It seemed like a brilliant idea. Three mismatched bad guys--a Palm Beach potted, a Bahamian ex-con, and a Puerto Rican gardener turned mob enforcer--get together to carry out the perfect crime: kidnap retired Miami bookie Harry Arno and let him pay the ransom with his ill-gotten wealth. He can't go to the cops later. No one will miss him. It's perfect. Or so they figure. They figure wrong. Harry's former girlfriend, ex-topless dancer Joyce Patton,...

"Frank Marr may be the best investigator [Washington, D.C.] has ever known, but the city doesn't know his dirty secret. A long-functioning drug addict, Frank has devoted his considerable skills to hiding his usage from others. But after accidentally discovering a kidnapped teenage girl in the home of an Adams Morgan drug gang, Frank becomes a hero and is thrust into the spotlight. He reluctantly agrees to investigate the disappearance of another girl...

Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben-the person who promised he would always protect her-was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found. But guilt and grief...

After two teenage girls are kidnapped and one dies as a result, the town detective and a therapist probe beneath the family secrets, personal conflicts, and criminal behavior found among the numerous suspects of the crime.

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband--or his money--might...

Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She...

When three longtime friends make one mistake, they find themselves holding a young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next and setting in motion a chain of decisions that will haunt them forever.

ily Bard heads home to Bartley, Arkansas, for her sister Varena's Christmas wedding, but ends up involved in an investigation with her private detective boyfriend. But there's something in the air besides holiday cheer--there's murder.

Guiltily joining the investigation into a kidnapping she failed to recognize, Rhonda endeavors to identify an elusive child snatcher and finds herself haunted by the disappearance of a childhood friend years earlier.

"Winner of the U.K.'s Crime Writers' Association's New Blood Dagger Award! A small California community is shattered by the abduction of a three-year-old resident in this quirky novel, praised by The Guardian "a pleasingly unusual mixture of a psychological thriller and screwball comedy"--