He calls himself “Carver.”He likes killing. But he knows he must be patient, like an actor preparing for a role. He must cast the part of the victim. Stage the scene of the crime. Find the motivation to kill. Then, with blade in hand, he must make it real.NYPD psychologist-turned-profiler Lee Campbell arrives at the city’s latest crime scene to find the victim lying in the lobby of her building, in a pool of blood, wearing a white mask. When he learns the girl was an actress, he fo...

At first, they look like suicides. Two bodies within a week—one found floating in New York's East River, another electrocuted in the bathtub. But forensic analysis soon shows that both victims were drugged before they were killed. As the death toll continues to grow, so does the brutality of the murders—and the killer dubbed the Flesh Collector continues to prey.NYPD criminal profiler Lee Campbell joins the frantic pursuit of this madman who delights in taunting police with gruesom...

The killer picks her up in a Manhattan night club. Another trendy victim of the latest downtown scene. Young. Fresh. Healthy. Perfect. The police find her body in a Bronx park. Pale as a ghost. Peaceful in death. Her life has been drained away. Slowly. Methodically. Brilliantly.In his time with the NYPD, criminal profiler Lee Campbell has seen the gruesome handiwork of the most deranged minds in the city. But this latest killer is something new. Something unbelievably twisted. A bl...

Much Ado About Something by C. E. Lawrence is a gripping psychological crime thriller that masterfully blends intellect, suspense, and emotional depth into a story that refuses to let go. In this intense installment featuring the brilliant and complex Lee Campbell, Lawrence delivers a narrative that is both razor-sharp and hauntingly human.When a chilling murder disrupts what appears to be an ordinary world, the investigation unfolds into something...

ArtThrough him, they'll live forever. His creation will be a testament to their perfection--and to his skill. Each victim has a rare innocence, worthy of being immortalized in his macabre work of art. A beauty worth killing for. . .ImitatesDetective John Stallings can't avoid getting drawn into his latest investigation. The parallels between the Jacksonville girl who just disappeared and his long-vanished daughter make every discove...

**One deranged killer. One determined cop. One deadly obsession…**“Readers will definitely want to see more of Reed’s character Jack Murphy.”—John Lutz, New York Times-bestselling author of Darker Than NightFrom the moment he sees the young woman’s body in her hotel bathtub, homicide detective Jack Murphy knows he’s looking at a truly demented but brilliantly designed puzzle. She’s been drained of blood. She’s missing her left hand. And the killer...

A Killer Without A ConscienceThe crimes are barbaric. The victims are found in desolate rural areas, naked and impaled on long wooden stakes. There are no clues. No DNA evidence. Just a message, etched over and over again on one broken body: "I have returned."Without ControlFBI Agent Sam Markham's last investigation ended with a serial killer's death and Sam's promotion. But back then, Sam had luck on his side. This time, the murder...

There's more to good and evil than meets the eye...When human remains are found in her pre-war fixer-upper in an east Vancouver neighbourhood, Claire Dawson's grand plans to fix the house -- and her life -- take a disturbing turn. Suspicious there might exist a relationship between the discovery and her own tragic past, Claire insinuates herself into the investigation, unknowingly placing herself in harm's way and Homicide's Detective Dylan Lewis in an impossible conflict of interest. And whe...

From the USA Today –bestselling author, "tough, funny and smart" FBI profiler Karen Vail tracks a serial killer through California wine country (Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times –bestselling author)Karen Vail ventures to Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims' windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves. But when the Crush Killer learns that an FBI pro...

Welcome to Hell Week. You have seven days to find him…At Wexman University, male students will do anything to get into a top fraternity. They’ll prove their worth during Hell Week by participating in various physical, psychological and even juvenile pranks. But those shenanigans aren’t so funny when pledges start disappearing. What kind of evil has stalked this small Michigan university for the past two decades? Theories range from obscene scientific experiments to grotesq...

The first in the series featuring an Ozarks sheriff’s detective investigating moonshine, murder, and the ghosts of her own past . . .Katrina Williams left the army ten years ago, disillusioned and damaged. Now a sheriff’s detective at home in the Missouri Ozarks, Williams is living her life one case at a time—between mandated therapy sessions—until she learns that she’s a suspect in a military investigation with ties to her painful past.Then the corpse of a...

Life is definitely not easy for 32-year old Rosie O'Doyle Keefe, but she can handle working in New York City's World War II shipyards--until her foreman winds up dead--right after she rebuffed his "requirements" for a promotion. . .Never one to sit back and hope for the best, Rosie discovers that everyone who knew the foreman had good reasons to kill him off. She also finds that she has a surprise ally in the darkly handsome police lieutenant Jack Riordan. But Jack also has to prod...