Gregg Olsen
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When Hannah Griffin was a little girl her home went up in flames killing her mother. It was the nation's worst murder scene, now 20 years later Hannah is investigating a child abuse case when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with unfinished business is on the loose and that makes Hannah's blood run cold.
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[2019]
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"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond...
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After a Pacific Northwest family is slaughtered and their teenage son disappears, Emily Kenyon spearheads the hunt for the murderer of a series of families. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna knows the suspect and wants to help him, perhaps too much. As Emily fits the puzzle pieces together, she must match wits with a killer who's just placed her and her daughter at the top of his list.
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"The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death--is as close as the face in the mirror"--P. [4] of cover.
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Waterman & Stark thrillers volume 1
Waterman and Stark thriller volume 3
Waterman and Stark thrillers volume 1
Waterman and Stark thriller volume 3
Waterman and Stark thrillers volume 1
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2014.
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A schoolgirl found it on a nature hike. A severed human foot wearing pink nail polish. A gruesome but invaluable clue that leads forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman down a much darker trail--to a dangerous psychopath whose powers of persuasion seem to have no end. Only by teaming up with sheriff's detective Kendall Stark can Birdy hope to even the odds in a deadly game.
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c2013
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A "New York Times"-bestselling author draws deeply on the chilling legacy of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in this darkly atmospheric, psychologically driven thriller in which Bundy is the ultimate obsession for two womenNone a cop, the other a deranged groupie. Original.
7) Victim Six
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"The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common --- except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture...a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. but the dying has only just begun. And the next victim will be the most shocking of all..." -- Publisher's description.
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Oregon's Deschutes River. For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves-- and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia... and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain,...
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♭2015.
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Notorious serial killer Brenda Nevins has cajoled, seduced, blackmailed, and left a trail of bodies all across Washington State. Now, after a daring prison escape, she is free to carry out her ultimate act of revenge. The targets: forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman and sheriff's detective Kendall Stark. The pawn: a television psychic hungry for fame, ratings, and blood.
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[2016]
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"Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won't be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed....
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When the body of 45-year-old Glen Harrelson was found in his Denver home, police tried to contact his wife, but soon they made a startling realization. She had played the part of grieving widow once before: her previous husband also had died a mysterious accidental death...
In a true story as shocking as any fiction, The Confessions of an American Black Widow is the amazing account of Sharon Lynn Nelson, a wild, beautiful preacher's wife who couldn't...
12) Lying next to me
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No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to unplug--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another...
14) Dying to be Her
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2021
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Just as the lightning bolt of memory passed, a pair of hands grabbed Olivia's shoulders and shoved her body backwards against the wooden floor. I'm not going to die here, am I? she thought, though the answer seemed all too clear. Am I? Port Gamble, Washington: When the body of English exchange student Olivia Grant is found at the palatial home of local schoolgirl Brianna Connors, the town assumes that it was a Halloween prank gone wrong. But when...
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" At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones,...
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[2022].
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"Read an absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell— a mother and wife who did the unthinkable … and the unforgiveable. At 5:02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriffs office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bruce was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickells mobile home, to find Stella standing frozen at the...
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[2024]
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"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent...
18) The Hive
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In the Pacific Northwest, police officer Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist. Lindsay learns the victim was writing an exposé on a charismatic wellness guru. Marnie Spellman built a cosmetics empire and became a legend, a healer, and the queen of holistic health and eternal beauty. In her inner circle is an intimate band of devotees called the Hive. Lindsay focuses her investigation on Marnie and the former members of...
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[2016]
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"Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, sheâs flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter and the haunting memories of three-year-old Kelsey Chaseâwhose murder case ended her career. As Nicole obsesses over the old facts, she realizes everything about that case felt off: a disinterested...
20) Silent ridge
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Detective Megan Carpenter volume 3
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2020.
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"Detective Megan Carpenter is no stranger to horrifying crime scenes, but when she arrives at the home of a woman whose body has been brutalized, Megan is shocked to discover that she knows the victim. Monique Delmont helped Megan when she was in danger years ago. And the killer has left a disturbing calling card...two laminated photographs of a sixteen-year-old high school girl--Megan. Someone is taunting her in the worst way possible and Megan is...