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Worth the Risk by Crystal Chard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen everything's at stake, how close is too close?Forensic Psychologist, Grace Weatherford, wants her old job back with the Covert Intelligence Squad, but on her own terms. Yet when CIS offer up a case with a mysterious female perp at the centre, she can't say no. The catch? Grace's speciality is undercover guidance – she now has to go all in.Nadia Florescu is nobody's fool... -
Trigger by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Kate Morrison doesn’t know how or why someone would create human bombs that are triggered by touch. But when Sergeant Andy Wyles blocks Kate from touching the patient who collapses in her Vancouver ER, Kate joins the investigation to demand answers, regardless of the danger... -
Rainey's Christmas Miracle by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a holiday gift in 2011, author R. E. Bradshaw gave fans of the Rainey Bell Thriller series this sweet short story. It is now available as a companion piece to MOLLY: HOUSE ON FIRE, due out in April 2012.When readers last saw the striking former FBI Behavioral Analyst, Rainey Bell just learned she was about to be a mother... -
Heart of the Devil by Ali Vali
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere was a time when Dalton Casey ran the Casey family while grooming the next generation, but Cain Casey inherits the reins too early when Dalton is gunned down. His loss leaves Cain devastated, and she does her best to keep the business together, but his loss has left her adrift and hungry for revenge. That ends the night a new employee douses her in beer... -
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The Circle: MM Dark Found Family Fantasy Adventure LGBTQ+ by Silencio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeep in a forest, miles from any town, stands Whitewood Orphanage, a place of heavy silence and long shadows.When fifteen-year-old Tristan arrives, he braces for strict rules and cold discipline. Instead, he finds a place where friendship blurs into forbidden longing, and every shadow hides a secret too heavy to name... -
Out of the Flames by Stacy Lynn Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNewly minted San Francisco police detective Manhattan Sloane lets no one get close. Especially lovers.Sloane has her reasons for keeping the world at arm’s length. But then her first childhood crush, DEA Agent Finn Harper, reappears and changes everything. Harper has arrived in San Francisco to investigate a new street drug weaving its way into the city—a drug that has personal ties for Sloane... -
Wildrose by Max Ellendale, R.M. Bruce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHomicide Detective, Evelyn Grant, has her life wrapped up in a tidy bundle. As long as you don't look too closely. When a child disappears from an end of summer party, Evelyn and her team set out to solve the case. With little to go on and a heavy need for forensic evidence, Evelyn is forced to rely on the genius medical examiner, Ainsley Monson, for information... -
Cold Reckoning by Russ Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'A rollercoaster ride of a thriller . . . will keep you hanging on by your fingertips until the tense final moments' PETER ROBINSONTHE DARKNESS FROM HIS PAST WILL FINALLY COME TO LIGHTThe death of DS Tyler’s father irrevocably changed his life. As a child, he believed Richard had killed himself but, as the years have passed, Tyler has grown convinced he was murdered... -
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First Instinct by J. Lee Meyer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen high stakes security fraud leads to murder, one woman flees for her life while another risks her heart to protect her.Leigh Grove is an upwardly mobile whiz kid in a high-profile investment company. When she discovers something may be amiss, her perfect life starts to unravel. Conn Stryker not only runs a forensic software company, she does a bit of work for a government agency on the side... -
Dark Garden by Jennifer Fulton
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo sworn enemies who can’t resist each other. Something has to give. The Blakes and the Cavenders have been going at it since 1870 and Vienna Blake keeps up the family tradition, gunning for the Cavenders at every opportunity. All the same, she’s shocked when Mason Cavender confronts her in her office and accuses her of murder... -
The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Complete Frank Miller Batman contains: Batman Year One, Wanted: Santa Claus Dead Or Alive and The Dark Knight Returns. With a new introduction by Richard Bruning, then DC design director. Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns are reprints of their trade paperbacks and not individual issues so they include the introductions to those volumes by Frank Miller and Alan Moore... -
Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA fantastically-designed and printed book showcasing the Eisner and Harvey Award-Winning crime comics from the creators of Sleeper and Incognito, this oversized, deluxe hardback edition features Criminal books 1 thru 3 - Cowards, Lawless, and The Dead and the Dying... -
Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev: Ultimate Collection, Book 2 by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's Eisner award-winning run is collected across three titanic trade paperbacks! In this volume, Matt Murdock is forced to reckon with the problems and legal ramifications that have emerged as a result of his public outing... -
