From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and BLOOD IN THE WATER, comes MANSTOPPER, a novel of ultimate horror.Four highly trained attack dogs are caged inside a truck traveling down a lonely stretch of New Jersey highway … but not for long. When the truck crashes, the animals break loose. Bred to kill, they waste no time before claiming their first victim … and then another … and another ..As the horrific death toll moun...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of Cold Around the Heart and Blood in the Water, comes Shadow Dance, a chilling tale of nightmarish suspense.Little Timothy Cutter has a secret. He knows the truth behind his parents' inexplicable deaths. He knows about the runa: ageless, bodiless, a shadow thing that invades a human host and steals its victim's soul with a kiss ...Robert Thorn, too, has a secr...

From national bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and STEALING FACES, comes a new novel of suspense.Bonnie Parker is a small-town private detective on the Jersey shore who just happens to be named after America's most notorious female outlaw, the distaff half of Bonnie & Clyde. And though no one can prove it, she's an outlaw in her own right, willing to supplement her PI duties by acting as a professional assassin. For a price, and when circumstances warrant it, she'l...

They call him the Rain Man. When the skies over Los Angeles darken with storm clouds, he goes to work – stealing victims, chaining them in the city's underground storm tunnels, and letting them drown.It's up to FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum to stop him – but to do so, she'll need the help of maverick security operative Abby Sinclair, who works outside the law. Together they may catch a killer … if they don't kill each other first.Michael Prescott is the New York Times...

Nothing ever happens in Dogtown …The people here—lost souls, all—go through the motions of their days, living in tents, scrounging for food and cash.Shaw is one of them, no better than anyone else. No better than Seph, who used to hook on the street and shoot up heroin … or Dirty Bob, philosopher-cynic… or Dax, who lords it over the tent city like an angry tin god.Then a woman named Lily turns up dead in her tent with a knife in her back—murdered in circumstances th...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of LIFE & AFTERLIFE and DON'T TOUCH, comes CHASING OMEGA, a 30,000 word paranormal thriller."Do you believe in life after death?" It's a question Daniel Brand finds himself answering after he picks up a mysterious woman on the side of an Arizona highway long after midnight. The issue isn't merely philosophical. His passenger, Claire Holland, is a psychic medium on the run from a secret conspiracy holding the key ...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes RIPTIDE, a dark, unsettling descent into old crimes and new madness.Jennifer Silence reads between the lines. A psycholinguistic analyst, she studies documents written by murderers, teasing out hidden clues. But nothing in her life has prepared her for the document that is now in her hands. A leather-bound diary from a crumbling crypt.The diary of Jack the Ri...

Abby Sinclair deals in risk assessment—but it’s lives, not fortunes, that are at stake. The Los Angeles investigator goes undercover to figure out whether a client’s stalker is simply an overzealous fan or a dangerous psychopath. She’s learned the hard way that the difference isn’t always apparent until it’s too late. In Raymond Hickle’s case, however, Abby has no doubts.The awkward loner’s fixation with gorgeous news anchor Kris Barwood has progressed from creepy to murderous. So ...

There's an October chill in the air. A presidential election is coming up. Covid is spreading, and everybody's wearing a mask. And in the burned-out industrial city of Canaan, demonstrations turn violent as radicals clash with police.In the midst of it all is Bonnie Parker, a small-town PI on the Jersey Shore, who's reputed to moonlight as an assassin when the need arises. For nearly four years, Bonnie's kept her head down and her hands clean, but that may be about to change, as sh...

"I, Marcus Memmius Celer, tell this story. I have told it a thousand times. I may tell it a thousand more ..."This is the story of a trio of legionnaires in the days of the Emperor Hadrian, when Rome held sway over Egypt, and strange magic haunted the world.When Celer and his friends Festus and Melior come upon a scroll stolen from Alexandria's great library, pointing the way to a thousand-year-old labyrinth of tombs, they know they've been offered the opportunity of a life...

"For twenty years," novelist Michael Prescott says, "I hosted a blog that dealt largely with the subject of life after death–the evidence for it and the philosophical implications if that evidence is valid. During that time, I read countless books and engaged in many interesting conversations with both believers and skeptics. Life & Afterlife sums up that personal exploration; it's my best guess at what awaits us in what has been called 'the supreme adventure.'"Because I t...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this dizzying thrill ride of nonstop terror and suspense.In the dead of night, psychologist Erin Reilly is abducted from her Tucson home. Her kidnapper -- a serial killer who burns his victims alive. Tormented by his obsession, he wants Erin to cure him before he kills again. If she fails, she'll become his next victim.While Erin's twin sister Annie searches des...