Criminal Intentions Series, Books 1-20 – Cole McCade Free Audiobook

Written by Cole McCade
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1) Season One, Episode One: The Cardigans

When a string of young queer men turn up dead in grisly murders, all signs point to the ex-boyfriend – but what should be an open-and-shut case is fraught with tension when BPD homicide detective Malcolm Khalaji joins up with a partner he never wanted. Rigid, ice-cold, and a stickler for the rules, Seong-Jae Yoon is a watchful presence whose obstinacy and unpredictability constantly remind Malcolm why he prefers to work alone. Seong-Jae may be stunningly attractive, a man who moves like a graceful, lethal bird of prey…but he’s as impossible to decipher as this case.

And if Malcolm doesn’t find the key to unravel both in time, another vulnerable young victim may end up dead.

2) Season One, Episode Two: Junk Shop Blues

A murdered night club mogul unlocks a web of infidelity and deceit. The most likely suspect? The daughter of the richest family in Baltimore, if only Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon can piece the evidence together. The clues just aren’t lining up—but Malcolm can’t tell if he’s missing a piece of the puzzle or completely missing the mark. The McAllister case still haunts him. So many dead. So many he couldn’t save. It’s throwing him off his game.

And the only one who really understands is his strange, coldly aloof partner.

A partner he can never see the same way, after a moment of intimacy that haunts him as much as the voices of the dead.

Seong-Jae Yoon is struggling in his own way. He can’t solve the case when he can’t trust Malcolm, and he can’t trust Malcolm when the grizzled old wolf is growing increasingly erratic, increasingly dangerous. What disturbs Seong-Jae is how much he needs to trust Malcolm. He doesn’t get that close. He doesn’t get that involved.

But he may have no choice, if they want to stop a powerful killer from slipping away.

3) Season One, Episode Three: The Man with the Glass Eye

Multiple execution-style murders hint at a mob hit, but when Malcolm and Seong-Jae follow the clues, the last thing they expect is a host of very familiar—and very dead—faces. They say dead men tell no tales, but if Malcolm and Seong-Jae can’t even trust the words of the living, they’ll never catch a hit man dead set on burying every trace of an underworld secret . . . along with a few more bodies.

But it’s not just the cold bodies on their minds when a little undercover work sends them to a nightclub once owned by none other than Marion Garvey. Forced to play at being lovers, neither man can ignore the distraction of the very warm body in his arms. To Malcolm, Seong-Jae remains as aloof as ever . . . but what’s really smoldering under that icy mask?

4) Season One, Episode Four: Changing Faces

With Malcolm on forced bed rest and off duty, Detective Seong-Jae Yoon faces his first solo case since joining the BPD—and it’s one that will challenge his morals, his sense of duty, and his insistence on adhering to the letter of the law, especially when his actions in the Bishop case leave him questioning his own integrity. When the supposedly accidental death of a husband and father points to foul play in the victim’s family, how close will Seong-Jae look to determine if the ends justify the means . . . and will he be able to live with the choices he makes?

Especially when his mind is as far from the case as possible, and lingering on Malcolm Khalaji, Malcolm’s ex-wife, and Seong-Jae’s own conflicted feelings?

5) Season One, Episode Five: It’s Witchcraft

An eerie ritualistic murder sends Malcolm and Seong-Jae down a bizarre path of the occult to find a killer—but when it comes to witchcraft, the suspect’s not the only one casting a spell. With Seong-Jae haunting his dreams, Malcolm is practically bewitched, his trust in Seong-Jae growing deeper and deeper as both men learn to rely on each other.

But when the murder triggers memories from both Seong-Jae’s and Malcolm’s shadowed pasts, will the secrets they share bring them closer . . . or drive them further apart?

6) Season One, Episode Six: Where There’s Smoke

They say where there’s smoke, there’s fire—but Malcolm and Seong-Jae have a lot of blood and no body in a case where the only witness to a murder may be the killer himself. Yet as they chase down a victim who may or may not exist in a crime that may or may not have happened, it’s the sparks flying between them that threaten to ignite into dangerous flame . . . and by the time this case is over, their relationship may never be the same. One kiss, one case, one night may change everything . . .

. . . and when Malcolm and Seong-Jae come together, someone’s going to get burned.

7) Season One, Episode Seven: Cult of Personality

“He pushed me.”

Three words turn a suspected suicide into an unsettling murder, pointing to a killer whose methods and motives threaten to expose buried memories of Seong-Jae’s past. Yet neither Malcolm nor Seong-Jae are ready for the shadowed secrets that could shatter their tenuous new relationship, when a haunting presence seems to stalk them around every corner, watching their smallest move, baiting them and flirting just out of reach. Is it the killer, always staying one step ahead?

Or a green-eyed ghost, luring both Malcolm and Seong-Jae toward the point of no return?

