mystery fiction

Having come into unexpected money due to a generous aunt's will, Wendy Thornton's dream of buying The Ashes, a house and property out in the country she thinks could become her family dream home, given enough love and work. However, as she moves in with her young family and begins working on renovating it, Wendy begins to uncover The Ashes' dark past, and its secrets threaten to turn her dream home into a nightmare.

Half-blind, isolated, broken, and disillusioned, LeAnne Hogan used to be a rising military star in Afghanistan. Now a final blow comes in the form of the death of Marci, her hospital roommate. Compelled to find closure for her death, LeAnne travels to Marci's hometown only to find that Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. Then LeAnne finds herself "adopted" by the town's dark, strong, inscrutable stray dog, and together woman and dog set out to find the missing child.

Harriet "Hal" Westaway receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her an inheritance from a grandmother who has been dead for decades. She thinks it's a mistake, but maybe her tarot card-reading skills could help her get the funds anyway so she travels to Trepassen, an English countryside estate, where Mrs. Westaway's family has come to claim their bequest. Hal quickly realizes that there is something very wrong about the situation and the inheritance, and she could be in real danger.

A group of seemingly unrelated individuals is invited by an anonymous millionaire for a get-away weekend on a private island near Devon. As the host's identity remains concealed, the guests discover that each of them possesses a dark secret in their past. When the guests begin to be killed by an unidentified murderer, they grow suspicious of one another.

When the police ask psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin to help them investigate the brutal murder of a woman they believe is a prostitute, Joe discovers the woman is a nurse he once worked with. As the case develops, the police suspect one of Joe's patients is responsible.

When psychologist Joe O'Loughlin investigates a woman who committed suicide by jumping off a bridge, despite the fact that she was afraid of heights, he becomes obsessed with discovering who she was talking to on her cell phone just before she jumped. What he finds out, however, will pit him against a cold and calculating killer.

After Detective Vincent Ruiz is removed from the Thames River with a bullet wound in his leg, he has no memory of the shooting. A photograph of a seven-year-old missing girl is removed from his pocket and an in-depth investigation begins which may prove the girl is still alive.

As the only survivor of Denver's notorious "Reaper" serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck, commits herself to getting justice for the victims every time. But her next case hits too close to home when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, is found dead floating in a nearby lake. Kendall joins forces with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer, but it soon becomes clear that Gwen was hiding a lot of secrets and Kendall didn't know her nearly as well as she thought she did. As more bodies begin to pile up, Kendall realizes the Reaper is back, and she is the only one who can stop them.

Zoe Maisey, a seventeen-year-old genius musical prodigy, once served time in juvie for her part in an accident that left three of her classmates dead. Now she and her mother, Maria, have made a new life for themselves, and Maria has made Zoe swear never to reveal her past, not even to her new step-dad. On the night of Zoe's first recital in years, Maria ends up dead, and in the aftermath everyone, including Zoe herself, has to figure out just what they missed that might have prevented it.

Abi Knight learns that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Olivia, has been discovered after falling off a bridge. Olivia is brain dead, but Abi also learns that Olivia is pregnant and is being kept on life support for the sake of the baby. Noticing bruises on Olivia?s wrist, Abi thinks that something sinister may have happened despite the police ruling the fall an accident. She begins to investigate while also dealing with complex layers of grief. Told in alternating perspectives from the last few months of Olivia's life and Abi's search for the truth.