An investigator with no skills. No smarts. No game. Just an emerging talent for finding out secrets. All investigators start their careers somewhere—but not all of them succeed. In "My Favorite Suspects," Terry Perez finds his first case at a bottom-rung job in a supermarket. He has no skills, no experience, no craft, and no tricks. And yet, he has a crime to solve, his job on the line, and a mysterious stranger to rescue. His only advantage is an unreliable ability to uncover what people are trying to hide. His only ally is a female grifter who may be setting him up to be a fall guy. His first lesson: Everyone is guilty of something, including his friends, and even himself. The hard part is figuring out which people committed the crimes that he actually must solve, and then figuring out how to bring the right suspects to justice....

An ex-combat medic searching for a mysterious patient infiltrates a criminal gang. His only way out? A female thief with a burning desire for revenge. Nurse and former combat medic Ben Rossi, accused of assaulting a patient, has been suspended from his job—and the only person who can clear his name has gone missing. Rossi's search for this man entangles him in a criminal organization, a fight for his life, and an alliance with a dangerous female thief. His training as a combat medic didn't prepare him for this kind of battle. To survive, Rossi must resist his instinct for compassion and learn to think—and act—like a criminal. The Good Killers, set near the Canadian border in Upstate New York, has suspense, action, humor, and dynamic characters that will appeal to readers who like to hot-wire cars, run from the cops, and blackmail people. Or to readers who need to...

Why are pacemakers, ICDs, insulin pumps, and other implants so difficult to secure? Is the information they gather about patients safe and private? Did you know that the data collected by personal medical devices (PMDs) is used by a wide group of practitioners, device manufacturers, and insurance providers, often without the patient's awareness? This book explores how the special characteristics of personal medical devices can affect your personal security, the security of your organization, and the privacy of your medical information. Contents What Makes Personal Medical Devices Special? What Is a Personal Medical Device? Legal Aspects of PMD Security Predisposing Conditions and Vulnerabilities How Personal Medical Devices Are Deployed Attacking Personal Medical Devices History And Timeline of Threats Summary of Threats to Individuals Summary of Threats to Organizations Trends in PMD Security PMDs present both a security risk, in that they are often ignored and unprotected, and also a privacy...

A mysterious stranger. A plan gone wrong. A fight for survival along America’s northern border. Nurse and former combat medic Ben Rossi has been investigating a series of unusual drug thefts at his clinic. Instead of opioids, a steady stream of antibiotics, antivirals, and other medicines that have little value on the black market are being taken each week. Rossi has contacted the police, but they have bigger concerns with stopping the flow of narcotics that flow through the county on their way to Canada. He teams up with a friend and disgraced sheriff's deputy, Riley Lopez. So far, every lead has turned up nothing and every location has been empty, except for a nearly-forgotten diner on rural highway. Together, Rossi and Lopez uncover a much larger criminal operation, and end up in a fight for their lives.

What choices would you make to save your child? What would you sacrifice in hope that they might survive? Dedicated to “those parents who have, indeed, tried everything,” Where This Mystery Takes Us immerses you in Erland and Hedda’s struggle to hold themselves and their family together while confronting the mystery of what lies beyond their existence. Using techniques from fable, noir, fantasy, and magic realism, the author presents the family’s crisis symbolically, in a way that can engage readers regardless of their background. Readers describe this novelette as “moving” and “engaging.”