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Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash. But Jonathan Stride learns the lawyer had plenty of motive to mastermind the crime. And as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage.

Jonathan Stride's investigation of a girl's disappearance leads him onto the set of a film in Duluth, where a movie based on a case in his own past is being made. But the actor playing Stride is rumored to have a dark side--and will stop at nothing to protect his reputation.

When new photographs surface, detective Jonathan Stride discovers that the motive behind a bombing in Duluth may not have been terrorism at all. But can the truth be discovered before more innocent people are killed?

Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina's parents were murdered, and now she's come to Detective Stride for protection from a killer. Stride's instinct is to help Cat, whose parents' case still haunts him, but Stride's partner isn't convinced this damaged girl is the one who needs protection.

When a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped, Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his partner, Serena, end up on opposite sides of the case, with Stride pursuing evidence that incriminates the doctor and Serena trying to prove the baby was abducted.

Thirty years after Lieutenant Jonathan Stride's sister-in-law, Laura, was murdered in a horrific crime, her best friend, Tish, shows up to write a book about the unsolved murder. The investigation leaves Stride questioning his entire past.

A seductive young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a stash of lurid fantasies and a cryptic message. Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial uncover a sordid web of violence and voyeurism that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden.

Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are both investigating high-profile murders in Las Vegas. When their cases converge, they find themselves racing the clock against a serial killer.

Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. My Angel is the one who got away, the only person in the world I love. When she is caught in an unsanctioned bank robbery in my territory, only my reputation protects her. There's no white picket fence in life with a Bellandi, and she deserves so much more. I pushed her away once, but now that she's back I won't let anything else come between us.

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine, since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. When Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.