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FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: Who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death over 40 years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department had given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, and his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. Unable to trust his family, Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway, to join his quest in Vegas.

After surviving a serial killer’s abduction as a young teenager, Ellery Hathaway is finally attempting a normal life. She has a new job as a rookie Boston detective and a fledgling relationship with Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years ago. But when a 12-year-old girl disappears on Ellery’s watch, the troubling case opens deep wounds that never fully healed.

Is there such a thing as a good sociopath? Newly minted private investigator Annalisa Vega is skeptical, but her first client, Mara Delaney, insists that some sociopaths are beneficial to society. Mara has even written a book titled The Good Sociopath that is centered around Chicago neurosurgeon Craig Canning. Dr. Canning has saved hundreds of lives so it shouldn’t matter that he doesn’t actually care about his patients, should it? But Mara has a more urgent problem, which is that she is now concerned that Canning might not be such a good sociopath after all.

The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after 20 years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity.

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number 17 in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only victim who lived. When three people disappear from her town in three years, all around her birthday - the day she was kidnapped so long ago - Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous.

Boston detective Ellery Hathaway met FBI agent Reed Markham when he pried open a serial killer’s closet to rescue her. Years on, their relationship remains defined by that moment and by Francis Coben’s horrific crimes. To free herself from Coben’s legacy, Ellery had to walk away from Reed, too. But Coben is not letting go so easily. He has an impossible proposition: Coben will finally give up the location of the remaining bodies, on one condition ― Reed must bring him Ellery.

Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season. Police officer Ellery Hathaway is on involuntary leave from her job because she shot a murderer in cold blood and refuses to apologize for it. Forced into group therapy for victims of violent crime, Ellery immediately finds higher priorities than "getting in touch with her feelings." For one, she suspects a fellow group member may have helped to convict the wrong man for a deadly arson incident years ago.

For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran’s death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran’s open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty of secrets, something Annalisa is reminded of when her brother turns out to be one of Sam’s last clients.

Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can’t forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre murder, she thinks she has nothing to lose by investigating whatever secrets he hid behind the thin blue line. Annalisa quickly zeroes in on someone who had good reason to want Hammond dead: a fast-talking car salesman who’d gotten away with murder once and wasn’t about to let Hammond take a second shot.

FBI-Mann Reed Markham bittet die Polizistin Ellery Hathaway um Hilfe: Als er ein Baby war, wurde seine Mutter Camilla ermordet und er wuchs in einer Adoptivfamilie auf. Nach all den Jahren offenbart ein Bluttest nun, dass sein Adoptivvater, inzwischen ein erfolgreicher Politiker, auch sein leiblicher Vater ist. Hatte er etwas mit Camillas Ermordung zu tun, um seine aufsteigende Polit-Karriere nicht zu gefährden? In welchen gefährlichen Kreisen bewegte sich Reeds Mutter?

Ellery Hathaway ist Polizistin in Woodbury, einem verschlafenen kleinen Ort in Massachusetts. Was niemand dort weiß: Als Kind wurde sie zum Opfer des berüchtigten Serienkillers Francis Michael Coben. Und sie war die Einzige, die überlebte. Das ist lange her. Doch seit drei Jahren erhält sie seltsame Geburtstagskarten, die auf diese Vergangenheit anspielen - und jedes Mal verschwindet danach eine Person aus ihrem Ort spurlos. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sie sich an den einzigen Menschen, der ihr helfen kann: den FBI-Agenten, der sie damals gerettet hat.

Ellery Hathaway ist Polizistin in Woodbury, einem verschlafenen kleinen Ort in Massachusetts. Was niemand dort weiß: Als Kind wurde sie zum Opfer des berüchtigten Serienkillers Francis Michael Coben. Und sie war die Einzige, die überlebte. Das ist lange her. Doch seit drei Jahren erhält sie seltsame Geburtstagskarten, die auf diese Vergangenheit anspielen - und jedes Mal verschwindet danach eine Person aus ihrem Ort spurlos. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sie sich an den einzigen Menschen, der ihr helfen kann: den FBI-Agenten, der sie damals gerettet hat. Eine nervenaufreibende Jagd beginnt. Doch wer jagt hier eigentlich wen?