She wanted to avenge her father. She needed to save herself.When Detective Callie Forde is called to the home of a missing teenaged girl, she doesn't initially suspect foul play. Hampstead is a quiet college town. It's safe-if you don't count the other girl. But as the hours wear on with no sign of Natalie, the police are forced to consider the teenager might have been abducted.No one is more surprised than Callie when all their leads are eerily similar to ...

Accused of murdering his psychiatrist, a broken man must face his horrific past in order to protect his futureGeorge Vandenberg is a drunk with a volatile temper, haunted by the memory of the young woman he once loved and tragically lost. Wrestling with his guilt and pushed by his psychiatrist to confess his role in her death, he teeters on the edge of a nervous breakdown, blacking out drunk more often than not.But when his doctor turns up dead, brutally stabbed to...

A January 2023 Once Upon a Book Club Pick“You’ll get nothing done until you’ve reached the end of this excellent book.” —Lisa Regan, USA Today and WSJ bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series“[A] riveting tale . . .” —Library JournalShe wanted the truth. She should have known better.When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val...

**“A must read for lovers of historical fiction and readers all.” —Award-winning NYT and USA Today bestselling author Charles Todd“Murphy gracefully memorializes this tragedy . . .” —Booklist**One War. Two Loves. A Lifetime to Remember.July 4, 1918, Nashville, Tennessee. Even as the war in Germany drones on, patriotism swells at home. There are celebrations, music, and dancing. But for five men—one train e...

“[A] riveting tale . . .” —Library Journal, on Her Sister’s DeathOne War. Two Loves. A Lifetime to Remember.July 4, 1918, Nashville, Tennessee. Even as the war in Germany drones on, patriotism swells at home. There are celebrations, music, and dancing. But for five men—one train engineer, one porter, one salesman, one farmer, and one thief—the world will s...

Forgive me father, for I have sinned . . .Detective Mike Cancini has seen dark days as a homicide detective in Washington, D.C. But even he is shocked when a charismatic young priest is found shot through the eye on the altar of his own church. As Cancini investigates, he uncovers long-buried secrets from the man's past, and it becomes clear that the church was not as holy as it seemed.When another priest is attacked, Cancini refuses to believe it's a coincidence, ...

In the tiny town of Hampstead, a killer hides...Fifteen years ago, the double murder of two local women rocked a small Virginia town. Justice was served when Harry Lawson was arrested and found guilty in the brutal slaying of his wife and friend--or so the town believed.When new evidence surfaces proving Harry's innocence, the town and police are thrust into the national spotlight. After the initial media flurry fades, only one true crime podcaster remains-...

Perfect for fans of Making a Murderer, a novel about a man exonerated of heinous crimes returning to a town that can't let go of his bloody legacyLittle Springs was just a small college town, the kind of place where everyone knew everyone and crime was virtually nonexistent—until a series of rapes and murders at the college shook the community to its core. Only the arrest and conviction of Leo Spradlin, the "Coed Killer," could end the terror.Years later, Spradlin ...

“[A] riveting tale.” —Library Journal on Her Sister’s DeathOne War. Two Loves. A Lifetime to Remember.July 4, 1918, Nashville, Tennessee. Even as the war in Germany drones on, patriotism swells at home. There are celebrations, music, and dancing. But for five men—one train engineer, one porter, one salesman, one farmer, and one thief—the world will soon take a terrible and tragic turn....

A January 2023 Once Upon a Book Club Pick "You'll get nothing done until you've reached the end of this excellent book." ―Lisa Regan, USA Today and WSJ bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series "[A] riveting tale . . ." ―Library Journal She wanted the truth. She should have known better. When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter's world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads ...

She wanted to avenge her father. She needed to save herself.When Detective Callie Forde is called to the home of a missing teenaged girl, she doesn't initially suspect foul play. Hampstead is a quiet college town. It's safe if you don't count the other girl. But as the hours wear on with no sign of Natalie, the police are forced to consider the teenager might have been abducted.No one is more surprised than Callie when all their leads are eerily similar to that of another c...

Great minds can change the worldor leave it in ruins . . .When tech prodigy Jade Veverka creates a program to communicate with her autistic sister, she's tapped by a startup to explore the potential applications of her technology. But Jade quickly begins to notice some strange things about the small Kansas town just beyond the company's campus—why are there no children anywhere to be seen, and for that matter, anyone over the age of forty? Why do all of th...