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Special Agent Amelia Storm, a seasoned FBI veteran, thought stepping away from the Organized Crime Unit and its mafia entanglements would lead to less complex and dangerous cases. She was wrong. Now in the Violent Crimes Division, Amelia is haunted by a chilling pattern that mirrors mob brutality. Murder as a message. How else can she explain why this serial killer murders everyone in the home but leaves the victim alive...and horrifically disfigured by acid? Four victims in two years. All women with dark-brown hair. All social media influencers with a substantial following.

On the heels of receiving evidence hinting at the motive behind her father’s murder, Sheriff Rebecca West confronts a horrific crime scene. A pregnant woman has been brutally attacked in her home, her unborn baby ripped from her womb. But this is more than assault. It’s an abduction of the worst kind. Now, a newborn is in the hands of a monster. Determined to follow every lead, Rebecca locks down the island, launching an all-out search for the missing infant. But as the mother fights for her life, Rebecca uncovers chilling evidence of a man obsessed with the young mother.

Murderers never take a break, so when the body of a twenty-nine-year-old middle school gym teacher is discovered, Special Agents Amelia Storm and Zane Palmer are called in to help the Violent Crimes Division with one of their most puzzling cases to date. Because this isn’t just a random crime... It’s far more bizarre. The latest victim is the fifth to be found dumped in a rural area south of Chicago. The victims have little in common, except one thing...their internal organs have been removed with a precision that only a surgeon could achieve.

In her new role with the Bureau’s Violent Crime Unit, Special Agent Amelia Storm is ready to focus on new types of crimes—ones that aren’t mob related. She didn’t, however, expect her first case to take her to rural Illinois, where the tranquil waters of Lake Henry have been guarding a grim secret. Three corpses...and that’s just the beginning. Among the deceased are two recent victims, a young couple last seen camping in the nearby wilderness preserve. A third, a grim echo from years past, is a set of bones picked clean and left to whisper secrets of an older, darker crime.

Der Preacher mordet wieder ... Der Serienkiller, der Winters Eltern abgeschlachtet hat, ist wieder da und lässt eine Blutspur hinter sich zurück. Special Agent Winter Black hat sich ihr Leben lang auf diesen Moment vorbereitet. Sie ist entschlossen, den Mann zu stellen, der ihr alles genommen hat, und das Rätsel um ihren verschwundenen kleinen Bruder zu lösen – um jeden Preis. Obwohl man sie vom Fall abgezogen hat, findet Winter schon bald heraus, dass der Preacher seine Opfer nicht zufällig auswählt. Er hat es auf sie abgesehen.

Every clue is a countdown. A typical morning at Sandpiper Bank turns into chaos when an armed man in a clown costume storms in, shattering the calm. He trashes the lobby and executes the bank manager, even after securing the money, hinting at a motive beyond mere robbery. Maybe money isn’t the root of all evil, after all. Puzzled by the senseless violence, Sheriff Rebecca West is drawn into a labyrinth of mystery and danger as the bank’s connections to the Yacht Club are revealed. The arrival of the FBI, led by Rebecca’s former instructor, offers a mix of relief and renewed tension.

There’s never a dull moment on Shadow Island, especially for its small but growing sheriff’s department. This time, Sheriff Rebecca West, along with new deputy Viviane Darby, discover a man hanging from the rafters of the caretaker’s shed at Oceanview Cemetery.

Manchmal ist das Ende ein Anfang. Dreizehn Jahre lang wurde FBI-Agentin Winter Black von einem Mann heimgesucht, der abscheuliche Verbrechen begangen hat. Er ermordete ihre Eltern. Entführte ihren kleinen Bruder. Ließ sie im Koma zurück, wodurch ihr Leben sich unwiderruflich veränderte. Dreizehn Jahre lang musste sie seelisch und körperlich leiden. Zweifelte an ihrem Verstand und ihrer Fähigkeit, diesen brutalen Mann unschädlich zu machen. Dreizehn Jahre voller Trauer, Hoffnung, Angst und Hass. Jetzt aber hat sich der Junge, den sie vermisst, in einen Mann verwandelt, den sie fürchtet.

Als die Überlebenden des Massakers in der Riverside Mall viele Monate später einer nach dem anderen ermordet werden, vermutet die Polizei einen Serienmörder und übergibt den Fall an das FBI. Winter Black ermittelt und setzt sich auf die Spur des unsichtbaren dritten Täters des Blutbades, das sich in derselben Nacht ereignet hatte, in der sie den Preacher – den Mörder ihrer Eltern – zur Strecke brachte. Die Liste der Opfer ist lang, die der Verdächtigen kurz, und als der vermeintliche Täter stirbt, schrumpft sie zu nichts zusammen.

