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When I wake up, I know three things. My name is Emma. Someone tried to kill me. And I can't remember who. When I blink, my eyelashes brush against scratchy cloth. My fingers twitch, numb and distant. In the distance, sirens wail. I'm in the hospital. I should be safe here, but I know I'm not. The last thing I remember is running, seeing an arm raised to strike Why would anyone want to kill me?

En un tranquilo pueblo de montaña, la viuda Cheryl Coleman mira ansiosamente por la ventana de la cocina mientras afuera arrecia una tormenta. Cuando llaman a la puerta, mira a sus hijas antes de abrirla con manos temblorosas... Nueve horas después, la detective Kay Sharp llega a casa de Cheryl, que ha sido brutalmente asesinada delante de sus tres hijas. La más pequeña, Erin, de tres años, yace a escasos centímetros del cadáver, con la cara cubierta de lágrimas. Heather, de ocho años, se encuentra escondida debajo de su cama. Julie, de dieciséis años, no aparece por ninguna parte.

Kay Sharp casi no ha tenido tiempo de acostumbrarse a su nuevo trabajo como detective en Mount Chester cuando aparece un cadáver en el río Blackwater. La víctima, una chica de diecisiete años, flota en el agua, con un medallón tallado a mano alrededor del cuello. Indagando en casos sin resolver, Kay descubre que Rose Harrelson, una niña de tres años, lo llevaba puesto cuando desapareció de su habitación hace catorce años. Pero la adolescente que han encontrado lleva muerta solo unas horas.

Alison Nolan y su hija Hazel, de seis años, están en camino para pasar unas vacaciones muy necesarias en lago Cuwar, conocido en la zona como el Lago Silencioso, donde las montañas nevadas están rodeadas por los colores del otoño. Horas después, no hay rastro de ellas. La agente especial Kay Sharp ha dejado su trabajo para regresar al hogar de su infancia. Apenas se ha instalado cuando se entera de que ha aparecido un cadáver junto al Lago Silencioso y se apresura a llegar a la escena. La mente de Kay da vueltas.

Andrea Brafford’s life is nearly perfect. A passionate marine biologist happily married to Craig, the man she loves, she has recently moved into a home commensurate with their success to enjoy a life many others only dream about in one of Houston’s most desirable suburbs. But only a few months later, a trial that dramatically polarizes their town names Craig Brafford as a defendant in the murder of his young wife, shattering the serenity of the peaceful community. Andrea’s life remains a mystery that investigators and public opinion equally fail to solve.

Detective Kay Sharp vows to get to the bottom of a heartbreaking murder that has rocked Mount Chester. A single mother has been brutally killed in front of her three daughters. The youngest, three-year-old Erin, is lying inches from the body, her pigtails loose, her face tear-stained. Eight-year-old Heather is discovered hiding under her bed. Sixteen-year-old Julie is nowhere to be found. 

Where her daughter had played Gretel in front of a cheering audience, only two faint stage lights remained. The theater was deserted and eerily silent; the only sound she could hear was her own heart, pounding in a frenzy against her chest. She rushed outside and stopped sharply at the top of the stairs, stunned, her blood turned to icicles. Darkness had fallen, thick and filled with ocean mist, lampposts like ghosts sprinkling yellow haloes in the sky. Paige was gone. They’d taken her little girl.

When Detective Kay Sharp first left Mount Chester - population 3,823 - in her rear-view mirror, she promised never to look back. The town only contained bad memories and dark secrets. But when a brutal crime surfaces, she finds herself home once more, and this time, she’s not going anywhere. Kay is called to Blackwater River, where the body of a 17-year-old girl has been found. Surrounded by snowy peaks and a forest alive with the colors of fall, the victim floats in the water, a hand-carved locket around her neck.

Detective Kay Sharp vowed she’d never return to her childhood home. But now Kay’s back, and only she can solve the crime that has rocked the tight-knit community of Mount Chester to its core. A dead woman has been found by Silent Lake under the dew-covered fall leaves. Kay knows the missing-person investigation could turn into a murder case at any second. But as she hunts for the culprit, her own past closes in on her. Can she find the killer before it’s too late? And will the secret she thought she’d buried stay that way?

