Are you ready for war?
An unparalleled genius, Luke Titan managed to fool his colleagues and superiors, creating havoc and death throughout the FBI. Now, he sits atop the FBI's Most Wanted List while his former partners, Tommy Phillips and Christian Windsor, lie in hospital beds.
The fight isn't over.
Luke Titan wants to watch the world burn, and he wants Christian at the heart of the fire. Hiring a sadistic gun runner, Titan declares war on the entire FBI . . . giving Christian the only chance to end his carnage.
Christian must do an unthinkable act, then Titan will turn himself in.
The war is here. Titan is ready to destroy everyone and everything. Will Christian and those he loves become more casualties, or will he finally rise above Titan's evil genius?
Would you drop everything and move to a town with a peculiar name, because an odd little man made you a strange offer?
Millie Thorn did, and she could never have guessed what mysteries and revelations were awaiting her in the magical town of Spellbinder Bay.
After witnessing a murder on her first day in the bay, Millie is cast into a world she never knew existed-a world of magic and the paranormal, and a world where it's seemingly normal to have a conversation with a cockatiel named Reuben.
Learning she is a witch becomes relatively simple to accept after discovering what other paranormal creatures populate the town, and with ever more mysterious clues about her life coming to light, it's not just a murder she must solve. She must discover who she is, and why she feels like she's been to the town before. Is it just dejà vu? Millie isn't so sure.
With talk of another dimension known as The Chaos, and with an unlikely board of directors running the local school-there's a lot for Millie to learn, and should she decide to stay in town-a lot for her to accept, too.
Did Millie make the correct decision when she decided to move to the bay? Only time will tell.
FBI agent Christian Windsor's life rests in the hands of a madman, Charles Twaller.
His only hope of salvation? The person who waged war against the entire FBI. His former partner. The genius. The psychopath. Luke Titan.
FBI Director Alan Waverly sees none of this, though. He only knows Titan escaped and his two agents are missing. Most likely dead.
To Waverly, Titan won the war.
Going against everything he believes in, Waverly refuses to let Titan escape. He makes a phone call and steps outside of the law. He hires a killer unlike any of them have seen. He hires an animal.
Now, the world already on a fire, a ruthlessness is let loose into it. The animal has only one objective: kill Luke Titan and anyone around him. Can anyone survive, or will the animal feast on them all?
Murder in a small town is always personal.
Dispatcher Zak Waller prefers working behind the scenes in the Sheriff’s Office of Lost Trail, Montana, but when a newcomer to the sparsely populated town is brutally murdered—and the Sheriff is quick to pin the death on an unknown outsider—Zak starts his own private sleuthing.
On the surface Lost Trail is a picture-perfect western town, offering a simple way of life revolving around the local ranches and ski hill. But almost everyone has a secret to protect, and no one knows that more than Zak. He’s part of a younger generation hoping to revitalize the town. But evil has dug in deeper than he knows.
Murder in a small town is always personal.
In the isolated ranching community of Lost Trails, Montana, Lacy Stillman, a rich elderly rancher has died of a heart attack in her own bed. What could be more normal than that? As Zak Waller, dispatcher with the local Sheriff’s Office, joins the town in mourning the loss of the community matriarch, some disquieting information makes Zak wonder if Lacy’s death was not what it seemed.
Meanwhile, Zak’s friend Tiff Masterson is overwhelmed by her mother’s escalating mental breakdown and her aunt’s stubborn denial of the problem. Tiff assumes the root of the problem is the death of her brother and father sixteen years ago. But the real atrocity goes back much further than that. When the truth is revealed in a shocking twist, Tiff’s world is turned completely upside down. The ramifications affect many of the most prominent citizens and provide the missing clue to Lacy Stillman’s murder.
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Forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget finds it impossible to refuse when she receives a desperate phone call from an old acquaintance, obstetrician Charles Tissot. One of his patients, Heather Krimble, alleges that Tissot seduced her at a party and that he is the father of her unborn child. His career on the line, Charles begs Claire to expose Heather's fragile mental state and discredit her wild claims. With a history of making similar false allegations, her two previous babies having suffered unexplained cot deaths, Heather's accusations would appear to be nothing more than the result of a damaged mind. But as Claire delves further, it becomes clear that Charles hasn't been telling her the whole truth.
As a child, Kerry Darke witnessed the abduction of her sister Sally, the final victim of the murderous Fell Man, a terrifying serial killer. Sally has never been found, and the Fell Man never identified. Decades later, Kerry is a detective inspector in London. When a ten-year-old girl is murdered in a drive-by shooting, a ghost of Kerry's past returns to trouble her. Tortured by the vengeful spirit of Swain, a notorious gang leader, Kerry struggles to maintain a grasp on the case and her sanity, but she is more determined than ever to lay all her ghosts to rest. Swain promises to lead her to the Fell Man…but what he demands is unthinkable. That is until the Fell Man returns…
Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and as a part-time sleuth. But sheÄôs never had any reason to doubt her longtime publisher and trusted friend, Lane Barfield. When mounting evidence of financial malfeasance leads to an FBI investigation of Lane, Jessica canÄôt believe what sheÄôs reading. So when it appears that Barfield has committed suicide, Jessica takes on the task of clearing his name. Sure enough, Jessica turns up several inconsistencies in the case against Barfield, as well as signs he might have been murdered. Jessica knows something is being covered up, but what exactly? At the heart of her investigation is a manuscript Barfield had intended to publish, after all other publishers had turned it down. The problem is the manuscript has disappeared, with all traces of its submission and very existence having been wiped off the books. JessicaÄôs search for answers immerses her in a shadowy underworld and puts her on a dangerous path that leads all the way to the White House. With her own life now in jeopardy, Jessica refuses to back off and sets her sights on uncovering the truth behind what lies in the pages of the mysterious manuscript, as well as the identity of the person who penned it. But will she close the book on the case before the killer can write her obituary?
Three months has been Gladie Burger's limit when it comes to staying in one place. That's why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her Grandma Zelda-who is more than a little psychic-recruits her into the family's matchmaking business in the quaint small town of Cannes, California. What's more, Gladie is also highly unqualified, having a terrible track record with romance. Still, Zelda is convinced that her granddaughter has her clairvoyant "gift." But when the going gets tough, Gladie wonders if this gift has a return policy.
When Zelda's neighbor drops dead in his kitchen, Gladie is swept into his bizarre family's drama. Despite warnings from the (distractingly gorgeous) chief of police to steer clear of his investigation, Gladie is out to prove that her neighbor's death was murder. It's not too long before she's in way over her head-with the hunky police chief, a dysfunctional family full of possible killers, and yet another mysterious and handsome man, whose attentions she's unable to ignore. Gladie is clearly being pursued-either by true love or by a murderer. Who will catch her first?
Veterinary technician Carrie Kennersly, who owns the Barkery & Biscuits dog bakery and Icing on the Cake human bakery, has been holding lots of rescue animal adoption events at her store. She has also been solving a lot of murders lately, which sometimes puts her into danger. Carrie's relationship with veterinarian Dr. Reed Storme has been escalating, too, despite his telling her often to butt out of those murder investigations and stay safe. But when Reed is accused of killing a nasty a former veterinary colleague who is now trying to compete with him, he seems a lot more amenable to having successful amateur detective Carrie butt back in again. Can Carrie clear Reed-or does she care too much for a killer?
