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"For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation-until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an...

The residents of Tangier, located off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, threaten to secede when the Governor of Virginia orders speed traps to be installed on all streets and highways.

Robert B. Parker is back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girland someone, anyone, who is willing to claim the body.

Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . .Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived...

Police Chief Judy Hammer works together with Virginia West and reporter-turned rookie cop Andy Brazil to clean up the crime rate in Richmond, Virginia.

When medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, discover the body of a teenage girl buried in the woods of Grant County, Georgia, their investigation takes them on a terrifying path that leads to a deadly secret.

The house fire claimed the life of a local woman, as well as one of the firefights. Investigation shows the woman was murdered, and Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation. Then her fifteen-year-old son is accused of a horrific crime. Can Jane trust her ex, Reid, to prove Will's innocence? Do the three days missing from Jane's memory hold the truth about what is happening now? -- adapted from back cover

Police chief Cameron is forced to arrest his cousin when he brings in the body of his wife and confesses he killed her, but the situation is not as clear as it at first appears.

Hope Harbor police chief Lexie Graham has plenty on her plate raising her son alone and dealing with a sudden rash of petty theft and vandalism in her coastal Oregon hometown. As a result, she has zero time for extracurricular activities-- including romance. Ex-con Adam Stone isn't looking for love either-- but how ironic is it that the first woman to catch his eye is a police chief? Yet wishing for things that can never be is foolish. Nevertheless,...

In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man's, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone's arrival in Paradise,...