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  • Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.A young exotic dancer claims she was sexually assaulted at a party thrown by a university football team.Three players stand accused.In the ninth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself defending one of the players accused of assaulting the young woman...
  • Perfect Alibi by Sheldon Siegel

    Perfect Alibi by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ** PERFECT ALIBI is BOOK 7 in the legal thriller series featuring Mike Daley & Rosie Fernandez. ** Another super novel from Sheldon Siegel in the Mike Daley mystery series.For Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez—former spouses and current law partners—the stakes have never been higher...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  murder  mystery
  • The Client by Janet McAlpin

    The Client by Janet McAlpin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast - because there isn't much time...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  killer  mystery
  • The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    The Conviction by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this exhilarating legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SISTER'S GRAVE, attorney David Sloane must take the law into his own hands to save his son from a corrupt juvenile detention center. As David Sloane continues to piece his life back together in the wake of his wife's vicious murder, he also struggles to handle his difficult teenage son, Jake...
  • Murder One by Robert Dugoni

    Murder One by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this riveting legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SISTER’S GRAVE, attorney David Sloane takes on his first criminal case…defending the woman he loves. Recovering from the shock of his wife’s murder the previous year, David Sloane returns to Seattle after some much-needed healing time in Mexico...
  • Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the sniper-style murder of an alligator poacher puts two rival families on edge, Police Sniper London Carter and Detective Sergeant Dawn Luke join forces to solve the case. But they'll have their work cut out for them as the two families recruit small armies to fight each other...
  • Mercy by Victor Methos

    Mercy by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Brigham Theodore is a courtroom brawler, a criminal defense attorney who spends his time slugging it out with the government in court. A year after winning his biggest case, he finds himself at a new firm defending clients of every kind. Drug dealers, gangsters, con men and thugs are the people he defends every day. For him, the fight is what matters...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  family  fiction
  • Legacy of Lies by Robert Bailey

    Legacy of Lies by Robert Bailey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A small-town attorney takes on prejudice and corruption in this powerful legal thriller. Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She’s about to be arrested for his murder. And she wants Bo to represent her.There’s a lot working against them...
  • Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fate throws a curveball at the San Francisco ex-husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, when Mike picks up the phone and hears the voice of Leon Walker. This is not good news-because Walker was the one who ruined their marriage. Years ago, he and his brother participated in a stickup that left a man dead...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery  poc-mc
  • Judgment Day by Sheldon Siegel

    Judgment Day by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times best-selling author Sheldon Siegel returns with a dramatic new case for the San Francisco law firm of Daley and Fernandez. As husband and wife, Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez couldn't make it work. Luckily for Bay Area criminals, they didn't let that stop them from joining forces to open San Francisco's most tenacious law firm...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery
  • Frat Party by John Ellsworth, Jode Ellsworth

    Frat Party by John Ellsworth, Jode Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finally, the Christine Susmann legal thriller spinoff series has arrived: A university fraternity has a toga party and nude photographs of one young partygoer suddenly emerge worldwide on the Internet. The girl believes she was assaulted while unconscious and her father seeks legal help for her...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Lincoln Lawyer Novels. Michael Connelly by Michael Connelly

    The Lincoln Lawyer Novels. Michael Connelly by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced the Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, who learns that "There is no client as scary as an innocent man." The Lincoln LawyerFor Mickey Haller, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation...
  • Misjudged by James Chandler

    Misjudged by James Chandler

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a mysterious murder case.Sam Johnstone was hoping for renewal when he took a job at a boutique law firm in rustic Wyoming. The mountains and streams of the west would be a refreshing, quiet place to start over after years of war and turmoil in his personal life...
  • 白夜行 下 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    白夜行 下 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Traditional Chinese first edition can be found...
  • Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rise to the Fly by Cheryl Rees-Price

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will the police or a devious killer win this battle of wits?A quiet corner of Wales becomes the centre of a murder investigation when the bodies of a retired couple are found near the shore of a reservoir.Police try to establish the methods and motives of their attacker by careful examination of the crime scene. And, bizarrely, fishing flies are found in the victims’ mouths...
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    crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction  murder
  • Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Over The Edge by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When retired Philadelphia detective turned private investigator Joselyn Rush is rear-ended, her knee-jerk response is anger, especially when the well-dressed woman driving tries to flee the scene. But as Jocelyn watches in disbelief, the woman jumps off the bridge, plunging to her death in the Schuylkill River one hundred fifty feet below...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Grant of Immunity by Garret Holms

