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Tess Grey is tasked with investigating a plane crash in the Great
North Woods after rumors surface of a survivor. but she and her
partner Po aren't the only ones heading there. Three field
biologists are distracted from their studies when a plane crashes
in the Great North Woods. They find two pilots dead only to be
confronted by a female survivor. Once they call the authorities,
they claim they found only the pilots. Private Investigator Tess
Grey is hired by an insurance firm to investigate rumors another
person was aboard the downed plane. She sets off into the woods
with her partner Po Villere and friend Jerome 'Pinky' Leclerc in
order to search the crash site and interview the biologists. But
they aren't the only ones heading into the woods. There are also
teams of mercenaries investigating the crash and killers hunting
Pinky to claim a bounty that has been placed on his head. Can Tess
get to the bottom of what happened at the crash site while they're
also being hunted?
When the body of a young woman is found on a rocky Maine beach,
having fallen from the cliffs above, the initial verdict is
suicide. But hidden on the dead woman's social network page is a
post requesting that Tess Grey be informed in the event of her
death. And why would Chelsea Grace, who was terrified of heights,
have chosen to end her life in a way that invoked her very worst
fear? Having not seen Chelsea for years, Tess has no idea why her
old university roommate would leave such a message. But, determined
to find out what really happened to her, Tess and her partner Po
discover that Chelsea isn't the first of her old university friends
to suffer - and she won't be the last. It would appear that someone
is holding a deadly grudge: could Tess herself be a target?
Private investigator Tess Grey feels duty bound to help when the
missing girl she has been asked to find becomes involved a
high-stakes case of extortion. Private investigator Tess Grey's
latest case involves tracking down Hayley Cameron, a young girl who
has fled after discovering that she was adopted. Tess, aided by her
fiance Po Villere, traces Hayley to the apartment of Madison Toner
- one of Hayley's college friends - in Bangor, Maine. Despite
Tess's pleas, Hayley refuses to return to her adoptive mother. Both
Tess and Po believe there's more to her running away than it seems,
especially when they see Madison's father bloodied and beaten.
Concerned for Hayley's well-being, they conduct a stake-out. When
thugs turn up to extort Madison and Hayley, Tess and Po feel duty
bound to get involved. But what are the girls embroiled in? Who are
after them and to what lengths will they go? Tess and Po don't know
it yet, but events are about to grow deadly.
Tess Grey is tasked with investigating a plane crash in the Great
North Woods after rumors surface of a survivor. but she and her
partner Po aren't the only ones heading there. Three field
biologists are distracted from their studies when a plane crashes
in the Great North Woods. They find two pilots dead only to be
confronted by a female survivor. Once they call the authorities,
they claim they found only the pilots. Private Investigator Tess
Grey is hired by an insurance firm to investigate rumors another
person was aboard the downed plane. She sets off into the woods
with her partner Po Villere and friend Jerome 'Pinky' Leclerc in
order to search the crash site and interview the biologists. But
they aren't the only ones heading into the woods. There are also
teams of mercenaries investigating the crash and killers hunting
Pinky to claim a bounty that has been placed on his head. Can Tess
get to the bottom of what happened at the crash site while they're
also being hunted?
Joe Hunter uses the skills he perfected with the CIA and in
Special Ops to solve problems. But his sojourn in Florida is
recreational . . . until a beautiful, desperate woman walks into
his life. Kate Piers wants Hunter to help her find her missing
sister. But there are several things Hunter doesn't know . . .
Like the fact that the sister crossed a very bad man--a
millionaire sadist who likes doing the wetwork himself. Or that the
maniac has serious connections to the underworld . . . and runs a
private army with enough firepower to blow a gaping hole through
the heart of Texas.
When a violent encounter with a pair of twin killers in the
Kentucky hills results in Kate's capture, Hunter realizes there'll
be no backing down, no matter how badly the odds are stacked
against him. There's a debt to be repaid and vengeance to be had .
. . and when his scorched earth campaign is over, there won't be
anything left to burn.
Non-stop action is abound in this thriller set in Maine that will
appeal to fans of CLIVE CUSSLER and CHRIS RYAN. Where's Tony
Vaughan? That's the question the Brogans are asking. And they don't
ask nicely, as Private Investigator Tess Grey finds out. Angered by
the Brogans' treatment of his fiancee, Nicolas 'Po' Villere is
ready to enact retribution. As is Tess, who is itching for a new
case and is troubled by Tony's apparent fate. Tess and Po track
Tony down and discover he's aided Leah Brogan - the heavily
pregnant and oppressed daughter of one of the Brogans - in escaping
the family. To make matters worse, the pair also stole money from
someone they shouldn't have . . . someone who won't take such an
insult lying down. Leah dreams of freedom for her unborn child, but
those chasing them will go to extreme lengths to deny her it. Tess
is determined to fight for Leah and the child, but at what cost to
her and Po's future?
