ONE LAST STEP (A Tara Mills Mystery—Book One) is the debut novel in a new FBI mystery series by debut author Sarah Sutton.Two hikers go missing along the Appalachian Trail, leaving only a bloodstained forest behind them, and when another hiker collapses on someone’s porch in New Hampshire, murdered by crossbow, the local police realize they have a serial killer on their hands––and need to call in the FBI.FBI Agent Tara Mills is young, brilliant and new to the force. With a promising career in front of her, she faces the ultimate test when she is assigned the case. It soon proves to be more challenging than she ever could have imagined––an impossible riddle that leaves even her seasoned partner stumped.Meanwhile, something about the case stirs a darkness within her––a tortured past that even her long-term boyfriend doesn’t fully understand. As nightmares consume her, she only hopes that her past will not come back to ruin her once again.As more hikers go missing, and with her job on the line, Tara finds herself on a race against time as she combs through the forest’s trails. Peeling back each layer, she soon realizes that she is up against a true diabolical mastermind. And just when she thinks she has it all figured out, her instincts lead her to the most shocking truth of all.Book #2 in the series––ONE LAST BREATH––is also available!“First read by this new upcoming author and she has a winner with this series. Suspenseful from beginning to end.”--Goodreads Reviewer?????“I was pulled in from the very start…in my mind it played out just like a movie.”--Goodreads Reviewer?????“Absolutely loved this first in the series from start to finish. Fast paced and easy to follow with a storyline that was tense and exciting, I found it hard to put down.”--Goodreads Reviewer?????

Denver Homicide Detective Sarah Spillman has built her career on instinct and discipline—skills that keep her one step ahead of the secret she’s never outrun.But the discovery of a missing boy in a dumpster shatters the calm of a quiet neighborhood and puts every family under suspicion, including the child’s own parents.Before Sarah can make sense of the scene, a neighbor is found dead in what looks like a suicide.Two bodies. One neighborhood. No straight answers.As Sarah hunts for the thread that ties the deaths, she uncovers lies, betrayals, and deadly connections no one wants exposed. Someone in this quiet community is hiding a deadly truth—and Sarah must find it before her past comes back to finish what it started.NOTE TO READERS:While the books in the series may include dark and potentially disturbing crimes, the reads are clean. There is no explicit language or descriptions of the violent acts. And all bedroom scenes fade to black.

Edgar Award–and Arthur Ellis Award-nominated Ragged Lake is the first in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series.Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried pastWhile working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter’s cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family’s murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers. Before long, he is fighting not only to solve the crime but also to stay alive and protect the few innocents left living in the desolate woods.A richly atmospheric mystery with sweeping backdrops, explosive action, and memorable villains, Ragged Lake will keep you guessing — about the violent crime, the nature of family, and secret deeds done long ago on abandoned frontiers.Get RAGGED LAKE, the first book in the FRANK YAKABAKUSKI MYSTERY SERIES, a dark northern noir thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from cover to cover.FRANK YAKABUSKI MYSTERY SERIES:Ragged LakeCape DiamondMission RoadMuskie FallsCHECK OUT Edgar®-nominated author Ron Corbett’s DANNY BARRETT Thriller Series.The Sweet GoodbyeCape Rage

“K.A.R.M.A. is one fine piece of work” - Andrew Vachss, New York Times bestselling authorThey won’t be victims anymore.• In Seattle, an aging mutual-funds salesman falls prey to the lure of a young boy’s flesh• In New York, a 10-year-old plunges an ice pick into the heart of a street hustler to prove his love for a girl he met on the Internet• In Chicago, a young girl waits in the rain outside a seedy downtown bar for a man she’s never met to stagger home;• In Vancouver, a teenager waits patiently on a deserted rooftop for a signal that one of North America’s most notorious murderers is about to walk free.Tom Hackett, a Seattle-based freelance photojournalist, is always looking for the perfect front-page splash, but when he stumbles into the bloody path of the mysterious group known as K.A.R.M.A., he quickly discovers that its thirst for revenge is unquenchable — and it won’t let anyone get in its way.