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The caged graves

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, Verity Boone gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

The madness underneath

After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city.

The outcast dead

a Ruth Galloway mystery
While on a dig at Norwich Castle, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of Mother Hook, a serial killer who was executed in 1867 for the murder of five children, while DCI Harry Nelson investigates a serial child-abductor called the Childminder.

Monstrous beauty

In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

Velveteen

Velveteen, who was murdered at sixteen, has difficulty adjusting to her current existence in purgatory, preferring to plot revenge against her killer, which could have dire consequences for purgatory and for her.

Midwinter blood

a novel
2012
Malin Fors, a divorced mother of a teenager and talented police superintendent in a small, isolated town, investigates the murder of an obese man who was found hanging from an oak tree, naked and horribly mutilated, in the middle of a snow-covered plain outside of town.

A dying fall

a Ruth Galloway mystery
An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.

Cartwheel

a novel
2013
American student Lily Hayes is implicated in the brutal murder of her roommate while spending a semester studying in Buenos Aires, leading to a case that reveals deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA.

The bone bed

Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.

You toomb

2009
Presents four tales of terror in the spirit of the original EC Comics series.

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