Bøker av Richard Powell

YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS RETURN IN THIS MURDER AND SPY THRILLER!With the war behind them, Germans struggle to rebuild both the structures demolished in the war, and their society decimated by the Nazis. While Willi works to rebuild the civilian police a serial killer targets young women in both the Western and Eastern zones.At the same time Major Ross now fully engaged in US intelligence, is ensnared in the growing conflict between the Russians and their Western allies. Entangled with a female Russian defector, she demands Ross provide both security and, in her words, comfort during this trying moment in her life.Can Willi and his growing team snag the devil butchering young women throughout the nation? Can Ross succeed in this den demanding both professional and personal betrayal? Come find out!

A PERFECT STORM BREWS OVER THE COUNTY.First, a semi-trailer loaded with dead bodies is abandoned on a county backroad. Just when it seems the trailer had merely been passing through, a massacre at the local trucking company knocks that theory in the teeth. Who did it and why?As the Sheriff's detectives unravel the case, they learn that Dixie Mafia enforcer, Ray Emmit, escaped from prison. At the same time, Corey LaPlage, Emmit's boss and the Dixie Mafia's local chief, makes a plea deal with the Feds, allowing him to return. Is this all related to the killings at the trucking company? Or are LaPlage and Emmit preparing other illegal schemes to line their pockets?Come along and discover the shocking truth!

NOT ALL CRIME FIGHTERS WEAR MASKS AND CAPES. THEY MIGHT BE THE ORDINARY FOLKS NEXT DOOR!BORED WITH RETIREMENT, FORMER DETECTIVE BILL DOOLIN SEEKS FRESH CHALLENGES IN HIS LIFE. HE GETS THAT AND MORE WHILE HELPING A FRIEND VICTIMIZED BY AN INTERNET SCAM. BILL'S EFFORTS BRING HIM TO THE ATTENTION OF A ROGUE FBI AGENT PURSUING A CRUSADING HACKER. CONVINCED BILL IS THIS HACKER OR AN ACCOMPLICE, THE FEDERAL AGENT TURNS BILL'S LIFE UPSIDE DOWN.DESPERATE TO CLEAR HIMSELF, BILL MOUNTS A SEARCH FOR THIS CYBER CRUSADER. WHAT HE DISCOVERS TURNS HIS WORLD UPSIDE DOWN AS MURDER, KIDNAPPING, AND CHAOS DESCEND ON THIS QUIET MEMPHIS SUBURB.FRESH CHALLENGES? HE'S GOT `EM AND MORE. ONCE HE REALIZES NOT ALL SUPER CRIME FIGHTERS WEAR MASKS AND CAPES, WILL HIS WORLD EVER BE THE SAME? WOULD YOURS? JOIN BILL AS HE UNRAVELS THIS MYSTERY AND DISCOVERS NOTHING OVERCOMES.... OLD AGE AND TREACHERY!LIKE RICHARD OSMAN'S THURSDAY MURDER CLUB THESE FOLKS SCARE BAD MEN AROUND THE WORLD!Independent Reviews from Goodreads and Amazon readers in the U.S. and the UKThis book is part police procedural and part daytime drama and part suspense thriller and just a little bit of a spy-related story. Lots of different pieces that together made for one very, very enjoyable adventure.....A great plot with some nice twists and turns. The characters were likeable. I think I know.some of these people. I will read more from this author.....The first of Richard Powell's Bridge Club series is permanently on my list of favorites. The characters created are exactly like the people next door, only they live secret lives that make them extraordinary. You'll be guessing, cheering, and laughing right down to the last word....

AN UNEASY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE DIXIE MAFIA AND A GULF COAST GANG ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE!The Biloxi Crowns need a place away from the coast to produce drugs. The Dixie Mafia owns the sites and the political influence the Crowns need. A raid on the county's first meth lab kills a deputy and reveals this sinister alliance. It also prompts Hector's family to coerce him back into the criminal underworld.Meanwhile, a crooked politician uses the botched raid as an excuse to hamstring the sheriff's department. First, he suspends the Sheriff and appoints a replacement favorable to the gangs. When that is not enough to satisfy the gang leaders, he transfers Jordan to the county's backwater and demotes Urich back to uniformed patrol. Will these monsters devour the county? Will Hector be sacrificed for his family's greed? Who will triumph? JOIN THE ADVENTURE! Robert Jordan and Christine Urich, Mix a hint of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch with a twist of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux. Add Robert Dugoni's, Trace Crosswhite. The result gives bad guys nightmares!

Saskatchewan, late summer 1947, Mike Bodnar, Canadian WWII veteran was riding the rails to avoid his old life. Captured at the ill fated raid on Dieppe in 1942. Damaged after spending 3 years in German POW camps. Near the tracks, Mike finds the body of a young man thrown from a passing train. Searching the body for ID he finds his best friend's army tags. His old life comes crashing back.Just as he finds his buddy, Caz, they are kidnapped by mobsters on the orders of his old British lover, Valerie. They now are forced to relive their prisoner nightmares and reveal a Nazi secret that could be worth a fortune in the wrong hands.Did Valerie still love him or was he being used for her greedy plans? Would he live long enough to know?

