"After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the nocturnal predators of the swamp as his only company. But everything changes when Freeman discovers a young girl's body floating in the muddy waters and becomes...

Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are numerous.

Single mom Charley Webb, a controversial columnist for the "Palm Beach Post," jumps at the chance to write the memoirs of Jill Rohmer, a woman on death row for the murders of three children, but what she believed might be her ticket to fame turns deadly when Charley begins receiving threatening mail, and Jill reveals that she had an accomplice who has never been brought to justice.

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver travel to Memphis at the request of anthropologist and skeptic Dr. Clyde Nunley to test Harper's unique ability to find dead people--a talent she acquired after being hit by lightning--only to find themselves under suspicion when Harper senses and finds the body of a child who went missing from Nashville eighteen months earlier.

"When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Eve's entire life came into focus (delete reference to forensics--that happened later, right?-- ) and nothing was going to stand in the way of giving her daughter a wonderful life--the kind of life she herself never experienced. And then, the unthinkable happened. On an ordinary class trip to a local park, seven-year-old Bonnie vanished. Eve found herself in the...

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccoló Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon.

Struggling with trauma in the years following World War I, veteran Lawrence Bartram arrives in the village of Easton Deadfall and is embroiled in a dangerous case involving a murdered woman who may be linked to the disappearance of a child years earlier.

Megan Keeler died years ago--or so everyone believes. In fact, she disappeared to escape from her sadistic husband, Glenn. When dismembered body parts were found near their home, Glenn was convicted of his wife's murder. And Megan, terrified for her unborn child's safety, never came forward with the truth...Since then, Megan has built a new life in Seattle for herself and her son, Josh. She's never forgotten that she's a fugitive, and Josh knows nothing...

"Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away. But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay itself, and her family has...

Maddy Blake is torn between loyalty and desire when her husband, Doug, becomes a prime suspect in the murder of a fifteen-year-old babysitter, and her feelings for the priest she turns to for help, change to love.