Jealousy is evil. Greed is deadly. When a young man is found hanging inside a barn, it seems like an open-and-shut suicide. But the boy in question is none other than Bryce Mowery, son and only heir of the richest family in Savannah, and Bryce's father is claiming foul play. Much to her chagrin, Detective Charli Cross is sent to investigate and appease the farm and real estate magnate. But soon, it's no longer a question of if Bryce was killed,...

Everyone has a purpose. Some are just darker than others. Always calm, cool, and collected, Savannah PD Detective Charli Cross compensates for her petite five-foot frame with an impenetrable exterior and pragmatic competence. It's an approach that catapulted her to the rank of detective at twenty-three and contributes to her and her partner's unequaled murder clearance rate. But when a bird-watching couple discover the remains of a teenage girl stuffed...

"Still on bereavement leave and dreading her upcoming birthday--a byproduct of the kidnapping and murder of her best friend in high school--Detective Charli Cross doesn't feel much like celebrating. She'd much prefer being called in to investigate a reported homicide at a neighborhood playground. Until she realizes the young woman murdered was the nanny of the four-year-old son of a wealthy business mogul and a federal judge. And the boy is missing....

In the face of malice, evil is spawned. Savannah Police Detective Charli Cross thought she'd seen it all. But when Charli and her partner, Matthew Church, are called in on a missing persons report from a local funeral home, she realizes this may be the most bizarre and perplexing case yet. Not only are three funeral home employees missing, but one left her car in the funeral home parking lot overnight. Stranger still, the cremator was filled with...

FBI Special Agent Stella Knox's search for her father's murderer is put on hold when three bodies are discovered seated in a wealthy Tennessee suburb. It's strange. The victims seem to be placed in front of a grand piano like an unwilling audience. Stranger still, the killer stopped to eat, taking the plates and silverware with them.

Silence is the most terrifying scream... When the beloved minister of a small inner-city church is killed in a drive-by shooting while delivering sandwiches to the homeless, Savannah Homicide Detective Charli Cross is on the case. Who would want to kill a man who does so much good? And why? More importantly...was the pastor targeted or chosen at random? While Charli and her partner, Detective Matthew Church, attempt to answer those questions,...