A killer leaves a deadly wake in Sacramento.Ian's son Brandon, the city's newest homicide recruit, believes the murders follow a pattern: the perpetrator prefers blunt force to bullets. The results are chillingly familiar to his father's methods.Ian thinks the tally belongs to a young assassin he helped train. If he's right, Brandon doesn't stand a chance.The third installment of this bestselling series asks if blood truly does rise above all else.

"It begins in a small Southwestern town. Then it spreads. Across the country a series of strange deaths have overtaken the living. And a stranger compulsion has overtaken the dead. In a travesty of life, they drift with bizarre purpose toward an unknown destination. The walkers have become an obsession for investigator Miles Huerdeen. His father is one of them. Now, lured into the shadow of the restless dead, Miles is a step closer to a secret as old as time. . . to a reality as dark as He...

Secrets lie at the bottom of North Tenmile Lake, Oregon.Ian Kelly rents a cottage on the water to pull him and Samantha away from the heat. Now, he's hearing rumors that his landlord, Walter Ponce, may have chained a man to the riverbed.That's alright because Ian is sure Walter Ponce has heard some rumors too about a mysterious family involved in a gangland shootout only months ago.Still, Oregon should have been a nice place for Ian to retire if the...

Blood has always flown easily for Ian Kelly.He's spent a double life as part of a secret government program. Plucked from the foster care system at a young age for exhibiting a rare personality profile, he was trained to kill and then set loose on enemies of the free world.These days, blood is thicker.With two grown kids old enough to be asking too many questions, Ian travels the globe on official murder business.But Ian tells himself just o...

Considering she had just attended her mother's funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house.Gloria's mom is... different. She's younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nobody else in Gloria's family seems to recognize her.As Gloria tries to figure out the reason for her mother's reappearance and the odd behaviors the woman begins to exhibit other bizarre events occur. The changes to Gloria's world are s...

Every light casts a shadow. Ronan Renzo is that shadow.Ronan Renzo lives a somewhat pampered life as the son of a merchant, but all that changes when his family home is visited by a strange, black-clad man. This man's clothing is so dark that it seems to swallow light, and he bears the symbol of the crescent moon upon his breast.He is, according to Ronan, a member of the Night Guild. A guild of thieves and assassins, who commit dark deeds in homage to the o...

Darkness is descending on the small town of Rio Verde, Arizona. An evil older than time is rising from the desert, waiting for night to fall and a reign of terror to begin...Brad Woods has performed a lot of autopsies, but never one like this. The body is purged of all blood.Fear has made Sue Wing run from the darkened school and into night, a fear so powerful she can only name it using the Cantonese myths of her grandmother: Cup-hu-girngsi... the corspe who drinks blood.

“The shrine. How does it operate? Do you just pray to it or do you have to bring it something or what?”In this unsettling novella by Bentley Little, many strange occurrences unsettle the inhabitants of William Tell Circle:For Helen, a knock on the door brings an unexpected visitor along with lavish gifts, and it seems all her wishes have been granted…but at what cost?For young Frank and his friends, a fabled neighborhood shrine may answer their prayers for a girlfri...

"We know who you are! Can your current bank say that? We pride ourselves on providing unparalled service to all of our customers. We're looking forward to banking with YOU!" In the small town of Montgomery, Arizona, Kyle Decker's book shop is barely breaking even. When a bank opens in the empty storefront next door, he hopes the new establishment will bring in more foot traffic. Trouble is, nobody has ever heard of The First People's Bank, and the local branch has appeared mysteriously ove...

The intergalactic barbarian has started establishing himself in this new future.But with a growing reputation comes the need to accomplish more complex feats.The Komran are happy to oblige, though they may not know it.They have taken a valuable Vale-sanctioned mine, trapping all the residents within and forcing them to work night and day. Curiously, the hostage-takers are not searching for the ore within.Fearful that a large-scale assault co...

After his divorce, Hunt Jackson decides to start over in Tucson, where an old buddy fixes him up with his wife's friend, Beth. The attraction is immediate, and they're married a few months later. But Hunt's happiness is marred by his bizarre encounter with an insurance agent whose insistence that Hunt increase his coverage sounds, incredibly, like a threat. The agent — tall, gaunt, oddly dressed in an old-fashioned suit and fedora — is himself a menacing figure. And it soon becomes clear t...

With his novels, “Bentley Little has created nothing less than a nightmarishly brilliant tour de force of modern life in America.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message...“This is where it begins.” Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints. And all across California, children are becomi...