Ex-con Nicolas returns home to reconcile with his mother. But he
isn't prepared to discover he has a younger sister, whom he's never
met. But she's missing, and he isn't the only one looking for
Emilia. If he has any chance of finding her alive, he must join
forces with his enemy to prevent Emilia becoming the victim of a
cannibalistic killer.
Introducing private investigator Tess Grey and Southern renegade
ex-con Nicolas 'Po' Villere in the first of a brand-new series of
fast-paced action thrillers. When her local District Attorney
offers her a considerable sum of money to track down state witness
Crawford Wynne, private investigator Tess Grey is in no position to
refuse. Wynne is one of the few men still alive who can help the
State nail vicious drug lord Albert Suarez. But Tess is not the
only one trying to track Wynne down. Suarez's psychotic brother
Hector has been hunting and butchering anyone who is a danger to
his brother. Tess needs help and there's only one man she can turn
to: Southern renegade ex-con Nicolas Villere, known to all as Po.
Po always gets his man, but he has never been teamed with a woman
before. Both have their own agenda for taking on this case, and
neither fully trusts the other. But of one thing they are sure: if
they don't cover each other's backs, they are both going to die.
When an ex-cop goes on the run from his employers, his daughter
seeks help from an old friend . . . Tess Grey. Ex-cop Aaron Lacey
is on the run from Elite Custodian Services, a protection service
of ex-military and police - and his current employers - and they
will stop at nothing to track him down. His disappearance results
in his daughter reaching out to her old schoolfriend, Tess Grey.
But when Tess's mother urges her to turn down helping her friend,
Tess begins to question why. Is her mother simply being
overprotective, or is there more to her past with Lacey than Tess
realises? Why has Lacey gone underground and why are the Elite so
determined to catch him? As Tess and her partner Nicolas Villere
get involved, they need to figure out who can be trusted and what
secrets they are hiding.
Private investigator Tess Grey and her ex-con partner Po
investigate the disappearance of a troubled young woman in this
fast-paced action thriller. PI Tess Grey and her partner Nicolas
'Po' Villere have been hired by Margaret Norris to find her
granddaughter, Jasmine Reed, who has been missing for sixteen days.
But if Tess is to have any chance of finding Jazz, she needs to
know the truth about the young woman's troubled past. What is it
that Margaret Norris isn't telling her? Tess and Po aren't the only
ones looking for Jazz. With shady local businessman Daryl Bruin and
his henchman John Trojak also on her trail, as well as a mysterious
- and violent - stranger, Tess prays, for Jasmine's sake, that she
and Po find her first. But it's only when Tess uncovers a link to
several other missing girls that she begins to make headway in the
investigation - and finds herself in a desperate race against time
to track down Jazz before it's too late.
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Cold Fire (Main)
Matt Hilton
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A mother and her children murdered. A nanny on the run. A killer in
pursuit. Hunted and reviled, ex-nanny Joanne Mason turns to her
sister, Detective Karen Ratcliffe. Torn between duty and family,
Ratcliffe asks Tess Grey and her partner Nicolas 'Po' Villere to
bring Joanne in safely. A winter cyclone forces Joanne into hiding
on the Canadian border - but she can't stay put for long. In close
pursuit, Tess and Po head north into the heart of a storm, but
they're not the only ones: the real murderer is also hot on
Joanne's trail, trying to kill the only living witness to his
crime. As the chase progresses it grows apparent that Joanne
couldn't have been responsible for the murders . . . but the heat
isn't off her. Some people think she might be a co-conspirator, not
the terrified witness she is . . . and when the shocking truth
behind the gruesome murders comes to light, Tess and Po have their
work cut out to keep Joanne - and themselves - alive!
When Rink's father is brutally murdered, Joe has to stop his friend
rushing headlong for vengeance. Because Rink's mother witnessed the
crime and Yukiko isn't telling everything she knows. Her silence is
governed by the Japanese tradition of giri, or moral obligation.
But when there are more vicious deaths - all of them elderly men
known to Yukiko - it becomes a matter of honour to uncover the
shameful secret that lies behind the murders. The killer isn't
playing by the rules. But some rules are made to be broken and Joe
doesn't care what he breaks to ensure Rink gets his revenge.
A fast-paced and action-packed ride through upstate New York for
fans of CHRIS RYAN and STEPHEN LEATHER. When Nicolas 'Po' Villere
runs into Elspeth Fuchs, an old flame, he's surprised to find who's
by her side. It's her son, Jacob, and he's a dead ringer for when
Po was a child. His age lines up with when Po last saw Elspeth,
before she left him for Caleb Moorcock and a life in a secluded
community. Elspeth and Jacob are now running for their lives from
the abusive Caleb. Po and his partner, Private Investigator Tess
Grey, offer shelter. But before Po can dive into the boy's
parentage, Caleb snatches the absconded pair and drags them back to
their fortified commune. Has Po dodged a bullet? Maybe it's best
for them all if he never learns whether he's Jacob's father. Who's
he kidding? Po resolves to rescue Elspeth and discover the truth
about Jacob no matter what . . .
