Cat Connor

Private Investigator and reformed spy Ronnie Tracey lands in a tricky spot when she detains a woman snooping around her friend Emily's house-only to learn her Nana was hired by the same woman, Kerrin Costa, to find a missing cousin. But Costa's no ordinary client; she works for SIDE, Argentina's Intelligence Agency. Fearing Costa has sinister plans for Emily, Ronnie sends a partner to watch over her at the bookshop. When Ronnie arrives, Jenn is unconscious, and Emily is gone-abducted by two men. As the investigation deepens, secrets from Emily's forgotten past emerge, and the situation spirals into a tangled web of foreign agents and dangerous truths. In a world of shifting lies and buried truths, Ronnie is racing against time to save her friend, Emily. But Emily doesn't even know the nightmare she's caught in-or why they're all after her.

A bombshell in the newspaper causes Veronica Tracey to scramble for a plan to deal with potential fallout. Then out of the blue, she steps into a minefield created by her Nana and her on-again off-again boyfriend Ben Reynolds. The blast radius touches all aspects of her life permanently changing the trajectory.Before Ronnie can fully process that stunner she gets word from Genesis that Ben is missing while working an intelligence gig. Finding Ben proves challenging even with her special skill set. With lies and half-truths mounting up, an illegal arms deal, incoming bad actors, and surprising revelations, life seemingly spins out of control.Concurrently, Crockett grapples with a request to shield an old friend from the CIA and FBI, presenting both a challenge and an unforeseen advantage for the team.The convergence of all factors sets fires that the team aren't sure they can extinguish as they hurtle ever closer to the brink of world war.

Cachebyte is a cache of 23 short stories from the Ellie Conway FBI-Byte Series. The stories start with when Ellie met Mac in 'Quad Espresso' and move through the series adding background and side stories. Once upon a time there were two collections of shorts (Torrent and Array), those stories were brought together under one title and a couple of extra that were floating around were added to round out Cachebyte. Cachebyte is best enjoyed by fans and readers of the Ellie Conway FBI-Byte Series. The stories were intended to be read along with the series therefore it is assumed that readers already know these characters and want to find out more.

Lost Highway: It's a Halloween dance, how bad can it be?This story comes after Exacerbyte and before Flashbyte. Dead Flowers: A clean up guy, an assassin, and a senator's wife.We let SSA Sam Jackson take the wheel and this is the result: Come a Little Bit Closer: Mike Davenport disappears from Dulles Airport.This story kicks off about a month after Databyte ends. Heard it Through the Grapevine: A lost asset and a jail break.This is when Agent Argo joined Delta A, this story follows Metabyte. Undivided: D&D shouldn't be fatal.Undivided comes a little while after Metabyte and six or so months before Qubyte. Telephone Line: The past revisits Delta A with horrible consequences.This story comes after Cryptobyte and before Vaporbyte.

On SAC Ellie Iverson's plate: birthday prep for her twins; an attempted abduction; pressure from her husband to retire from the FBI; a missing accountant, and an American company with a nefarious off-shore agenda that could devastate the world. Within hours of trying to contact a whistle-blower, she discovers a murdered British scientist and is in the crosshairs of an assassin. A confidential informant from the scientific community reaches out and twists the emerging situation in a worrisome way. Ellie hauls together a partial plan but in a world littered with intrigue, contract killers, in-fighting intelligence agencies, and suspect connections, can they work together to prevent catastrophe?

Truck hijackings, missing families, stolen chemicals, distinctive photographs, cryptic text messages, an unimaginable hobby, and a friend with a curious dilemma. Life is never straightforward for FBI Special Agent Ellie Iverson and the Delta teams. Juggling twin toddlers and a new position as Special Agent in Charge of Delta, Ellie answers a request for help from a Missouri police officer which calls into play her extraordinary skill set and arrant determination to find the truth and protect the vulnerable.

Flu season is in full swing, surrounded by germs and illness, SSA Ellie Iverson reacts like any new mom, with hand sanitizer at the ready and a desire to keep away from anti-vaxers. Her newly hatched germaphobia escalates when Delta A is asked to investigate animal rights activists and a missing laboratory monkey. An incident in Lexington, Virginia leaves the Director of the FBI fighting for her life. A sudden violent death of a colleague in Washington, the discovery of a spate of deaths linked to the Intelligence Community, herald the arrival of an old friend from the UK with news of a potential global disaster. With biker gangs, drugs, grudges, and a plethora of 'accidental' deaths in the mix, this is no ordinary flu season.