8) Season One, Episode Eight: Collateral Damage

Tragedy strikes on the homefront when a husband and father snaps . . . but if Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon can’t track down a killer on the run, this crime of passion may take one more victim. Moral boundaries blur, lines cross, and even as a secretive puppetmaster watches from the shadows, both Malcolm and Seong-Jae must make a choice. One path leads to salvation.

While the other may leave an innocent dead.

And not even the feelings growing between them will stop Malcolm and Seong-Jae from shattering for good.

9) Season One, Episode Nine: A Single, Bright Candle’s Flame

Detective Malcolm Khalaji is at a loss.

For the second time in his life, he wasn’t there when his lover needed him. And with Seong-Jae Yoon on leave pending an internal investigation, Malcolm doesn’t know what to do with a shattered partner and boyfriend who’s retreated from him into a dark and broken place. This time he’s determined to be there no matter what Seong-Jae needs, even if it means taking time off from the pressures of their job to hold Seong-Jae through every moment of trauma, of guilt, of self-recrimination.

Until a frantic phone call from Seong-Jae’s parents destroys any hope of peace. Because Seong-Jae’s younger sister is missing—and there’s only one place she would go.

Yet even if the desperate search breaks Seong-Jae’s numbness, it’s the warmth of family that brings him back from a black and dangerous edge—and shows Malcolm a side to Seong-Jae he never could have imagined. If each player in this game is a chess piece, then none other than Edmund Bishop is a pawn, sacrificed to save his queen. Yet is Lillienne Wellington really the one pulling the strings?

10) Season One, Episode Ten: Backdraft

When a 911 call goes wrong and a young man goes missing, it falls to Malcolm and Seong-Jae to investigate the responding officers when Internal Affairs’ internal politics leave the case compromised and the officers aren’t willing to talk. But with Seong-Jae on the wrong side of the thin blue line, tensions just may turn violent before the detectives find their answers—and only their trust in each other will keep this investigation from hitting a dead end. Will Malcolm and Seong-Jae’s savage love survive the test, or will this case end in self-destruction?

With Sade mysteriously vanished once more, taking one of their major assets out of commission, it’s anyone’s game. Especially when their missing young man becomes a dead young man . . . and no one will admit who’s truly responsible for his violent demise.

11) Season One, Episode Eleven: Crescendo

“I’m sorry.”

A stage play turns into high drama when the leading man’s mutilated body takes center stage—and the remorseful note pinned to his chest is Malcolm and Seong-Jae’s only clue to finding the killer. What should be a simple case is complicated by secrets and lies; as more and more of Seong-Jae’s past surfaces, every deflection and careful half-truth builds the walls between partners-turned-lovers higher still.

When Malcolm and Seong-Jae can no longer see eye to eye . . . will the closing act of their story turn into a tragedy?

12) Season One, Episode Twelve: The Hatter’s Game, Part I

Broken trust. Shattered hearts. Secrets exposed—and yet still no closer to the truth. When Malcolm and Seong-Jae’s relationship hits a wall, their partnership fragments as well . . . and they may not be able to withstand the crushing tide when protests over Tomasz Kowalczyk’s death turn into deadly riots. Too many familiar faces return, and one will be leaving in a body bag.

But for the puppet master guiding their every move, the chaos that descends on Baltimore is the perfect opportunity to capture his mark.

And when Sila sets his eyes on Malcolm . . . Malcolm will discover that nowhere is safe. There’s no one he can trust.

And no one to save him from the man who taught Seong-Jae to love through pain. Through suffering. Through hatred. Through lies.

Through betrayal, when nothing and no one are what they seem.

13) Season One, Episode Thirteen: The Hatter’s Game, Part II

Malcolm Khalaji is missing. And Seong-Jae Yoon is the only one who can find him.

But to do so means walking paths he swore he would never tread again. Descending into the blackest hallways of a twisted and sadistic mind. Breaking down every wall he’s ever built around himself, to try to predict what Sila will do next.

Yet not even Seong-Jae can anticipate the outcome of this deadly game.

One chance. One choice.

Will Seong-Jae sacrifice himself to save Malcolm . . . or become the monster that Sila knows him to be?

14) Season Two, Episode One: The Golden Ratio

The boys are back, and an old face from Seong-Jae’s past plunges BPD Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon from a two-month suspension right into the depths of hell—and into one of the most horrific, grisly cases of Malcolm’s life.

He’s never seen anything like it. Macabre ritual killings, and the only one who’s ever been able to crack the killer’s pattern has been his partner and lover.

But Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren’t the only ones tracking this case.

And with the return of FBI Division Chief Aanga Joshi, Malcolm may have to contend with more than a rogue killer.

A jealous ex. More of Seong-Jae’s buried secrets. A prison break turned into a blood-soaked crime scene.

And two men, far from home, standing on the brink. Where nothing may be safe. Not even each other.