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Daredevil by Frank Miller Klaus Janson by Frank Miller, Marv Wolfman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrank Miller's spellbinding scripts and pulse-pounding pencils herald one of Daredevil's greatest eras, just in time for the Kingpin and Bullseye's efforts to rob the Man Without Fear of everything he holds dear Featuring the first appearances of Elektra, Stick and the Hand The daring discovery that drew Ben Urich into Daredevil's domain of darkness Such forgotten-yet-formidable foes as... -
Gotham Central Omnibus by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGotham City: a town teeming with corrupt cops, ruthless crime lords, petty thieves ... and just a small handful that would oppose them. Grizzled veteran Harvey Bullock, Captain Maggie Sawyer, Detective Renee Montoya and the GCPD are the law force that stands between order and complete anarchy... -
Gotham Central, Tome 2 by Ed Brubaker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCops just don't have it easy in the city of the Bat. Not only do they have to deal with the violence and corruption of the world's most notoriously crime-infested city, catering to some of the most insane and homicidal criminals, but they also have to deal with a vigilante who's hellbent on playing by his own rules... -
Gotham Central, Tome 4 by Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWitness the gritty side of the Gotham City Police Department from their perspective, as teens dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder start turning up dead. In this final volume (collecting GOTHAM CENTRAL #32-40), the dead body of Robin the Boy Wonder is found on the streets... -
The Punisher MAX, Vol. 5: The Slavers by Garth Ennis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman. Her name is Viorica, she's from Moldavia, and when she tells Frank her story, that's when the real killing starts!Collects Punisher #25-30... -
On the Freak Book 3. by Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Renee Montoya investigates the disappearance of evidence amid a gang war and travels to Keystone City in an attempt to unveil the truth about a fellow officer's strange mutation... -
Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the shadow of the Bat.It's not easy being a cop in Gotham City.Not only must you deal with the violence and corruption of the world's most notoriously crime-infested city catering to some of the most insane and homicidal criminals, but you also have to deal with a vigilante who's hellbent on playing by his own rules...Categorized as:
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Batman (2011-2016) #1 by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBe here for the start of a new era for The Dark Knight from writer Scott Snyder (AMERICAN VAMPIRE, BATMAN: GATES OF GOTHAM) and artist Greg Capullo (Spawn)! A series of brutal killings hints at an ancient conspiracy, and Batman learns that Gotham City is deadlier than he knew... -
Gotham Central, Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Joker terrorizes the city at Christmastime by randomly executing people, and no one from the mayor on down is safe! The manhunt is on as the police try to protect the city, only to be baffled when the Clown Prince of Crime surrenders... -
Daredevil, Vol. 5: Out by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Matt Murdock's most guarded secret is sold to a tabloid newspaper, Daredevil's secret identity is exposed to the world! How far will the Man Without Fear go to reclaim his life?Collects Daredevil #32-40... -
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Daredevil, Vol. 7: Hardcore by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDaredevil is simultaneously faced with murder charges, a new girlfriend, being outted by the tabloids, the return of one of his deadliest foes, Typhoid Mary, and the Kingpin's attempt to restore his fallen empire. And the surprise ending changes Daredevil's place in the Marvel Universe forever.Collects Daredevil #46-50... -
Daredevil, Vol. 4: Underboss by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWho put out a hit on the Kingpin...and Matt Murdock? The mystery man named Mr... -
Gotham Central, Vol. 2: Half a Life by Greg Rucka
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRenee Montoya Has A Secret.She's a Grade A detective but her reputation is put on the line when she's implicated in a murder and her deepest secret is revealed. Suddenly, her colleagues in the GCPD look at her askance, begin treating her with hostility, and when she needs their support the most, she finds mostly cold shoulders.The man who reaches out to her, though, is one who belongs behind bars... -
Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller, Vol. 2 by Frank Miller
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis volume features the gritty, street-level action and moody atmosphere that made Miller's Daredevil classic -- including appearances by the Kingpin, Elektra and Bullseye.Daredevil Vol. I (1964), issues 168-182... -
Astro City, Vol. 4: The Tarnished Angel by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen recently paroled super-villain Steeljack finds himself back on the streets, he quickly discovers that life outside of prison may be even harder than his life as a prisoner. Trying to make good with his life, he is still unable to find work that won't violate his parole... -
Batman: Under the Hood, Volume 2 by Judd Winick
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCollecting the stories of the Red Hood from BATMAN #645-650 and BATMAN ANNUAL #1! Jason Todd has seemingly come back from the dead as Gotham's newest vigilante, and his violent ways pit him against the Dark Knight — but not before Jason takes hostage the very person responsible for his death: The...
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