Killing With Impunity, Writhing Silhouettes is gritty and unsettling Speculations abound. Stolen babies, missing young girls, kidnapped prostitutes, and murdered exotic dancers. Anchorage, Alaska 1981. The Anchorage Police Department starts seeing a surge in missing person reports. Puzzled by a lack of substantive evidence, fear grips the city's law enforcement community. Who is this animal prowling on a moon-lit night? Like a moth attracted to the...

Kentucky-land of bluegrass, horseracing, bourbon, and...murder. In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp-a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren-and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes...

"Fleeing to the beautiful Isles of Scilly, Lady Elizabeth Sinclair stumbles upon dangerous secrets left behind by her cottage's former occupant, and agrees to help the missing girl's brother, Oliver Tremayne, find his sister. As the two work together, they uncover ancient legends, pirate wrecks, betrayal, and the most mysterious phenomenon of all: love"--

The dangerous beauty of Lavender Tides is harboring secrets that reach around the world. Ellie Blackmore is making a name for herself as a house flipper. But when her sister Mackenzie disappears, Ellie can't focus on anything but uncovering what happened.Her only clue is the bloodstain on the deck of Mackenzie's boat. Ellie knows her sister isn't on the best of terms with her ex-husband, Jason, but he wouldn't kill her--would he? Coast Guard intelligence...

Tress Montor's family used to mean something - until she didn't have a family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. Felicity Turnado has it all: looks, money, and a secret. One misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and she's worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Felicity buried what she knows...

FBI agent Drex Easton is relentlessly driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver the conman once known as Weston Graham. Over the past thirty years, Weston has assumed many names and countless disguises, enabling him to lure eight wealthy women out of their fortunes before they disappeared without a trace, their families left without answers and the authorities without clues. The only common trait among the victims: a new man in their life who also vanished,...

A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award—winning author (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years...

Unsolved Crimes, Cold Cases, and Mysterious Stories This collection of cold cases examines crimes that are dark, scary, mysterious, and still waiting to be solved. Unsolved crimes, unanswered questions. Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they're not? For the individuals involved-from the victims and their families to police investigators-this is the most frustrating part of all. For them there's no resolution, no justice, no tidy...

After the disappearance of two men who were flying over the California desert, the Hardy boys investigate the ancient Indian drawings of giants that may have played a role.

"In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone -- a fairy tale about a magical...