Ghost Squad

A New York Times bestseller! Coco meets Stranger Things with a hint of Ghostbusters in this action-packed supernatural fantasy. For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late. With the family dynamics of Coco and action-packed adventure of Ghostbusters, Claribel A. Ortega delivers both a thrillingly spooky and delightfully sweet debut novel.

When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity and criminal opportunity. Thieves broke into warehouses, hijacked trucks and ransacked rail yards to feed the black market; others stole, recycled or forged ration coupons. Scotland Yard was 6,000 men under strength but something dramatic had to be done and it was.Four of the Yards best informed detectives were summoned to form the Special Duties Squad and were told: Go out into the underworld. Gather your informants. Do whatever is necessary to ensure that the gangs are smashed up. We will never ask you to divulge your sources of information. But remember you must succeed.They did. Divisional Detective Inspector Jack Capstick, a brilliant thief-taker and informant runner, Detective Inspector Henry Clark, who knew the south London villains as few other detectives did and in addition, possessed a punch like the kick of a mule, and Detective Sergeants Matt Brinnand and John Gosling, who topped the Flying Squad wartime arrests, both individually and collectively. In under four years they arrested 789 criminals, solved 1,506 cases and recovered stolen property valued at 250,000 or 10 million by todays standards, with the aid of their informants, undercover officers and their own, unsurpassed ability.The Special Duties Squad was a one-off. How the four officers accomplished their task is divulged in this thrilling book, using hitherto unseen official documents and conversations from people who were there.

Gangland's demise is complete. Ghost Squad's days are numbered. Matrix has brought The Serpent Society to Midwest City...and his evil-ass little sister! Det. Higgins seeks the help of Channel 10 News reporter, Becky Plummer, to help him bring down Lt. Simms. As ShadowKill gains new allies and powers, his list of enemies grows and thanks to Dr. Africanus, they're much more formidable. Meanwhile, BloodOath is off the grid with a new, personal devotion to his true ilk. While Yosul and Prof. Danetta Garvey's relationship strengthens, Sarah has disappeared, Yosul's past is revealed, two Founders of W.I.S.K are introduced, and someone travels through time! Hold on to your seats! KG Bethlehem & F. Kenneth Taylor has packed this installment with tons of surprises!

The members of the Ghost Squad determine to keep the evil Dr. Purcell from succeeding in his plan to have his ghostly accomplices take over the temporarily vacated bodies of living beings.

When one of them finds a successful way to communicate with a live person, four young ghost decide to band together to help solve and prevent crimes.

The crime-fighting Ghost Squad joins forces with living colleagues to find out the fate of a missing boy at a camp which seems to be headed by a former commandant of a Nazi death camp.

The Ghost Squad's attempts to solve the mystery of one murder--and prevent another--are complicated by the activities of the evil Malevs.

The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s. Shocked by the extent of corruption within its ranks, Scotland Yard set up a new anti-corruption unit in the early 1990s. Its members had to operate in conditions of unprecedented secrecy and they became known as the 'Ghost Squad'. Bent Coppers really did believe they were untouchable: they stole cash and property, fitted-up innocent people and sold secret information to cripple court cases. Many of the bent coppers are now in jail or awaiting trial but the battle against corruption is not over. only now can the story of the 'Ghost Squad' be revealed. Award-winning BBC home affairs correspondent Graeme McLagan had followed the investigation since the beginning. He has interviewed undercover officers and many of the bent coppers they have exposed. this is the inside story of the 'Ghost Squad' and how it broke into the secret world of police corruption.