After the body of a brutally murdered young woman is recovered from the Gulf of Mexico far from shore, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called in to assist with the profiling of the murderer. Although only one body has been found, every detail about the gruesome crime points to the work of a serial killer. Have there been others left to die far at sea, where no one will ever find them? Is there a connection to be found, or is Tess searching for evidence that doesn’t exist?

After 15-year-old Kaylee disappears without a trace, FBI special agent Tess Winnett is assigned to the case that falls outside of the normal purview of the FBI. With every lead she uncovers, more questions are posed and with only one possible, terrifying answer: There are others like her who have vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. Is there a pattern in these disappearances? What happened to the others who have vanished? Is there a connection, or is Tess chasing shadows?

After a high-profile victim survives a brutal attack in her own home, FBI special agent Tess Winnett accepts to handle the investigation off-book. With every question she asks, the truth unveiled poses more questions, but leads to only one possible conclusion: The Word Killer is back.

Wenn Du ihm gefällst, bist Du so gut wie tot... Der Serienkiller "The Family Man" hat mehr als dreißig Familien getötet und wartet im Todestrakt auf seine Hinrichtung. Als die junge FBI-Agentin Tess Winnett den Auftrag bekommt, sich den Fall noch einmal genau anzuschauen, bemerkt sie einige Ungereimtheiten: Drei der Morde fallen aus dem Raster des Killers - gibt es einen Nachahmungstäter, der jahrelang unentdeckt blieb? Tess will diesem Verdacht auf den Grund gehen und kontaktiert Laura Watson, die einzige Überlebende des Massenmörders.

Im Morgengrauen wird eine junge Frau tot an einem einsamen weißen Sandstrand in Palm Beach gefunden - alles deutet auf einen Ritualmord hin. Das FBI wird zu dem Fall hinzugezogen und die Agentin Tess Winnett beginnt zu ermitteln. Bald schon stellt sich heraus, dass es sich um einen Serienkiller handelt, der seine Opfer tagelang gefangen hält, vergewaltigt und auf grausame Art und Weise foltert. Als noch eine junge Frau verschwindet, beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Wird Tess den Mörder rechtzeitig finden?

Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules. Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying. Intense and gripping, each story features a hero that seeks justice and the triumph of good over evil by whatever means necessary - regardless of what society’s rules find acceptable.

A teenage girl is boldly kidnapped from her school, minutes after her mother dropped her off. While a frenzied search begins, bringing together the entire police force of the city that never sleeps, for Detectives Baxter and Holt, this isn’t a crime like any other - it is personal. Detective Holt is faced with an inconceivable decision: Sacrifice everything he holds sacred or jeopardize the life of an innocent girl. But the man holding all the cards in this game of life and death isn’t willing to negotiate; he’s only willing to kill.    

Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer. When a beautiful, young girl is killed in the high-roller Pleasure Pit of the exclusive Scala Casino, the news reverberates for hours among the ritzy clientele. Before taking the stage where she found her death, Crystal was last seen boarding an unmarked helicopter for a late-night flight.

A friendly fire incident in Afghanistan takes a serious toll. A drone, out of control, brings death and wreaks havoc on a Florida highway. An apparently successful corporation comes under scrutiny. A memorable incursion behind corporate closed doors, led by an up-and-coming private investigator, a modern detective on a mission to find the truth about the lives lost to the very technology that was mandated to protect them. Our skies aren't safe anymore.

They are the most violent, blood-thirsty, and vicious of criminals. While hunting for them, FBI profilers call these monsters UNSUBS, short for "unknown subjects of ongoing investigations". At any given time, in the United States there are more than 50 serial killers at large, preying on vulnerable, unsuspecting victims. Until yesterday, no one knew Florida had another serial killer on the loose. Special Agent Tess Winnett calls this particularly elusive one the "Taker of Lives".

Her blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Who is the beautiful girl found at dawn, on a deserted stretch of white sand beach? What is her secret? FBI special agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentlessly. With each step, each new finding, she uncovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before.