    Grant of Immunity by Garret Holms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Current Edition for ISBN-10: 1503114783; ISBN-13: 978-1503114784WHEN EVIL HIDES BEHIND A BADGE, NO ONE IS SAFE . .. It’s 1976, Los Angeles. Sarah Collins, a young mother of two, is brutally raped and murdered at the Hollywood Reservoir. For nineteen years, the murder remains unsolved and the case goes cold...
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    crime  law-enforcement  legal  suspense  adult  book  family  fiction
  • Black Widow by Victor Methos

    Black Widow by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Murders With No Motive…Two men are found killed one month apart in luxurious Honolulu hotels. The Honolulu Police Department finds the cases unsolvable. With no discernible motive, and a brutality no one on the force has ever seen, the killings appear to be the work of an intensely deranged mind. A mind the police feel is one step ahead of their investigation...
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    crime  law-enforcement  legal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • Sin City Homicide by Victor Methos

    Sin City Homicide by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A BILLIONAIRE MURDERED . . .The rape-homicide of a prominent Las Vegas couple sends shock waves through the community. With no active leads, the LVPD Homicide Unit is growing desperate.A DETECTIVE WITH A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE . . .Brought in as a consultant, Detective Jon Stanton discovers that there's more to this case than anyone is revealing to him...
  • The Clockmaker's Secret by Jack Benton

    The Clockmaker's Secret by Jack Benton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case...
  • Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 11-15 by Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 11-15 by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five FBI Thrillers featuring FBI Agents Savage and Sherlock #11-15: Double Take, Tailspin, Knockout, Whiplash, and Split Second...
  • Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Accused by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    'Scott, it's Rebecca. I need you.'After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey - the man she left Scott for - and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her.Scott is used to high-stakes cases, but this one is bigger than anything he has handled before...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  killer  mystery
  • The Juror by George Dawes Green

    The Juror by George Dawes Green

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore...
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    crime  law-enforcement  legal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  drama
  • Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone made mistakes, but some were far more dangerous than others… Fin McLaughlin wanted nothing more than to make a difference in his work with the FBI. Headhunted by the deputy director of the Bureau to head up a new division located in St. Louis, Fin was determined to make amends for the mistakes he’d made six years earlier that had almost cost him his career—and his life...
  • Expert Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Expert Witness by Rebecca Forster

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After Hermosa Beach attorney Josie Bates successfully defended sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton against murder charges, she took the girl into her own home. Now, just days before becoming Hannah’s legal guardian, Josie Bates has disappeared and Hannah must enlist the help of Josie’s lover, Archer, to find her...
  • Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Inmate 1577 by Alan Jacobson, Christina Traister

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon...
  • The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out...
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    crime  legal  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis

    Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Things other than beauty are in the eye of the beholder. In the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward there was something odd abut Arthur Egan's life and death. But Ward was a former police inspector, and trained to be suspicious. And he could no longer trust his eyesight, since it was a serious eye condition that had led to his resignation from the Force...
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    crime  law-enforcement  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  murder
  • Women's Murder Club 8 Book Set Pack by James Patterson

    Women's Murder Club 8 Book Set Pack by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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    suspense  law-enforcement  mystery  audiobook
  • City Dark by Roger A. Canaff

    City Dark by Roger A. Canaff

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois...
  • Little Sister by Gytha Lodge

    Little Sister by Gytha Lodge

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Detective Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace in a pub garden on his day off when a teenage girl wanders out of the woods. She's striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She's also covered in blood. When Jonah races to help, the girl insists she's fine. Then she smiles. It's her sister he needs to worry about...
  • Catherine Coulter FBI CD Collection 2: Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin by Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter FBI CD Collection 2: Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Point Blank: The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the grisly murder that catapults her into a horrific plague of death. At Hooter’s Motel in Maryland, FBI agents Savich and Carver are nearly killed while attempting to rescue a kidnap victim...
  • Justice (Southern Comfort .7) by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Justice (Southern Comfort .7) by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Waking up next to a dead stranger with no memory of how he got there should be the worst day of Caitlin Cavanaugh’s life. However, what seems to be a clear case of self-defense soon puts Caitlin on the defensive, as evidence left behind at the scene doesn’t match up with her story. But proving her innocence becomes the least of her problems..
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Murder on the Orient Express / Cards on the Table / The A.B.C. Murders / Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie

