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In the heart of Savannah’s hauntingly beautiful streets, a chilling mystery is about to unfold … Teenagers are vanishing from the shadowy depths of the city's ancient tunnels, and fourteen-year-old Andi Leland is determined to find out why. As she delves into the sinister underworld, she, too, vanishes without a trace. With Andi’s disappearance, the stakes are even higher, and time is running out. Enter Sloane and Maddie, two friends seeking a peaceful escape in the picturesque city. Their vacation is soon disrupted as they learn about the recent disappearances. Compelled by justice ...

Liza O’Connell was a horror buff in every sense of the word. But there was one deadly nightmare she would never be able to talk about … her own. A friend murdered. A business in trouble. A marriage struggling to survive. And that’s just the beginning. When salon owner Carrie King discovers Liza dead in the back room of her shop, everyone becomes a suspect, even her. As tensions in the community rise, so does the death toll, and now the local cops believe there’s a serial killer on the loose. The question is … are the two investigations connected? The Widow Maker is the fourth book...

A quiet walk through the woods. A secret left unspoken. A murder that tears through a small town and everyone in it. On the brink of leaving for college, Audrey Ashford heads toward her best friend’s house, taking a shortcut she’s walked countless times before. But as night falls and the shadows close in, Audrey senses she isn’t alone. What begins as a familiar path turns deadly, and by the time she realizes the danger, it’s already too late. Detective Georgiana Germaine is called to investigate, but the deeper she digs, the more tangled the case becomes. Everyone has secrets, and ...

Tonight, there's a strange stillness to the air, an eerie quiet, an unsettling feeling brewing within—a feeling that something terrible is about to happen. A mysterious letter arrives from a woman named Eve Crawley. She claims to be Addison's cousin, a cousin Addison has never met or heard of before. The letter contains an invitation to Crawley Manor ... and a warning. Something evil is coming. Something dark. Something seeking to destroy everything and everyone in its path. And Addison Lockhart is the only one who can stop it. Praise for the Addison Lockhart paranormal and supernatural ...

Marissa Calhoun sits alone on a beach-like swimming hole nestled on Australia's foreshore. Tonight, the lagoon is hers and hers alone. Or, is it? A tall figure steps out from behind the tree, his face cloaked beneath a dark hoodie. His footsteps slap against the pavement, fast and hard. Twenty feet, then 15, then 10. Instinct kicks in, and Marissa breaks into a sprint, but she's too late. His hand claws into the back of her head. Grabbing a fistful of her hair, he plunges her face into the water.

On a calm summer evening, Giovanni takes his young son Luca for drive. A car pulls alongside, and when the window comes down, the driver is holding a gun. He aims, showering Daniela's car with gunfire. Who is this man? Why has he taken Giovanni? And will Luca survive?

A fancy hotel. A weekend getaway. For Sloane Monroe, rest has finally arrived, until the lights go out and her nightmare begins.

Six-year-old Olivia Hathaway tiptoes down the center aisle of Maybelle's Market, stopping once to glance over her shoulder and make sure her mother isn't watching. But Mrs. Hathaway is too preoccupied to notice her daughter has slipped away. Minutes later, a frantic Mrs. Hathaway runs up and down the aisles, desperately searching for her missing daughter. But Olivia is already gone. Will PI Sloane Monroe find her before it's too late?

After a physical altercation with an aggressive date, Sloane's best friend Maddie drives home, vowing never to go on another blind date again. Headlights flash off and on through her car's back windshield. Someone is following close behind, trying to run her off the road. When Maddie's car careens into a nearby tree, the chase comes to an end. But for Maddie, the end is just the beginning.

A cryptic message. A missing niece. And only 24 hours to pay. After traveling to New Orleans to see his niece's band on tour, Police Chief Drake Cooper, a.k.a. Coop, finds a piece of paper stuck to the front door of his brother's home. A handwritten message reveals his niece has been abducted, a ransom is being demanded, and Coop's family has 24 hours to pay.