15) Season Two: Episode Two: In Sequence

The Golden Ratio killer resurfaces in California to target a former victim, and this time the case takes Malcolm and Seong-Jae hunting deep into his past, searching for connections between victim and killer that may reveal his identity. But with the killer one step ahead of them, toying with them, leaving false trails at every turn, it’s like playing Russian Roulette—and if they guess the wrong suspect out of a potential five, one misstep could leave many more dead.

With Malcolm and Seong-Jae’s domestic life—and sex life—up in the air they’re off their game, off the mark, and already starting to crack. But they aren’t the only ones, as back in Baltimore, Huang kicks a new plan into motion and Anjulie finds herself under unwanted scrutiny. Everyone’s lives are falling apart.

And if they can’t get their shit together, more than their relationships may crash and burn.

16) Season Two, Episode Three: Cold Calculation

How do you profile a serial killer who keeps changing his pattern?

A body encased in ice and a cryptic message make Malcolm, Seong-Jae, and Aanga Joshi question everything they thought they’d learned about the Golden Ratio Killer. If their suspect can change his methods and alter his patterns, he could easily disappear . . .

. . . along with any chance of catching him before he completes his deadly game.

To keep up, Malcolm and Seong-Jae will have to find the bigger picture, the larger plan to intercept their target before that strange message turns into another victim—but it’s the small things tripping them up when their relationship and some unsettled business between them leaves them stumbling around each other and falling head-first into mistakes that could cost them more than just the case.

It could cost another innocent life, and leave that blood stained on their hands.

17) Season Two, Episode Four: Hard Angle

Unsettled tensions from the last case come to a head as Seong-Jae reveals his secrets—but will it be enough to repair the fractures in his relationship with Malcolm?

Especially when their only promising lead on the Golden Ratio Killer’s identity falls apart, along with any hope of returning home to Baltimore and to their life together.

When their primary suspect turns up dead . . .

. . . after attempting to kill the daughter of another suspect.

The Golden Ratio killer’s strange web of deception, double-backs, and doppelgängers grows ever more tangled, and as those twisted threads ensnare Malcolm and Seong-Jae, they find themselves pulled ever further apart. Not even Malcolm’s patience may be able to save them, their relationship a painful casualty of their job. That doesn’t mean he won’t try.

But Malcolm’s desperate attempts to hold them together put them in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that unfortunate coincidence? Might just end both their lives.

18) Season Two, Episode Five: Deep Spiral

A deadly, unstable shooter. A trap Malcolm and Seong-Jae can’t escape.

And more than one life on the line as they find themselves facing down one of the Golden Ratio Killer’s proxies in a high-stakes hostage situation that could ramp up the serial murderer’s mathematical body counts exponentially.

And if Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren’t careful, they’ll be among the tally.

While back home, Huang’s life hangs in the balance—and Anjulie walks a thin line between justice and deception.

Everything’s spiraling out of control. And the more they fight to survive, the deeper they sink into a twisted game governed by not one, but two minds.

With Sila and the Golden Ratio Killer as the players . . . Will our heroes end up as nothing more than pawns?

19) Season Two, Episode Six: Divine Proporation

While Captain Anjulie Zarate y Salazar faces a crisis of loyalty at home, Malcolm Khalaji faces another crisis in Los Angeles.

And that crisis is named Yoon Eun-Ji.

When mandatory mental health leave turns into a not-particularly-optional dinner invitation from Seong-Jae’s parents, Malcolm finds himself thrust into chaos. Multilingual mortification. Sassy sisters. Spicy steak. And intimate moments that are exactly what Malcolm needs to distract himself from the building trauma inside him, threatening to break and crash at any moment.

But Malcolm isn’t the only one taking advantage of the distraction to confront difficult issues—and a story within a story unravels as Seong-Jae descends into memories of his time with Sila, searching for anything that could unearth clues about the cat-eyed man, where his path will take him next, his connection to the Golden Ratio Killer, and the dangers that threaten the people Malcolm and Seong-Jae love most.

Echoes of the past. Remembered pains. Emerging patterns. New revelations. And a confession that could change everything.

For better or for worse, by the end of this case . . . Malcolm and Seong-Jae will never be the same.

20) Season Two, Episode Seven: Triangulation

Less than a day.

Less than a day of peace, of calm, of comfort before the white rabbit returns to tear Malcolm and Seong-Jae’s lives apart. An eerie video presents them with a deadly ultimatum, which leaves our intrepid pair racing to discover the identity of the latest victim—and desperate to protect their families from the threat hanging over their heads.

As tension rises to a screaming point and conflict comes to a head between Mal, Seong-Jae, and Aanga Joshi, the detectives dive deeper into the pasts of their remaining suspects, searching for the clue that will unmask the white rabbit once and for all.

Two men. One killer. And that tenuous connection to the darkness of Seong-Jae’s past, now cast into doubt as Sila’s true identity comes clear. For Malcolm and Seong-Jae, there seems no escape from this endless night.

Unless they trust each other.

And trust the love between them to light the way.