Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news. Both the near and distant future looked bleak. But they were five inseparable high school friends with something incredible in common: an unwavering resolve to look after each other no matter what hell life threw at them. And they were on a mission. The plan was simple: Go off the grid before they turned 18 to avoid the draft. They’d sell some grass, stack some cash, then head west and start a commune. What could possibly go wrong?

Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother’s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her—one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day.

Welcome to Barton Mallet, a remote village in the Midlands that has been chosen as the unlikely location for a new feature film from Hollywood producer Max Crow. Teenagers from the local drama group are encouraged to audition for a story about the trials and tribulations of growing up. Benjamin Knot, the CEO of a well-known architecture firm, discovers that his children, Lily and Nathan, have each been offered a role. But Barton Mallet has a deep wound that has never truly healed.

One September morning, Doug accidentally runs right into another surfer on the beach. There are rules about these things. The other guy should call Doug a jerk, Doug should say, "my bad", and they should both paddle back out and move on. Problem is, the other surfer doesn't want to move on. He wants to fight. And for once in his life, Doug wants to fight back.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

It was supposed to be easy...it turned out to be murder. In the thrilling start to the Trask Brothers Murder Mystery Series, identical twin brothers Dave and Don hunt a silent killer terrorizing anglers in the great north woods. "Spellbinding! I could not put it down. It will keep you on the edge all the way to the end." When Dave Trask ran for sheriff of wild Lake County, he thought the job would entail locating lost campers and catching poachers, and he didn’t really expect to get elected. He was wrong on both counts. Before he can be sworn in, two guests at a small fishing lodge are ...

Politics. Revenge. Greed. MURDER. In this latest chilling installment of the acclaimed Trask Brothers Mysteries, someone is out for revenge. But who and why? Congresswoman Amanda Brock’s brother has been murdered. When she receives a threatening note after the killing, she goes to the governor, asking that Special Agent Don Trask investigate the murder. Trask has his suspicions. · He’s suspicious that the congresswoman may have orchestrated the murder or done it herself · He’s suspicious that the congresswoman is setting him up for failure as a means for revenge · He’s suspicious...

Lake County Minnesota Sheriff Dave Trask and his identical twin brother Don, Lead Investigator for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, were bored. Their fishing trip to northern Minnesota had been hijacked by the weather leaving them with time on their hands. A poster for a long-missing girl attracts their attention and the brothers decide to look at the old case files to fill their time. The Trasks return to fishing once the weather improves, but they can't escape the sense that there is something more to the disappearance than they see in the case files, especially after their ...

A frozen lake…Cold-Blooded Murder. A powerful man is found dead in his fish house on a frozen Minnesota lake, murdered, stabbed to death. His employees, family, and the local sheriff, all seem happy to have him gone - all except his personal assistant. With his death she is now forced to do something she thought she would never have to do, reveal secrets that will destroy the careers and lives of many - including a man set on being the next governor of the state. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Danny Carlisle has been given the assignment, her first as a lead agent, and ...

The winds blew across South Padre, digging, pushing mountains of sand. Uncovering murder. Sheriff Dave Trask is on his first vacation in years, returning to South Padre Island, his first visit since a spring break trip twenty-five years ago. This time Trask is with his girlfriend, medical examiner Linda James, and just as Trask is beginning to relax, the police on South Padre interrupt their trip. A body has been found, a woman’s skeleton, and the police need the help of James to look at the body for any clue as to who it may be. But Trask does not need to see the body. He is certain he ...

Ken Bishop needed to kill his siblings. Well, not all five of them. But at least three. Maybe four. He needed the money from his mother's estate to pay off his gambling debts, and he needed it in a hurry. So, he killed a sister. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Danny Carlisle investigates the murder, a woman at a nursing home with only days to live. A woman suffering from dementia. The family said the death was a blessing and the police wanted Carlisle to let it go, but Carlisle just could not let someone get away with murder. It just wasn’t right. Bishop knows it wasn’t ...

