Per Bree, detective della omicidi, l’assassinio della sorella diventa un agghiacciante déjà vu

Per più di venticinque anni, la detective di Philadelphia, Bree Taggert, ha messo da parte gli spaventosi ricordi d’infanzia dell’omicidio-suicidio dei suoi genitori. Quando la sorella minore, Erin, viene uccisa in un crimine che richiama quella tragica notte, in Bree tornano a galla le immagini di testimoni innocenti e un matrimonio burrascoso finito in una sparatoria. C’è solo un’agghiacciante differenza: il marito di Erin, Justin, è scomparso.

Bree sa quanto è esplosivo il confine tra amore e odio, ma le prove contro il suo problematico cognato non quadrano. Facendo squadra con Matt Flynn, un vecchio amico di Justin, ex investigatore e istruttore dell’unità cinofila, Bree giura di scoprire i segreti della vita e della morte della sorella. L’ha promesso anche a Kayla e a Luke, i giovani figli di Erin.

Mentre le indagini proseguono, il pericolo colpisce vicino alla loro casa. La famiglia di Bree è sorpresa ancora da una stretta mortale. E, stavolta, per la detective potrebbe essere fatale.

Chi conosceva Holly non sarà mai al sicuro, finché non troveranno l’assassino della ragazza

Lo sceriffo Bree Taggert scopre il corpo di una giovane donna che galleggia sulle rive dello Scarlet River: un biglietto nell’auto abbandonata fa pensare al suicidio. L’autopsia, però, rivela una storia diversa: Holly Thorpe era già morta, quando è caduta giù dal ponte ed è finita in acqua.

Mentre Bree e il suo investigatore Matt Flynn indagano, i segreti della vita privata di Holly vengono a galla e la soluzione dell’omicidio si complica. Holly si è lasciata alle spalle un matrimonio litigioso, un capo che mostrava di essere personalmente coinvolto da lei e un rapporto difficile con Shannon, sua sorella. Ciascuno di loro aveva un motivo per ucciderla.

Quando Shannon viene terrorizzata dal macabro scherzo di uno stalker, e il primo sospettato delle indagini muore, le certezze di Bree sono capovolte e lei deve guardare il caso da una nuova angolazione. Ma non c’è tempo: l’assassino colpisce Bree e Matt da vicino. Devono fermarlo prima che sparga il sangue di una persona da loro amata.

Alyssa ha visto uccidere la sua amica, però manca un indizio fondamentale: la vittima

Bree Taggert è chiamata per una sparatoria in un campeggio che rimane chiuso durante l’inverno. Quando arriva, il nuovo sceriffo si trova davanti a un crimine sconcertante. Non c’è assassino, né vittima, né sangue. Nessuno a parte Bree crede all’unica testimone, Alyssa, un’adolescente senzatetto che sostiene di aver visto qualcuno sparare alla sua amica.

Per individuare il killer e rintracciare la ragazza, Bree chiede l’intervento dell’ex agente Matt Flynn e del suo cane poliziotto. Sotto il ghiaccio del Grey Lake, invece, Bree e Matt ritrovano il corpo massacrato di uno studente universitario scomparso… E non è l’unico della serie.

Quando altri due giovani spariscono e spuntano nuovi cadaveri, Bree deve scoprire il legame tra gli omicidi. È certa solo di un particolare: sono stati generati dalla furia dell’assassino. E quando anche Alyssa non si trova più, Bree deve correre contro il tempo: la sua testimone potrebbe diventare la prossima vittima.

L’omicidio dell’avvocato Lee Barrett e della moglie Kate insanguina l’incantata cittadina di Scarlet Falls. Il maggiore Grant, fratello di Lee, è costretto a rientrare subito dall’Afghanistan per prendersi cura dei nipotini rimasti orfani. Solo grazie all’aiuto di Ellie Ross, l’affascinante vicina di casa e amica dei Barrett, Grant riesce a mantenere il controllo su una situazione difficile da gestire per un uomo di guerra, costretto ad accudire due bambini.

Quando la cittadina viene sconvolta da nuovi episodi di violenza, l’istinto militare gli suggerisce che dietro all’omicidio del fratello si nasconda del marcio. Nessuno è più al sicuro. L’assassino è a piede libero e la lentezza della polizia costringe Grant ed Ellie a indagare da soli, insieme. E quanto più i due si avvicinano, tanto più si confrontano con le proprie emozioni e i propri sentimenti. Nel gelo del dramma, avvampa il fuoco della passione e il desiderio diventa irresistibile...

Tra l’attrazione reciproca, il dovere del maggiore di tornare in guerra e la disillusione della donna nei confronti dell’amore, riusciranno Grant ed Ellie a fermare l’assassino prima che la neve di Scarlet Falls sia macchiata da altro sangue?

Sheriff Bree Taggert is both hunter and hunted in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s blood-freezing thriller of murder, rage, and revenge.

New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood. No one but Bree believes the sole witness, Alyssa, a homeless teenager who insists she saw her friend shot.

Bree calls in former deputy Matt Flynn and his K-9 to track the killer and search for Alyssa’s friend. They discover the battered corpse of a missing university student under the ice in Grey Lake—but it’s not the victim they were looking for.

