Raquel “Rocky” Rollins lost everything in her divorce from Holy the junkman. To stave off eviction from her shabby house in Paradise, a quiet neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, Rocky takes some quick work for fast money, but the job embroils Rocky in a murder. Having few friends, naive Rocky seeks help from a cast […]

Detective Luke Steele thought he could play house. He was wrong. Luke has settled into a new rhythm: nights in an upscale subdivision with his real estate agent girlfriend and her two kids. Mr. Suburbia. Mr. Stepdad. It almost feels real. Then flashing blue lights shatter the calm. A roofer is dead at the construction […]

Sometimes evil lurks in hidden places. Welcome to Granite Cove, a remote Michigan town where the population quietly doubles every November, and where wildlife photographer Jeff Koehler is about to stumble into the case of his life. When a local citizen fails to return from a day out in the woods, the town assumes the […]

If there’s one thing more dangerous than fireworks, it’s dating. Note to self: Lying facedown on the floor while my vacation home gets ransacked isn’t romantic. That break-in wrecked our simple lunch. Definitely not the date I had in mind. My only reason for spending the Fourth of July in Idaho was to try dating […]

Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay’s restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front. Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she’ll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead. Suddenly everybody […]

The mountain buries its secrets under four feet of powder. This winter, one of them surfaces. January in Elk Creek is a different world, the ski season crowds flooding in, the cold settling into the bones of the valley, and the trails going silent under snowpack. When an avalanche on the north face of Ridgeline […]

In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys’s story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys’s case. Nicole’s suspicions mount as […]