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A ritual killer returns. A broken detective is the key. Haunted by an unsolved case, Casey Shaw is pulled back when the murders begin again - marked by symbols only he understands. As reality fractures, one truth emerges: the final pattern was never about the victims. A gripping psychological thriller of memory and madness.

Tasked with heading up the hunt for a twisted killer who eats his victims alive, while trying hard to keep her relationship with a junior member of her team under wraps, has DCI Zara Wade on the edge. But when her troubled sister Emily arrives unannounced, fleeing from her abusive husband, and the killer starts leaving notes which suggest he's closer than she thinks, things begin to spiral out of control. ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR: Bitemarks, Trackmarks And the second in the DCI Wade Series, Down Came the Rain.

A series of gruesome murders of young children shocks everyone in the small city of Torrington, Connecticut. Three men, unmoored from their former lives, meet in the library to scour clues and use their skills to help catch a psychopath. A mysterious woman who assisted them in past investigations offers one word which sets them off on their treacherous journey to find a killer and end a bloody rampage which has followed two of them from Baltimore.

Tortured is the first book of the Linda Riley Investigation series. Everyone has a destiny, there are those in life who clearly have a purpose- Linda Riley is one of these people. Linda was born to be a Detective. Linda was placed on the path to reach her true calling when she helped stop a heinous crime as a child. Now, as a young Detective, Linda is an expert in Behavioral Science and Psychology, able to understand the criminal psyche. She is able to analyze what all is said, and unsaid- an expert in deception. Those skills are needed with a serial killer at large. In “Tortured”, ...

As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She’s had to be. Abandoned as a baby and raised by a succession of strangers, she knows a thing or two about surviving… …but she never expected to find herself hunting a serial killer. After uncovering a string of missing women—women no one seems to care about—Callie refuses to look away. With police ignoring the evidence, her only ally is an organised crime boss with his own agenda.

Hunting a Cat in Dogtown, the third book in The Serial Killer Anthology, is the exciting sequel to the popular Killer Dead, Victim Alive. It picks up where the unexpected twists and turns of the first book’s cliffhanger ending left off: with a startling surprise at Santa Monica Police Lieutenant Greg Nichols' front door. Similar shocks greet others who were involved in investigating Chrissy Weeks' potential involvement in the earlier execution of Killer Dead, Victim Alive serial killer Keith Victor. The deliveries are messages, and may even be threats. But Weeks is in custody. So how ...

Book Two in the Titoo Family Detective Series dives even deeper into danger and deception. If you were hooked by Kelsey and Patrick’s first case, you won’t want to miss this one. A young girl vanishes from a park. But the mystery runs deeper than a simple disappearance. Did she run away, or is something more sinister at play? Meanwhile, strange things are happening in Kelsey’s apartment complex. As residents begin to go missing, rumors of a serial killer emerge. Going undercover for the first time, Kelsey is determined to stop the predator before she becomes his next target. Nothing ...

DCI Wade still wears the scars from her last big enquiry, but with a recent drowning murder carrying uncomfortable links to the past and her worst suspicions about her sisters psycho husband realised, there's no time to heal. When both of the new enquiries are facing derailment, and she finds herself frozen out, Wade is faced with seeing two dangerous killers escape justice. ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR: Grind Their Bones, Bitemarks, Trackmarks

Alma Cullen is dead. In a bizarre link, people from flight BX842 are dying at a holiday resort in Greece. DCI Silas Nash and his second in command, DI Molly Brown, go undercover as the body count rises. The guests have stopped dying—but there’s a new threat. One by one, the remaining guests go missing. Nash must solve the mystery before it’s too late. In this interconnected standalone paranormal detective thriller, Katherine Black delivers more intrigue and clues for the reader to find as she delves into the dark recesses of the human psyche. How do you hunt a killer when you don’t ...

This is book two of a two part story. The first part is the book, The Reporter. Usually the desert is where problems are buried. But this time it's where the solution is dug up.

