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Texas Ranger Rory Yates uncovers a tangle of small-town secrets, favors, and lies. To get to the truth before more lives are lost, he's forced to take some liberties with the investigation.

Serial killers can be anywhere and anyone. These accounts of serial killers--from contemporary to the historic--come from award-winning crime writers, journalists, and experts in the field of dark crimes.

Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin'. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost?

A collection of four Thomas Prescott books in a single volume. In Unforeseen, only retired cop Thomas Prescott knows that Tristan Grayer is alive and ready to kill again. In Gray Matter, Prescott sighted a corpse, and now someone is out to kill him. In The Afrikaans, Prescott races to discover the truth behind a hostage crisis. In Show Me, Prescott hears of a cold case murder that is considered solved, but Prescott has his doubts.

Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. It's not long before the first corpse shows up, bringing the peace in the valley to a thundering end.

It's 1949. War veteran Aloysius Archer is hired to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman. But when a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against him.

In 1999, when Tom O'Neill was assigned a piece by Premiere magazine about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he was intrigued by the opportunity to revisit a hallmark of American pop culture. Through extensive research, O'Neill discovered evidence of a wild conspiracy theory--one that suggested Manson and the Manson Family had likely been manipulated through government operatives working undercover in a Haight-Ashbury based public health clinic. Searching but never speculative, this book follows O'Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the "official" story behind Manson.

A shocking new case has left FBI agent Emmy Dockery baffled. The victims appear to have died by accident and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be a coincidence.

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire ( USA Today ). "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules — a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.

There's something going on in Baronville, Pennsylvania, that might be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the country. Decker and Jamison must pull out all the stops to solve their latest case.