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The Sunshine State casts the darkest shadows. Beneath the postcard-perfect beaches and endless theme parks lies a sinister reality. In this gripping regional anthology, journey into the overgrown palmetto scrublands, isolated highways, and quiet gated communities where people simply vanish. From historic St. Augustine to the vast stretches of the Gulf Stream, these accounts explore the terrifying truth of law enforcement's most baffling dead ends. Inside this comprehensive volume, you will discover: The agonizing thirty-one days of silence that captivated a nation. Highly secure suburban ...

Stone Barrington gets reacquainted with a long-buried case and an ex-lover in this electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Luxuriating in Palm Beach's winter warmth, Stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead. Former client Allison Manning is alive and...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of...

Beneath the cobblestone streets and Spanish moss of America’s oldest city lies a history written in blood. St. Augustine, Florida, is a city of sun-drenched beaches, charming colonial architecture, and a romantic, old-world allure that draws millions of tourists each year. But behind the beautiful facade is a dark and violent past that stretches back centuries—a legacy of mayhem that has never truly gone away. This gripping true crime anthology unearths the shocking stories of murder and mystery that haunt the Ancient City. From its brutal founding to the chilling crimes of the modern ...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST ROMANCES OF THE YEAR! "One of the most perfect books I’ve read this year."—New York Times A USA Today Bestseller! An Amazon's Best Romances of August! One of the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2023! She has a to-do list a mile long and falling for her...

A long-buried secret, a forgotten crime, and a killer who will do anything to keep the past buried. When the local high school opens a fifty-year-old time capsule, innkeeper Paisley Penrose expects nostalgia, not a cold case. Half a century ago, a school janitor was found dead, and a troubled student was eventually blamed and sent to prison. Case closed. But as Paisley and her crew of quirky companions begin cataloguing the capsule’s contents, unsettling clues surface. Was the real culprit Raymond Caldwell, the former vice principal who ruled by authority and discouraged dissent? Jack ...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness...

A buried skeleton. A rusted keyring. A fire that was never just a fire. When a decades-old body is discovered beneath a forgotten citrus grove, Holly Marshall uncovers more than just charred roots and ghost stories. The keys clutched in the skeleton’s hand lead to sealed drawers, lost letters, and a vanished inspector whose name no one wants to remember. As whispers of land deals, town secrets, and a grove that burned under suspicious circumstances rise to the surface, Holly teams up with friends old and new to uncover a truth long buried in the soil of Seashell Key. But someone is ...

**Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Nonfiction Honor Book** **American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist** **The Publishing Triangle - Randy Shilts Gay Nonfiction Award Finalist** **A Kirkus Best Book of 2025** A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American...

The Writing Exercise When journalist Jack Carter starts a simple writing prompt to shake off a creative slump, he stumbles onto the cold trail of Beverly Langford—a teenage girl who vanished two decades ago without a trace. But this isn’t just a mystery. It’s a setup. The deeper Jack digs, the more he realizes someone has been rewriting the story all along. From old biker clubs to crooked lawyers and buried city records, The Writing Exercise pulls Carter into a web of lies, leverage, and a past that won’t stay buried. What begins as fiction turns into investigation—and the line ...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. This program features multicast narration. "A talented team of narrators immediately pulls listeners into this compelling audiobook...

A city of ancient secrets. A killer enacting centuries-old vengeance. A reporter who is the final target. Disgraced investigative journalist Griffin Pike is chasing ghosts. Broke and desperate, he returns to his hometown of St. Augustine to cover a story that feels like a godsend: a bizarre, ritualistic murder at the heart of the city’s oldest monument, the Castillo de San Marcos. The victim is posed, the crime is theatrical, and the killer has a taste for history. As the bodies stack up, each murder more brutal and symbolic than the last, Griffin is pulled deep into a conspiracy that ...

When a flicker of light from an old island lighthouse draws attention to long-forgotten Cold War secrets, Ben, Holly, and the Fix-It-All crew find themselves chasing more than echoes—they’re chasing a legacy buried just beneath the surface of Seashell Key. As layers of history unfold, a hidden relay station, a mysterious watcher, and a trail of cryptic clues reveal a decades-old attempt to protect something too valuable to forget. But the more they uncover, the more they realize someone else is still watching… and they aren’t ready to let the past go. The Lighthouse Echo is the ...

“Sam Sawyer may become my favorite crime fighter. I can’t wait for the next book in this new Florida Keys mystery series …” —Maryjane Elizabeth Jones, Heat Until Boiling The fourth book in the Florida Keys Mystery series. Fishing guide and part-time sleuth Sam Sawyer is with a client in the remote backcountry of Everglades National Park, when they come upon the abandoned remains of an old red canoe. Forensic evidence suggests it may have belonged to Sebastian Brophy, a fisherman who disappeared without a trace twenty-five years earlier. Did Brophy have the goods on a pair of ...

A storm is brewing over Seashell Key—and it’s not just in the sky. When a tropical storm bears down on the sunny town of Seashell Key, Ben Marshall expects a few leaks, a little cleanup, and maybe a few soggy porch chairs. He doesn’t expect to uncover a hidden room beneath Fix-It-All Hardware. Or a decades-old mystery tied to secret circuits, Cold War secrets, and a man named Marlowe who seems to have vanished into the past. As the storm intensifies, so does the mystery. Strange signals pulse through the town. Forgotten systems come back to life. And something unexpected washes ashore...

Bunker Stout, former cop, Marine sniper, and private investigator works out of Okaloosa Island, Florida. He is asked to investigate a cold case murder committed by a current Florida resident who is linked to the Mafia. The murder occurred in the Mississippi Delta years ago, but the murderer escaped justice and fled to Florida where he became a doctor to an organized crime family in the Panhandle. The doctor made a pact with the devil at the Crossroads near Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the blues legend, Robert Johnson, traded his soul for fame. The doctor then murdered his wife, the mother...

It’s official, Grayson has moved to Hawaii. Barrie’s not really ready to jump into life without him, but sometimes you have no choice. And she’s doing okay until she’s turning a hickory dining table into a foyer bench for her Flea Market Flip Shop. The problem? The underside of the table holds a message written in blood—a clue to an unsolved murder case from three months ago. New Captain Tina Samoset reopens the murder case, determined to find the woman’s killer. To that end, she compels Barrie’s involvement in the investigation. A second problem is Gray’s smothering ...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America's most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man's life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice...

Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will...

FBI Special Agent Lucy Diamond has retired and starts her own Private Investigation Agency after completing her mission to find a missing waitress and her pilot boyfriend in Key West.