When the broken body of a seventy-one-year-old woman is found beneath the Humber Bridge, a sign around her neck with the words ‘Pure Evil’ spray-painted in red, Detective Hollie Turner can’t help but wonder–who would want this frail elderly woman dead? As she starts to delve into the victim’s personal life, Hollie discovers that the woman, Sister Brennan, ran a local mother and baby home at the Church of St Mary and the Angels. The unit may have shut down years ago, but the pain and anguish of those who were forced to give up their babies remains.

Open graves are turning up in Able Valley, Mississippi—but their occupants aren’t dead yet. It’s happened before. Twenty years ago three graves were found, followed by three murders, and the killer was never caught. Now it’s happening again. When a prominent citizen turns up dead and with a waiting grave, the residents turn to the one man in the state who might find a forgotten killer—cold case detective Arlan Trahan. But when his arrival in Able Valley lands him between a beautiful temptress and a trained sniper, Detective Trahan wonders if the next waiting grave might be his.

A body discovered in the river in the centre of Cardiff with its tongue amputated leads to more deaths in the Polish community. John Marco and his team have to delve into the East European immigrant community and uncover the murky world of people trafficking. But what is it that links all the deaths together?

When the remains of a young woman are discovered on the edge of picturesque Saranac Lake, Detective Harlow Durant races to the scene. The victim is identified as 26-year-old Ellie Gordon - a seemingly normal girl, with no known enemies. Then, another body is discovered. The only connection, a man they used to date. With a small community reeling in shock, Harlow knows time is running out to piece together the only lead she has, before another woman loses her life. But soon, she is confronted by a woman who brings her face-to-face with the secret she's spent her life running from.

It isn’t the blood that makes Cara scream…it’s what comes after. When a local librarian is found murdered in Bellview, with a boiled egg stuffed in his throat and his body drenched in pig’s blood, Detective Rose Sanchez is called to the scene. At the same time, Rose’s partner, Alex, is in Boston on a separate case. As the investigation deepens, Alex and Rose discover that both cases are tied to a cult worshipping the goddess Astarte, whose followers believe that ritual sacrifices during the full moon will bring about peace—but at a deadly cost. As the full moon approaches, the ...

When a reported gang rape seems to have disturbing links to a high-profile miscarriage of justice, DCI Wade's superiors don't seem to want her anywhere near the enquiry. Wade has never been good at ignoring her hunches though, and soon her stubborn persistence leads her to a shocking discovery which threatens her career and her life, and sets her on collision course with her nemesis, the incarcerated serial killer David Reimoore.

A brilliant detective faces off against an intelligent killer. This killer murders his victims on certain days and dates of the year. Detective Ryker Bartley, with his newly acquired smarts, spots the pattern. Then the chase across Texas begins. Murders continue as Ryker and his team follow leads, trying to beat the killer at his own game. When the police get close, the killer goes after those who are on his trail. Ryker suffered one death during the investigation. Can he survive losing another?

Evil invades the sleepy little town of Crater Lake, Iowa . . . Rookie Sheriff Nathan Murphy goes on the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering young girls by staking them through the heart and decapitating them. But that’s not all – before killing them, he drains their blood first. Enlisting the help of FBI Profiler Lindsay Trujillo, Nathan begins a descent into darkness as the investigation leads them down a trail of the supernatural. They soon discover they may not be dealing with something human after all. Their suspect may be far older and far more dangerous . . . The first ...

Crestfallen, dejected, and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. But when the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen.

He doesn't just kill. He composes. In the bleak, snow-choked town of Frostwood, a meticulous killer arranges his victims like figures in a chilling tableau. But his true masterpiece is hidden: perfect miniature replicas of his crimes, built with gruesome souvenirs harvested from the scene. Detective Evie Vance is called back to the suffocating small town she fled years ago – a town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of her own sister. As Evie delves into the killer's obsessive mind, the echoes between his chilling art and her own past become terrifyingly loud. Can she stop this artist ...