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After a forced leave that nearly cracked her confidence, FBI Special Agent Domini Walker is handed what should be a straightforward assignment: locate Hettie Van Buren, a high-society heiress who vanished during a weekend away. But then Hettie's boyfriend turns up dead—single shot, no mistakes. The work of a professional.

In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened—even if it puts their own lives in danger—in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of What’s Done...

Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she's flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter and the haunting memories of three-year-old Kelsey Chase—whose murder case ended her career. As Nicole obsesses over the old facts, she realizes everything about that case felt off.

Both Liz and Wrangell police officer Paul Howard are convinced the whales and dolphins of Sumner Strait are dangerously disoriented. Meanwhile, Tim "Tango" has something to hide, and Mink, the maverick owner of the Velvet Moose bar is out of control. Scott Beringer, newly arrived marine biologist, knows something about "Tango," even while hiding his own past. Alaska may be a haven where you can hide, yet it is a wilderness fraught with danger. It takes someone like Liz Romero to tame its mysteries.

Plagued by traumatic childhood memories, crime reporter Sawyer Brooks still struggles to gain control of her rage, her paranoia, and her life. Now, after finally getting promoted at work, she is forced to return home and face her past. River Rock is where she’d been abandoned by her two older sisters to suffer alone, and in silence, the unspeakable abuses of her family. It’s also where Sawyer’s best friend disappeared and two teenage girls were murdered. Three cold cases dead and buried with the rest of the town’s secrets.

It may be summer, but schoolteacher Anna Silver’s trip to the coastal town of Bamfield is anything but a vacation. She’s on the run, desperate to stay one step ahead of her father’s murderer and determined to track down the one man she’s been told to trust: her father’s old cell mate, Brent Carver. But when she finds him, she discovers not a kind, elderly artist but a dangerously hot alpha male with blood on his hands.

Zu ihrer Zeit war BLACK STILETTO eine Legende; eine Untergrund-Heldin, die während der späten Eisenhower-Ära und den frühen Jahren unter Kennedy in New York City einige Berühmtheit erlangte. Obwohl sie von den Autoritäten gesucht wurde und eingesperrt worden wäre, wenn man sie gefasst oder ihre Identität gelüftet hätte, war die BLACK STILETTO eine kompetente und höchst erfolgreiche Verbrechensbekämpferin. Zu ihren Gegnern gehörten gewöhnliche Gauner, kommunistische Spione, die Mafia und schlimmeres.