Her friend is missing. A teen has been murdered. And Leigh will have to put everything on the line in this serene town where secrets simmer below the surface…FBI criminologist Leigh Brody arrives at her friend Elyse’s Alabama beachfront vacation home and walks straight into a crime scene. Blood spatters cover the floor, and Elyse’s worried husband and reserved teenage daughter have no idea where she is.Her boss orders her not to get involved, but Leigh is d...

The woods are hiding more than Chief Maggie Riley could ever imagine. Including her own worst nightmares…There’s a blood moon rising over the tiny Maine town of Coyote Cove when Chief Maggie Riley comes across the body of a man, blood seeping from stab wounds into the damp forest floor. As she desperately struggles to secure the scene as an approaching storm threatens to destroy all evidence, Heather, a local teenage girl, emerges ...

Ever since I tried to escape, he’s been keeping me in the dark. My bones ache with the cold. The longer I sit, trapped alone with just my thoughts, the more I worry… What if this is it? What if I never get to leave?The sun is rising on another cold winter’s day in Coyote Cove when Chief Maggie Riley finds an unmarked envelope on the steps of the police station. Inside is a photo of a teenage girl, bound and bruised. Maggie’s heart constricts at the...

I have always been drawn to tiny, wild things…Journalist Fran Hendrix thinks she's about to get the scoop of her career. A reclusive artist has chosen her to take his first interview since the tragic death of his wife years before. Not long after arriving at his secluded country estate, Fran receives a shocking anonymous message. He is lying to you. Get out while you can.But Fran is a journalist. She's not going anywhere t...

The little dog trembles and whimpers, but refuses to move. Maggie reaches further into the undergrowth, trying to tempt it out. But as she moves closer, she sees something that stops her heart—a tiny, shivering baby, wrapped in a thin, pink blanket, saved only by its loyal protector.There’s a ferocious storm heading toward the isolated town of Coyote Cove when Chief Maggie Riley gets the call every cop dreads. Three bodies have been found on Rattle...

An epic tale of courage, love and heroism inspired by the true stories of women working as journalists during the Vietnam War.1967. Jude Murphy has never taken no for an answer. When the Associated Press refuses to send her to cover Vietnam, she books her own flight to Saigon – typewriter in her luggage, borrowed camera over her shoulder, and every intention of reporting the truth of a war her country would rather sanitise.But on arrival, s...

The small child floats so gently in the water, he could be peacefully asleep: but the cold blue of his skin reveals his fate. One mother’s little boy is never coming home again.When Chief Maggie Riley sees the body of the small boy still dressed in pyjamas in Beaverhead Lake, her heart breaks. Little Patrick Warner went missing last night. Despite immediately calling the entire town of Coyote Cove into action, Maggie’s desperate se...

'Blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'A knotted mystery too intriguing to leave unpicked' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller**'Binge-worthy . . . a brilliantly immersive and almost cinematic experience' Jenny Mustard, author of Okay DaysRecently dumped and stuck with the mortgage, artist Esther ...

From the moment I was born, I knew that I would always come second to my sister. Bright, popular, beautiful – she has always been everything that I’m not. But when she vanishes without a trace I know deep down I’m the only person who can find her.I haven’t spoken to my sister Evianna in years, not since a shocking accident tore our lives apart and sent us to opposite sides of the country. For years I have worked as a social worker and Evianna is we...

An utterly gripping and addictive crime thrillerMaggie’s heart pounds as she clutches the autopsy report. What she’s reading is impossible. Yesterday, a woman died in a fire. But her remains belong to someone who died twenty years ago.When the body of Ruby Anderson is found in a burnt-out trailer, Chief Maggie Riley is called to solve the biggest case Coyote Cove has ever seen. Ruby supposedly drowned on a ...

Struggling writer Wren Lee hasn't slept properly in eighteen months. Not since the car accident that derailed her entire life. The night she still can't fully remember. So when she receives a surprise inheritance from her estranged grandfather, a house in rural Virginia seems like the escape Wren desperately needs.But the grand mansion she arrives at is nothing like she hoped. From the moment Wren arrives, something feels wrong. A strange lullaby echoes through the maze-like hallwa...

“A beautiful, moving portrait of lives reshaped by war and its aftermath. Tara Lynn Masih is a tremendous talent.” —Olivia Hawker, bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the CrowAn extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”—where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War II.Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of ...