Lead us not into temptation… At fifteen, Victor Santos sneaks out to meet friends and returns home to find his mother murdered. But with only a half-eaten apple as their sole clue, the police fail to find the killer. Brooding with guilt and revenge, Victor encounters Glory, a girl unaware of her scandalous ancestry. Suffering at the hands of her controlling mother, Glory is desperate to discover the secrets and lies her mother is hiding the secrets and lies that Victor holds the key to. ...
Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare.A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe. Suddenly Anna's quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start to arrive from a disturbed fan. Anna is followed, her apartment broken into. Then a close friend disappears.Anna turns to homicide detective Quentin Malone, but Malone's more concerned with the recent murders of...
I spy…murder…The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game. No one else was supposed to know – especially not Andie and her friends. But curiosity can become obsession. Now, years later, someone is watching Andie.Someone who won’t let her forget the unsolved murder of ‘Mrs X’. Andie. Julie. Raven. Three very different women bound by much more than friendship. And they’re about to discover that loyalty can be murder…
Evil lives in Paradise… A panicked message on her answering machine is the last Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel. Determined to find her, Liz heads to Rachel’s home in Key West. Within hours of her arrival a man jumps to his death. Then a teenage girl is found murdered.The ritualistic style of the killing is hauntingly similar to that used by the notorious “New Testament” serial killer—now on death row. Could these deaths be related to Rachel’s disappearance? Is a copycat killer at work?...
There’s no escape from this deadly game…When her neighbour Cassie is found brutally murdered, Stacy Killian has reason to believe the death of her friend is related to a cultish role-playing game. The game is dark, violent – and addictive. As a former police officer, Stacy was exposed to more that her share of evil.But working with Spencer Malone, the detective assigned to her friend’s case, Stacy can only watch in horror as the bodies mount. Soon, Stacy and Spencer are trapped in the terrifying...
Five years ago, three young victims were found murdered, posed like little angels. No witnesses, no evidence left behind. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts 'the perfect crimes.' The case nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career– because she let the killer get away. Now the Sleeping Angel Killer is back. But Kitt notices something different about this new rash of killings– a tiny variation that suggests a copycat killer may be re-creating the original 'perfect...
Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder...
SHE'S GOT NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO PROVEGrowing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Bend, Mississippi, Becky Lynn Lee doesn't have the luxury of dreaming. With an abusive father and a broken mother, she always thought that this was it. But after the ultimate betrayal, Becky Lynn can no longer live the nightmare.Determined never to go back, Becky Lynn escapes to Hollywood. As a photographer's assistant, she discovers a talent for spotting beauty and capturing the perfect shot. When the...
Pięć lat temu w małym miasteczku w Illinois zostały zamordowane trzy dziewczynki – wszystkie we własnych sypialniach, wszystkie w tym samym wieku. Na miejscu zbrodni nie odnaleziono żadnych śladów… Sprawa Mordercy Śpiących Aniołków, jak nazwała go prasa, stała się obsesją detektyw Kitt Lundgren. Dochodzenie zakończyło się klęską, co Kitt, dodatkowo przeżywająca osobistą tragedię, przypłaciła kryzysem nerwowym i załamaniem kariery zawodowej. Teraz morderca wraca, by kontynuować makabryczne...