Supernatural Crime

Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Charlie, on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle’s close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she had loved. Except that the loss is not total - Charlie is still around. Elle feels his presence, smells his aftershave, hears him accuse her of killing him. And even though she doesn’t believe in ghosts, she argues with him, asserting her innocence. Oddly, Elle has a gap in her memory; she can’t account for her activity during the time of his murder.

It was 1993 when Andy last saw his sister, Willow. One minute he was holding her hand, and the next, she was gone. Thirty years later, Andy has a family of his own, but he’s never forgotten his little sister. How could he? Her disappearance destroyed his family and ended his childhood, and with all the leads dried up and no new clues, he’s had to accept that she’s gone forever. That’s until he’s contacted by a woman who claims to have a message for him from Willow. Sceptical, but unable to resist trying anything, Andy meets up with her.

When a Catholic priest hangs himself during the pope's inauguration, his friend and ex-priest Alex Harker is dragged into a secret war that has been playing out on the fringes of society since the birth of Christ. The suicide sets into motion a planned timetable of terrifying events that will irrevocably change the world as we know it.

It is the summer of 1956, and 15-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St. Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the Hotel Eden, the slightly ramshackle boarding house run by her moody, unpredictable mother. But Betty's world is upended when a string of brutal murders brings London's press corps flooding into the village, many of whom find lodging at the Hotel Eden. She is instantly transfixed by one of the reporters, the mysterious and strangely aloof Mr. Gallagher - and he, fully twice her age, seems equally transfixed by her.

Tucked away, deep in the woods, Brunesfield Correctional Facility's cold walls and empty hallways keep dangerous girls away from the world...girls like Angela Davis, whose fate was determined by one bad decision. After a few years in juvie, Angela is finally close to her release, but everything changes the day a new warden with dark plans takes over.

Loki Redmond is positive her grandfather's 100 acre farm in Mississippi will be the perfect place for Jake Savior to heal after the murder of his wife and his banishment from law enforcement before they begin their partnership in Redmond Private Investigations. But fate has other plans. The discovery of a month-old baby and young girl with no memory of her name, running from a man she calls The Devil, plunges them into danger.

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series and two collections of short stories, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker, he divides his time between the city of his birth and the Pacific Northwest.

When a wealthy and gorgeous woman asks PI Frank Orpheus to find her missing identity, he just can't say no - even if the case leads him into a criminal underworld more horrific than anything he ever imagined. Private detective Frank Orpheus, searching for a mysterious woman’s missing identity, finds himself entangled in a web of underworld characters far nastier than any he’s ever met.

When Detective Katelyn Rush is sent in to oversee the investigation, she knows nothing about Mitokoa, only its reputation. When she arrives, she soon finds more out of place than a murder. Something else has hit this town, something more horrendous than a killer. Worse still, it doesn't seem to have left. From the second she arrives, time is ticking - to uncover the murderer, the source of the madness, and the connection between them before she is swallowed up in the insanity as Mitokoa's next victim.

Retired DEA agent Robert King has a thriving PI business in New Orleans - and one promise to keep. He must help his niece, Louie, use her supernatural abilities to rid the world of monsters, without becoming a monster herself. But King plays by the rules of law and order, and Louie does not. So when Louie discovers a serial killer who is actively hunting a young woman, King knows he has only one chance to keep his promise to his dead wife. He must convince Louie to take the man alive and seek justice for the families he’s already destroyed.

Brilliant Detective Leyland Francis is returning to the National Crime Agency after recovering from serious injuries he suffered in the line of duty. His morning commute is interrupted by an unusual contact with a beautiful young woman, setting in motion a series of events which lead him to be involved in a murder investigation headed up by his close friend, DCI Phil Mercer. An investigation which leads to a terrible realization for the troubled Francis.

After shooting and killing his nephew, a gunman runs wild in a London park. What drives Edward to commit such heinous acts? Who will survive yet another of his moments of madness? The action takes place in Jersey, Cornwall, Manchester, London, and places not of this world. Random Bullets is a crime thriller with a paranormal twist.

Jennifer Blake is happy. She's settling in nicely to her new home town. Things are finally returning to normal after the Blood Eagle killings a year ago. She even has a nice, normal job lined up. But Jen isn't a normal person. When visions of a horrendous fire begin to assault her and the bodies of teenage girls begin to appear, she will be put to her biggest test. It will take all of her talents and the help of friends old and new to stop a killer and prevent a tragedy.

Sparhawk, a struggling alcoholic, agrees to help find the killer of an accused pedophile priest. When two more priests are slain in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, it becomes evident that it is the work of a sadistic serial killer who crucifies his prey after killing them. Sparhawk blazes an unconventional trail to the killer that puts him at odds with the very people he is trying to help and initiates a turf war with law enforcement.

A motivated killer with the charm and good looks of Bundy and the cruelty of Dahmer works his craft with cunning skill. When he decides he's fed up with going unnoticed, he reaches out to Skye in a big way. As more and more people around her begin to turn up missing or dead, she realizes there's a link - and it's her. Unless she finds a way to stop him, he'll continue checking off his list with precision and deadly consequences.

Cain Killion knows himself to be a damaged man, his only saving grace the extrasensory connection to blood that he uses to catch murderers. His latest case takes a macabre turn when he discovers a familiar and haunting symbol linking the crime to his own horrific past - and only one woman could know what it means. Mercy Ledger is brave, resilient, beautiful - and in terrible danger. The moment he sees Mercy, Cain knows he's the one who can save her.

In a rundown area of Manchester, inside a bathroom in a small, terraced house overflowing with children and dysfunctional parents, an unfathomable, powerful entity infiltrates 12-year-old Serena's life with disastrous effects. The enigmatic force not only dramatically affects introverted Serena's life, but threatens the well-being of everyone she knows, especially those people who for some reason have earned the strange girl's displeasure. It soon becomes clear that nobody should ever upset Serena.

Kate and Jackson - the girl who talks to ghosts and the Protector - are back in a fifth supernatural mystery. No good deed goes unpunished. Roxi thought the Balinese mask would make the perfect gift for her brother Jackson and his girlfriend Kate. Unbeknownst to her, a deadly curse was part of the package. A young woman slaughtered during a massacre haunts the mask. Her spirit wants revenge, and she’s determined Roxi is the only one who can get it for her.

When Flynn’s life is saved with a whispered warning about a coming disaster, he decides he isn’t going crazy, after all. More directives come along with hope - if he succeeds at his tasks, he’ll earn eternal salvation and be forgiven for a dark deed he committed a while back.

When facing a string of gristly murders with no evidence to guide them, a small North Texas Sheriff's Department hesitatingly accepts the assistance of a Texas Ranger to help identify the killer. Executing a form of vigilante justice that seasoned officers find disturbingly brutal, the killer targets criminals that have only one thing in common; their ancestors conspired to kill the town Sheriff over a hundred years ago. The only evidence points to a supernatural perpetrator. How does modern day law enforcement stop a killer that is already dead and buried?