Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond.from USA Today bestselling author V. J. ChambersEver since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police force for “sexual conduct unbecoming an officer,” she’s been slumming it as a private investigator. But she’s handling the fact her life is in shambles just fine, thank you very much. She manages to get up to open her office by the crack of noon every day, no matter how hungover she is or whose bed she woke ...

Can an FBI Academy dropout catch a vicious serial killer?It’s been fifteen years since Vivian Delacroix unleashed her followers on the town of Cardinal Falls. The cult members killed anyone Vivian told them was a threat to their beliefs.Now, another killer takes young girls of nine or ten, all related to Vivian’s original victims. He drugs them, suffocates them, and painstakingly arranges them in ritualistic poses. The bodies give up no evidence to the kill...

They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions... and a target on their backs.Elke Lawrence welcomes the long hours and relocation her “promotion” requires. She hopes leading the new Conviction Review Unit, an experimental investigation team, means leaving her wrecked marriage and troubled past behind.Their first case challenges that notion.Twenty-five years ago, someone sat Dr. Abeer Mukherjee and his wife Tempest on their couch and shot them...

If you like Archie and Gretchen, Eve and Villanelle, or Hannibal and Will Graham, this series is for you.Liam Emerson spent six weeks trapped in a dog crate in an underground bunker, tormented and taunted by Phineas Slater.Now, Phineas is behind bars, charged with four grisly murders, and Liam is cooperating with the authorities to make sure he never gets out. Now, Liam is free.Or, he should be.But Liam has known Phineas for a long time. The...

Would you help your sister bury a body?Danae Ericson arrives at the family lake house to find her brother-in-law dead in the kitchen and her sister Athena hysterical. Athena insists it was an accident, that her husband fell. But when Danae gently suggests they call the police, Athena refuses.Danae has to admit that the bloody scene doesn’t look like an accident. She wants to believe her sister, but she isn’t sure. Out of loyalty to Athena, Danae agrees to help her ...

He is attracted to her. Of course he is. But what he feels for her, it is more than something carnal. It is inspired, almost otherworldly.This is it. The last weekend. They will all be dead by dawn.Every fall, Pagan Moore meets up with her college friends for a weekend together. This year they’re gathering in a posh mansion on its own private island off the coast of Maine. Sometimes when they all start drinking, old wounds get opened up. Pagan expects some...

They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions... and a target on their backs.Join Elke Lawrence, former prosecuting attorney, Frankie Hart, former defense attorney, and Iain Hudson, former police detective as they dig into old cases, look for errors made, and free innocent people wrongly convicted.This boxed set includes the first three books in the series.Grain of TruthTwenty-five years in jail for a crime they didn't commit... bu...

An anonymous letter summons Emilia Farrow to Siesta Key. An oceanfront house has been rented there for her, its closet stocked with designer clothes in her size. The mysterious correspondent promises that if she comes, she will find out what really happened to her sister Violet.Her death wasn't an accident.Immersing herself in a world of wealth and privilege, Emilia has nightmares about the Wainwright mansion next door. Her mother used to work there years ago. Recently, her...

Hope Ross isn’t crazy, but she knows crazy. Crazy is......a father telling his daughter to pretend her twin sister doesn't exist. Worst. Game. Ever....a sister never leaving the house....a disturbed woman hidden away in the attic....bodies rotting in the basement....being accused of attempted murder....the police blaming the victim.No, Hope’s not crazy, and she’s through playing games. As soon as she gets out of this mental facility, ...

Margo Quinn's a volunteer zombie fighter. It's like being a volunteer firefighter, except without the nifty hat.An infected man threatens to infiltrate and infect the barricaded community she serves on Lido Key in Florida unless someone finds his sick daughter and brings her to safety. It's up to Margo to safely navigate the zombie-infested wasteland of Sarasota, Florida and bring back the girl. But she's got a time limit. And the clock is ticking."Margo Quinn, Zombie Fight...

Cori Donovan is dead.When she was alive, she was a bundle of opposites. She was a freshman college honors student. She wrote poetry and plays. And she sold ecstasy on the side. She slept around.Molly Colligan moves into Cori’s old room, starting the spring semester at a new school, hoping to escape from the dark secrets of her past. But it seems that darkness follows her. Cori may be gone, but her absence seems to saturate everything in Molly’s new life. Before long, Molly ...

Tess Carver was victim to a brutal, ritualistic murder. Strange symbols were cut into her body, which was found in a ring of trees under a dark sky.The police seem to have the case wrapped up. They’ve imprisoned Gunner Bray, head of the Clayton Society—called a cult by some. The Clayton Society owns the land, and who else but crazy cult members would butcher a woman this way?But the Clayton Society has money to burn, and they’ve come to blond private detective Ivy Stern for...