Daniela Acitelli
Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First, there was the strip of bloody duct tape; then, the bloodstain on his shirt; and finally, the long nights away from home that always coincided with gruesome deaths. Roscoe Lee Marcks killed fourteen...
The night holds dangerous secrets. And a girl who cried wolf is caught in a murderer's crosshairs.
Only twelve hours have passed since Violet saw her teenage boyfriend. Now his body lies in the morgue, riddled with stab wounds. And the evidence points to a mythical serial killer Violet invented to scare her friends...The Halloween Man.
Sheriff Thomas Shepherd is torn between two investigations after a deadly inmate
...A shocking murder awakens forgotten memories.
Sheriff Thomas Shepherd knows what it takes to catch a murderer. But when he discovers a dead woman buried in the forest, he believes a new killer is stalking Nightshade County.
Nightmares afflict Thomas's girlfriend, Private Investigator Chelsey Byrd, a woman who has battled depression since she was a teenager. Something about the recent murder awakens forgotten memories
...The night holds dangerous secrets. And a girl who cried wolf is caught in a murderer's crosshairs.
Only twelve hours have passed since Violet saw her teenage boyfriend. Now his body lies in the morgue, riddled with stab wounds. And the evidence points to a mythical serial killer Violet invented to scare her friends...The Halloween Man.
Sheriff Thomas Shepherd is torn between two investigations after a deadly inmate
..."Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one."—Booklist, STARRED Review on The Perfect Place to Die
It's 1918, WW1 is in full swing, and a Spanish Influenza outbreak is on the horizon. In the midst of the chaos, families are being terrorized and people are being killed by a lone man with an axe. As Gianna and her friend Enzo investigate the heinous crimes, she realizes she's connected to the killer in
...A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New Yorker, Washington Post, TIME, and The Guardian
"A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams."
—Jacob Brogan, Washington Post
An exhilarating debut
HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR
With Galway's Halloween Mystery Tour only a few days away, Tara Meehan is scouring the town's curiosity shops for spooky decorations to draw tourists into her architectural salvage store. But when a stranger appears in her shop bearing a cryptic cupcake and an ominous message, Tara suddenly finds...
He's hunting a psychopath. And now the killer wants him dead.
After he's shot in the line of duty, Detective Thomas Shepherd returns to Wolf Lake to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Living beside the water, he finds peace...until the body of a missing woman washes up on his shore and the town blames a teenage boy with a history of violence. Is a killer stalking the sleepy resort village?
Thomas isn't convinced
...Cold, terrified, and hunted. Can a teenager escape a cold-blooded killer?
When a criminal defense attorney is stabbed in her home, the police name her disturbed son, Shawn, their top suspect. But no one can find Shawn.
In a last-ditch effort to locate his son, Shawn's father convinces PI Raven Hopkins to take the case and prove his son's innocence. When Sheriff Thomas Shepherd takes over the investigation, the evidence
...Revenge is a dish best served cold.
A few weeks have passed since Sheriff Thomas Shepherd rescued Deputy Aguilar from a deranged serial killer. He's burned out and exhausted, struggling to hold the Nightshade County Sheriff's Department together.
Then a series of bizarre deaths shock the community. They appear accidental, but closer inspection reveals that a common thread connects the victims. Eleven years ago, they
...13) Gone
A missing boy. A frantic mother.
And a deadly secret awaits Sheriff Thomas Shepherd.
Hannah never takes her eyes of her son around strangers. So when her child vanishes at an amusement park, Hannah fears the worst.
Working beside Chelsey Byrd and her team of private investigators, Thomas Shepherd looks into the potential abduction. But when disturbing evidence surfaces, the team suspects Hannah
...He's a wolf in sheep's clothing. And he's watching you tonight . . .
When a distraught husband hires PI Chelsey Byrd to help him find his missing wife, Harmony, Chelsey realizes there's more to this case than meets the eye. Working with Sheriff Thomas Shepherd, Chelsey seeks the truth of what happened to Harmony four years ago.
After a series of mysterious disappearances, Thomas and Chelsey fear the worst: a killer
...Two bodies, zero suspects. And a murderer Thomas Shepherd can't stop.
Recovering after a near fatal encounter with a serial killer, Deputy Thomas Shepherd seeks the tranquility of Wolf Lake. Until a rash of murders and abductions paralyze the resort village. Who is killing the villagers of Wolf Lake?
The killer is a phantom hiding in the shadows. Sheriff Gray blames a ghost from his past, the priest who ran his wife
...16) The Bone Forest
A missing woman and a graveyard of bones.
Can Thomas Shepherd stop a deranged madman?
On the night Karley leaves town to meet with her friends, she disappears. Her husband swears they have the perfect marriage, but Sheriff Thomas Shepherd isn't convinced. And the husband doesn't have an alibi for the night Karley vanished.
Thomas joins forces with his girlfriend, private investigator Chelsey Byrd.
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