Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.

New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....

Detective Archie Sheridan, having recovered from an attack by the serial murderer known as the Beauty Killer and struck a truce with her to stop taking lives, is thrown back on her trail when another body with her trademark is found, but questions whether she is responsible or if a fan club is copying her crimes.

Reporter Stacy Flynn, having moved from Cleveland to the small, upstate New York town of Haeden with the intention ofresearching the environmental impact of a dairy farm, is motivated by an article on violence against women written by fifteen-year-old Alice to investigate the murder of cocktail waitress Wendy White and finds her fate entwined with Alice's when a second crime occurs in the rural community.

Elizabeth Avery, a woman with the ability to manipulate people into committing crimes, kills a young journalist, and, when her crime catches the attention of federal prosecutor Allison Pierce, FBI agent Nicole Hedges, and crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, she decides the only way to avoid getting caught is to make matters personal with the three women, whom she happens to know.

Aspiring crime writer Kristi Bentz, having already survived two run-ins with serial killers, enrolls at All Saints College in New Orleans to investigate the disappearances of four girls, all of whom had been enrolled in a popular class on vampirism, and finds she has once again been targeted by a killer and has completely underestimated her enemy.

Sara Gallagher has always been curious about her birth parents, and when she finally locates her birth mother, she is shocked to learn her mother is the only woman to escape a serial killer who has been hunting women for decades and that the police believe the killer may be her birth father.

Miranda Corbie, a private detective in 1940, investigates a brutal animal trainer, an Irish cop, and an American fascist group in her efforts to find out who killed Pandora Blake, a peep show worker on San Francisco's Treasure Island found stabbed to death with an anti-Semitic slur scrawled across her body.

Don't miss the new crime thriller! It's bad when the girls go missing. It's worse when the girls are found. Six months ago, Charlotte almost lost everything. Now, she's determined to keep her daughter, Elle, safe. So when local girls close to Elle in age and appearance begin to go missing, it's her worst nightmare. Charlotte's fears are confirmed when a frantic search becomes a shocking murder investigation. The girls' bodies have been found - half-buried,...