When two more students go missing and additional bodies turn up, Bree must find the link between the victims. She knows only one thing for certain: the murders are fueled by rage. When Alyssa disappears, Bree must race against time to find her before her witness becomes another victim.

The discovery of human remains unearths another nightmare from Sheriff Bree Taggert’s past in a bone-chilling thriller by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.

Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way.

When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree’s dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she’s spent most of her life trying to forget. The only other suspect is an unlikely squatter on the Taggert farm who claims to know secrets about Bree’s past. When he mysteriously disappears and Bree’s niece is kidnapped, the cold case heats up.

Bree has stoked the rage of a murderer who’ll do anything to keep his identity—and motives—a secret. To protect everyone she loves, Bree must confront a killer.

Lies from the heart lead to a dangerously intimate case for Sheriff Bree Taggert in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of revenge and fatal deceptions.

When a digital marketer is found murdered in his backyard—hands bound and face smothered by plastic wrap—Sheriff Bree Taggert and criminal investigator Matt Flynn respond to the call. Their investigation focuses on the man’s dating-app profile and the word liar carved into his forehead.

One day later, the killer strikes again.

Both victims are players in the internet dating scene. In their wake, they leave a trail of hurt—and angry—women. But Bree and Matt aren’t convinced the motive is as simple as it appears. Everyone they interview seems to be lying or hiding something.

As the list of suspects grows, the killer’s rage escalates, and he leaves a personal and deadly warning for Bree. They must act fast. Because someone Bree loves is targeted as the next to die.

In this gripping second novella in the Widow’s Island series, bestselling author Melinda Leigh delivers a chilling tale of murder in the Pacific Northwest.

Deputy Tessa Black gave up her career as a detective with the Seattle PD and returned to the Pacific Northwest island she calls home to care for her ailing mother. Tessa thinks her mother’s illness is the worst thing she’ll face—until she responds to a routine call in the state park and discovers a local man harpooned to a sign.

As the murder investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that the victim harbored secrets. Together with her FBI agent best friend, Cate, and park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa must connect the pieces before the murderer strikes again. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she finds herself—and the ones she loves—in harm’s way.

Pressure mounts as Tessa attempts to juggle the current case with her search for the truth behind her childhood friend Samantha’s disappearance twenty years ago. Can Tessa find the murderer and uncover answers about Samantha without jeopardizing everything she holds dear?

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In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer.

Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her. Convinced the predator knows his victims and is stalking his prey online, she is determined to find him before he strikes again. Her brother’s friend, Luke has the computer expertise to help. But Brooke’s unexpected desire for Luke complicates her investigation, and her fixation with the case provokes a deadly reaction from the killer.

Injured in terrorist bombing overseas, computer expert Luke Holloway is still haunted by flashbacks of his young assistant’s death in the explosion. But Luke can’t refuse the request of a deployed friend to look after his sister, Brooke. Taking on responsibility for Brooke’s safety threatens Luke’s tenuous recovery, especially after he develops feelings for her that transcend a promise to a friend. When Brooke saves a young girl from a brutal assault and becomes a killer’s obsession, Luke vows to protect her at all costs.

When a terrible accident abruptly ends her riding career, Rachel Parker returns to Pennsylvania to rebuild her family’s horse farm. But her welcome home is anything but warm. Her sister’s abusive husband and a violent vandal threaten Rachel’s new business and her life. Someone is systematically trying to destroy her. Someone who knows private things about her. Someone who’s been watching her. Now Rachel must face the fact that the sins of her carefully hidden past have returned to haunt her…

Police Chief Mike O’Connell never had trouble drawing the line between his personal life and his job—until he met Rachel Parker. Mike’s investigation uncovers a shocking number of secrets and suspects. But the stalker’s escalating violence convinces him he doesn’t have much time to sort through it all. Whoever is watching Rachel wants her dead. Mike and Rachel race to untangle a web of deceit and lies that stretches two decades into the past—before her stalker strikes again.

Sheriff Bree Taggert’s downfall is part of a killer’s cunning design in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of murder, lies, and revenge.

Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, Sheriff Bree Taggert finds a brutal double homicide. One of the victims is Eugene Oscar, the bitter and corrupt former deputy she recently forced out of the department.

Working with criminal investigator Matt Flynn, Bree discovers that she isn’t the only one who had a troubling history with Eugene. But someone doesn’t want Bree digging up the past. She becomes the target of a stranger’s sick and devious campaign calculated to destroy her reputation, career, family, and new relationship with Matt. To make matters worse, she’s the prime suspect in Eugene’s murder.

When her chief deputy goes missing while investigating the case, Bree refuses to back down. She won’t let him become the next victim. His life and her future depend on finding a killer nursing a vengeful rage.

A homicide detective’s violent family history repeats itself in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of murder, secrets, and retribution.

For more than twenty-five years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents’ murder-suicide…Until her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night: innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that ended in gunfire. There’s just one chilling difference. Erin’s husband, Justin, has vanished.

Bree knows how explosive the line between love and hate can be, yet the evidence against her troubled brother-in-law isn’t adding up. Teaming up with Justin’s old friend, former sheriff’s investigator and K-9 handler Matt Flynn, Bree vows to uncover the secrets of her sister’s life and death, as she promised Erin’s children. But as her investigation unfolds, the danger hits close to home. Once again, Bree’s family is caught in a death grip. And this time, it could be fatal for her.