Books with author Brennan M K

Stealing women's power is easy ... restoring it is deadly.Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt lives his life in the limelight. The charismatic star of New Scotland Yard is public relations gold. Everyone loves him. Well, almost everyone. For three years a vicious serial rapist has been taunting and tormenting him, sending him recordings of every sickening crime he commits. But with no DNA from the devastated victims the trail is stone cold dead, until a familiar landmark leads Colt back to his hometown - the last place on earth he wants to be.It's also the last place on earth Detective India Kane wants him. The obsessively private local keeps her head down, works hard, and doesn't bother anybody. She likes life that way. When people bother her, things have a tendency to get messy. She's just landed a career changing case - a brutal drug-facilitated rape investigation - and doesn't take kindly to the arrogant newcomer parachuted in to snatch it from her.The hunt is on.But Colt and Kane's twisted prey is just warming up. As he escalates, so does his power. And he won't stop until he's stolen it all ... even if it means bringing his own brand of terror directly to those who hunt him.When their lives collide - it won't just be the victims' worlds that are torn apart.Stealing Power is the first in a series of gripping psychological crime thrillers featuring British Detectives India Kane and AJ Colt. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Bryndza, Caroline Mitchell, Carol Wyer and Patricia Gibney.

With children, who can you really trust?When inner city school teacher Terri Davies' star pupil is left home alone, she's reluctant to alert the authorities and the messy bureaucratic nightmare it entails. Instead she turns to her sister, Detective India Kane, to quietly locate the pregnant single mother.It doesn't take long - India finds her sectioned in a psychiatric hospital, making wild claims her newborn was stolen by a leading paediatrician. With no record of a baby ever being born, are her claims the ramblings of a mentally disturbed mind, or, does the baby really exist, as Terri insists? And if he does, where is he? Under pressure from her sister with reminders of her own haunted past, India sets out to find the truth.As head of the Met's Paedophile Unit, Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt has seen it all. But even he isn't prepared for what his team encounters during a raid on a Hollywood heart-throb's London home. With an elite predatory paedophile ring at large, the last thing he needs is for vulnerable young girls to start vanishing from the care of Social Services.When the same names start cropping up in both police investigations - Kane and Colt's cases become entwined, plunging them deep into the secretive world of the Family Court system . . . an institution whose secrets some will kill to keep.A dark and disturbing crime thriller with compelling real-life themes, Baby Snatchers is perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Bryndza, Patricia Gibney, Carol Wyer, and Karin Slaughter.

The truth was dead and buried, she was dead and buried, until now ... For overworked firefighter Gray Davies, an emergency call-out to the scene of a horrific hit-and-run is all in a day's work . . . until the terrified victim disappears, leaving her blood on his hands and unanswered questions on his lips.For Detective India Kane it's an added complication in a far more sinister crime - a series of brutal, cold-blooded murders the missing hit-and-run victim could hold the key to solving. With a genitally mutilated corpse on her patch, and the dead woman's identity shrouded in secrecy, India's set on a collision course with a deadly, unknown enemy.Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt is well acquainted with the enemy - courtesy of a divisive high-profile grooming case, he's currently public enemy number one. As cultures clash, simmering tensions explode, bringing terror and bloodshed to the streets, and Colt to the attention of some of the country's most dangerous and deranged individuals.When one of them brings their work home, nothing will ever be the same again - for the wages of sin . . . is death.A gripping crime thriller with a twist that will leave you breathless, The Wages of Sin is perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Bryndza, Caroline Mitchell, Carol Wyer and Patricia Gibney.

Something strange and awful is happening beneath the Chipvole mountains, but Muriel the mouse knows nothing about it when she tells her children they’re moving back. Lenny, Vera, and Perry are excited and stunned; their mother rarely talks about their old life in the Chipvoles, in the happy days before they lost their father in a mysterious cave explosion. The group sets out from their cozy nest in the corner of a cluttered tool shed with little idea of what adventures, narrow escapes, odd travel companions, and surprising discoveries await them.Muriel's happy journey turns into a nightmare when one of the children becomes separated from the group. But help comes from surprising places--and even more surprising creatures.BENEATH THE CHIPVOLE MOUNTAINS was mentioned in World Magazine's 2013 Books Issue, listed among "The top 10 self-published books to cross WORLD's desk this year." It offers adventure, mystery, and humor to young fantasy readers.

The 2015 NaNoWriMo Tablo.io Novel Writing Contest winner. A virus decimated the entire planet’s human population. No treatment or vaccine could be found, so contraction—meant death. Humanity was forced to seek refuge in hermetically sealed self-sustaining bunkers, commonly referred to as ‘biospheres’. After the world’s power grid failed, survivors managed to establish a global satellite communications network, which allowed them to weave together a digital facsimile of their once thriving, but now extinct way of life. The disease, however, remained active and continued to spread, despite the survivors best intentions and inexhaustible precautions. It was therefore commonplace for connections to become broken, from time to time. The people of the network began to call the silence that inevitably came at the end of the line—The Darkness.No one ever returned when The Darkness came to call.Until now...

Something strange and awful is happening beneath the Chipvole mountains, but Muriel the mouse knows nothing about it when she tells her children they’re moving back. Lenny, Vera, and Perry are excited and stunned; their mother rarely talks about their old life in the Chipvoles, in the happy days before they lost their father in a mysterious cave explosion. The group sets out from their cozy nest in the corner of a cluttered tool shed with little idea of what adventures, narrow escapes, odd travel companions, and surprising discoveries await them. Muriel's happy journey turns into a nightmare when one of the children becomes separated from the group. But help comes from surprising places--and even more surprising creatures. BENEATH THE CHIPVOLE MOUNTAINS was mentioned in World Magazine's 2013 Books Issue, listed among "The top 10 self-published books to cross WORLD's desk this year." It offers adventure, mystery, and humor to young fantasy readers.

The 2015 NaNoWriMo Tablo.io Novel Writing Contest winner.A virus decimated the entire planet's human population. No treatment or vaccine could be found, so contraction--meant death. Humanity was forced to seek refuge in hermetically sealed self-sustaining bunkers, commonly referred to as 'biospheres'. After the world's power grid failed, survivors managed to establish a global satellite communications network, which allowed them to weave together a digital facsimile of their once thriving, but now extinct way of life.The disease, however, remained active and continued to spread, despite the survivors best intentions and inexhaustible precautions. It was therefore commonplace for connections to become broken, from time to time. The people of the network began to call the silence that inevitably came at the end of the line--The Darkness.No one ever returned when The Darkness came to call.Until now...

Built around the teachings of the Buddha, who lived in modern-day Nepal about 2,500 years ago, Buddhism is one of the world's largest and oldest spiritual traditions. In addition to its adherents in southern, central, and eastern Asia, today Buddhism has many followers in the Western world who seek through it a peaceful mind, freedom from expectations, and spiritual enlightenment. In this accessible text, the basic beliefs of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, are presented in concise language accompanied by sidebar features defining key vocabulary terms and encouraging readers to think critically beyond the text.