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Mommy's Boy had not killed for five years... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Mommy's Boy had not killed for five years. Detective Alvarez of the 43rd in the Bronx had lined up his suspects, but each of them had a more or less credible alibi and he was nowhere close to solving the case. Then the killings had stopped and the case went cold... Then, five years later, he killed again. And this time the chief wants him caught and dealt with-for good. So he calls in Stone and Dehan. This is one cold case which is hot and live. Because the clock is ticking and time is running out for the next girl who is going to be butchered. But as they start to review Alvarez' suspects, in particular Nelson Vargas of the Chupacabras gang, and the charismatic leader of the Church of Final Days, James Campbell, they begin to realize that Alvarez had overlooked one crucial possibility. A possibility that was going to cost lives... And then Dehan made a discovery. A discovery that would change everything, forever...

Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence...or is it? USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series The Cold Cases team at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx tend to focus on homicides. But now, Detective John Stone, head of the team, is curious about a two year-old rape case. A rape case where Sadie Byrne got HIV, turned out to be a rapid progressor and died of AIDS within a year. She never named her attacker. In New York law that did not constitute homicide. What did constitute homicide was what happened to Chuck Inglewood, when somebody slipped into his house and, with a razor sharp blade, cut through the veins and the arteries in his underarms and his inner thighs, and left him to bleed to death. Why he was murdered was a mystery nobody could solve. Why he didn't fight back was a deeper mystery. Nothing connected the two cases, except for the simple fact that Chuck Inglewood was Sadie Byrne's uncle. A coincidence? Detectives Stone and Dehan think not, but not even they are prepared for the dark web of deceit, betrayal and murder they were about to unravel...

A woman shot, and a mummified corpse. What do these things have in common? USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series The neighbor called it in because the house next door, normally empty and silent, at two AM was a blaze of light, with people shouting and car doors slamming, like gunshots in the night. Until he heard two reports that echoed down the dark, silent street and spoke of death, two reports that were not slamming doors, but gunshots. That was when he called it in. What the cops found at the scene was a house with the doors open and all the lights on, and the body of April Olsen lying on the floor of the cellar with two gunshot wounds in her chest. But the weird thing was what they found beside her: a hole in the concrete, six foot long and three foot wide, and inside it the mummified body of a man who'd died thirty-five years earlier, shot twice in the chest with the same gun that had just killed April Olsen. Was it the controversial Professor Allen Bernstein? Or was it somebody Bernstein had killed before he fled to Mexico? Either way, it was now a cold case. A case for Stone and Dehan.

A passion that led to hot-blooded murder... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series All married couples should have interests outside the marriage. It's a truism, a maxim, a golden rule. It's also a recipe for disaster, if that interest turns to passion, not for what your doing, but who you're doing it with. Detective John Stone had a marriage made in heaven. His wife was young, beautiful and smart, and she was his partner in the Cold Cases unit at the 43rd. They were tight, close, and practically telepathic. At least, that was what he'd always thought - until she got an interest outside their marriage, and that interest became a passion. It was a passion for a youth club, a passion to help young kids escape the gangs and the crime of the Bronx. It was a passion that was keeping her away from home late into the night, week after week - a passion she shared with Sergeant Tony Sanchez of the 45th. A passion that had a hot coal burning in John Stone's belly, as he dined alone at home for the third month in a row. A passion that led to hot-blooded murder, with Dehan set squarely in the frame.

...do you want to play a game? USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series There are a lot of things you really don't want to find when you're a homicide detective in the Bronx. High on the list is a new serial killer. Serial killers are real bad news because they kill without motive, so they are hard to trace and they can take years to catch. But even worse than a new serial killer, is a new kind of serial killer: one who murders with a motive, but a motive so unfathomable nobody can understand it; a motive that makes his choice of victims incomprehensible and unpredictable, a motive that leads to each victim being killed in a particularly cruel and unusual way. One thing - and one thing only - connects each of these awful crimes, and that's that each victim is made to die slowly, reflecting on the way they have lived, listening to some piece of ancient, sacred music. When the case finally reaches Detectives Stone and Dehan at the 43rd it is already six years old, and no closer to being solved than it was when the first victim died. To Stone it seems there is a sinister and intelligent hand at work - the hand of a fallen angel.

