Showing results by publisher "Blake Pierce" in Psychological

Priests are turning up dead, their bodies found crucified against church doors throughout Washington, DC. Could this be some sort of act of revenge? Could it be a member of their order? Or a serial killer, hunting priests with a far more diabolical motive? The FBI turns to special agent Mackenzie White, as the case bears a resemblance to the religious overtones of her first case, The Scarecrow Killer. Plunged into the subculture of the priesthood, Mackenzie struggles to learn more about the rituals, about ancient scripture, to try enter the killer’s mind.

Behind immaculate hedges, in a neighborhood where nothing can seemingly go wrong, wealthy housewives are turning up killed, with nothing to connect them. As Jessie digs deeper, something feels rotten with this perfect community, and she has a nagging sense that the answer may be hiding in plain sight.

Wealthy couples are torn apart when a killer strikes at the heart of their perfect lives, leaving one dead and one to mourn.. LAPD's finest profiler, Jessie Hunt, is on the trail of this vengeful predator, but as she closes in, will the hunter has become the hunted?

FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent — she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life — yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out.

In The Girl He Pined (Book 1), Paige King, 25, in her PhD residency at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, is summoned urgently by the FBI: her most notorious patient, a diabolical and elusive serial killer, has escaped. And they need her to help hunt him down. Paige, as brilliant as she is, knows she is up against a mastermind with no equal. This killer will stop at nothing to outwit them all, and going too deep into his mind may be just the thing that undoes them all.

In A Trace of Vice (book number one the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, missing persons detective in the homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. It leads to a violent confrontation with The Collector - which, in turn, offers more clues that may, after all this time, reunite her with her daughter. Yet at the same time, Keri is assigned a new case, one with a frantic ticking clock. A teenage girl has gone missing in Los Angeles.

Paige King, a PhD in forensic psychology and a new arrival at the FBI’s elite BAU unit, has an uncanny ability to enter serial killers’ minds. But when a new serial killer strikes, leaving a cryptic signature of a fleur de lis at each crime scene, Paige wonders: Will this diabolical killer outsmart them all?

Brilliant 22-year-old FBI intern Riley Paige struggles to decode the riddles of the sadistic serial killer dubbed by media as the “clown killer” - but finds it all becomes too personal when she herself is targeted and in a battle for her life.

When suburban grandparents begin dying under mysterious circumstances, FBI Agent Kate Wise is lured out of her tranquility to solve what appears to be a vendetta against custodial elders. Can she decode the killer's twisted motive and save the next family before the gavel strikes its final, fatal judgment?

Couples are turning up dead, victims of a sick game, being hunted by a killer in a world of privilege and wealth. Jessie has seen this playbook before. But she has never encountered a killer as cunning as this, one who seemingly outsmarts her every step of the way. She knows she is locked in a deadly race against time to outsmart him—before he strikes again…

In the elite world of the ultra-ultra rich, women are turning up dead in their mansions, behind their massive gates, in places where nothing should ever go wrong. Jessie is shocked at the wealth of this world, at how dysfunctional the seemingly-perfect are, and at what lengths they will go to cover up their past, and their lies….

From number one best-selling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A bundle of two books, A Trace of Death and A Trace of Murder, in Blake Pierce’s Keri Locke Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file. Keri Locke, a missing persons detective in the homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found.

FBI Violent Crimes Division Special Agent Chloe Fine, 27, still reeling from the secrets of her past, finds herself thrown into her first case: the murder of a nanny in a seemingly perfect suburban town. Immersed in a world of secrets, of unfaithful couples, of pretense and artifice, Chloe soon realizes that anyone - and everyone - may be guilty. Yet at the same time, with her own father still in jail, she must battle her own demons and unravel her own secrets, which threaten to bring her down before her own career even begins.

Paige King, after receiving her Ph.D. in forensic psychology, has been asked to join the FBI’s elite BAU unit. When a deranged killer on death row seems to know more than he lets on about an active case, Paige is summoned to enter his mind and crack the case—before the final hours that lead to his execution.

50-year-old governess Mary Wilcox has dealt with more than her fair share of rich families, and she does so with patience and grace. But she’s not used to dealing with murder. When Mary moves into the grand Ashford estate to assume her role as a governess to three children, she is met with the polite formality of the estate’s matriarch and the curiosity of three children. Little does she know she is stepping foot into a nest of secrets and lies.

Seasoned governess Mary Wilcox is no stranger to family mysteries, but beneath the charm of Southern gentility, she senses a labyrinth of hidden agendas. In the sultry whispers of Georgia, Mary arrives at the grand estate of the Greenwoods, holding within its walls a legacy steeped in shadows. When Mary uncovers a clandestine garden, the sanctuary of Mrs. Greenwood, she witnesses secret conversations. And before long, someone is killed.

In the lush, rolling hills of the Cotswolds, governess Mary Wilcox finds her latest charge: the Carlton family. With wealth and elegance that could rival royalty, the Carltons are the epitome of modern aristocracy. But beneath their polished exterior lies a tangle of silent grudges and family secrets. And one of them may lead to murder. Someone in this household harbors a sinister story, cloaked in aristocratic civility—a story that could turn her into the confidant of a troubled soul--or the next unsuspecting victim.

Als ein Mann nach einer Nacht mit einer Prostituierten tot in seinem Hotelzimmer in L.A. aufgefunden wird, denkt sich niemand viel dabei - bis sich in dem vermeintlichen Einzelfall plötzlich ein Schema zeigt. Bald wird klar, dass eine Prostituierte zum Serienkiller geworden ist - und dass die 29 jährige Kriminalprofilerin und FBI-Agentin Jessie Hunt womöglich die Einzige ist, die sie aufhalten kann. Ein rasanter Psychothriller mit unvergesslichen Charakteren und fesselnder Spannung.

Ein Doppelpack der Bücher Nummer Eins (Eine Spur von Tod) und Nummer Zwei (Eine Spur Von Mord) von Blake Pierces Keri Locke Mystery-Serie! In Eine Spur von Tod ist Keri Locke zuständig, von der Entführung ihrer eigenen Tochter auch Jahre später noch verfolgt, denn sie wurde nie gefunden. In Eine Spur von Mord wird Keri Locke durch einen neuen Hinweis - den ersten seit Jahren - wieder ermutigt, nach ihrer verschwundenen Tochter zu suchen und sie zurückzubringen.

In Eine Spur Von Schwäche: Keri Locke Mystery, Buch 3 verfolgt Keri Locke, Detective bei der Einheit für Vermisste Personen im LAPD, eine frische Spur, die sie zu ihrer entführten Tochter führen kann. Es kommt zu einer brutalen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Sammler - die ihr noch mehr Hinweise liefert, um vielleicht endlich mit ihrer Tochter vereint zu werden. Gleichzeitig wird Keri ein neuer Fall zugeteilt, bei dem die Uhr erbarmungslos tickt.