Private investigator Tess Grey discovers that someone from her past
is pursuing a deadly vendetta - and she could be the next to die.
When the body of a young woman is found on a rocky Maine beach,
having fallen from the cliffs above, the initial verdict is
suicide. But hidden on the dead woman's social network page is a
post requesting that Tess Grey be informed in the event of her
death. And why would Chelsea Grace, who was terrified of heights,
have chosen to end her life in a way that invoked her very worst
fear? Having not seen Chelsea for years, Tess has no idea why her
old university roommate would leave such a message. But, determined
to find out what really happened to her, Tess and her partner Po
discover that Chelsea isn't the first of her old university friends
to suffer - and she won't be the last. It would appear that someone
is holding a deadly grudge: could Tess herself be a target?
Ex-con Nicolas returns home to reconcile with his mother. But he
isn't prepared to discover he has a younger sister, whom he's never
met. But she's missing, and he isn't the only one looking for
Emilia. If he has any chance of finding her alive, he must join
forces with his enemy to prevent Emilia becoming the victim of a
cannibalistic killer.
Accepting the task of protecting Billie Womack is a no-brainer for
ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter, but it comes with its own
set of complications. Billie's husband, Richard, stole thirty
million dollars from some violent people. He apparently died in a
car crash with Billie's daughter, Nicola, during a desperate
attempt to elude his pursuers. But his enemies don't believe him
dead. They think he escaped the plunge into the icy river that
killed Nicola and has now decided to come back for the money. If
he's alive, they believe he'll contact Billie. It doesn't take long
for the bad guys to arrive at her remote farmhouse. Soon she and
Joe are fugitives. Dead or alive, Richard's fate means nothing to
Hunter, but he promises to do everything in his power to protect
the grieving mother. Even if it means taking a bullet for her, it's
a price he'll pay. It's a pledge he will come to regret, as he
learns that killers are forged on the Devil's anvil.
Private investigator Tess Grey feels duty bound to help when the
missing girl she has been asked to find becomes involved a
high-stakes case of extortion. Private investigator Tess Grey's
latest case involves tracking down Hayley Cameron, a young girl who
has fled after discovering that she was adopted. Tess, aided by her
fiance Po Villere, traces Hayley to the apartment of Madison Toner
- one of Hayley's college friends - in Bangor, Maine. Despite
Tess's pleas, Hayley refuses to return to her adoptive mother. Both
Tess and Po believe there's more to her running away than it seems,
especially when they see Madison's father bloodied and beaten.
Concerned for Hayley's well-being, they conduct a stake-out. When
thugs turn up to extort Madison and Hayley, Tess and Po feel duty
bound to get involved. But what are the girls embroiled in? Who are
after them and to what lengths will they go? Tess and Po don't know
it yet, but events are about to grow deadly.
When an ex-cop goes on the run from his employers, his daughter
seeks help from an old friend . . . Tess Grey. Ex-cop Aaron Lacey
is on the run from Elite Custodian Services, a protection service
of ex-military and police - and his current employers - and they
will stop at nothing to track him down. His disappearance results
in his daughter reaching out to her old schoolfriend, Tess Grey.
But when Tess's mother urges her to turn down helping her friend,
Tess begins to question why. Is her mother simply being
overprotective, or is there more to her past with Lacey than Tess
realises? Why has Lacey gone underground and why are the Elite so
determined to catch him? As Tess and her partner Nicolas Villere
get involved, they need to figure out who can be trusted and what
secrets they are hiding.
The Harvestman is back! And determined to wreak revenge on Joe
Hunter. When Rink is ambushed by a team of highly skilled killers,
Joe is pretty sure his friend is being used as bait. And the
intended prey is Hunter himself. Joe has to go 'off radar' to
rescue his friend. Their deadly game of cat and mouse reaches its
climax on the rusty hulk of The Queen Sofia - a container ship used
by human traffickers - moored off the North Carolina coast where
Joe's ex-sister-in-law is being held hostage. Against overwhelming
odds, and amid a ferocious storm, Joe comes face to face with his
old enemy Tubal Cain.
Joe Hunter vs Luke Rickard, a killer who has stolen his identity
and committed a vicious double murder. His motive? Revenge. His
method? A blade. His mission? Kill anyone Hunter holds dear. It is
a deadly duel of wits that takes Hunter from the streets of Miami
to the squalid barrios of Colombia to the jungle hideaway of a drug
baron. And brings him face to face with his past. Revenge is a dish
best served cold and Joe needs a cool head if Rickard is not to cut
and run. CUT AND RUN - the fourth high-octane adventure for Joe
Hunter, the man whose mission is to rid the world of bad guys.
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