New Releases by T. Jefferson Parker

A seaside town. A savage murder. A family bound by secrets that refuse to stay buried. When beloved Laguna Beach therapist Mary Purefoy is found bludgeoned to death in her oceanfront bungalow, Detective Walt Torrance is assigned the case he never wanted—and cannot walk away from. Mary wasn’t just a victim. She was his former sister-in-law, his brother’s first great love, and a woman woven into the fabric of his own past. As Walt combs through a crime scene steeped in rage rather than robbery, the evidence points inward: to Mary’s patients, her private life, and the intimate betrayals that only those closest to her could know. With the clock ticking and the town watching, Walt must navigate a maze of grief, memory, and moral compromise—while confronting the unsettling possibility that the killer may be closer than anyone dares to believe. Set against the sunlit beauty and dark undercurrents of coastal California, Gone at First Light is a gripping, emotionally charged crime novel about love, loyalty, and the devastating cost of secrets kept too long.

A gripping high-stakes thriller by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker ("A marvel...hits the high-water mark for crime fiction every time out." —Gregg Hurwitz) The hunt for the truth is the deadliest game. Former Marine sniper Lew Gale, now a detective with the Orange County California Sheriff’s Department, is assigned to track and shoot a mountain lion that has killed a man in the rugged country east of Laguna Beach, California. The victim is Bennet Tarlow, a rich developer and man-about-town in upscale coastal Orange County. The investigation takes a chilling turn when Lew and his new partner, Daniela Mendez, discover that Bennet was dead long before the lion got to him. And while he might have been the first to die, he certainly will not be the last.

Stille Wasser sind tödlich Vom Leben gezeichnet – dieser Satz passt in mehrfacher Hinsicht zu Joe Trona: Als Kind von seinem eigenen Vater mit Säure entstellt, fand er Rettung bei Will Trona, dem charismatischen Politiker, der ihn adoptierte. Für Joe wird Will fortan zum Helden und zur Vaterfigur. Blind folgt er ihm in eine Welt aus Macht, Gier und Korruption und wird als »stiller Joe« zur diskreten und loyalen Rechten Hand seines Stiefvaters, bereit, ihn um jeden Preis zu schützen. Doch als Will ermordet wird, bricht für Joe eine Welt zusammen. Getrieben von Wut und Trauer schmiedet er einen Racheplan, der ihn nicht nur zu den Mördern führen wird, sondern auch zu einer schmerzhaften Wahrheit über sich selbst ... »Ein weiteres Meisterwerk eines versierten Autors.«― Kirkus Review Ein erstklassiger Thriller-Noir von Bestsellerautor T. Jefferson Parker – für Fans von Harlan Coben und Michael Connelly.

Er wird nicht ruhen, bis er den Mörder seiner Schwester findet ... Nach langen Monaten in einem mexikanischen Knast kehrt Ex-Cop und Bergungstaucher Jim Weir in seine Heimatstadt Newport Beach zurück. Doch die Freude über das Wiedersehen mit seiner Familie währt nicht lange, denn kurz darauf wird seine schwangere Schwester Ann auf grausame Weise ermordet. Fassungslos und von Rachedurst getrieben nehmen Jim und sein Schwager, der hochrangige Polizist Raymond Cruz, die Jagd nach dem Täter auf. Als der einzige Zeuge aussagt, der Mörder sei in einem Streifenwagen der Newport Beach Police geflohen, traut Jim seinen Ohren kaum. Verrat im eigenen Revier? Will sich deshalb niemand außer Raymond mit dem Fall befassen? Verzweifelt sucht Jim in Anns Vergangenheit nach Antworten –und stößt auf ein dunkles Geheimnis, das ihm bald zum Verhängnis zu werden droht ... »Schreiben auf höchstem Niveau«―Chicago Sun-Times Niemand schreibt so fesselnd über die Abgründe Kaliforniens wie Bestsellerautor T. Jefferson Parker – erstklassige Spannung für Fans von Harlan Coben und Michael Connelly.