    Murder on the Orient Express / Cards on the Table / The A.B.C. Murders / Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    crime  law-enforcement  mystery  fiction  book  adult
  • Missing by Erin Kinsley

    Missing by Erin Kinsley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A MOTHER WALKS INTO THE SEA . . . AND NEVER COMES BACK. WHY?One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never comes back.Her daughters - loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta - are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten...
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    crime  law-enforcement  suspense  adult  book  family  fiction  mystery
  • Blood Moon by Linda Castillo

    Blood Moon by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    1 hour, 29 minutes Chief of Police Kate Burkholder confronts a mysterious beast terrorizing the residents of Painters Mill in this new original short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo.On a foggy spring night, an Amish man crashes his buggy after a large, unidentified animal spooks his horse...
  • The Trophy Taker by Sarah Flint

    The Trophy Taker by Sarah Flint

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She chose the wrong man. And now she will pay.  He keeps each one of his trophies floating in formaldehyde. Admiring his handy work. Those who deserved to be punished. Each finger denotes a victim, tortured and butchered, their heart ripped out and discarded, replaced instead by symbols of their treachery. D.C...
  • Intended Target by G.K. Parks

    Intended Target by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Inside the federal courthouse, a single gunshot punches a hole through the window, leaving two bodies in its wake. One of the victims is an Assistant United States Attorney. The other is juror number five. Due to the nature of the crime, the OIO is assigned to evaluate the security measures implemented by the U.S. Marshal Service...
  • Dying for a Fix by G.K. Parks

    Dying for a Fix by G.K. Parks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome back, former federal agent Alexis Parker.Alex always said it'd be a cold day in hell before she'd step foot inside the OIO again, and the blizzard conditions outside prove her declaration true. But clipping on the badge doesn't mean taking a seat behind a desk or investigating a crime scene. It means infiltrating a local drug ring led by the city's most ruthless gang, the KXDs...
  • Tango One by Stephen Leather

    Tango One by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives...
  • Severed Relations by Rebecca Forster

    Severed Relations by Rebecca Forster

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Murder behind the gates of Fremont Place was unusual; two children and a nanny slaughtered in the home of a rich young lawyer and his beautiful wife was unheard of. When Detective Finn O'Brien, recently cleared of murder charges in the death of a fellow officer, catches the call it creates a political nightmare...
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    crime  suspense  legal  mystery  fiction  thriller  murder  book
  • Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Sharko by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    " Sharko comparait toujours les premiers jours d'une enquête à une partie de chasse. Ils étaient la meute de chiens stimulés par les cors, qui s'élancent à la poursuite du gibier. À la différence près que, cette fois, le gibier, c'était eux. " Eux, c'est Lucie Henebelle et Franck Sharko, flics aux 36 quai des Orfèvres, unis à la ville comme à la scène, parents de deux petits garçons...
  • Behind You by Rylie Dark

    Behind You by Rylie Dark

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Despite being a rising star in the BAU unit, FBI Special Agent Hailey Rock still lives in the shadow of her older sister, who remained in their small Midwestern town to become a police sheriff, and who remains the favorite in their parents’ eyes...
  • Funeral for a Friend by Brian Freeman

    Funeral for a Friend by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You re safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.Jonathan Stride s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull.Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is...
  • Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth

    Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    GOT A KILLER IN YOUR GUEST ROOM? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  financial  mystery
  • The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

    The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE FIRMThe law student He was young and had dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America The Firm They were small , but well -respected. They we prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery
  • The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    The Worm in the Bud by Chris Collett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A puncture wound in the arm of a local journalist found dead in his home gives testimony to his death by lethal injection, and the cryptic note by his side—“no more”—suggests suicide. To DI Tom Mariner, however, there is something a little too staged about events, especially given that just that evening Mariner had witnessed the journalist—Edward Barham—pick up a prostitute in a bar...
  • The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Criminal defence lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty. Yet when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed two years before, his broken-down, drunken estranged father Frank can't believe he's guilty...
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    crime  legal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery  thriller
  • Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Blood in the Bayou by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business...
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