The victim has been meticulously mutilated. Left hauntingly arranged in the city's dark alleys. She is the first of her kind. But she won't be the last.The serial killer thriller that will grip you until the very last sentence.Fresh-faced homicide detective Tracy Sterling has been thrown into the deep end. She's navigating the city's darkest corners to unmask a killer whose methods are as chilling as they are cryptic. A grotesque spectacle was discovered in an alley by a nightclub. Another chilling scene lay within the shadows of an alley next to a public library.Who could commit such monstrous acts? And what is the sinister pattern hiding within their horrific handiwork? Tracy must grapple with a shocking lack of evidence, while potential witnesses seem to shroud the truth in fear and lies. And all the while, the nameless killer observes the investigation from the shadows, delighting in the terror he sows.The case seems unsolvable. But failure is not an option. For if she cannot solve the puzzle, the dance of death will continue unabated, and the killer will strike again and again.But Tracy isn't just determined, she's obsessive. And she won't stop until she's put every puzzle piece in place, exposing the killer, along with other shocking surprises that will shake the city to its core."Lies and Bones" is an adrenaline-fueled mystery thriller brimming with nail-biting suspense. Fans of John Sandford, Jeffery Deaver, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Tess Gerritsen, and Patricia Cornwell should get to know Detective Tracy Sterling.

Everyone has a breaking point . . . "Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook." —Chicago Tribune There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but now—with a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custody—they will try one more interrogation. Detective Pierce, whose own daughter's death has left a hole in his heart, and Detective Cohen, still broken from what he saw in World War II, will look into the abyss of Smalls's troubled mind in a frantic last-ditch effort to extract a confession. Their effort will bring answers they never expected—and blur the line between innocence and guilt . . . "Cook adroitly weaves back and forth between the crime itself, the subsequent investigation and the halting questioning of the suspect. More compelling, however, is his portrayal of how the crime affects Pierce and Cohen, as well as several secondary characters . . . Down to the cleverly hatched, melancholy ending, Cook again takes readers down a dark, treacherous road into the heart of human fallibility and struggle." —Publishers Weekly "[An] irresistible premise." —Kirkus Reviews "Well-plotted . . . The psychic pain of these characters is piercing." —The New York Times Book Review

A girl with no name...Penny doesn't remember much about her childhood and what she does remember isn't all that great. She and her mother moved too many times to a series of cheap motels. There were too many men visiting her mother and none of them were her father. As for him, all Penny knew was that her father was rich and dead.She was found abandoned on a deserted beach on the Salish Sea when she was four years old, and didn't even know her own name. Shunted from one foster home to another, she struggled to overcome the odds.When a Police Detective from the Victoria, B.C. Police Department calls about remains that were identified as belonging to her mother, Penny starts a quest to find out what happened to her and who her father really is.She enlists crime reporter Tess McClintock and Michael Carter to help her find her family, but when they start uncovering Penny's past, not everyone is happy to learn their connection to the girl with no name.The Salish Sea is a new standalone book in the Salish Sea Crime Thriller series.

Death has a membership fee...In the latest high-stakes Baker & Tate thriller, a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer leads Ruth into a deadly game of cat and mouse.In the latest high-stakes instalment of the Baker & Tate series, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate uncover a deadly conspiracy tied to a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer. When Wade Hargrove, a prominent Texas rancher, is found strangled in his sprawling estate, Ruth and Aaron discover his connection to the secretive Murder Club—a group of wealthy landowners fixated on tracking the notorious Bandanna Strangler, a killer who preyed on single mothers across rural Texas, leaving them dead with navy bandannas around their throats.As Ruth and Aaron dig deeper, they uncover a chilling truth: the Murder Club wasn’t just studying the killer—they were surveilling him, using Hargrove’s cutting-edge technology to watch his every move. But someone else was watching them, and now the club’s members are being hunted. With each new murder, the Rangers unravel a decades-old secret linking the Bandanna Strangler to one of the club’s own, a predator whose twisted motives threaten to destroy everyone in their path.Racing against time, Ruth and Aaron must expose the killer before the conspiracy claims more lives—or their own.MURDER RANCH is an unrelenting, high-stakes mystery thriller packed with explosive action, psychological warfare, and the trademark emotional punch Baker & Tate fans have come to love.Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.