In this mystery series debut, the circus visits a Colorado mountain town—and murder follows soon after. In the summer, campers flock to Cedar Valley's meadows and fields. In the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. But those who live there know that dark secrets are buried beneath the town's natural splendor. When a clown from a traveling circus is murdered, Detective Gemma Monroe is shocked to discover the victim's true identity. The young man is no stranger, but a local who had returned home with a new name—and a mysterious agenda. Gemma's investigation takes her from the seedy circus grounds to the elegant homes of those who control Cedar Valley's future. Six-months pregnant, with a partner she can't trust and colleagues who know more than they're saying, Gemma tracks a killer who will stop at nothing to keep those secrets buried.

OVER 1,200 5-STAR REVIEWS! There’s a dangerous cult in Palm Beach. All about philanthropy and altruism, they say. All about sex and money, Crawford and Ott say. Then there’s a brutal stabbing…make that sex and money and MURDER! Suspects? Well, there's a billionaire heiress, an ex-movie star, a former member of Skull and Bones, a Blackwater psychopath…and the bizarre thing, they’re members of the Mensa society!

Sloane Cheney has no intention of ever returning to the South Carolina island town where she grew up. She enjoys her life in the big city and teaching at the college there. The thought of revisiting the place where her mother deserted her family is too painful.But when Aunt Millicent, town matriarch and owner of the family’s beachfront property, is murdered, Sloane must go back to sign off on the sale of the grand family home to developers. She soon finds that old friendships have shifted, as townspeople disagree over the development that would reshape their sleepy village. Sloane is directly in the line of fire, under suspicion by the police chief because of her inheritance and by her former neighbors who question her long absence.With family members and old friends swirling treacherously around her, Sloane doesn’t know who to trust, especially after a nearly fatal accident in the beach house. She digs into her family’s history, uncovering new information about her mother’s disappearance. What she discovers raises questions: Was her aunt’s murder a simple case of greed? Or was it related to her mother’s long-ago vanishing?

When a mysterious woman walks into the freezing Maine waters and vanishes, disgraced attorney Claire Morgan becomes the prime suspect. But the real danger isn't what the FBI thinks. It's what's hidden beneath the surface of her dying coastal town.Claire Morgan fled her corrupt ex-husband's law firm for a quiet café in Saint Novak, Maine. But her fragile peace shatters when her newest client apparently drowns herself in the bay locals call "the Drowning Bay" after a teenager's suspicious death there last year.As the FBI closes in, Claire discovers her client left behind evidence of a conspiracy. Powerful developers are poisoning the town's waters to drive down property values, and the contamination has already killed once. When her ex-husband Richard arrives as the developers' attorney, she realizes the corruption she once refused to enable has followed her here.With the help of Sheriff Jack Harrison, a widower bound by duty but hungering for justice, Claire must decide how far she'll go to expose the truth. As threats escalate and a killer deputy targets her, Claire discovers that sometimes the only way to fight those who've corrupted the system is to break the rules herself.But in a town where the authorities are bought and the evidence is buried beneath contaminated waters, justice might require the kind of vigilante tactics Claire once swore she'd never use.The Drowning Bay is the first book in the Blackbird series of vigilante justice thrillers. If you like fierce female sleuths, small-town secrets with deadly stakes, and legal thrillers where justice comes from outside the system, then you'll love Tang Seng's gripping new series.Buy The Drowning Bay to dive into this addictive vigilante thriller today!

Nazi wartime deals and the modern-day murder of a Portuguese teen are linked with originality and suspense in this award–winning crime novel. 1941. Klaus Felsen, forced out of his Berlin factory into the SS, arrives in a luminous Lisbon, where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs, dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's assignment takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a devious and brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's bliztkrieg. There he meets the man who plants the first seed of greed and revenge that will grow into a thick vine in the landscape of post-war Portugal . . . Late 1990s. Investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past, Inspector Ze Coelho overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones from Portugal's fascist past. This small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation for an even older crime, and Coelho's stubborn pursuit of its truth reveals a tragedy that unites past and present . . . Robert Wilson's combination of intelligence, suspense, vivid characters, and mesmerizing storytelling richly deserves the international acclaim his novel has received. Praise for A Small Death in Lisbon Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel "A suspenseful, intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale that . . . is an impressive piece of work. Mr. Wilson's book puts one in mind of the best writers working in the international thriller genre, the likes of John le Carré and Martin Cruz Smith. . . . You will turn the last page of this compelling novel almost out of breath." —New York Times "Gripping and beautifully written." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A killer targets single women at weddings: "[An] intense plot…McDermid keeps each twist believable." —The Washington Post In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are called upon to investigate—but this may be the toughest case they've ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Paula McIntyre and her partner Elinor must deal with a cruel cyber-blackmailer targeting their teenage ward. Impeccably plotted and intensely gripping, Insidious Intent comes from Val McDermid, Diamond Dagger Award winner, multiple Edgar Award nominee, and "one of crime fiction's most eminent writers" (Entertainment Weekly).