Der erste Fall für Detective Hess und Merci Rayborn Seine Opfer sind schöne, kultivierte Frauen. Er lauert ihnen in der Mall auf – und schlachtet sie dann ab wie Tiere. Was am Tatort hinterbleibt, ist seine grausige Signatur: eine Handtasche voller Eingeweide. Wer steckt hinter diesen bestialischen Morden? Was ist sein Motiv? Und wie können die Frauen so spurlos verschwinden? Der in die Jahre gekommene Detective Tim Hess und die hoch ambitionierte Ermittlerin Merci Rayborn werden auf den Fall angesetzt. Unterschiedlich wie Tag und Nacht sind sie sich zunächst nur in einer Sache einig: Sie müssen den grausamen Mörder fassen. Doch mit jedem weiteren Opfer wächst ihre Verzweiflung – und ihre Besessenheit, den Fall zu lösen. Koste es, was es wolle. »Ein zugleich erschreckender, spannender und poetischer Roman, der die dunkelsten Abgründe der menschlichen Seele auslotet.« Washington Post Der packende Auftaktband um das ikonische Ermittlerduo – für Fans von Michael Connelly und Lee Child! Alle Bände der Reihe: Band 1: Dunkelstunde Band 2: Rote Schatten Band 3: Nachtspur Die Bände sind unabhängig voneinander lesbar.

A USA Today Best of 2022, and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller! A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom’s a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother’s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she’s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn’t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver’s license and ask out the girl he’s been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it’s up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don’t trust the hippies and the hippies don’t trust the cops, uncovering what’s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it’s not already too late. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet. When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity evangelist--and, finally, to the girl herself. The Last Good Guy is Ford's most challenging case to date, one that will leave him questioning everything he thought he knew about decency, honesty, and the battle between good and evil...if it doesn't kill him first.

“Mesmerizing and haunting.”—Lisa Gardner “T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction, and The Room of White Fire absolutely proves why.”—C.J. Box In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. Roland Ford—once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator—is good at finding people. But when he’s asked to locate an Air Force veteran who’s escaped from a mental institution, he realizes he’s been drawn into something deep and dark. What he doesn’t know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman—and why he’s getting a different story from everyone involved. In a flash, what began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way. “A fast-paced, beautifully written thriller."—The Washington Post

A beguiling story of an adventurous traveler, from the Edgar Award-winning author of the bestselling Deputy Charlie Hood series. Fresh out of college, a young man is hired by a high-end travel agency. His fears that he might be in over his head prove to be well-founded when he is dispatched to a potential new destination, Playa Amazonia. Twenty hours of traveling leads him to a luxurious hotel, the world's most beautiful beach--and an encounter with a highly unusual invasive species. "Amazonia" by T. Jefferson Parker is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!

"A brave and daring writer." —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born while his mother was in prison, and Wylie are half-brothers. They inherit not only superb athletic skills but an enmity that threatens to play out in a lethal drama on one of the fastest and most perilous ski slopes in the world. Three powerful and unusual women have central roles in this volatile family feud: Cynthia, bent on destroying Wylie; his mother Kathleen, determined to protect him; and April Holly, a beautiful celebrity snowboarder, on track to win Olympic Gold. But, as Wylie falls in love with April and they begin to imagine a life away from the violence that has shattered his family, history threatens to repeat itself and destroy them both. Combining exquisite writing with breathtaking scenes of high stakes skiing, T. Jefferson Parker's Crazy Blood is an unforgettable story of two brothers on a ruthless quest for supremacy.

In this short story from the New York Times bestselling thriller anthology Face Off, John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker team up for the first time ever, along with their characters - Wyatt Hunt, hero of three of Lescorart's Hunt Club thrillers; and Joe Trona from Parker's Edgar Award-winning Silent Joe. What begins as a relaxing fishing vacation among friends quickly descends into chaos when Hunt and Trona are drawn into a local gang war in the heart of a tiny Mexican village. When an innocent family is taken hostage, Hunt and Trona have no choice but to set aside their fishing poles and set a trap for some much bigger prey. For more exciting short story pairings, don't miss all eleven short stories in Face Off!

An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.

