Amy Archer Gilligan is believed to have killed at least 60 people in the rest home she owned between 1907 and 1917, with 48 of those occurring in the 5-year period between 1911 and 1916. Due to the nature of the industry, however, it was some years before local investigators began to ask serious questions about the exorbitantly high death rate coming from the Archer Home...Little did they know, she was becoming one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

When thirty-eight-year-old advertising agency owner Brian McCarthy receives a letter from Merton Caldwell, an attorney in Cave Junction, Kentucky, he doesnt realize his life is about to change drastically. A former member of the Navy Special Forces, McCarthy operates McCarthy Communications in Los Angeles; as a teen, however, he spent two summers on his cousins farm in small Cave Junction, an area replete with limestone caves.Through a phone call to the attorney, McCarthy learns th...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!**“Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles TimesPsychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly...

A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she’s the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five. After winning a contest for “The Most Beautiful Girl in New York,” shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artist...

As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers from the world's #1 bestselling author, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives**,** and a single mother exacts her revenge.Murder, Interrupted(with Alex Abramovich): Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson wha...

You can run, but eventually your past will catch up with you…Wrong-side-of-the-tracks Roxann and her silver-spoon cousin Angora have never had anything in common—until now. Now adults and estranged for years, both women are on the run, one a reluctant witness to a crime, one just jilted at the altar. With each harboring her own secrets, the cousins decide to hit the road to tackle items on the Life Lists they created in college. Along the way, they let the...

From the internationally #1 bestselling novelist comes a tale of small time criminals on a new grift that might cost them everything.Peppard and Jarman have a new grift that seems simple enough: Go to the airport. Imitate a hired driver by copying a name that they see in the crowd. Collect the passenger before the real drive does, take him to a secluded area and rob them. It seems like a simple plan to make some quick cash for these two amateurs--that is, until the...

A ruse to bed a pair of twins quickly grows complicatedArt doesn't mean to tell Liz Kerwin that he has a twin. He's on Fire Island, and she's so beautiful that he's willing to say anything for a chance at getting rid of her clothes. So when Liz mentions an identical twin sister, Art blurts out that he has a twin too. His name is Bart, he says, and describes the most boring man he can dream up. Liz thinks he would be perfect for her sister Betty.When Art mee...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the LAPD homicide division tackle some of their most shocking cases to date. Half a million dollars is stolen from a fashionable department store; a young divorcée is murdered by her ex-husband's lover; three flawless robberies occur in rapid succession and a middle-aged woman is senselessly murdered in a public park.The continually erupting crime in Los Angeles stretches the team to the limit. However, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza handles all this action wit...

In contemporary America, an un-named college student sets out on an obsessive journey of discovery to collect and record the life-stories of total strangers. The interviews that follow have echoes of another, far more famous literary journey, undertaken long ago and in another world.Drawing on the original, unexpurgated tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, six of their most famous works are re-imagined in the rich and endlessly varied landscapes of contemporary America.From the glas...

California cultists, duplicitous damsels in distress, and dangerously high stakes conspire against Joe Quinn, a private eye who is beginnnig to feel more like a knight-errantJoe Quinn is cut adrift. He’s lost everything. His girl. His job. His place in the universe. A security head for a casino in Reno just can’t afford to have a gambling problem.Life takes a turn from tragic to strange when Quinn finds himself on the doorsteps of a religious cult’s tower i...

The characters in Inappropriate Behavior teeter on the brink of sanity, while those around them reach out in support, watch helplessly, or duck for cover. In their loneliness, Murray Farish's characters cast about for a way to connect, to be understood, though more often than not, things go horribly wrong. Some of the characters come from the darkest recesses of American history. In 'Lubbock Is Not a Place of the Spirit,' a Texas Tech student recognizable as John Hinckley, Jr. wri...