She stepped into nothing... A woman's body found at the base of a cliff. Her identity unknown. Sheriff Dave Trask investigates but has nothing to tell him how or why she went over the cliff or who she is. And then, a month later, another woman is found dead in the same location. This time a park ranger familiar with the area. Trask suspects a link between the deaths but can find nothing. The second woman's boyfriend disappears, and the investigation into the deaths drags. Were they accidents - or murder? Trask's fears and frustrations mount until he sees no option but to do something he ...

Big money. Sunken treasure. Drugs. And a trail of bodies, very clean bodies. The Trask brothers have their hands full. It was the chance of a lifetime for the band, touring with Prince, and a friend of a friend had a decked out tour bus they could use. Things couldn't be better - except for the body in the bus. A very clean body. Don Trask, Lead Agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, finds it odd that someone would go to the trouble to bleach a body. It was strange. And things were about to become even more strange when additional bodies in Minneapolis and along the north ...

"She was always afraid of you. Even today. Even on the day she might die." Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Don Trask is jerked from a blissful fall weekend with his girlfriend, Lieutenant Melanie Jenkins of the Stillwater Police, when Jenkins’s sister is brutally attacked. The attack is a warning to Trask to stay out of the business of a mysterious leader of a drug ring known only as ‘Diablo’ and it tears apart the relationship of Trask and Jenkins. But Trask and Jenkins share the same bulldog mentality, and will not heed the warning until Diablo is brought to justice,...

Three dead. Shot point-blank. A hot summer day just got hotter. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Doc Hunter had a golf game scheduled. Doc was a good golfer. Very good. Thinking about going pro. But now all of that had been put on hold because three people on a farm got themselves shot and Hunter's boss had decided he needed to be the one to investigate. Doc wasn't happy about the assignment, and was even less happy when he finds there is a cover-up and a suspect list that only seems to keep growing. On top of that, he has a killer who has a lot more killing to do. As the body count ...

She heard the throaty growl, deep and low, before she saw the eyes - glowing orbs in the night. By then it was too late. "Nelson is a great storyteller. The Trask Brothers mysteries are not to be missed." When a biologist working at the Wolf Center is found dead, possibly killed by a wolf, sheriff Dave Trask is only mildly interested. Wolves are housed and studied at the Wolf Center, and it is on property owned by the Lax Lake tribe, so the tribal police will be responsible to look into her death. But when Dave views the scene, he and the police chief from Lax Lake suspect that this may ...

Tick Tock, Tick Tock He watched them, the anger building. This could not go on. He could not let it continue. He squeezed the handle of the knife, its blade honed razor sharp. The Quiet Man had been quiet too long. Lead agent Don Trask of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has received a cryptic poem. His assistant thinks it may be related to a murder near the town of Little Falls in central Minnesota. Trask isn’t so sure. When a second poem arrives after another brutal murder, there is no longer a question and Trask heads to Little Falls to stop a killer before another poem ...

Young women, fit, in shape – and dead. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) agent Danny Carlisle is not happy. She has been pulled from a developing smuggling investigation to assist the Duluth police in their search for two missing young women. None of the excitement involved in trying to catch a band of smugglers. At least that was what Danny thought until the women turned up dead. As Danny and the Duluth police investigate, they soon find themselves following multiple leads with a suspect list that seems to grow by the day. When another woman is murdered, the police zero in ...

It was there, a fortune waiting for him to claim it. If he could stay alive. Sheriff Dave Trask studies the horribly disfigured body on the rocky shore of Lake Superior. The man is wearing a life jacket but there is no sign of his boat, his craft possibly lost in the storm the previous night. As events unfold, Trask begins to believe that the man may have been the victim of a hit and run on the lake, the possibility of finding the boat that killed the man slim to none. Then Trask discovers something more. The man belonged to an eccentric group, women and men who gather monthly to discuss ...

Missing girls, no one missed. A small town with big secrets. The snow was coming down hard now, but she couldn’t feel it on her cheeks, her face frozen. She was thirsty and tried to scoop some up to put in her mouth, but her hands no longer seemed to work and her arms would not move. Rest. She needed to rest. Just for a moment. Durant lay back and closed her eyes, and the snow began to cover her, a blanket too cold to help, but there was no energy left to fight the fatigue. The last thing she was aware of was an approaching sound, something she had heard before in the night—the howling ...