Silence of the Lambs reborn in a gripping serial killer thriller.

Chestnut Hill is one of Philadelphia’s most upscale neighborhoods. But in one gleaming home, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been brutally murdered.The atrocity kicks off an investigation by police who connect the girl’s murder to a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing murders.

A serial killer is loose—someone of unprecedented savagery.

As the city’s panic rises, Teddy Mack, a civil attorney just out of law school, is forced by a partner at his new firm to defend the undefendable.But soon after, another girl goes missing. A girl who might still be alive. And Teddy discovers something the police never guessed.

The serial killer has a secret. He’s collecting something. Something twisted. Something horrific and vile.

To end the madman’s reign, Teddy must enter his maze—a place of unimaginable terror where human demons emerge with a vengeance.

Praise for Robert Ellis

“A gripping, spooky crime novel.”

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The New York Times

“Hot List” Pick

, City of Fire“My kind of crime novel. Gritty, tight, and assured.”—

Michael Connelly

, City of Fire“Fast, gruesome, and twisted, like a scary Jodie Foster movie.”

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Library Journal

, City of Fire“Scorching. Deliciously twisted.”

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Publishers Weekly

, Starred Review, The Lost Witness“Ellis serves up a killer crime tale with relentless twists.”

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Booklist

, Starred Review, The Lost Witness***

THE MACBETHS TAKE WASHINGTON

—and leave a pile of bodies in their wake.

In searing political commentary laced with a gripping murder mystery that hits disturbingly close to home, Dennis Carstens tackles financial misconduct, scandalous cover-up, treason, and murder in the 7th installment of the Marc Kadella legal thriller series—a scathing imagining of an American White House nobody’s ever seen before, and yet one that is all too familiar…

"A shot in the dark, right in the gut, that’s what Carstens is good at … Carstens aims to be realistic about the law and its enforcers, and he hits it right ... The plot is as full of surprises as a Minneapolis Jucy Lucy and ultimately just as satisfying." -Tony Dunbar, Anthony- and Edgar-nominated author of the Tubby Dubonnet legal thriller series.

It’s four days after the latest presidential election, and Marc Kadella has the post-election blues. Sure, his guy didn’t win, but there’s more to it than that: the defeated incumbent was a decent man. Too bad you can’t say the same for his Machiavellian opponent—or his photogenic partner-in-crime.

Thomas Jefferson Carver is charming and energetic, with a former beauty queen for a wife—and a name for the job to boot. Together they’re the package deal: young, modern, forward-thinking, and successful. That Mr. Carver was often accused of womanizing and that the couple used political clout to line their own pockets didn’t seem to matter to the American electorate.

But Marc Kadella’s got a more specific axe to grind. Back when Carver was governor, a fundraising stop in Minneapolis resulted in the accidental overdose—and death—of a 19-year-old girl. A Carver campaign aide’s in prison on a plea deal for manslaughter—against his lawyer Marc Kadella’s express recommendation. But when the campaign worker turns up hanged in his Colorado cell just days after the election, Kadella senses his mistrust of the Carvers is just the tip of the iceberg.

Tyranny, cover-up, and all-out Shakespearian bloodbath haunt these pages, making House of Cards look like a Barbara Walters special. Author Dennis Carstens hits political corruption and smarmy-politician caricature right on the head, in a compelling sociological hypothetical melded with a captivating murder mystery that explores just how far American politicians will go for money—and power.

“House of Cards meets the Land of Trump” –Amazon 5-star reviewer

Fans of Nelson Demille, John Grisham, Richard North Patterson, and of course the most beloved lawyer sleuth of all time, Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason, will gobble up this one up. As will devotees of political thrillers like novels by Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, David Baldacci—and HOUSE OF CARDS fans in particular.

NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF ODIN...ODIN IS ABOUT AS SECRET AS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAN GET...

Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!

Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering, and then there is ODIN 1i which deals in operations so sensitive not even the CIA can touch them. All three are run with an iron first by The Chief, a giant with a gigantic IQ. His top agent is Alex Mason, hard and cool – he's a law unto himself.

But when an ODIN 5i agent based at the US Embassy in Manila, goes missing, and his encrypted laptop disappears with him, the whole ODIN structure is put in peril. Then the agents he was managing start to disappear one by one, and things start to look ugly.

So Alex Mason is sent to Manila, and what he finds there is the growing shadow of Chinese imperialism threatening not only America’s presence in the Pacific, but the security of the whole Western World…

This is a job for ODIN 1i.

And for Alex Mason.