After spending the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, unable to remember the details of her son's disappearance, Ava returns home and, secretly visiting a hypnotist, discovers that her son may still be alive.

The third book in Staub's exceptional suspense trilogy-which she began with the Mary Higgins Clark Award-nominated Live to Tell, and continued with Scared to Death, winner of the Westchester Library Associations Washington Irving Book Award-Hell to Pay revisits two married survivors of an unspeakable childhood nightmare fifteen years later, whose lives are shattered once again by dark secrets and a terrible vengeance unleashed by an unexpected Act...

First, legal secretary Teri Maness is found murdered in her Witchita town house in the summer of 1989. Two weeks later, Joan Butler disappears from her Overland Park apartment. Days later, roommates Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown of Lenexa are reported missing. Without a trace, they were suddenly gone. Panic and fear gripped Witchita and Kansas CIty as the realization slow sank in . . . a serial killer was on the loose. What finally linked the...

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli must race against time to save the life of Jillian Rivers, who has been captured by an elusive serial killer who toys with his victims and then subjects them to a slow and agonizing death.

"Equal parts thriller and love story... a novel about three identical sisters who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you. Make him love you. Make him dead. Sissy has an... interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, Sissy has taken a back seat while her sisters carved a path of carnage across the U.S....

Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sisters killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more about him than anyone. And she's terrified....

"A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"--

British crime writer Martina Cole examines the life and times of six of the most notorious female serial killers, using expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction. Each episode tell the story of one of these women: Myra Hindley, Amelia Dyer, Beverly Allitt, Mary Ann Cotton, Elizabeth Bathory, and Rosemary West.

"A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America's most fascinating serial killer, "perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published" (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in...

Fenton Meiks arrives at an FBI office with information about the God's Hands killer, a religious fanatic who thinks he is on a mission from God to rid the world of "demons" posing as humans; Fenton believes that his father and now his brother are the killers.