Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have...

Twenty years after the disappearance of Jessie Brentwood, Detective "Mac" McNally reopens the case when bones are unearthed at Jessie's old school, and soon after Jessie's friends begin to die under suspicious circumstances.

"Cassie Kramer and her younger sister, Allie, learned the hazards of fame long ago. Together, they'd survived the horror of a crazed fan who nearly killed their mother, former Hollywood actress Jenna Hughes. Still, Cassie moved to L.A., urging Allie to follow. As a team, they'd take the town by storm. But Allie, finally free of small-town Oregon, and just that little bit more beautiful, also proved to be more talented--and driven. Where Cassie got...

In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home, with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides...

Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter. Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from...

Police officer Kirby Wayland is on his way home late one day when he sees a stray dog along the highway and decides to shelter it. From that moment on, Kirby experiences a continuing strangeness about this canine. Man and dog quickly develop a bond, though there is always something very unsettling about it. Kirby takes a six-month leave from the force and decides to take a road trip. On the road, Kirby and the dog have a series of rapidly escalating...

"A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive--and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic killer will hear... To journalist Nikki Gillette, this disturbing story is a ticket out of small-town Savannah and on to the big time. She's already given the killer a nickname--The...

Amaryllis, Mississippi, is a scrappy little town of strong backbone and Southern hospitality... and the center for six unsolved murders over the past three years. Three terrified women are sure they know who the killer is. None is aware of the others' suspicions... and each faces a heartrending choice to bring the killer down...

Forensic expert Cat Ferry is called in by the New Orleans police department to investigate a series of murders, and, when old, bloody footprints are discovered in the carpet fibers of her childhood bedroom, she is faced with the trauma of her father's murder years earlier and demons from her past.

Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best--murdering one helpless victims after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. new he has a second opportunity--and the time to hesitate is through.