Everyone knows the victim. Don't they..?When a celebrity icon is attacked in his home during an apparent robbery-in-progress, the authorities are tasked with tracking down the perpetrator. Such a beloved national treasure and his equally famous wife means the investigation takes top priority, but Reilly Steel suspects there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.Was it a random attack? Or just a carefully choreographed diversion ...Could the famed family's tightly-managed media persona blind everyone to the fact that their charmed life is not quite what it seems?And that there's a LOT more to celebrity than meets the eye...WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: 'Talk about complicated and twisted in every way! Every other chapter I knew who did the crime. And then I didn't know who did the crime.''Another classic page turner.''Intense mystery with a surprise around each curve. A must read for that problem solving mystery reader.'

If someone ever tells you that small towns are boring and that nothing ever happens in them, just shake your head and walk away because they have no idea what they are talking about! New York Times bestselling author Nick Russell spent much of his working life publishing small town newspapers on the Pacific Northwest coast and in Arizona and has seen it all, from scandal to murder and everything in between. Not only did all of that small town drama fill the pages of his newspapers, it also gave him the basis for several bestselling mystery series, all set in small towns across America.Here are four of them, including the story of a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who came to a sad and sordid end, a small town lawman suffering a personal tragedy when violent crime hits close to home, a deputy in rural Florida who becomes involved in a case dating back decades, and an everyday Joe who went shopping for Black Friday specials and found his life turned upside down.As you delve into these books, rich with characters who will remind you of the people you see every day, we're sure you will agree that small towns are far from boring!

She reads the dead for a living. The one person she can't read is still breathing.Washington D.C.'s Chief Medical Examiner shares nothing from her lab.Not with the mayor's office — she hangs up on them mid-sentence.Not with the press.Not with anyone.But this caller knows her findings detail by detail, describing things that never left her table. And he keeps being right. FBI Agent Andre Winters tells her to stop answering. She knows she should. Every time she tries, something the caller said turns out to be true — and the next lead gets harder to walk away from.She is either following her most dangerous lead. Or she is being led.Can she trust the one person she'll never be able to read?Time of Death is Book 1 of the Giselle Norwood forensic thriller series. For fans of Patricia Cornwell, Tess Gerritsen, and Karin Slaughter.

"A gritty contemporary crime novel that's lifted above the pack by the intense humanity of its female protagonist. Don't miss it." —Milton T. Burton, author of Nights of the Red MoonAt the end of State Road 170 and just past a ghost town lies Artemis, population 2,500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of Western Texas in hopes of living lives of solitude and independence. None of them realized that their small town would become a hot spot for Mexican drug runners, whose turf battles have turned both sides of the Rio Grande into a war zone. Still, many of the locals would rather take the law into their own hands than get help from police chief Josie Gray, even when they're up against a cartel's private army.After arresting one of the cartel's hit men and killing another, Josie finds her life at risk for doing a job that many people would rather see her quit. And when the town's self-appointed protector of the Second Amendment is murdered and his cache of weapons disappears, it's clear that she doesn't have to pick sides in this war. She's battling them both."Fields's rich plotting, nonstop action, and deft characterizations show the personal side of the larger issue of drug cartels on both sides of the border." —Publishers Weekly"Tricia Fields is the real deal." —Craig Johnson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Cold Dish and Hell is Empty"[For] crime fiction readers who yearn for wide open spaces, characters with real heartbeats, and stories that ring true." —M.J. Rose, author of New York Times–bestselling author of The Reincarnationist

There can be little doubt about the level of premeditation involved in blocking up a boiler flue, or the collateral damage if the intended victim doesn’t live alone. When Rory Hamilton and Hailey Wilson are found dead at home, DCI Lawrence Forrester wonders which of them was the focus of the attack.Rory was a wealthy man, and, with Hailey having died alongside him, his grown-up children stand to inherit everything. Did his money – and the knowledge that he was set to alter his will – motivate one of them to kill? Or does the explanation lie in Hailey’s past, and the ties she attempted to sever when she moved in with Rory after a whirlwind romance?Not everyone can let go, as Lawrence knows all too well. Someone is convinced that he failed to secure justice for a young woman who died in an apparent accident a year ago, and is desperate to see him revisit the case.And, in an effort to force his hand, they’re going after his thirteen-year-old daughter.

Would You Kill to Keep a Secret? Bob Anderson — local banker, city council member, and now murder victim — had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them.Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general. She's understaffed, overworked and just grateful to get the newspaper out every day.But someone wants Bob Anderson's files bad enough to kill. He's killed once, and he's willing to do it again to keep his sins hidden. Unfortunately for Katy, half the town want those files, for all kinds of reasons. And they think she has them.Katy can either find the files and publish, or she can end up as the next victim of a very determined murderer.First in a historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas, set in the 1980s.