Carolyn Arnold

She’d never been this terrified but she refused to let it show, to give her captors more power. As she was led out of the van with her parents, she stifled a cry. Ahead of her was an old farm, surrounded by fields.

When human remains are discovered behind a dumpster in Woodbridge, Virginia, Detective Amanda Steele rushes to the scene. Her heart drops when she arrives and is hit by the unmistakable stench of gasoline. Soon, her worst fear is confirmed: the victim was burned alive.

On the day she’s supposed to get married, Detective Madison Knight’s life shatters. Her wedding is stormed by detectives from a neighboring city. Her fiancé, Troy Matthews, is arrested—charged with the murder of his childhood friend. According to police, Dylan Graham was about to expose...

She wakes surrounded by an inky black darkness and can barely breathe. A sack is covering her head, and her hands are tied behind her back. She desperately tries to struggle free as she hears footsteps walking toward her. She silently starts to cry as a chilling voice whispers “It’s time to...

When Detective Amanda Steele is called to the brutal murder scene of successful local author Felicity Kelley, her blood runs cold....

Music from the busy dancefloor echoes into the deserted room where the prom queen lies deadly still. A tiara rests on her soft blonde curls, but her face is frozen with fear, and her painted red lips are forever sealed shut in a silenced scream.... When Detective Amanda Steele’s niece, Ava...

A late-night drive leaves Detective Madison Knight stranded on a dark country road. When her phone’s flashlight catches a suitcase dumped in a roadside ditch, she makes a discovery she won’t forget.

Sara Cain isn't your typical 32-year-old woman. Murder detective by day, writer and…sleuth by night? Just as long as there’s enough coffee to keep her going. When her first novel gives her trouble, Sara goes for a walk to clear her writer’s block and ends up stumbling right into a...

Faint sunlight dapples the two figures lying on the ground. The mother cradles her daughter close to her side, a stuffed toy elephant next to them. Leaves from the tall trees fall onto their faces, but neither moves to brush them off. When a dog walker in a local Virginia park finds the bodies...

Two women are dead. One was pregnant. And nothing about the shooting was random. Detective Madison Knight responds to a fatal shooting at a crowded train station. Two women are dead. The gunman is gone. And there’s no clear motive—only chaos and unanswered questions. Witnesses report a third...

The woman lies so still as her blood soaks into the soft bedcovers beneath her. A tear runs down her face as she looks at the wedding band on her finger. She had loved her husband so much.... When Detective Amanda Steele unexpectedly reconnects with an old boyfriend, the last thing she expects...

Some messages are written in blood. Some secrets are worth killing for. Detective Madison Knight is house hunting when a call changes everything. A woman’s body has been found on a residential property—stabbed multiple times, with no weapon in sight. The victim is a Jane Doe. The crime scene...

A high-profile double homicide pulls Detective Madison Knight into direct conflict with her own department.

The moon shines through the open window, bathing the woman in pale light. Blood-red wine from a shattered glass soaks into the cream blanket beside her, and her dull eyes stare vacantly at the framed photograph in her hand. When beautiful wife and mother Alicia Gordon is found dead in a remote...

When a man is found brutally stabbed in his own home, Detective Madison Knight never expects to recognize the name. The victim is Jimmy Bates—the man who murdered her grandfather.

The first rays of sun filter through the tall trees, casting a faint light on the girl, lying at the water’s edge. Her tears have frozen on her pale face; a black orchid resting against her cold white skin. When hikers find the body of a beautiful, young girl, on the banks of the Potomac River...

Some deaths look accidental. Some are carefully staged. When a sixty-eight-year-old woman is found dead outside a hospital, slumped in a wheelchair, Detective Madison Knight expects a straightforward case. At first glance, there’s no sign of foul play. But the evidence tells a different story...

Hot flashes in my 40s? Expected. Waking up psychic? Not in my wildest dreams. My name is Erin Stone. I’m 43, with a daughter away at college and a successful career as a communications officer with the 911 dispatch center for the Toronto Police Service. My life had just returned to a new...

Some enemies never forget. Some games are meant to end in blood. When a prominent defense attorney is found brutally murdered, Detective Madison Knight is pulled into a case that feels disturbingly familiar. The killing mirrors an unsolved murder from eight years earlier—one Madison has never...

From international bestselling author Carolyn Arnold comes an edge-of-your-seat FBI thriller that will have Special Agent Brandon Fisher hunting the elusive serial killer known as the Leopard. He tells them to run. Then he hunts them down. A husband and wife are found murdered in the woods...