Her niece is abducted and her in-laws disappear. Long-deceased agents turn up in garages across the city - dead again. No wonder SSA Ellie Iverson's internal alert goes off the scale. Enigmatic clues and codes from a missing colleague and brother-in-law about the seepage of sensitive FBI data, lead to the sudden death of a team member and leave Delta A spinning. Two new agents, with special talents akin to Ellie's, join the team and ramp her alarm sensors even higher. Her niece's social media life offers clues to a horrifying network and its activities. Working under a directive from the Director of the FBI and with the Wayward Son Protocol, Ellie and Delta A work to disentangle leads from the darknet, stem the flow of death, and bring her family home. Ninth in the -byte series, Cat Connor delivers another mind-bending thriller.

Another day, another death, might not be unusual in FBI Agent Ellie Conway's world but a baffling series of naked, bloodless, blondes in pristine showers makes her wonder if she is dealing with a genuine vampire. Investigating the deaths of these women, Ellie is surprised when clairsentience is added to her remarkable armory of psycho-prophetic talents. Secrets emerge as she races to find a killer with a particular and gruesome agenda. Mounting bodies, escalating pressure, a sinister connection between the art world, the Darknet and the FBI, an impending wedding, peculiar liaisons, and a personal shock challenge Ellie and the Delta A team.

Washington D.C. is burning, blowing up before SSA Ellie Conway's eyes. More than ever she needs her controversial connections to prevent more terror attacks and horrifying deaths. Surveillance footage mysteriously wiped away, explosions rocking the city, people blown apart, an insider forging Ellie's signature to release suspects, and her helicopter taken down, all challenge Delta A to find the link between the terror attacks, international trade in missing girls, coded price lists and a rogue Interpol agent. Supported by the new man in her life, Ellie puts the pieces of the puzzle in place, striving to defy time limits which will end a girl's life.

When information becomes misinformation, how much of what you see should you believe? Wanted for a murder she didn't commit and on the run from the FBI and Metro, Special Agent Ellie Conway has to protect an actor with close ties to Delta A from a serious threat as well as trying to clear her name. Unwittingly, whilst staying off the grid, Ellie stumbles upon a syndicate which has alarming connections to her daughter's death - and which abducts her team, with the intent of killing them, and Ellie.

How unlucky can the Bleich family be? Four out of five murdered on the same day ... the obvious link being the Heathcote Diamonds, reputed to be cursed. SSA Ellie Conway is not having a great time either: she is shot when all she wanted was a good cup of coffee. NCIS Director Doyle's sister is abducted by an international hitman who proves to have intriguing connections. The appearance of Mac's doppelganger is a profound shock and Mac's ghost resurrects Elllie's smothered rage. CIA Officer Jonathan Tierney surfaces too often for peace of mind and then her daughter, Carla, raises the teenage stakes causing Ellie's psycho-prophetic alarms to go into overdrive. When FBI Director O'Hare, NCIS Director Doyle and NCIS Agent Noel Gerrard go missing at the same time, Ellie recognizes there are malign and subversive forces behind these 'random' events.

As if a terrifying nightmare wasn't bad enough, being woken from it with the news that she'd been strangled in a parking lot didn't make for a great start to the day for FBI Agent Ellie Conway. Extraordinary and bizarre packages delivered to her home, a sniper aiming for her - twice in one day - and a vehicle that looks like Swiss cheese, tends to make a girl lose her sense of humour. More mistaken-identity deaths, bank robberies, a hospital murderer, an unexpected cold case, and a rendition to a black site, conspire to demand more than the usual amount of kickass determination required of SSA Conway. Ghosts from the past, forcing themselves into her present life, with vengeance on their minds, threaten Conway and the lives of others, reminding her of the fragility of memory.

In Cat Connor's pulse-pounding crime thriller "Terrorbyte," Supervisory Special Agent Ellie Conway is forced to team up with the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency, in a high-stakes mission. As the investigation unfolds, Ellie and her unlikely partner must navigate through a web of deception and danger, racing against time to find truth behind a series of deaths. What is the connection between a series of murders, bourbon, chlorine, gold ribbon, the Pentagon and the Military, Eastern European terrorists and a book of poetry?Confronted with outlandish connections and the realization that the issues are global, Conway is forced to seek help from the highest level to close borders, airports, train stations and military bases.

In Cat Connor's enthralling crime thriller "Exacerbyte," Agent Ellie Conway and Delta A are thrust into a harrowing mission to track down a notorious child trafficker known only as Hawk, leading them on a dangerous cross-border pursuit to bring him to justice before more innocent lives are ruined. With time running out, the team must rely on their skills and instincts to outwit a cunning criminal. FBI Agent SSA Ellie Conway has decided it is time to stop Hawk, not only to prevent the abduction of vulnerable children but to avenge the murder of an FBI agent. As Conway and Delta A team prepare to pursue Hawk in Russia, he moves to New Zealand to widen his net. A terrible and sinister reality emerges, demanding the might of the Military, CIA, NCIS and the Russian FSB. Exploiting her remarkable intuition, together with help from unlikely sources, Conway realizes she must heed the augury 'it is all about the music.'

