To the Porterville PD, she's the token woman cop. To a serial killer, she's the ultimate trophy.Detective Margaret "Magnum" Schultz has spent ten years surviving departmental politics and back-alley brawls. But she's never encountered a predator like this. He doesn't just kill—he erases his victims, leaving nothing behind but echoes and a pen full of satisfied hogs.What begins as a trail of evidence through rain-slicked backroads quickly turns into a lethal...

IT TAKES GUTS to live on the street and survive, and more than a few smarts. If you are the one who lives there, you try to stay warm, dry and find enough to eat. You move from sidewalk to sidewalk, dumpster to dumpster. It's a stressful life, and dangerous, because you never know who you'll run into. Is that person eating across the table from you homeless because of circumstances beyond their control, or because he is deranged and dangerous?If you're a...

(Eriksson #8) Hedra Dearhart is an outcast with vivid dreams. When she begins writing about her nightmares for English Composition, all she envisions is a high GPA. But someone notices eerie similarities between what she writes and crimes reported in the newspaper. The snag is that the dreams occur before the news breaks. What follows is a head-scratching mystery for the police in Darkwater Bay.

(Book 3, Eriksson Series)An early morning at physical therapy to rehabilitate Helen Eriksson's recent injury turns into a nightmare rife with déjà vu for the Darkwater Bay police department. Helen interrupts an attack on a young woman - the daughter of former Assistant District Attorney David Ireland - on the anniversary of his murder.Helen leaps at the opportunity to finally link a crime to her personal nemesis Danny Datello, long suspected in the murder-for-hire of ADA Ir...

Following the events in Forgotten Place, Helen has little time to mourn losses and misfortunes - and her role in the carnage -before a massive amount of human blood is found in an equipment storage chest back stage at a New Year's Eve concert.After a brief search, a young woman's body is discovered, only she isn't what she appears to be at first glance. As Helen debates her need for involvement in the investigation, Johnny Orion seems determined to prove that he's still the state's...

Helen Eriksson's insight shifts gears - from the secrets of others to the mystery of her true identity. When she turns to her father for answers, it nearly destroys her other life. Is Wendell Eriksson the ultimate sinner, or an unqualified saint? Lost in her own doubts and fears, it takes another murder to yank Helen's focus back where it belongs. (Eriksson Novel #6)

When an on-duty member of the Ontario Provincial Police is found dead in his cruiser of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, only Lincoln Munroe - now a patrol Sergeant - knows the truth. The officer was murdered, and all the evidence points to the suspect being another cop.But in a line of work where right and wrong aren't always separate, and where 'above the law' is the motto of too many, Lincoln finds himself on an ethical tightrope, working both sides of the police force ...

Eriksson (Darkwater Bay) Book 10: With Johnny and Helen out of law enforcement in Darkwater Bay, a new and dangerous element makes a move, leaving a pair baffling mysteries involving multiple jurisdictions, and two men with past links to Helen's career show up and draw her back into active duty. When the motive in the crime clearly seems to implicate Helen as the mastermind, the team must scramble to uncover the truth. When the day is done, Helen finds herself in an even more vulnerable po...

When dismembered bodies start to appear in New York City, the search for a serial killer begins. Leading the hunt is Gabriel de Sade, a tough Manhattan detective. What should be a straightforward murder investigation escalates when yet more dismembered bodies are found. A very sick, psychotic murderer is loose on the streets of the city. Yet the case is to become more complicated than he could imagine. The nightmare is just beginning for de Sade, a Delta Force veteran of Afghanistan.

It's 1994 and somebody is killing and robbing drug dealers in The Big Easy. When DEA agent Richard "Doc" Holliday is called out to a marsh outside of New Orleans to the scene of a shootout where two local cocaine dealers have been murdered, he has no idea of what he is about to step into. For these are no ordinary murders and no ordinary suspects. Holliday soon finds himself juggling two important investigations, supervisor problems, and a failing personal relationship, all at the same tim...

"He was an adversary to be feared, that much I knew, and I couldn't help but think I'd met my Moriarty."A simple e-mail; short, sweet and to the point: a victim's name, GPS coordinates, and the fact that the body will be found in a shallow grave. Addressed to Detective Lincoln Munroe, OPP Homicide, and signed with the killer's name and address, the e-mail is found - with help from an unexpected source - to be one of sixty-four, all nearly identical and sent to police services aroun...

The Las Vegas Murders is the story of retired police detective Jake Fuller, and his search for the killers of four people in a murderous spree in Las Vegas.After twenty years of being a detective in New York, Jake Fuller decides to retire, move to Las Vegas, and start a simpler, more peaceful life. Four years later, a series of unexpected events changes his life drastically. He wakes up married to a much younger woman. Jake comes to think she will be good for him, however she has a ...