Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman now lives in a self-imposed exile on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Against his will, Max is pulled into a baffling string of child murders and his old police habits kick in.
Carmela Bertrand, owner of a New Orleans's scrapbooking shop, becomes involved in a murder investigation after one of the city's elite is found dead during Mardi Gras and her estranged husband, Shamus, is the chief suspect.
Running from a horrifying evil that he encountered in the high plains of the Columbia River, Wade Hopkins leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake as he fights to survive. Original.
When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear--leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all
“Calls to mind the forensic mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell.” —Chicago Sun-Times With fascinating forensics, compelling characters, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor’s novels have been compared to those of the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense to introduce one of today’s most insightful and complex investigators: forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. When the dead speak, Diane listens—to their bones. Leaving a troubled past behind her, Diane is starting over as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia—until former love Detective Frank Duncan tracks her down. He needs her unique experience as a forensic anthropologist to examine a bone found in the woods. Diane can’t resist Frank’s request—on both a professional and personal level. Because the secrets of bones are in her blood—and their whispers offer a dead family’s only chance at justice.
Asked to investigate a famed painting that may be a counterfeit, forensic geologist Em Hansen discovers that she is on the trail of a murderer when her client begins to suffer the effects of poisoning.