Los hermanos Becker crecieron muy unidos. Corre la década de los sesenta y cada uno de ellos ha hecho ya su vida. Uno es policía y está investigando su primer caso de homicidio, el de Janelle Vonn, una chica que conocieron en la primera juventud, de la que cada uno se enamoró a su manera. Otro de los Becker se ha hecho pastor evangelista; vive a la espera de un milagro. El tercero es un ambicioso periodista. Cada uno intentará encontrar al asesino de Janelle a su manera. A medida que los sospechosos se multiplican y los secretos se desvelan, los tres hermanos se ven obligados a enfrentarse con el peligro y a plantar cara a su propio pasado.

Patrick Norris returns to rural California after serving with the Marine Corps in Afghanistan. Fire has ravaged his home farm and it has all become too much for his parents and brother to manage. The country has changed though, notably after the mass killings of children in schools across the United States, invariably by lone gunmen, and a great tension exists in the people. Is there really a case for an even wider ownership of guns? Patrick's brother, Ted, hasn't had it easy in life. Health conditions have slowed him down and set him apart. Ted worships Patrick, and Patrick knows he has to be an example, but settling down to the country life cannot be easy after Iraq. When a child is mown down by an unknown driver suspicion takes over Fallbrook. There will be deaths before it is all resolved, perhaps many and perhaps the death of innocents

Pour certains, les hors-la-loi du Far West n’existent plus. Pour le policier Charlie Hood, rien n’est plus faux, et il sait de quoi il parle : c’est jour après jour que, de préférence seul dans son 4 x 4, il patrouille les « déserts » de la frontière américano-mexicaine. Jusqu’au jour où on lui assigne comme coéquipier un certain Terry Laws que tout le monde appelle « Mister Wonderful » tant il est bon, juste et se présente comme l’ami des pauvres et des enfants. Qu’un tel homme puisse être exécuté sous les yeux mêmes de Charlie défierait l’imagination si l’on oubliait que ces « déserts » ne sont peut-être pas aussi inhabités qu’on le croit et que grâce aux grottes, aux dunes, aux chemins secrets et surtout à la corruption et la terreur, la drogue n’a guère de mal à passer d’un pays à l’autre. Très vite, Charlie est amené à s’intéresser à Draper, le coéquipier habituel de Terry Laws, et c’est là que les ennuis commencent, car l’homme est très dangereux. Personnages de flics honnêtes et moins honnêtes, descriptions des superbes paysages d’Antelope Valley, conflit entre Draper et Hood pour gagner l’âme de Bradley, le fils d’Allison Murietta, personnage du roman éponyme, et construction de l’histoire, Les Chiens du désert est assurément un grand cru dans l’œuvre de T. Jefferson Parker.

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the second thrilling novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire. Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood cruises the dusty backroads of the new American West. But when his partner is shot dead and Hood is drafted to find the killer, the investigation takes him to places he never wanted to go-where there's no clear line between good and evil.

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the third thrilling novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now including an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire. Along the U.S./Mexico border, a man named Finnegan wakes up in the border-town of Buenavista after a hit and run-eerily aware of events he should know nothing about, $90,000 richer, and with Charlie Hood's name and address in his wallet. Meanwhile when tracking the flow of illegal guns into Mexico, Hood's team accidentally kills the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Now, Hood must work to grasp the enigmatic forces fighting for control of Buenavista- forces that circle back to Finnegan, and to Armenta's unstoppable plan for brutal vengeance.

Een agent onderzoekt in het Californië van de jaren '60 van de 20e eeuw de moord op een ex-schoonheidskoningin, een kennis uit zijn jeugd.

Life in Newport Beach, California is more nightmare than paradise when ex-cop Jim Weir's pregnant sister is brutally murdered. Life becomes unbearable when Weir is asked to investigate his former department. Political corruption and small town connections make this task even more onerous.

Hitting rock bottom after losing his family and ability to work after an explosion that was intended to kill him, former police officer Matt Stromsoe takes a job as a bodyguard for a television personality whose private life has rendered her a stalker's target.

