The body of Paul Shore toppled onto him, a stream of blood pooling around them on the concrete. Bernard lay back and waited to see if he too was going to die.An undercover agent gone rogue is threatening to shoot a civil servant a day. As panic reigns, the Health Enforcement Team race against time to track him down – before someone turns the gun on them.

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.

Murder In the Highest is a novelette, and part of the Allen Seasons series of short stories. There is a radical terrorist group murdering people in Washington D.C. Can FBI Agent Allen Seasons stop them before they pull off their biggest assassination yet?

Two years on from the start of a devastating pandemic, food shortages are becoming critical, and rationing looms. So it's more than embarrassing when a lorry full of luxury food for Scottish Virus Minister's banquet goes missing. When Bernard and Maitland from the HET team find it, the food is missing – but there is a dead body.

The third Aimée Leduc Investigation set in Paris When Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc picks up the phone one hot July afternoon, the call turns her life upside-down. The voice on the other end, with its heavy German accent, belongs to a woman named Jutta Hald. Jutta claims to have shared a jail cell with Aimée’s long-lost mother, a suspected terrorist on Interpol’s most wanted list. If Aimée wants to learn the truth about her mother, she is to meet Jutta at a rendezvous point in an ancient tower in the Sentier. But when Aimée arrives, Jutta is dead, shot in the head at close range. Aimée realizes she has stumbled into something bigger than Jutta let on, and that her own life is in danger. She has a lot of unsolved mysteries in front of her: Jutta Hald’s murder, resurfaced materials from Sydney Leduc’s terrorist activities in the 1970s, police suppression of important information. The question is, can Aimée put the pieces together before someone else ends up dead?

On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually solved—after the death of the murderer. This book will reveal the story behind what has been a scary mystery for generations of Penn State students and explain why the Pennsylvania State Police failed to bring her killer to justice. More than a simple true crime story, the book weaves together the events, culture, and attitudes of the late 1960s, memorializing Betsy Aardsma and her time and place in history.

When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan to take up his post in 2002, he was a young ambassador with a brilliant career and a taste for whisky and women. But after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to death and innocent people being raped and murdered by agents of the state, he started to question both his role and that of his country in so-called 'democratising' states. Following his discovery that the British government was accepting information obtained under torture, Murray could no longer maintain a diplomatic silence. When he voiced his outrage, Washington and 10 Downing Street decided he had to go. But Uzbekistan had changed the high-living diplomat and there was no way he was going to go quietly. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, Murray lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror.

Murder in Washington: Notorious Crime Sites is a visual return to 95 infamous murder scenes profiling the shocking and detailed narratives behind each tragedy. The State of Washington has been the residence of three internationally prominent serial killers including Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway (The Green River Killer), Kenneth Bianchi (Hillside Strangler) and Lee Boyd Malvo (DC Sniper). Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure murder sites and stories remain buried awaiting rediscovery. The Murder in Washington edition is segmented into eight categories including assassinations, historical legacies, premeditated homicides, chance encounters and impulse killings, law enforcement fatalities and controversies, unsolved murders, rampage and serial killers. The edition provides the precise location of each crime site, fatality victims, perpetrators and for those still living, the penal institution where they are incarcerated. Cases profiled include: Ted Bundy: The Serpent who loved to kill women Gary Ridgway: The Green River Prostitute Killer Uncle Joe Kondro: A family preditor Lee Boyd Malvo: Under the spell and shadow of the DC Sniper Kenneth Bianchi: A Serial Killer’s Final Misdeed Rodney Alcala: Stalking and strangling beauty Donna Perry: Transgender prostitute killer Maurice Clemmons: Police Officer Slaying The hex of serial killer Jake Bird Disappearing investment trail of Doug Carlile Legacy of the People’s Theatre and Shooting of the Seattle Police Chief Seattle’s Jungle killings Assassination of Federal Judge Tom Wales Ann Marie Burr’s kidnapping and link to Ted Bundy DNA Codemns Two Child Killers 40 years later Billy Gohl and the floating cadavers of Aberdeen Tacoma’s missing Puyallup Avenue streetwalkers Kidnapping and murder of little Charles Mattson Everett Union protest dockside massacre Incestuous killing of Sylvia Gaines. Trash talk shooting by rapper Lil Danger Unsolved Civil Rights advocate Edwin Pratt murder Attack of a Killer Werewolf Singer Little Willie John’s afterhours party homicide The Gits lead singer Mia Zapata murder The disappearance of radio activist Mike Webb The Hangman’s noose too light to support Mitchell Rupp The savage beating of Seattle’s Tuba Man Wilson, Anderson, Goldmark and Rafay Family killings Post Mount Saint Helens Volcano hitchhiker discovery The detonation of Oleg Babichenko’s car The killer with a thousand identities Dragging vehicle death of Susette Werner Aurora Bridge public transport murder-suicide Gay hate crime shooting from a back seat driver Bludgeoning of Geneva MacDonald Wah Mee Gambling Club massacre Crossed professional boundaries with therapy Starvation Heights A police officer’s homicidal impatience over a DUI Capitol Hill district post-rave massacre Marysville High School cafeteria shooting Clueless Spokane leach and killer Red Barn Door Tavern bloodbath Seattle Pacific University killing Death and rape in the South Park residential district Changing identity and getting away with your wife’s shooting Seattle’s Café Racer murder-suicide spree A legitimate example of Killer’s remorse Stalking and slaying an Elementary school teacher fixation Jewish Federation Building Shooting Mahoney trunk murder Pang Frozen Foods arson fire Patrick Drum’s armed vendetta against pedophiles Survivalist Peter Keller’s attempt to erase his personal history Tacoma’s Trang Dai restaurant gang slaying A Seattle police officer ambush fueled by extreme hatred Charming George Russell fatal voyeurism An overzealous police beating of a simple man Otto Zehm Freighter pilot’s collision with the West Seattle Bridge Disappearance and Murder of King County Commissioner James Colman Quincy Coleman: A Gang Related Killing Rapper Max Gasoi: Rapper’s Drug Deal Gone Bad And Even More….

The body of a young woman is found in Manfield Road Northampton. Her throat has been cut. Enter Chief Inspector Brian Thomas and Detective Inspector Sheila Grey. Together they set out on a relentless pursuit of the killer and unravel a complex web of deceit. Murder In Manfield Road is a fast paced study in major crime investigation.