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After seven years as a Chicago homicide detective, Lisa Grant has hit a wall. Ready for a kinder, gentler life, she takes a job as a small-town police chief. But the discovery of a human skeleton by a construction crew at the edge of town taxes the resources of her department.

Chief of Police Jesse Stone is on his way home from a long shift when a call comes in for a welfare check on an elderly resident of the wealthy seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Inside a house packed with junk and trash is a man’s dead body. It’s a sad, lonely end, but nothing criminal . . . until Jesse finds the photos of murder victims strewn around the corpse, on top of a treasure trove of $2 million in cash.

Joseph Finder introduced Nick Heller, a “private spy” who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden, to widespread acclaim from the critics and wild enthusiasm from the readers, in the New York Times best-selling novel Vanished. Now, in Buried Secrets, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that’s both high-profile and intensely personal.

★★★★★ "I couldn’t put it down!” - Reader Review ___ A tortured woman, a drowning man, a frightened child. When Detective Grace McKenna looks into a criminal’s eyes she can see haunting images of victims who have been wronged. In Buried Secrets, when Grace responds to a routine call, she meets Miriam Caverly, an older woman with a past that is less than mundane. Alongside her boyfriend and ex-cop, Mark Connolly, Grace is thrown into a tangle of town secrets that force her to step outside the town’s boundaries for answers that she is scared to face. A town drunk with a ...

As Detective Raina Andrews struggles to heal from crushing betrayal and unspeakable loss at the hands of someone she trusted the most, her inner demons almost get the best of her. Out of fear, she pushes love away when she desperately needs it. She’s willing to sacrifice her feelings to keep the object of her affection safe from harm, but is that the best course of action? And what about the other women — Ally and Jen —who have become targets of stalking and harassment alongside her as the list of missing women grows? Is she protecting them, or unconsciously using them as bait? While ...

How do you live with yourself when you don’t even know who you are? On a chill October night, a girl goes missing setting the small town of Oakridge on edge. James has spent the last five years running from a past that still haunts him to this day. Now he finds himself thrust back into a life he thought he left behind. Finding out his new home may be haunted and reconnecting with an old friend while being thrust into a murder mystery, James finds himself trying to figure out which end is up while questioning his own sanity. **AUTHOR’S NOTE** Buried Secrets is a New Adult, mystery ...

When Cassie Hunt learns that her beloved Aunt Aggie is dying, she rushes back home to be with her during her final days. For as long as Cassie can remember Aggie has spoken about the forgotten world that exists just below their feet, in the tunnels and catacombs of the mysterious Sand House. But on her deathbed, Aggie reveals a terrible secret that she’s buried as deep as the tunnels beneath the old house, and when excavation work begins on the site, Cassie is the only one who can help keep the truth hidden.

Reprint of 2015 novel Dark Secrets from the Past . . . Three years after the accident that almost claimed her life, Emma Esh has recovered physically, but she has no memory of the months before and after the collision. When she moves to a new community to help her sister Lydia and brother-in-law, Caleb, prepare for the birth of their twins, she falls for their neighbor Samuel. But the twins’ premature birth, a visit from the Englischer Emma once dated, and the sudden return of her memory threaten Emma’s budding romance. Can forgiveness overcome past mistakes and lead to a brighter future?

WHEN ANNE HANSON'S DAD FIRST ASKED her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did she know what she was getting into. For two decades, despite all her digging, she failed to unearth even the tiniest speck of evidence that the families of her grandparents, Frank and Ida Hanson, had ever existed. If her quest were a detective novel, its title would have been, "The Case of the Missing Ancestors."

Linda Haynes, a woman who feels at home in airports, lost her brother when she was a teenager. Now twenty years later, she receives a surprising phone call that takes her on a journey into her family’s secrets. As well as shocking truths, Linda discovers a wonderful bonus on her journey that will change her life forever.

For Celeste Blackmoore and her sisters, locating a hundred-year-old buried treasure in the gold mining ghost town of Dead Water sounds like an easy job... until they find themselves facing threats from both sides of the grave. While dealing with a ghost who wants revenge, a sheriff who wants to lock them up and a thieving stranger who wants them out of town, the girls find themselves using their unique paranormal skills to investigate a century old secret that holds the key to the treasure.

When enormous cloned reptiles are impacting travel in the future, TEP agent Braxton Cahill travels back to destroy the bones that will be used. He meets archeologist Cora Morgan at the dig and when his mission fails, he has to come up with an alternative. Cora volunteers to help and they embark on an adventure to try to save humanity. Will they succeed? And will they be able to resist their growing attraction to each other? This is chronologically the first book of the Time Enforcement Patrol series. While this collection of stories has time travel and a dystopian future, they are romances ...

Dylan Roche is shocked. The 25-year-old management trainee is astonished by the visit of an attorney. After years of blissful ignorance of his heritage, he is leery of the invitation to visit his wealthy maternal grandmother.

Pigeon Bay, a tranquil and secure town, suddenly becomes shrouded in mystery when a woman mysteriously disappears. The arrival of Samantha and Jonathan Winters, attending a real estate convention and participating in a captivating photoshoot, sets the stage for an unexpected turn of events. Little does Jonathan know that his photographs might uncover more than he ever anticipated. In this gripping tale, Nina Dupree, a skilled private investigator and trusted ally of the Chief of Police, steps in to assist in unraveling the perplexing case. Could the evidence left behind by the missing woman...

In a town where everyone has something to hide, amateur sleuth Emma Chandler is about to learn that the past never truly stays buried. A skeleton is found near Cedar Harbor's lighthouse, pulling coffee shop owner Emma Chandler into a decades-old mystery. The remains belong to Robert Langford, a childhood neighbor who vanished 25 years ago, and Emma's quirky friend Ollie begs for her help to uncover the truth. As Emma digs deeper, she finds troubling ties to the powerful Cedar Harbor Yacht Club—a place where secrets, lies, and influence protect the powerful members. Multiple suspects ...

Life in Drum, Tennessee has been quiet since corruption was uncovered in the sheriff’s department three months ago - too quiet. Still, Carly is shocked when she discovers one of her sweetest lunch customers at the tavern has committed murder in cold blood. Carly is certain the woman was fulfilling an infamous “favor” for the town patriarch, Bart Drummond, but now she has to prove it. She already knew that Drum has two sides - the side they show the world, and the seedy underbelly. Only in Drum, all things seedy lead back to two men - Bart Drummond and the local drug king, Todd Bingham.

Detective Drake Lewis is tough, focused, and unbending. He has no problem keeping his workaholic professional life completely separate from his lonely personal life. Drake has never met a man who could pull him from his job. Until he does. Liam Walters is a construction foreman with a painful past. He’s happy with himself and what his life has become. When his path once again crosses with Drake’s, Liam is willing to take whatever Drake can offer him.

A woman’s skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn’s archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can’t help but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation.

Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered - and Daniel’s aren’t among them - a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence.

Cosy Paranormal Romance Kassandra, Olivia's friend, finally gets her own story. Kassandra is always in pain, she doesn’t know why, as she has pieces of her memory missing. Considering that memory magic is basically against the law after what happened with the magical objects, she fears that she’ll never regain her lost memories, even though she feels as though she needs them to be whole again. The pain is worse than it’s ever been, she wants Will’s help, William’s wolf counterpart, believing that only he can help her, as William doesn’t care for her in that way. Only William has...