Finally free from the claustrophobic worry caused by her psychotic baby brother’s bloodthirsty reign, former Special Agent Winter Black—newly Mrs. Winter Black-Dalton—is ready for a fresh start in Austin, Texas. With her husband and former partner, Noah Dalton, at her side, she’s hoping to shed the skin of her past and return to hunting down criminals, but in a very different way...

Less than twenty-four hours after Hurricane Boris ravages Shadow Island, it delivers one final blow. Two corpses, lashed together, wash up on the shore. Some of them, anyway. With no primary crime scene, no witnesses, and barely any human remains, Sheriff Rebecca West has precious little to work with. Are these victims connected to the seemingly untouchable Yacht Club, or did Boris’s awesome power simply push them onto her beach?

When a man washes up onto Shadow Island, Sheriff Rebecca West has a moment of déjà vu. This isn’t the first body the ocean spat out on one of her beaches, but it’s the first one she’s found alive. Barely. The brutal gunshot wounds to the victim’s hand and the lower part of his face indicate he was shot offshore and dumped overboard, but there’s no boat or perpetrator. Just a few cryptic clues before the victim becomes unresponsive.

Shadow Island lore insists that anyone who steps in the shadow cast onto the old witch’s cottage is cursed. But when two bodies are discovered inside the cottage, their heads arranged in a ghastly tableau, Rebecca is more concerned about the real monsters—the human ones who’d commit such an atrocious murder.

Ein Strafgefangener, der in der Nacht, als der Preacher gestellt wurde, an einem Massaker in einer Mall beteiligt war, wird von einer gut gezielten Kugel aus fast einer Meile Entfernung getötet. Als mehrere mutmaßliche Vergewaltiger und Mörder tot aufgefunden werden, wird das Tatmuster erkennbar: Der Killer handelt als Richter, Jury und Henker in solchen Fällen, die die Polizei unter den Teppich kehrt. Winter weiß genau, wo die Trennlinie zu ziehen ist – das hat sie in der Nacht gelernt, als ihre Eltern abgeschlachtet wurden und ihr kleiner Bruder verschwand.

Der Preacher ist tot, der Fall gelöst, doch nun wird Special Agent Winter Black anscheinend von ihrem verschollenen Bruder verhöhnt, den der Preacher gekidnappt hatte. Er hinterlässt eine Spur, die zu ihrem ehemaligen Elternhaus in Harrisonburg führt. Winter erfährt immer mehr und liegt nun im Kampf mit ihrem eigenen Inneren, denn der primitive Teil ihrer selbst, der während der Ermittlungen zum Mord an ihren Eltern auf Geheimniskrämerei und Rachsucht eingeschworen war, meldet sich zurück.

The man who’s been stalking Private Investigator Winter Black is dead, but he wasn’t working alone. Threats linger in the shadows, and she can’t shake the chilling feeling that she’s being watched. It’s about to get personal…again. A flyer advertising her business—Black Investigations—was found on the tenth-floor balcony of a woman who apparently jumped to her death. Except Winter has never seen the brochure before. Stranger still, her two newest clients received the same fake flyer, along with a blackmail letter.

Private detective Winter Black finally knows the identity of the puppeteer behind the recent string of murders she’s been entangled in investigating—the same man who’s been stalking and tormenting her for weeks. But when he leaves recent photographs he took of her and Noah, her husband’s eyes scratched out, his vendetta becomes frighteningly real. And terrifyingly personal. Because Noah is missing. The nightmare becomes disturbingly real when Noah’s wedding band is placed on Winter’s doorstep, accompanied by a taunting note written in cryptic, video game jargon.

For twelve years, I’ve buried my secrets, trying to live the perfect life. I’m married to a wonderful man, and I have a rewarding career at Camp Wildfire—a sanctuary for troubled teens nestled on the edge of a sprawling forest. Life looks good on the surface, but one crack and it could all fall apart. Turns out, that crack has a name. Amanda. Her arrival rips open old wounds, forcing me to confront the past I’ve kept hidden from everyone, including my husband. The secrets I’ve buried are threatening to destroy me—and I’ve recently learned that I’m not the only one hiding something big.

Haunted by dreams of the boy whose life she shattered and burdened by dark family secrets she's only just begun to understand, Private Investigator Winter Black is trying to keep her life from falling apart. With her husband on a yearlong break from the FBI, the bills are piling up, and Winter has no choice but to take on even the most mundane cases. Serving a summons should be easy. Until the man she served is found dead the next day. His wife too.

In the aftermath of another harrowing case, FBI agent turned private investigator Winter Black is battling personal demons: guilt, her grandmother’s failing health, a strained alliance with a key detective, and the eerie knowledge that someone has been spying on her family. Amid these trials, Winter’s newest case emerges as a rare glimpse of normalcy, offering a seemingly simple investigation far removed from the deadly threats that have marked her recent past. Until her new client turns up dead, a knife through his heart.