, a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass' son, who shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on him and then disappeared. U.S. Marshal Leo E. Bennett had reservations about handing the warrant to Bass Reeves to be served against Bennie, but for Bass there was no reservation. His son had broken the law and was a fugitive....
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In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload...
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Feminist organizing by marginalized populations such as queer, anticapitalist, and non-white women, has pushed for abolition as a response to forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence, but have largely been erased from this political moment. Leading scholar-activists trace historical genealogies, internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective present and future that don't include police or new jails.
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Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.
Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.
Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching...
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The only case they haven't cracked is how to be together. Not on Officer Maggie Kyle's Christmas bingo card: • A homemade bomb in a bus station locker. • A child, the prime suspect in the bombing. • Her partner of ten years abandoning her to solve the case on her own. Max St. James might be the worst cop in the world-or at least in Toronto: • He fell in love with his partner. • He's the reason she never became...
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"An Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author argues that there are really two Americas--a Colony and a Nation"--NoveList.
"America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation -- reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. With the...
10) Wanted
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From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes the first book in the Decker Brother's duet, Wanted, a romantic suspense novel. Small town, big dreams, a nightmare I never expected.I grew up with stars in my eyes and dreams beating a soft staccato in my heart.Career, marriage, then family.I knew what I wanted. How I wanted it.I never expected him.Mason Miller.Charming, arrogant, sadistic.He ruined everything.He ruined me. A hero with a crush, obsession,...
11) Cruel Vendetta
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Don't miss this steamy sister's best friend, small-town romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Morgan James! When my baby sister offers to let her best friend crash at my place until she gets on her feet, I knew it would be a mistake. Having her there each day tests the limits of my control. Because Emery isn't just my sister's friend. The girl I knew is now all grown up, and too tempting to resist. The more time we spend together,...
12) Of Art and Air
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When big-time murder comes to rural Wyoming, can a photographer and a fed survive deadly greed and bind their restless hearts? Photojournalist Carli Tanner thrives anywhere. On assignment deep in the jungles of South America, she's shocked to receive a telegram that her father has died. And when the free-spirit globetrotter immediately jets home to the sprawling hunting preserve, she finds a handsome FBI investigator hungry to track down his killer.Agent...
13) Shot in the Dark
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As an IT expert and hacker extraordinaire, Wren Nelson is no stranger to discovering all sorts of secrets online.He's a warrior…when he's behind his computer, that is.And awkward at best in social situations.His long hours with Blackbridge Security don't really provide many opportunities to go out and meet people.So what is he supposed to do when a wrong delivery-a questionably large box of bedroom toys-ends up in his hands instead of its intended...
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Take time to refresh before you report. Respected by some and feared by others, law enforcement officers face daily pressures and dangers uncommon to other professions. Behind the Badge provides daily, spiritual nourishment that will encourage you professionally and personally. Filled with personal stories, relevant Scriptures, and practical prayers, the short devotions focus on themes such as peace, integrity, strength, family, protection, divine...
15) Indecent Demands
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Being a female modern day Robin Hood came with risks-like being caught. Seth Maxwell was too smart for his own good . . . and I was now in the position where I had to make a deal with the devil himself. Get turned over to the authorities, or agree to be this man's plaything for two weeks. It was an indecent invitation, but one I couldn't resist . . .
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A relentless marshal. A rogue detective. A bargain they may not live long enough to regret.
When Montana deputy marshal Brick Savage asks homicide detective Maureen Mortensen to help him find the person who destroyed her family, she quickly accepts his offer. But as the stakes rise and they get closer to the truth more horrible than they ever expected, can they find the murderer before they become targets?
17) Trusting Drew
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A death-bed promise turns lethal.Lily Smith is kidnapped and held captive to prevent her from participating in a beauty pageant her best friend begged her to enter. But she is no passive little miss to let someone else determine her future. Unfortunately, during her flight to freedom, she hits her head on a rock and can't remember her own name, let alone why she is running through the Colorado mountains barefoot with no coat.Drew Kipling rides to...
18) Cold Deceit
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When forensic anthropologist Zoe Miller stumbles across a murder victim in the blisteringly hostile Sonoran Desert, she triggers a chain of events that puts her in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer.
FBI HRT operator Seth Hopper is on secret assignment near the Mexican border when he suddenly finds himself on a rescue mission. The former Navy SEAL is ordered to protect Zoe, whether she likes it or not, which sets them off on a cross-country journey...
19) Salvation
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LexaThese feelings I have for Ben can't go anywhere. I'm the Angels Halo MC president's daughter. And he is the sheriff. For both our sakes, I have to keep him away.BenLexa calms the rage that I've struggled with my entire life. I couldn't care less who her father is. Nothing matters but making her mine. Because my broken beauty is where my salvation begins.
20) Lock 'N' Load
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Crack CIA analyst Trista Gold is a whiz with the computer, but not so much with people. She hides behind her job, analyzing Top Secret code and making recommendations on national security. She doesn't need a man in her life. But she will, very soon...
CIA K-9 officer Sgt. Matt Connors suspects that beneath Trista's uptight appearance, there's a sexy woman itching to cut loose. But he doesn't dare act on his attraction. He's a loner and always will...
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