It was Isabelle Donnelly's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. Three women, three motives to kill.

When the party of a lifetime becomes a party to the death, the lines become blurred. Friends become enemies. Drugs become weapons. And that's just the beginning ... Retired medical examiner Maddie LaFoe is in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with her best friend and private investigator, Sloane Monroe. When Sloane leaves to get them fresh drinks, Maddie witnesses what appears to be a body being dumped in an alleyway. Maddie darts through the street festivities to investigate … only to become a victim herself. Minutes later, Sloane returns. Maddie is nowhere in sight, and no one seems ...

Three riveting USA Today bestselling mystery novels. Love great mysteries with surprising twists? Prepare to be up all night reading the books in this best selling series. Novels in this volume include: Bed of Bones Thirteen-year-old Willie Compton and his younger brother Leonard stumble upon a mine shaft while hiking the hills of Park City, Utah. A Slinky Leonard's been flipping back and forth between his hands slips through his fingers. Leonard bolts forward and reaches out to grab it, but he slips, then he falls into the shaft. Bed of Bones tells a tale of murder, shining a big, bold ...

As semi-retired private detective Sloane Monroe unwinds at a luxurious spa retreat in North Carolina, a jarring phone call shatters her peaceful getaway … A friend has been found dead. What seems like a random act of violence soon reveals a sinister pattern as more of Sloane’s friends and acquaintances begin to be targeted. As she races to uncover the truth, an unsettling fact emerges. Someone is using her life as a weapon, and everyone she cares about is in the crosshairs. With her loved ones in danger, Sloane races against time to outsmart her enemy and protect those closest to her. ...

After her mother’s accidental death, Holly Honeywell returns to her hometown to settle the estate before Christmas. In a forgotten shoebox tucked in a closet, she finds adoption papers, and uncovers a stunning truth--the woman who raised her wasn’t her biological mother. Even more unsettling, the agency listed on the documents no longer exists. Shaken and searching for answers, Holly digs into her past, determined to uncover who her real parents are and why her adoption was kept from her. It isn't long before Holly is found murdered. And now it’s up to Georgiana Germaine to unmask the...

As Claire Cooperson sits by the fire, wrapping presents and putting them beneath the Christmas tree, she hears what sounds like glass shattering. The unwelcome noise startles her, and she jumps up, tiptoeing toward the back door. A chill brushes across her face, and as the outside wind howls, she wraps her arms around herself, pulling her sweater tighter. Struggling to see in the darkness, Claire switches on the dining room light and finds the cause of the sound she heard. A glass panel in the center of the back door has shattered, spitting jagged shards all over the tile floor. But what ...

It was Isabelle Donnelly's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. Three women, three motives to kill.

Gideon Belmont never wanted to return to Hollow Pines—or to the crumbling bakery his late mother left behind. Inheriting her failing business only unearthed the ghosts of his youth, and the cruel nickname that clung to him like a curse—Gluttonous Gideon. But with the business sliding deeper into ruin, Gideon makes the grim choice to come home and close its doors forever. As night settles over the town and he turns the shop’s sign from open to closed, the red velvet curtains stir, and he senses a presence lingering in the dark. In a town where silence holds its own dark voice, the past...

t was Isla Everley's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. When two women with no apparent connection are found dead at the same wedding, medical examiner Reagan Davenport will stop at nothing to discover the identity of the killer...even if it means untangling a deadly web of lies she'll live to regret.

A secret lies within the Kingston mansion's walls, a secret that’s about to bring the past into the present … Inside the Kingston mansion, Nelly Fisher, a curious housekeeper left to finish her duties during a bustling wedding, is surprised to find the door to Mr. Kingston’s office unlocked. The office is off-limits to staff. But today, Nelly can’t resist peeking inside. Nelly enters and soon finds a hidden drawer beneath Mr. Kingston’s desk. The drawer is locked, but it’s not long before Nelly finds the key. As she riffles through the drawer’s contents, Nelly’s shocked when...