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Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B. Jane's old friend Leigh has spent years renovating the house and reopening it as an inn and restaurant. The inn has become so successful that people drive the 50 miles from Minneapolis just for dinner. But when Jane and her best friend, Cordelia, arrive for a week of relaxation, they find that the weekend's guests are anything but pleased, and that relaxing is the furthest thing from their minds. Broken glass litters the parking lot, dead animals turn up in the bedrooms, a bomb scare threatens the lives of the inn's guests. Then the pranks turn deadly....

Grant Forrester is living his lifelong dream. He’s finally become a respected voice as the Arts and Entertainment writer for The Best of Texas, the state’s premier magazine. Through him, hundreds of thousands of readers discover the hidden treasures of rich history Texas has to offer. He has it all… including a trail of bodies left in his wake…

Anya Volkov was everything I wanted and nothing I could have. I was never supposed to love her. My future has been set in stone since birth, down to who I am expected to marry. With our inner circle now compromised from my bastard of an uncle, it looked like my future had arrived earlier than expected. Cristiano Vitucci walked away from me without a backwards glance, deciding power was more important than me. I accepted that and moved on. Now he was back, ready to take over for his sick father, and no longer someone else’s husband. He says he wants me back.

Someone’s killing one college co-ed a month in North Texas. A predator with exacting tastes uses technology to select his targets.

It could just be coincidence. It also could be revenge. But hardened cop Frank Zimmerman doesn’t believe in coincidences. Neither does FBI profiler Nathan Thomas. A drowned lawyer, a fatal car accident, a heart attack, and a socialite’s lethal fall in front of a huge crowd all have their cop antennae pinging—hard. They dig for evidence to support Frank's theory of a trail of bodies that lead into the past.

When FBI profiler Nathan Thomas meets Bella Amsel, he realizes she might very well be his dream girl. Too bad she has a stalker that neither of them know about—at first. They survive a nightmare–but they don't escape unscathed. A harrowing ordeal puts Nathan and Bella face to face with pure evil. Little do they know–it's only the beginning.

Dopo mesi trascorsi dietro una scrivania per aver ferito un passante nel corso di una retata, un ispettore viene inviato in un villaggio vicino alla frontiera di cui nemmeno conosceva l'esistenza. Ad attenderlo c'è un caso d'omicidio considerato già risolto. La vittima è una donna che conduceva un'esistenza appartata, e il presunto assassino è suo fratello, un giovane con disturbi mentali che abitava insieme a lei e che ora è scomparso. Facile, forse troppo.

Fresco di nomina alla caserma di Bellano il maresciallo Maccadò ha per le mani un caso spinoso da trattare con cura. La notte del 6 maggio 1928, i carabinieri di Porta Ticinese a Milano fermano due persone per schiamazzi notturni e rissa. Uno è un trentacinquenne, studente universitario provvisto di tesserino da giornalista. Interrogato, snocciola una lista di conoscenze che arriva fino al direttore del "Popolo d'Italia", quel Mussolini fratello di, per accreditare la sua versione, ovvero che è stato fatto oggetto di adescamento indesiderato.

Callie Cantrell has only fragmented memories of the car accident that killed her husband and son. One year later, she's still trying to start over, yet she can't shake her unease. Especially when former LA cop West Laughlin barges into her life, searching for his young nephew. At first he thinks Callie's lying about who she is and what she knows. But soon it's clear that Callie and West are linked by a killer who has bent others to his twisted will. The worst night of Callie's life was just the beginning of his vengeance. And when her turn comes again there will be no escape...