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Raised in an atmosphere of violence and unpredictability, Ellen and Gail Morgan have banded together, survivors of a booze-fertilized battleground, forming a fierce united front against an often cold and uncaring world. When their parents are killed in a car crash, Ellen becomes the mother figure for Gail. When fifteen years later Gail is brutally raped and murdered in her shabby New York basement apartment, practically on the eve of her big breakthrough as a singer, Ellen is inconsolable. Rage at her younger sister's murder has nearly consumed her.

The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham's Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess's secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets. Is the truth about Jess's past too buried there?

Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her. Is sacrificing herself the only way to stop this evil?

She’s chasing a killer. And he knows exactly how to tear her apart. When a third woman goes missing in the rustbelt town of Shadow Bay, Chief of Police Shauna Peterson faces a brutal truth. A predator is hunting in her backyard, and the victims are getting closer to home. The town wants answers. The state police want control. And Shauna’s daughter, Emma, is slipping away. Then the latest body turns up, stitched with a red thread, deliberate and methodical, unmistakably personal. Is a serial killer stalking the frozen streets of Shadow Bay?

The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising. Chief of Police Dan Burnett is on administrative leave, his life is falling apart. Deputy Chief Harold Black has assumed the post of Birmingham's top cop, a dream of his for more than a decade. Private Detective Buddy Corlew is poised face to face with serial killer Eric Spears and Jess Harris has just learned that everything she thought she knew about where she came from is a lie. There's only one way to end this - someone has to die....

When ex-teen star Maizie Albright returns to her hometown in Black Pine, Georgia, she hoped to rid herself of Hollywood tabloid and reality show hell for a new career as a private investigator. Instead, Hollyweird follows her home. Maizie’s costar crushing, but now for her gumshoe boss. Her stage-monster mother still demands screen time. Her latest rival wants her kicked off their set, preferably back to a California prison.

When Cherry Tucker's invited to paint the "kill portrait" for the winner of Big Rack Lodge's Hogzilla hunt, it seems like a paid vacation. Back home in Halo, a Hatfield-McCoy-style standoff builds between Luke and Cherry's families. She's ready for a weekend away, hobnobbing with rich and famous hunters, where she can forget her troubles and nobody knows her name.

Emma Harvey is a brilliant and gifted young pianist, accepted into one of the most prestigious music conservatories in the country and prepared to do whatever it takes to accomplish her dreams of playing professionally. With a renowned jazz musician for a father and a world-famous mentor growing up, she is convinced her path is easy. Until her world is suddenly silenced when she loses her hearing.

Maizie Albright might have once played a (teenage) private investigator on TV, but she’s now living the (adult) part. Her (mother’s) name is on her business cards. Her (boss’s) appointment book is brimming with new clients. And her bank account has grown large enough to finally trade in her dirt bike for an actual new (pre-owned) vehicle. While the police begin their inquiries, Maizie starts her own case. She’s needling Black Pine’s wealthy do-gooders, threading through lies, stitching together clues, and ripping out false leads.

Agent Nora Wexler rolls up her sleeves to tackle a new set of mysteries and killings in this riveting new sequel trilogy full of devastating revelations and action! Now a seasoned FBI agent, Nora discovers that having experience working for the bureau is much different than knowing what'll happen next. When a shooting takes place at Joint Base Andrews, she finds that the killer has committed suicide, but the question of what happened is more alive than ever. Meanwhile, her personal life threatens to explode when Travis takes up the case of another woman.

For those who love country-fried cozy mysteries filled with action, quirky characters, and a side of romance, you're going to love the trouble-magnet portrait artist and amateur-sleuth Cherry Tucker. From The Wall Street Journal bestselling and international award-winning author Larissa Reinhart and read by the fabulously funny Joan Dukore.

The curtain rises on Cherry Tucker’s debut as a high school set designer at the posh Peerless Day Academy. Cherry’s been hired for an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, but the drama director is hoping Cherry can also turn the spotlight on a malicious social media bully who’s sending poisonous texts to the faculty. The director’s got his own drama to hide, and the phantom texter seems eager to spill school secrets. When the principal’s secretary commits suicide, Cherry suspects foul play.

Elsabet or Elizabeth Bathory's life is notorious and, for the most part, known to history. What she's done since is another story altogether. Haunted by the crimes of her life and by her bloodfather, Vlad Dracula, Elsa seeks a life of her own in the New World. But her past will always catch up to her and she must face her demon.

The scariest kind of serial killer - one you don't know exists. Martin Barlow was Clare Carlson's first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figure. When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent mugging attempt gone bad, it seems like he was just an old man whose time had come. As she digs deeper and deeper into his secret files, she uncovers shocking evidence of a serial killer worse than Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, or any of the others.

In continuing her career-makeover quest as a for-real detective, ex-teen and reality star Maizie Albright has a big learning curve to overcome. A sleuthing background starring in a TV show does not cut the real life mustard. It doesn't even buy her lunch, let alone extra condiments. So when a major movie producer needs a babysitter for his hot mess starlet, Maizie eagerly takes the job against her mentor's wishes. But when her starlet appears dead and then not dead, Maizie's got more than an actress to watch and a missing corpse to find.

Nora and Travis' honeymoon does not go as planned. Don't miss the exciting second book in the Agent Nora Wexler Mysteries Wedding Trilogy and the fifth book overall in the series.

Athena Pappas is the head writer on one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. But when Vegas comedian Stephen Cosse is brought in to beef up the show's suddenly sagging ratings, she starts to worry about her job. Sparks fly as the competition - and attraction - between the two writers heats up. Athena has never had a problem scripting the romances of her characters. So why is her own love life so hard to script?

Two action-packed, romantic comedy holiday crime capers from The Wall Street Journal bestselling Maizie Albright Star Detective series. Find out why fans love these light and fun mystery novellas with a touch of romance and a heavy dose of holiday cheer featuring the ex-celebrity turned detective (Almost. She’s still in training), Maizie Albright.

A sadistic vamp lord. A rebellious fae. A vicious hunt. The first term of Nocturnal Academy is over. Majors have been assigned. I’ve made choices that brought me closer to the guillotine. But the fight isn’t over, not yet. I must get through the spring term. Not an easy feat when the vamp students are planning a sacrifice and have a bone to pick with me. But even if I survive the prison academy, someone will be buying my contract after school is out, and rumor has it that the king of sadists is interested in me. Whatever he wants, he gets.

So far I have two possible fates: Die in my dorm or end up as a vampire’s slave. There is no escape out of Nocturnal Academy's prison school. Being here means I’ve lost my mother, my best friend, and my freedom - and it gets worse...Now Nocturnal Academy plans to make me into a courtesan for the vampires. Unless I get a win the chance to become the one out of 100 fae who gets to shape her own fate. Topping the Placement Tests are my only hope.