THE JAPANESE TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS THROUGH SOUTHEAST ASIAFreed from their colonial masters, Thailand, Indo-China, and Malaysia welcome the Japanese invaders with open arms. Once Burma falls, only India stands between them and the oil-rich Middle East. Now poised to achieve the same results in Burma, they attack.Despite defeats at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, the Greatest Generation's Vanguard forms. Four young Americans, three men and one woman, each for their own reasons, step into this disaster sweeping through Southeast Asia.After making a pact with the devil to gain passage to China, the woman works as a nurse in a Chinese hospital caring for civilians injured by Japanese bombers. Here she walks a personal tightrope while meeting the needs of her patients.The men, members of the Flying Tigers, defend Rangoon and China's supply routes. Despite their own personal struggles, outnumbered and undersupplied, they battle Japanese air superiority over Burma. But, while the American public cheer their achievements, the military hierarchy moves to corral this maverick outfit and its leader. Make them merely one more unit in the Army Air Corps.Can anything stop the Japanese steam roller? Can the young woman continue her deception? Will these young men's personal struggles distract them from the danger faced daily?Come find out!

Derrick was destined to fall through society's cracks from the beginning. Derrick was one of the many 1980s working-class latch-key kids from yet another dysfunctional home. By the time Derrick was 15 years old, he was homeless, living on the streets of Seattle, and addicted to drugs and drinking, setting him on a path of self-destruction and prison. Imprisoned by the age of 16, thinking the world was out to get him, little did he know that it would be a God intervention. At the age of 19, he was released from prison, a boy in a man's body, to begin his search for meaning, finding little truths in a series of failed relationships before finally finding the answers to why his life was so screwed up. It had been right in front of him the whole time, but he could not see the truth because he was self-centered and ego-driven. That was until she came into his life. The one. The one who would turn his life upside down. He never thought he would ever be destined for great things, unconditional love, nor happiness, but rather, he was destined for a life of imprisonment or death. That was until she gave him the greatest gift of all. But at what price would it cost them? Fighting against the backdrop of his past, the Great Recession, the War on Terror, and a middle-aged man's fears that he'll never be enough, The Hummingbird Effect reveals the real-life struggles that must be overcome to defer from repeating the same inherited horrific cycle handed down to him, to creating something miraculous and beautiful.Inspired by actual events, author Richard Powell delves into a familiar story, though not often told, to examine heartache, confusion, frustration, unconditional love, joy, and forgiveness-and he finds the reasons to start living and quit existing.

BASED ON HISTORICAL FACTS!While the Western Allies and the Soviets square off in the cold war's opening rounds, a third deadly conspiracy threatens resurrect the Nazi regime. A group calling themselves the Werewolves favor a return to power in Germany while their colleagues supported by both the Vatican and the Western powers, flee to countries around the world who welcome them with open arms. The conflict engulfs not only the Nazis, but threatens both Germany and the World's future.Major James Ross leads a team investigating Nazi war crimes. A deadly ambush leaves one of Ross's people dead and another presumed missing. Tasked with finding his missing man, Ross, and his colleagues hunt for the killers, exposes this third conspiracy threatening world peace!At the same time, the Russians coerce Justine Rothstein into spying for them. Her quest to satisfy the Russians, places her square in the sights of American spies.With murder and mayhem erupting throughout Nuremberg can these butchers be stopped?Will Justine dangle forever between the two battling Superpowers?Come find out!

A CHILD'S KIDNAPPING IN HONG KONG EXPOSES A WORLD MORE TERRIFYING THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE! BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!HONG KONG POLICE DETECTIVE WILLIAM LAU'S INFANT DAUGHTER FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF CHILD LAUNDERS. THESE "BABY BROKERS" FORGE A NEW IDENTITY FOR THE STOLEN CHILD, ENABLING THEM TO SHIP THE CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD. THEY THEN SELL THEM TO WEALTHY FAMILIES UNABLE TO LEGALLY ADOPT. THOSE NOT ADOPTED ARE PASSED ON TO SLAVE LABOR OR ORGAN DONATION. DESPERATE TO FIND HIS CHILD, LAU'S PURSUIT LEADS HIM TO MEMPHIS TENNESSEE.MEANWHILE IN FRANKLIN CITY, A QUIET MEMPHIS SUBURB, BILL DOOLIN IS CALLED BACK FROM RETIREMENT TO INVESTIGATE A HIGH-PROFILE COLD CASE. LAU'S COLLEAGUE'S MURDER IN FRANKLIN CITY BRINGS THE TWO HUNTERS TOGETHER. THEY JOIN FORCES TO FIND LAU'S DAUGHTER BEFORE HER KIDNAPPERS TAKE HER BEYOND REACH.WHILE SEARCHING BOTH BILL AND LAU UNCOVER DARK SECRETS ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT ADDS MORE URGENCY TO THEIR HUNT AND PROMISES TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER. WILL THEY FIND THE CHILD IN TIME? WILL THE TWO HUNTERS BE ABLE TO RECONCILE THEIR LIVES WITH WHAT EACH DISCOVERED? COME ALONG AND FIND OUT!WHAT REVIEWERS SAY: I thought the main topic of this book would be hard to stomach but it was handled effortlessly by the author. He has shed a blinding light on the travesty of child laundering and at the same time had me laughing with the characters and aching for the return of little Anna to her parents. Then he threw in a major plot twist that had me grinning like a lunatic. A fantastic read all around-THE SILENT SCREAMER BOOK BLOG On the edge of your seat, this story keeps you up way past your bedtime-GOODREADS

