Books about cop

After a painful divorce, Blair Mallory follows her dream and opens a health club. But Nicole Goodwin, a troubled member of the club, develops a strange fixation on Blair, imitating her style and dress, even the car she drives. Then Nicole is gunned down in the club's parking lot. And Blair is the only witness to the murder.

Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, the men and women of Hollywood Station hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass freak and something has got to give.

Argues that while communities form naturally, organizations need to become more proactive and systematic about developing and integrating them into their strategy. This book provides practical models and methods for stewarding these communities to reach their full potential - without squelching the inner drive that makes them so valuable.

On psychiatric rehabilitation in Siberia, Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska. His movements are being shadowed by those who know his past. Then Renko is given a chance to regain his freedom.

Three corpses had been found in Moscow. But why the horrific mutilations? And why had they been buried in the snows of Gorky Park? It did indeed become a triple murder investigation for Chief Investigator Arkady Renko.

The first corpse is found on a riverbank. The second in an isolated farmhouse. Both have been savagely beaten, the skin flayed from their bodies, their throats cut. For both victims, there's a DNA match. The killings were meticulously calculated and methodical. To find the answers, Lucas Davenport must track down his key suspect.

Substance D is the most dangerous drug on the market. It destroys the link between the brain's two hemispheres, leading eventually to irreversible brain damage. Undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but is soon as dependent as the other addicts.

Bill Buford worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. This is a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure.

A man whom the media tagged The Groom, because he put silver rings on the fingers of his victims had the city on edge with a killing spree that took the lives of four women in fifteen days. And now, Eve's determined to finish him. Familiar with his methods, Eve knows that he has already grabbed his next victim. Time is running out.

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people. Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.

Piatkus are proud to be publishing the first in a series of twenty - with more to come - romantic suspense novels from one of the world's bestelling authors.

Eight years ago, Daniel Pell and another man viciously slaughtered a family for no apparent reason. Now Pell has escaped and Kathryn Dance, the famed interrogator and kinesic analyst (body language) and her team, must find out where he is and why he's staying near the prison he escaped from.

Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux, this novel begins with the murder of a prostitute, which no one wants him to investigate. Persistence results in his involvement with a drug dealing Mafia, and he uncovers a web of corruption that some would kill to protect.

Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead ... But in the midst of a blizzard nothing is as it first appears to be.