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Trisha Hanover has run away from home before. But this time she hasn't come back. Because they argued the morning she disappeared, Robyn feels responsible and sets out to find Trisha. What she discovers is unpleasant.

Etta, Peter and Jonah find themselves at Yellow Lake for individual reasons, but after a series of terrifying events the three seek shelter in the same cabin where they discover they have stumbled onto a crime scene.

When three teenage clients of her fashion photographer dad go missing, Shelby's near perfect life crumbles when her dad is named a prime suspect in the girls' disappearance.

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb writes to a convicted killer to try to determine the fate of his uncle, who has been missing for twenty years, a letter that triggers a psychologically charged cat-and-mouse correspondence.

Werewolf-in-training Kieren is torn between joining an urban wolf pack and staying to protect his human best friend--and love interest--Quincie, whose restaurant is in danger of morphing into a vampire lair.

Reed Brennan is sure her boyfriend, Josh Hollis, is not responsible for her ex-boyfriend Thomas Pearson's death and vows to find a way to clear Josh's name and track down the real killer.

Providing examples from specific cases, this book discusses police work on unsolved cases of violent crimes, referred to as cold cases, including the use of forensics, new clues, new technology, the CODIS database and DNA profiling, and investigating the investigation.

Erice Volz moved from California to Nicaragua in 2005 when he was in his late twenties after co-founding a successful bilingual magazine. There he met beautiful Doris Jimenez but the relationship lasted less than a year. They remained friends and then on November 21, 2006, he received a phone call that Doris had been found murdered in her seaside clothing boutique. As he comforted her friends and family he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Imprisoned, he suffered horrific conditions. Through the tireless support of his friends and family and a former intelligence operative he was finally released in December 2007 after more than a year in prison.

The rape and murder of a young girl from Maizy and Fred's working-class neighborhood in 1930s Chicago draws them together with Zane, a preacher's son from a better part of town, as they all navigate the trials of adolescence.

Providing examples from specific cases, this book discusses the responsibilities of homicide detectives, including investigating violent deaths, identifying killers, and bringing murderers to justice.