Drôle de destin que celui de Joe : défiguré au vitriol à l'âge de neuf mois, il n'avait pu apaiser les blessures de son âme qu'aux côtés de Will Trona, père adoptif et mentor. Mais ce dernier vient d'être abattu par une bande de malfrats. Qui sont-ils ? Qui les envoie ? Brisé et vengeur, Joe, alias " Acid Baby ", se lance dans une enquête qui tourne au cauchemar. Rapt d'enfant, règlements de comptes, vidéos compromettantes : le secteur d'activités de son parent d'adoption révèle des zones d'ombre insoupçonnées. Plus de doutes, Will a laissé en héritage à Joe non seulement un passé trouble mais les plus virulents de ses ennemis...

1968. La guerre du Vietnam fait rage et l'Amérique n'en finit pas de compter ses morts. La paranoïa anti-rouges atteint des sommets ; Charles Manson promène sa silhouette inquiétante dans les night-clubs confidentiels où il cachetonne. A Laguna Beach, Timothy Leary, initie ses disciples aux mystères du LSD et de l'amour sans entraves... Alors que le vent du changement balaie le pays, la jeune Janelle Vonn est retrouvée décapitée dans un entrepôt de Californie du Sud. Andy, Nick et David Becker, trois frères qui connaissent la famille Vonn depuis l'enfance, se lancent à la poursuite du meurtrier. Et plus l'enquête avance, plus les suspects potentiels se multiplient.. T. Jefferson Parker restitue avec une impressionnante justesse de ton et d'émotion l'atmosphère de la Californie du Sud en 1968. Roman au style percutant, California Girl s'est vu attribuer le prestigieux prix Edgar, récompensant le meilleur policier publié aux Etats-Unis en 2005.

Living in Orange County, California, in the late 1960s, three brothers pursue leads relevant to their respective careers as a homicide detective, a minister, and a reporter when a woman from a childhood rival family is found murdered.

The Edgar Award–winning author is "at the top of his game" in "this engrossing tale" of a cop who must face his own family's violent past to solve a murder ( Kirkus , starred review). California Homicide Detective Tom McMichael has every good reason to pass on the investigation of slain city patriarch Pete Braga. After all, it was former mayor and self-made millionaire Braga who killed Tom's grandfather in a dispute over money—and Tom's own father who, allegedly, sought revenge by savagely beating Braga's son. But there are others who hated the old man as well. And McMichael is a good cop determined to perform his duty to the best of his abilities—despite his growing feelings for the beautiful nurse who is the prime suspect in the brutal bludgeoning death...and despite a twisting trail that is leading him into deadly, dark, and very private places where he dearly wishes not to go.

Scarred for life by a brutal father, Joe Trona found a safe haven and a loving childhood in the home of the couple who adopted him. Now he spends his days as a deputy for the Orange County sheriff's department and his nights as a driver and aide to Will Trona, the influential politician who rescued him from the Hillside Children's Home. An expert in firearms and the martial arts, Joe has been backing Will up for a long time. Still, his skill isn't enough to keep Will alive, and when his father is killed right in front of Joe's eyes, the young deputy vows to avenge him. But first he must find out how the kidnapping of a tycoon's daughter, a scam to line the pockets of Will Trona's political enemies, the murder of two Guatemalan immigrants, the unholy activities of a charismatic minister who's a close friend of the Trona family, and the strange alliance of two rival L.A. gangs are connected to Will's death. Every secret Joe uncovers leads deeper into his beloved father's murky past and ultimately his own. But the reader stays right with this extraordinary man as he battles his demons and ultimately vanquishes them. Author T. Jefferson Parker (The Blue Hour, Red Light, Laguna Heat) is one of the best thriller writers working today. Fans of Michael Connelly and DennisLehane--and Raymond Chandler, for that matter--will appreciate Parker's abilityto create a complex, fascinating, and fully realized hero whose inner reality is brilliantly revealed by his actions. Will Trona is an equally intriguing invention; while ultimately he is an enigma, we remain convinced that he is worthy of his son's devotion. Silent Joe is a mindful, intelligent novel you can't put down. It should break Parker out withthe really big boys of mystery fiction, the million-sellers with the marquee names. In fact, he's a much better writer than most of them, and unlike many, he never tells the same story twice. --Jane Adams

The "ace suspense writer" ("Chicago Tribune") returns with an explosive new thriller that pits an unlikely team of detectives--who become an even more unlikely pair of lovers--against a ruthless serial killer.