Deputy Investigator Cal Sheehan tackles the first homicide investigation of his career: a shocking double murder in an outstate Minnesota county park. In the mix of the tale, Cal is distracted by his dysfunctional family and two aggressive women trying to manipulate their way into his life. But Cal is ?unaware of just how manipulating both women are—and to what extent they will each go to get what they want.

Seventeen-year-old Silver Rae Dawson vanished while babysitting for her neighbors. Fifteen years later a landscaping crew, hired by Adriana Valero, Deputy Investigator Cal Sheehan's ex-girlfriend, uncovers her shallow grave. With little new evidence and suspects who seem to have solid alibis, it isn't going to be easy for a fairly inexperienced investigator to solve a homicide gone cold. But what Cal lacks in experience he makes up in determination as he relentlessly pursues the truth and ...

When Detective Cal Sheehan learns no one's heard from his childhood friend Mike "Hawk" Hawkinson in days, he begins an unofficial investigation. Cal follows a lead from Minnesota to Las Vegas, and back again. When Hawk's car is later found abandoned north of Prairie Falls, Birch County officially opens a missing person's case, which allows Cal to hunt for his buddy and investigate the strange circumstances surrounding his disappearance. But Cal doesn't know whether he's conducting a search...

On a frigid night in December, Sonya Donovan is murdered—but her untimely death is staged to look like natural causes. Detective Cal Sheehan learns through the investigation the sixty-four-year-old celebrity has created enemies not only in her personal life, but by hosting a popular and controversial radio show called Love 'Em or Leave 'Em. Cal has to work around Sheriff Patrice Clinton, who's personally involved with the family, to investigate those who have the most to gain from...

In this terrifying Women's Murder Club novel from the world's #1 bestselling author, a series of fires blazes through California, raging way too close to home.A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a devastating lead in his case.As fire after ...

Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before in this thrilling novel from the world's #1 bestselling author.Someone is killing the richest people in the city—and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer—and it's the perfect murder.While Detective Lindsay Boxe...

A frozen corpse.A missing witness.Strange voices that aren't there.One cold night, Lainie Goff, a glamorous young attorney on the fast track to a partnership at Portland's top firm, is found frozen in the trunk of her BMW on the local fishing pier.Detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage quickly uncover a long list of suspects: Lainie's boss, who was also her lover; an ex-priest who runs a shelter for runaway teens; an abusive stepfather who raped Lainie as a ...

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul is filled with inspiring stories of rescue and rehabilitation, heartbreaking losses, dedication and commitment, and positive messages of responsibility and unconditional love.

After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better, to be better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn--a town without anything to hold onto but the past.Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices, of making do without much chance of doing better. Around him, families lose their so...

This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, this side-splitting compilation pokes fun at the facts and foibles of daily routines, illustrating that life is often funnier than fict...

"In some ways, Sunny is a female Spenser. Like him, she's a former cop, now a Boston PI, quick with a pistol and a quip...promises to be a series for the ages."* These six novels feature the New York Times bestselling author's first female protagonist--Sunny Randall, "the real deal" (*Publishers Weekly).Includes:Family HonorPerish TwiceShrink RapMelancholy BabyBlue ScreenSpare Change

Just when Charity’s wild imagination failed her, a flesh-and-blood hero walked into her life.Best-selling author Charity Anderson returns to her hometown of Kings Meadow to defeat a bad case of writer's block. She imagines she’ll spend a lonely summer writing and then return to her home in Boise. She soon finds herself caring for Buck Malone, a wilderness guide—and the object of her unrequited teenage crush. But what else can she do? Her dog Cocoa caused the accide...