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For Izzy Graves, scrubbing blood out of bathroom tile is just another Tuesday. Crime scene cleaning pays the bills, and Edgar—her pet rat—is the only one waiting when she gets home. And she’s fine with that. Then her father dies—the Bone Collector, headline monster and part-time dad. His lawyer delivers a box: inside, a victim’s bone and a cryptic letter. It’s the first clue in a gruesome hunt for more bones scattered across the city. But Izzy isn’t the only one searching.

There are two kinds of serial killers—organized and disorganized. This killer that Wren Delacroix is trying to make a profile for? He’s both. Or neither. Or… she doesn’t know what, but she can’t make heads or tails of his crime scenes. The killer leaves his teenage-girl victims where he killed them. Naked, dirty, and destroyed, they are tossed aside like nothing, and he runs. This is classic disorganized presentation.

Ten years ago, when Eve Townsend was seventeen years old, Tightrope killed her family and took her younger sister, Maddie. Eve was left alive—the only survivor. After inheriting her family's fortune, Eve has dedicated her life to finding Tightrope, training her body and mind, honing her skills, using every resource at her disposal to track down Tightrope...and others like him.

> Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, colorfully chronicles personal and intimate details of the last four years of the talented '50's blonde bombshell star's fascinating life. After three decades of successful TV and movie appearances and Vegas singing stardom, Ms. Lansing died far too young at just 43. Though her funeral was attended by luminaries of the day, (Frank Sinatra sent a huge floral display), her light went out relatively unceremoniously.

Every discussion of sexual ethics revolves around consent, but is this notion enough to help us understand good sex? How does the dominance of consent help or prevent us from negotiating the complexities of intimacy and pleasure? Georgetown professor Quill R Kukla argues that the idea that...

Eva Monroe is returning from a three-week business trip, one in which she left her five-year-old son in the care of her estranged ex-husband, when the plane that's taking her home crashes. The accident leaves her in a coma, unresponsive to doctors' attention and the urgings of her little boy. However, while Eva's body lies on the precipice of death, Eva's spirit has traveled to a place known as the In-Between - a world that is hovering in the clouds above our planet.

Evelyn is a real estate agent in Baneford, Massachusetts, accustomed to old houses, strange quirks, and stubborn properties that refuse to sell. But when some of her listings begin to exhibit signs of haunting, she is forced to confront the possibility that something is wrong in a way she can’t explain or dismiss. Her search for answers leads her to Adrian, a spiritual medium burdened by an unwanted ability to hear the dead. Adrian has spent his life trying to keep his gift under control, but the disturbances surrounding Evelyn’s properties suggest a deeper, more deliberate presence at work.

Investigative journalist, Billy Daniels, never expected his interview with Riley, a delightful ten-year-old, would result in the overdose of her homeless single mother and Riley’s disappearance. She was last seen next to their broken-down 1996 Impala parked in a DC alley . . . holding her mother’s body. Billy searches for Riley only to discover her life is in mortal danger. A Russian covert operation—one that could shake the nation to its core—is headquartered in Washington. Agent Nika Rolinska, a daring and skilled assassin, has orders to tie up loose ends.

The world's number one best-selling novelist and his wife are found dead in their east Florida beach home — from no apparent cause. Something outrageous has been done to the bodies. FBI Special Agent Naomi Soul and her partner Xue Sang are ordered to solve the crime. On the west coast of Florida, another best-selling author is murdered. The method is both horrible and graphic. Are the two deaths connected? The MOs are completely different, but the two authors knew each other well. One thing is clear. Someone is killing authors using the methods in their stories.

When 42 year-old behavior analyst Kate Lockbee's husband is killed in a house fire, she needs a fresh start away from Boston and the life she knew. After answering a mysterious job ad online, she is soon on her way to Cypresswood Manor, a plantation house in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana. Her job is to be the therapist for a young girl with moderate autism. From the start, she is attracted to Young Winstone, her employer and the girl's father, but their differences and troubled pasts threaten to keep them apart.

Jeannie Parker married a serial killer. She didn’t know it at the time. But she blames her own demons for steering her into such a black orbit. Now, she’s running for her life... Stumbling through the frozen woods, she’s mad-lucky to find the decrepit cabin. But she can only hide so long. Their final showdown awaits. At least she’s stopped lying to herself about his depravity—so impossible to withstand, let alone outwit. Maybe she doesn’t deserve to get away given her complicity over the years. Still, a budding survival instinct within, Nag, disagrees with her assessment.

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes… One of those words means someone deserves to die. Alexandra loves her glamorous San Francisco apartment, but nothing is going as she'd dreamed. The lucrative job that provides her cover is in jeopardy. No one is what they seem -- the aloof artist, the neighbors, and the man who is following Alexandra. Will a beautiful portrait destroy the lives of two women close to Alex?

A deadly prophecy must be stopped before all is lost. Trust none, sacrifice all: words to live (or die) by in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller of deceit and intrigue. Five days before the presidential inauguration, rookie Special Agent Emma Noble is tasked with her first assignment—informing a shy young man from Boston that he is the victim of the most infamous kidnapping of the past century.

Brooklyn Sloane has left her job as a consultant for the FBI to take on her first cold case in the private sector. Doing so allows her the freedom to work the one case she's never professionally been allowed to touch-a ruthless serial killer, who just so happens to be her own brother. Privately, she's hunting her only sibling, but alongside her team, she's seeking justice for those without a voice. But there is always the anomaly . . .

On the run after a heinous crime, one man learns this lesson as he races towards freedom in Mexico. One turn off the beaten path leads to a desolate gas station and a nightmare he’ll never forget…if he survives.

Brace yourself for Letters from a Dead World—six terrifying stories spawned from the macabre imagination of David Tocher. With a uniquely Canadian flavor, this collection will leave you breathless, grappling with the darkest fears that haunt us all.

Dr. Ana Maria Ross Gutierrez runs a clinic near the Texas-Mexico border, taking care of those who've crossed into the United States illegally. Ana was once married to Peter Ross, but his decision to join the border patrol drove her to divorce him—despite Peter's continuing feelings for her and his conviction that he's protecting the desperate immigrants in his own way. Now, as hostility and hatred heat up in El Paso, Ana, Peter, and a young mother are entangled in danger and violence that threaten them all.

Since Elise Morgan left her father’s fake reality television show, Dark and Deadly Things, she put the ghost-hunting life behind her, able to comfortably watch from her couch-- next to the ghost of her mother. When the Halloween episode airs live on television, something goes horribly wrong. Four people end up dead, and Elise's father is the lead suspect in their murders. But Elise knows the truth. She watched the thing that crawled from the darkness. It most certainly wasn't her father. Abel Hale was in the house when his family died.

A deadly sin turns into a violent obsession in the next pulse-pounding thriller by USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Layne . . . In an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of a rural town in Northern Illinois, three brutalized bodies were discovered in different stages of decomposition. The...

A new sin awakens in the next gripping psychological suspense novel by USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Layne . . . When a body is found, displayed crudely in the middle of a deserted rural road, the world is captivated by the gruesome murder. Media descends on a small town in the middle of...