Can an FBI Academy dropout catch a vicious serial killer?It’s been fifteen years since Vivian Delacroix unleashed her followers on the town of Cardinal Falls. The cult members killed anyone Vivian told them was a threat to their beliefs.Now, another killer takes young girls of nine or ten, all related to Vivian’s original victims. He drugs them, suffocates them, and painstakingly arranges them in ritualistic poses. The bodies give up no evidence to the kill...

Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond.from USA Today bestselling author V. J. ChambersEver since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police force for “sexual conduct unbecoming an officer,” she’s been slumming it as a private investigator. But she’s handling the fact her life is in shambles just fine, thank you very much. She manages to get up to open her office by the crack of noon every day, no matter how hungover she is or whose bed she woke ...

If you like Archie and Gretchen, Eve and Villanelle, or Hannibal and Will Graham, this series is for you.Liam Emerson spent six weeks trapped in a dog crate in an underground bunker, tormented and taunted by Phineas Slater.Now, Phineas is behind bars, charged with four grisly murders, and Liam is cooperating with the authorities to make sure he never gets out. Now, Liam is free.Or, he should be.But Liam has known Phineas for a long time. The...

An anonymous letter summons Emilia Farrow to Siesta Key. An oceanfront house has been rented there for her, its closet stocked with designer clothes in her size. The mysterious correspondent promises that if she comes, she will find out what really happened to her sister Violet.Her death wasn't an accident.Immersing herself in a world of wealth and privilege, Emilia has nightmares about the Wainwright mansion next door. Her mother used to work there years ago. Recently, her...

They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions... and a target on their backs.Elke Lawrence welcomes the long hours and relocation her “promotion” requires. She hopes leading the new Conviction Review Unit, an experimental investigation team, means leaving her wrecked marriage and troubled past behind.Their first case challenges that notion.Twenty-five years ago, someone sat Dr. Abeer Mukherjee and his wife Tempest on their couch and shot them...

They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions... and a target on their backs.Join Elke Lawrence, former prosecuting attorney, Frankie Hart, former defense attorney, and Iain Hudson, former police detective as they dig into old cases, look for errors made, and free innocent people wrongly convicted.This boxed set includes the first three books in the series.Grain of TruthTwenty-five years in jail for a crime they didn't commit... bu...

When Wren Delacroix and Detective Caius Reilly investigate a new crime scene, they’re surprised to discover the killer has left a personal note, addressed directly to Reilly. As they unravel its cryptic message, they are led down a twisty road to reveal secrets about Reilly’s past and about his mother, a victim of the serial killer Mark Quentin Rhoads.This new killer means business. He’s vicious. He’s smart. He’s brutal.He’s playing a game with them.But only he know...

Wren and Reilly track the Quarantine Killer…On March 26, 2020, Sarah James hears a noise in her apartment. She lives alone, and she’s easily frightened. With the current state of the country, she’s harried. She goes through and checks each room, telling herself she’s overreacting.But she’s not alone.These will be her last moments on earth.With the entire state on lockdown, and no one leaving their homes for anything except essential activiti...

There are two kinds of serial killers—organized and disorganized.This killer that Wren Delacroix is trying to make a profile for? He’s both. Or neither. Or… she doesn’t know what, but she can’t make heads or tails of his crime scenes.The killer leaves his teenage-girl victims where he killed them. Naked, dirty, and destroyed, they are tossed aside like nothing, and he runs. This is classic disorganized presentation.However, the killer has also cleaned up after himse...

Poppy Morgan has been married four times, and none of her husbands survived their wedding nights. She’s a black widow killer, a woman who marries men and kills them one after another, and she’s in custody in New York state.Wren Delacroix gets a call to fly up there and interrogate Poppy. It seems that Poppy is holding a police officer captive in a secret location. She’s given him a slow-acting poison.The local police department wants Wren to get Poppy to give up the locatio...

Hope Ross isn’t crazy, but she knows crazy. Crazy is......a father telling his daughter to pretend her twin sister doesn't exist. Worst. Game. Ever....a sister never leaving the house....a disturbed woman hidden away in the attic....bodies rotting in the basement....being accused of attempted murder....the police blaming the victim.No, Hope’s not crazy, and she’s through playing games. As soon as she gets out of this mental facility, ...

Cori Donovan is dead.When she was alive, she was a bundle of opposites. She was a freshman college honors student. She wrote poetry and plays. And she sold ecstasy on the side. She slept around.Molly Colligan moves into Cori’s old room, starting the spring semester at a new school, hoping to escape from the dark secrets of her past. But it seems that darkness follows her. Cori may be gone, but her absence seems to saturate everything in Molly’s new life. Before long, Molly ...