Alert by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
"I am not entirely sure if there is such a thing as a 'charming' thriller. If so, the Michael Bennett series by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge would certainly merit consideration for that classification."
In Philadelphia --- suffering among the country’s highest murder rates --- the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings --- especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the “Wyatt Earp of the Main Line” --- and then the committee’s combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the front porch of his run-down Philly row house.
As chanting protesters fill the streets, the city threatens to erupt. Payne, among many others accused of being complicit in the leader’s death, becomes quietly furious. He suspects there’s something deeper behind it all, but what? Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, he struggles ahead to do what he does best --- his job. He’s been investigating the murder of a young family. A reporter, working on an illicit drug series for Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Mickey O’Hara, has been killed with his wife and child, a note stapled to his chest warning that the drug stories are to stop. Period. While Payne knows that he, like his pal O’Hara, cannot back down, he also knows that they damn sure could be among the next to die...
Code of Conduct (Scot Harvath Series #14) by Brad Thor
In Code of Conduct, he has pushed the boundaries beyond what we have come to expect of a Brad Thor novel.
The Bourbon Kings (The Bourbon Kings Series #1) by J. R. Ward
The Bourbon Kings is fantastically and compulsively engrossing, as readers will undoubtedly fall through an irresistible rabbit hole that leads to murder, adultery, kidnapping, embezzlement, sins, lies and love.
Dragonbane (Dark-Hunter Series #19) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of all the mysterious boarders who call Sanctuary home, no one is more antisocial or withdrawn than Maxis Drago. But then, it’s hard to blend in with the modern world when you have a fifty foot wingspan.
Centuries ago, he was cursed by an enemy who swore to see him fall. An enemy who took everything from him and left him forever secluded.
But Fate is a bitch, with a wicked sense of humor. And when she throws old enemies together and threatens the wife he thought had died centuries ago, he comes back with a vengeance. Modern day New Orleans has become a battleground for the oldest of evils. And two dragons will hold the line, or go down in flames.
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