Veronica Tracey, the sharp-witted former spy turned PI, is enlisted by an Australian intelligence officer to assist in the search for a vanished cryptographer in Cat Connor's "Lure the Lie," leading to a high-stakes pursuit full of twists and turns. "The home where our woman was spotted happens to be the same one that houses my Nana and the Cronies of Doom.""The Cronies of what?""Doom. The Cronies of Doom. Nana's little circle of friends. Think Nancy Drew and her friends, but older than dirt."I wasn't sure whether to smile or cringe. MacKinnon did say Ronnie was a colourful character."Is that going to be a problem?"Ronnie nodded while saying, "No, not at all. How could a ninety-four-year-old woman be any trouble?""The only lead so far is the one involving your Nana?""Correct." Australian intelligence officer, Dave Crocker, is tasked with finding a missing cryptographer in New Zealand. His boss suggested he work with a local private investigator, Veronica Tracey. Peeling back layers of lies to find the truth in the missing person case, Crocker never expected it would involve Tracey's 94-year-old Nana and her cronies, an unusual greyhound, and a closely guarded skill set.

Hold onto your seats for the ultimate high-stakes mission Two spies and a private eye - otherwise known as Ronnie, Ben, and Crockett - are on a mission to protect a social media influencer with her own agenda. As they race against the clock to keep her safe until her crucial court testimony, tensions run high when Ronnie's cousin Donald insists that their neighbours are in grave danger. Crockett, Ben, and Ronnie reluctantly accept an off-book mission from the Australians. They're tasked with protecting a young social media influencer with an exceptional memory and to escort her safely to court to testify. Crockett has an extra job on his list; he's supposed to recruit the woman for his intelligence agency but he's not sure that is wise, or that the woman will be able to transition from 'social media influencer' to a career within the intelligence community. The more time they spend with 'Alex the influencer' the less she seems suited to anything except taking selfies and tantrums. The more time they spend with 'Alex the influencer' the more they suspect something is off about Alex. If that isn't enough, Ronnie's cousin Donald suspects something dreadful has happened to their neighbours and manages to drag Nana and the Cronies of Doom into his conspiracy theory, despite Ronnie's many misgivings. Meanwhile, the team navigates through dangerous situations arising from an unknown number of assailants, raising the stakes with each passing moment. Will they be able to protect Alex and uncover the truth before it's too late?

Ronnie Tracey's world is turned upside down when a missing intelligence officer contacts her, triggering a nail-biting chain of events in Cat Connor's spy/PI thriller Leave a Message]. In Upper Hutt, New Zealand (a smallish city in the Wellington Region) there is a private investigation agency called, Wherefore Art Thou, with a reputation for excellence. The agency is run by Veronica (Ronnie) Tracey and her two best friends: Steph and Jenn. Domestic cases keep their lights on and door open, but the extracurricular activities Ronnie performs for various intelligence agencies makes sure they have all the latest tech and a healthy bank balance. Former intelligence officer, Ronnie Tracey, specialises in finding people.Australian intelligence officer, Dave (Crockett) Crocker, is skilled at making problems disappear. American intelligence officer, and actor, Ben Reynolds' strength, is in gathering intelligence.All three are drawn into a potential crisis by a single word message. Exodus. The message takes them off the grid and drops them into a situation involving a missing New Zealand Army intelligence officer, and the sudden death of Crockett's boss. The circumstances surrounding the missing officer, and the death, tests their collective expertise and propels them down a treacherous path that no one would expect to navigate on New Zealand soil. Meanwhile, Ronnie's Nana, and the Cronies of Doom, have plans of their own and the potential for overlap and disaster is high.

When the 3 McClelland sisters inherited the family business, all eyes landed on them. Could they keep the Spellbound Books tradition of throwing amazing book-related events alive and turn their first solo event into a raging success? Reading the leaves for the first time since their parents' accident, the younger two sisters, Poppy and Lily delighted in the hints of romance in their near future. Violet, however, saw trouble linked to someone whose name started with D.Concerned that her secret would bring the foretold predicament to fruition, Violet hatched a plan to keep it safe. She didn't expect the return of her childhood friend and first crush, or how difficult it would be to live a lie while the world unknowingly sang her praises. If it's in the leaves is it preordained or mutable?