"A new force to reckon with in suspense."Donna Anders, author of Dead SilenceA phenomenal suspense thriller from Katia Lief, Next Time You See Me is the relentlessly gripping follow up to You Are Next—bringing back ex-police detective Karin Schaeffer, who survived the murderous wrath of a fiendish serial killer and now must confront new enemies along with her personal demons in the wake of her husband's unexplained disappearance. Katia Lief is dest...

Former New York City police detectives turned Brooklyn private investigators Karin Schaeffer and her husband Mac MacLeary become involved in an international conspiracy in The Money Kill, a new thriller by Katia Leaf.An offer of $30,000 for one day's work in London, followed by a family vacation in the Mediterranean, seems too good an offer to refuse.But the family's trip to sun-drenched Sardinia turns dark and terrible when the children vanish. Suddenly Karin and ...

A serial killer is loose on Cape Cod. Retired FBI profiler John Geary has five days to stop him--before it's too late for a mother and her son.USA TODAY AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Mesmerizing…Your heart will be pounding long after you’ve turned the final page.” --Lisa Gardner, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love You More“Taut, clean storytelling.” –Publishers Weekly“I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors we...

ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED....New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl--but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disap...

WHO WILL LIVE AND WHO WILL DIE?A team of burglars plans to rob a secluded country house in Waterbury, Connecticut while the famous owner is away visiting relatives for the holidays. But volatile relationships within this family lead to a last minute change in plans, and three generations convene in Waterbury instead. When the burglars arrive to find the house occupied instead of empty, a simple crime quickly becomes complicated in this gripping psychological thrill...

WHEN ANNIE'S IDENTITY IS STOLEN...SHE RUNS BUT CANNOT HIDE.After discovering an email revealing her husband's infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, Annie takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and Julie soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything co...

You Are Next, Katia Lief's riveting debut thriller for Avon Books, is the taut, roller coaster tale of a serial killer's surviving victim—and her determination to turn from hunted to hunter. Katia Lief is destined to be a superstar of romantic suspense, right up there with Lisa Gardner, Alex Kava, and Wendy Corsi Staub, and You Are Next is a bravura display of her extraordinary ability to cause a reader's pulse to race and blood to chill at the same time.

THE DAY SEEMS PERFECTLY ORDINARY...UNTIL LAUREN DOESN'T COME HOME.Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children in their comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Lauren doesn't come home, then fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day turns into a nightmare-and Alice begins to realize that nothing will ever be ordinary again..The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine month...

A growing obsessionDarcy Mayhew, a recently widowed young mother, relocates to New York City to pursue her career as an investigative journalist for the New York Times. On her first day on the job, she meets Joe Coffin, an ordinary young man who hails from her hometown of Martha's Vineyard, and agrees to accompany him to lunch. But one lunch with Joe quickly turns into a series of unwanted gifts, midnight phone calls, and even several break-ins.An e...

Other people kill their husbands. Not her.“A darkly clever thriller about women’s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time’s Up movement and revenge.”—People (Book of the Week)In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences.Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 2...

A USA Today bestseller "takes readers on a whirlwind ride" in this "gratifying" thriller featuring a traumatized female PI as she hunts a serial killer ( New York Journal of Books ).Private investigator Karin Schaeffer receives the call meant for her detective husband Mac on a Sunday night: two females found on a Brooklyn street. The first is an eleven-year-old girl, the apparen...

An ex-cop with a death wish. A serial killer with a gruesome agenda...Detective Karin Schaeffer was a happily married mother until she got too close to catching a serial killer.The press nickname him The Domino Killer because he systematically murders whole families, leaving a trail of bloody dominoes as the only clues to his next victim. Having brutally slain Karin's husband and child, he left her a chilling message scrawled in her daughte...