With all the makings of a lost season for the TV series 24, and in the bestselling tradition of Vince Flynn, Frank Miles finds himself thrust into a web of deceit with the fate of the nation at stake. And the clock is ticking. Three weeks before a crucial senatorial election, Frank’s business partner is gunned down execution-style in their D.C. office. Police are quick to call it a case of robbery gone bad, but Frank Miles, known for his ruthless manipulation of the media, suspects something far more sinister...
In a gleaming home in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill, a teenage girl has been brutally murdered. The atrocity kicks off an investigation by police who connect the teen’s murder to a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing murders. As the city’s panic rises, Teddy Mack, a civil attorney just out of law school, is forced by a partner at his new firm to defend the undefendable. But soon after, another girl goes missing. A girl who might still be alive. There’s a serial killer out there. And he’s collecting something horrific and vile. To end the madman’s reign, Teddy must enter his maze—a place of unimaginable terror where human demons emerge with a vengeance.
Lena Gamble, a young detective just promoted from Hollywood to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division, works her very first case: a vibrant young woman has been found brutally murdered in her own bed, the victim of a ritualized killing in a quiet neighborhood overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Why does the murder match another bizarre killing that occurred exactly one month ago? That’s what Lena Gamble has to find out before it’s too late. Before the infamous serial killer “Romeo” strikes again. “City of Fire is my kind of crime novel. Gritty, tight, and assured.”
—Michael Connelly
Lena Gamble’s trusted supervisor warns her straight out that she might be walking into a trap. The dismembered body of a young female has been found in a dumpster in Hollywood. There are no clues. Just an anonymous witness who delivers a driver’s license and a flash drive documenting the woman’s horrific kidnapping. “Finding the missing witness before the killer finds her may be Gamble's only hope of solving this deliciously twisted crime novel in which nothing is what it appears to be.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Detective Lena Gamble gets another late-night call. A horrific double murder at Club 3 AM, a hotspot for the rich and famous in Hollywood. And the case goes radioactive from the start. The first victim is Johnny Bosco, owner of Club 3 AM and an L.A. powerbroker. But the real shocker comes when Lena turns over the second body: twenty-five-year-old Jacob Gant, acquitted just weeks ago of murdering his teenage neighbor in L.A.'s latest trial-of-the-century. Who killed Lily Hight? And why is her life cloaked in mystery?
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Silence of the Lambs meets True Romance when Detective Matt Jones flies into Philadelphia to investigate the gruesome killing of an entire family in their lavish mansion on the Mainline. Is it the notorious Dr. Baylor, a former Beverly Hills plastic surgeon turned serial killer, who escaped capture just weeks ago in L.A.? Or is it a second serial killer, someone young and homegrown—someone even more erratic and terrifying? “Gleefully tense. A persistently gripping thriller.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the parking lot behind a landmark grille on Hollywood Boulevard, Detective Matt Jones’s first night working homicide plunges him into a nightmare. A man has been brutally gunned down; his bullet-riddled body thought to be the work of a serial robber haunting the Strip for months. But as Jones digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling link to a ritualized murder from the past and finds himself swept into a labyrinth of corruption and deceit that leads directly back to the LAPD, the city’s elite, and a serial killer of unprecedented savagery. “Stunning emotional force. Ellis keeps everything in focus while building a staggering momentum.”—Booklist Starred Review
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In a remote park overlooking Los Angeles—in the dead of night—Detective Matt Jones is called back to the labyrinth of crime by a chilling discovery. A teenager has been murdered; her body buried under a tree in the woods. Driven by the horror of the crime, Jones and his partner burn through the evidence and make an even more gruesome discovery. There’s another dead body out there, and the murders point to a turf war between an infamous mob figure and the power of Wall Street. “More thriller than mystery. The author works this to great effect. An impressive amount of suspense. A swift pace. Solid entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews
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In the dim glow of a majestic beach house shrouded in the fog, Detective Matt Jones stands amidst the chaos of a crime scene that whispers of a story untold. A secret so potent it claimed the lives of a promising young journalist, his wife and infant daughter. The air is thick with the metallic scent of blood and the silent echoes of a family’s last moments. The Los Angeles Times will mourn one of its own, and the City of Angels will buzz with rumors and fear. But for Matt Jones, this isn’t just another murder case. It’s a personal vendetta against the shadows that snatch away the innocent. “Riveting. A moody, white-knuckle murder tale.” —Kirkus Reviews
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