JORDAN AND URICH NOW HUNT THE MAN WHO MURDERED JORDAN'S DAUGHTER!A SERIAL KILLER CALLING HIMSELF THE GINGERBREAD MAN TARGETS TEENAGE PROSTITUTES IN MEMPHIS. TO FACILITATE THEIR INVESTIGATION, MEMPHIS POLICE KEEP DETAILS OF HIS KILLINGS FROM THE PUBLIC AND DENY HE EXISTS. FRUSTRATED BY THIS LACK OF NOTORIETY, THE KILLER STALKS INVESTIGATORS IN THE CASE AND EXPANDS HIS KILLING GROUND TO TUNICA.WHILE ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT TO TUNICA COUNTY, JORDAN AND URICH STUMBLE ON A MURDER THAT MIRRORS JORDAN'S DAUGHTER'S KILLING, THREE YEARS BEFORE. REMOVED FROM HIS DAUGHTER'S MURDER CASE THEN AS IT INVOLVED A FAMILY MEMBER. NOW, AS THE MURDER OCCURRED IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTY, HE IS AGAIN WARNED OFF THE CASE. ESTRANGED FROM CHARMAIN, HIS DAUGHTER'S DEATH NOW RETURNS TO HAUNT HIM. THESE FORCES SHOVE HIM DOWN THE PATH THAT NEARLY WRECKED HIS LIFE BEFORE.ENRAGED BY THE AUTHORITIES' CONTINUED SILENCE, THE KILLER SNATCHES A YOUNG GIRL WORKING THE STREETS. WITH CHARMAIN AS HIS SPOKESPERSON, HE OFFERS TO SPARE THE GIRL IF HIS HUNTERS. RESCUE THE GIRL IN TWO WEEKS. IF NOT? HE WILL HARVEST HER LIKE THE OTHERS!WILL JORDAN RIGHT HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND FIND A WAY TO GET INVOLVED IN THE CASE? FOLLOW THE HUNT ALONG WITH US IF YOU DARE!Robert Jordan and Christine Urich, Mix a hint of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch with a twist of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux. Add Robert Dugoni's, Trace Crosswhite. The result gives bad guys nightmares!

Evil forces lurk on the internet. Besides the scammers and thieves are the Trolls. They harass, steal, and bully individuals, and entire countries leaving chaos in their wake. Trolls drive George Parker's granddaughter to self-destruction while a Troll Farm prepares to spread chaos through global social media. As the Bridge Club gang pursues the Trolls who attacked George's granddaughter a phantom emerges from Bill Doolin's past thrusting the gang into the global arena. Will they catch the fiends who harmed George's granddaughter and turned her family inside out? Can they stop this Troll Farm from spreading chaos and mayhem around the world? Will Bill's life get right side up now that he's discovered this person from his past? Join The Adventure And See!

Threatened by a worldwide pandemic, what would a time traveler do? How do you keep yourself and the ones you love away from the danger? Find a time when the threat doesn't exist.On returning from his perilous journey to the Nineteenth Century, Jean Lafitte lands squarely in the worst of the Covid outbreak. Millions die worldwide. With government restrictions on travel and person-to-person contact, the world screeches to a halt. Businesses lock their doors. Schools shut down. Millions are out of work. Hospitals filled to capacity, and overwhelmed funeral directors beg people to care for their health. Our time traveling pirate must return to a time when he and those he loves are safe, can thrive, and wait out the contagion.But where? In the Nineteenth century, the noose awaits him and his cohorts. But thanks to the destruction of the Spanish Treasure fleet off Florida's coast, pirates in Eighteenth Century Nassau thrive.Labeled the Golden Age of Piracy, unemployed privateers descend on the Spanish salvage operation. As they feast on the treasure, legends are born, and fortunes won and lost. It is a perfect place for them to hide and avoid the scourge ravaging the Twenty-first century. And who knows? Add to their own fortune? Come along with Jean and the crew as they depart for the time when pirates ruled if you dare.

A delightful collection that celebrates all aspects of Yorkshire's past

As the polar ice melts, so the rich gas, oil and mineral resources of the Arctic are being increasingly exposed to the eager eyes of interested nations