A Boston law school graduate, new to Alaska and in over his head with his first big case, must defend an innocent man accused of murdering a kindergarten teacher whose naked, half-frozen body he spotted along the shoulder of an isolated highway. As Preston Mills adjusts to life on the Last Frontier, he falls hard for the defendant's spunky and appealing daughter. The crime very nearly goes unsolved due to the unique method of murder.

In the days immediately following the Civil War, Yankee soldiers called bummers straggled home, emotionally ravaged, exhausted and hungry. Forced to steal what they needed along the way from weary families themselves devastated by war, they often left a wake of cruelty and violence in their wake.One such bummer impulsively grabs an eighteen-year-old Tennessee girl and stubbornly holds her for three days as they make their way North. But Meg is not a typical kidnapping victim. Her s...

A must-read for every woman who's ever dreamed of leaving it all behind.And for every man who wants to better understand the woman in his life.Jennifer is fed up with her role as a servant to her husband and three children. A comfortable lifestyle in Minnesota lake country should be delightful. It is, for her family members. For her, it's become a tenure of never-ending, unpaid domestic labor. So, she impulsively goes on strike. Her run to the north woods, toddler son in to...

A young Minnesota housewife arrives at the long tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, exhausted from a run for her life after witnessing her husband commit a murder. While earthquake-scarred Whittier is the perfect haven due to its geographic isolation, not everyone is as they seem and most harbor secrets of their own.

A young Minnesota housewife arrives at the long tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, exhausted from a run for her life after witnessing her husband commit a murder. While earthquake-scarred Whittier is the perfect haven due to its geographic isolation, not everyone is as they seem and most harbor secrets of their own.

Dana Forsythe is a grieving widow and hard-nosed ex-policewoman who turns private eye after her cop husband Frank is killed on duty. She gets an even bigger shock when she learns Frank had twins with a secret mistress who's just been murdered. What's more, the orphaned twins are dropped off on Dana's patio in the middle of the night, then she's hired by an attorney to help defend the accused killer. She's plunged into an investigation that takes her deep into a world of wealth, privilege a...

In den frühen 1930er-Jahren versuchte das Wiener Ehepaar Franz und Marie Laudenbach, seine finanziellen Schwierigkeiten durch Heiratsbetrug mit tödlichem Ausgang zu lösen. Zur Beseitigung der Leichen nutzte Laudenbach sowohl die Eisenbahn als auch die Gepäckaufbewahrung, indem er einen Koffer mit Teilen des Opfers in einen Zug nach Amsterdam stellte und ein weiteres Paket am Nordbahnhof deponierte…