What do you do when the only skill you ever learned was how to kill, when you're among the best of the best, but they tell you you can't do that anymore? What do you do when they send you home from Afghanistan and tell you to get a job, like everybody else? But you're not like everybody else. After eight years as a trooper in the SAS, fighting the secret, untold wars in the deserts and the jungles of the world, Harry Bauer has been kicked out for attempting to assassinate Mohammed Ben Amini, the Butcher of Al-Landy. He's been sent home, to New York, where he was raised an orphan 'til he was old enough to split and join the special forces. Now he's back, and unemployed; until Russian Mafia boss Peter Rusanov offers him a job wiping out the Albanian Mafia. It's a job he figures could make him rich, until Colonel Jane Harris shows up, takes him for a ride to Pleasantville, and tells him about Cobra... Then all hell breaks loose.

When your only training is as a first class killer, it can be hard to find a job on Main Street. Unless you work for Cobra, the secret agency that takes out the worst of the world's trash. So when Harry Bauer left the Regiment, the toughest special ops outfit on the planet, Cobra offered him a job, taking out the trash. Bauer had grown up fighting for survival on the streets of the Bronx. He knew everything there was to know about hard reality, and he didn't buy into fantasies or conspiracy theories. Until, that is, one came knocking on his door... There was nothing unreal about the job: a simple hit at Manhattan's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on two of China's highest ranking biochemists, and two of the world's most evil men. But when Cobra High Command asks Bauer to find out why Zhao Li and Yang Dizhou are in New York in the first place, things turn dark. In a mission that will take him from New York to Casablanca, Algeria and Bangkok, Bauer will realize the hard way that sometimes conspiracy theories are real...

One thing Harry Bauer knew for certain: He was not a man who could ever fall in love and make a home. Until it happened. And then he knew something else. He had to give up his job as an assassin for Cobra. He could not lie to that woman, he could not bring danger into her life. But then a hit squad came after him, and Cobra made him an offer he could not refuse. One last job, the Einstaat Brief, and they would keep her safe. One last job: A job that would take him to Andorra, high in the Pyrenees, to a secret conference of 130 of the world's most powerful men and women, cloistered in a luxury hotel to discuss the future of the world. Among them, Stephen Plant, Andrew Ashkenazi and William Hughes; IT billionaires, believers in 'strong Ai'. Each one of them must die. Because their plans for humanity cannot be allowed to succeed. There was just one problem. It had to be done then, right then, with no planning and no intel. And only Harry Bauer could do that...

He's a dinosaur...she's got a bad attitude. The Captain wants them gone, so she gives them the Cold Cases files. The one's nobody gives a damn about... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file - the cases nobody gives a damn about. She has no idea just how hot a cold case can get. Ten years back Nelson Hernandez and his four cousins were playing poker in a dive at Hunts Point. Somebody came in, blew them away and beheaded and castrated Nelson, leaving his head and his balls on the table. There was no shortage of suspects, the Jersey Mob, the Triads from Manhattan, or the 43rds own bent cop, Mick Harragan. But nobody was ever charged, and the night of the murder Mick Harragan went missing with Nelson's wife, Maria. Now Stone and Dehan plan to find him - whatever the consequences...

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SMIPLE KILL... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series It was a simple kill.It should have been a simple killJan van Hoek was a mercenary and a very bad man. He had organized the massacre of three villages in the Republic of Cabinda-Itumba, on the west coast of Africa, and had received a medal from President Cosmo Manuel for his bravery in participating personally in the massacres. Over three-thousand people had died, men, women, children. Now he was in New York.For Harry Bauer it was a simple kill. He had the intel. He was home, alone. Turn up, execute the job, go home leaving the world a slightly better place.But somebody hadn't done their homework, and when Harry turned up, Jan was with a woman, a woman who picked up her purse and walked away, having seen Harry's face; a woman who turned out to be Jan's daughter, who turned out to work for Afro-American Petrochemicals in New York.A woman who was as beautiful as she was dangerous.Maybe Harry should have remembered from the start, there is no such thing as a simple kill...

