Gregg Olsen
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up--one of them her mother's. The killer was never found.... Twenty years later Hannah is a talented CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with unfinished business is on the hunt. And an anonymous message turns Hannah's blood cold: Your Mom called..." -- Amazon....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death--is as close as the face in the mirror"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intricate thriller that begins with a missing girl and ends up in unexpected territory" from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell (RT Book Reviews, 4 stars).
A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail—to a dangerous psychopath whose powers...
A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail—to a dangerous psychopath whose powers...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In a secluded farm house in the Pacific Northwest, a family has been slaughtered--and a teenage son has disappeared. Single mother and cop Emily Kenyon spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna is one step ahead of her. Then another family is butchered, and another. As Emily fits the puzzle pieces together, she makes a chilling discovery: the killer is coming after her and her daughter..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Description
"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word 'mom', it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birdy Waterman stars in a riveting short story that will chill you to the bone—from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of If You Tell.
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl,...
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl,...
7) Envy
Author
Series
Empty Coffin volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as "Empty Coffin" because of a local legend, investigate a former friend's Christmas suicide and, along the way, discover a secret from their own past.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent...
9) Snow Creek
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After escaping the horrors of her old life, Detective Megan Carpenter vowed never to let anyone hurt her or those she loves ever again. Joining the small police force in Jefferson County's Port Townsend, she is determined to get every victim of a crime the justice they deserve. Ruth Turner's sister Ida Watson has been missing for over a month. In a secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan finds Ida's teenage children alone and frightened....
10) Water's edge
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The young woman's body is lying with her arms stretched out to each side. Her lips slightly parted. Her face untouched by injury and her hair spread around her head like a fan. A redhead. Just like the others. When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery Bay, Detective Megan Carpenter is one of the first on the scene. The victim has tell-tale marks on her wrists, ankles and neck where she has been bound. But that's not all....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories--romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries--without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves--and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia ... and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain, and his own reasons for watching...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she's flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter and the haunting memories of three-year-old Kelsey Chase--whose murder case ended her career. As Nicole obsesses over the old facts, she realizes everything about that case felt off: a disinterested mom,...
14) Silent ridge
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When she arrives at the home of a woman whose body has been brutalized, Detective Megan Carpenter is shocked to discover that she knows the victim. Monique Delmont helped Megan when she was in danger years ago. And the killer has left a disturbing calling card: two laminated photographs of a sixteen-year-old high school girl. Megan. With the help of her new partner, Deputy Ronnie Marsh, Megan finds links to three female murder cases from nearly twenty...
15) Lying next to me
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
490 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the crimes of Stella Nickell and her look-alike daughter describes how Nickell--with the possible help of her daughter--killed her husband in order to collect on an insurance policy.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the...
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 4
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At 2 a.m. one icy winter morning, in the smart suburbs of Jefferson County, local father Ben Parker reports his wife Marlena and their little boy missing. Rushing to the impressive family home, Detective Megan Carpenter finds the halls adorned with pictures of the beautiful, stay-at-home mom and their bright-eyed son. But that's not all she finds... A bottle of prenatal vitamins in the bathroom cabinet reveal that Marlena is pregnant. Why didn't Ben...
19) Betrayal
Author
Series
Empty Coffin novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Foreign exchange student Olivia Grant is stabbed to death after a party, and the prime suspect is her best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something's off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and cold, while charismatic Sharon has her husband wrapped around her finger. It isn't long before Sharon is charming her husband's congregation, and finds herself in a tryst with local, married optometrist Perry Nelson. After the affair ends both...