GET READY FOR THE CURTAIN CALL... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Detective John Stone is taking early retirement. He has informed the chief, Inspector John Newman; and his partner and wife, Carmen Dehan, is retiring with him. She is pregnant and both Stone and Dehan want a safe, secure environment for their future child. Their sights are set on New England, where Stone will write his memoirs. So the last thing either of them expects is a curtain call from one of Stone's old flames. Yet that is exactly what happens when actress Jane Morley, wife of Dan Santos, known collectively as America's Sweethearts, shows up and asks Stone to investigate a very particular cold case - the brutal murder of her friend and personal assistant, Kate Hagan ten years earlier. At the time Stone had refused to investigate because he had recently been personally involved with the actress. Now he can't refuse, but as the case unfolds and its dark shadows threaten to engulf his marriage and his future family, he will wish fervently that he could. But he know beyond doubt that all he can do is see it through to the bitter, twisted end.

THAT SUITS HARRY JUST FINE...A ROGUE KILLER IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series Harry Bauer was a professional killer. After eight years in the SAS he was the best in the business. That business was Cobra, a shadow agency that took out the trash that was beyond the reach of the law, those guilty of crimes against humanity. Now Harry has resigned. He purpose is to find peace.But when his former head of operation, Colonel Jane Harris, is gunned down and left fighting for her life under heavy guard at the hospital, Harry know he has one more shipment on trash to take out. His former boss, Brigadier 'Buddy' Byrd tells him to stay out of it - he also tells him their mark had been Russian Mafia selling next generation chemical weapons through Russian contacts at the United Nations.The Brigadier can't protect him, Cobra cannot protect him. If Harry goes after them he will do so as a rogue killer.That suits Harry just fine. A rogue killer is exactly what he is.

Two crime scenes. Two multiple murders. USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Two multiple murders that had too much in common to be mere coincidence. Cherise Brown, her small daughter Shevron, her husband Earl. The only survivor, eight year-old Leroy who witnessed the whole thing. His story, that his father broke his sister's neck, his mother stabbed his father in the back and his dad, before dying, in a kind of berserker rage, took the knife and killed his mother. Four years later Leroy Brown is murdered along with his adoptive sister, Lea. He is stabbed in the back, while his sister's throat is cut, in a tool shed in the back yard of his adoptive family. The only survivor, his adoptive brother, Marcus Mitchell, now trapped in a catatonic depression, unable to move or speak, unable to tell anybody his story. When the mysterious Sonia Laplant brings new evidence, and Stone and Dehan begin to investigate, they soon discover that not only are the two murders intimately linked, they are impossible to explain. Because the killer simply could not have been there...

It should have been an open and shut case... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series At forty-something, Bob Walklet was about to make a fortune with his IT company. But he'd made the mistake of falling in love with his assistant, twenty-something Sorka Williams. They were crazy about each other, and Bob had told his wife, Sheila - a thirty-something, ex-cop insurance consultant.He wanted a divorce. And there was a prenup'.When he was found in his bedroom, stabbed in the heart, her DNA was literally all over him, her prints were on the knife and a neighbor had seen her hurrying from the house at the time of death. Not only that, his death saved her from the prenup', and she cleaned up on the insurance.Open and shut.Except for the small matter that over two hundred guests, including her friend the Boston Police Commissioner, had all seen her deliver a speech at a conference two hundred miles away, right at the time Bob was killed.So the question Detectives Stone and Dehan are asking is, how can a killer be in two places at the same time?

Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file - the cases nobody gives a damn about.She has no idea just how hot a cold case can get.Ten years back Nelson Hernandez and his four cousins were playing poker in a dive at Hunts Point. Somebody came in, blew them away and beheaded and castrated Nelson, leaving his head and his balls on the table. There was no shortage of suspects, the Jersey Mob, the Triads from Manhattan, or the 43rds own bent cop, Mick Harragan. But nobody was ever charged, and the night of the murder Mick Harragan went missing with Nelson's wife, Maria.Now Stone and Dehan plan to find him - whatever the consequences...