Crime Town

A heart-pounding FBI thriller where the hunter becomes the hunted. Ten-year-old Sarah Truby disappears without a trace in Charlottesville, Virginia—and the case hits far too close to home for FBI Agent River Collins. Twenty years ago, she was the one who vanished. She survived. Her captor was never caught. When River learns Sarah had been chatting online with a man posing as her friend, and she realizes this isn’t just one missing child. It’s the gateway into a predator’s network. The deeper River digs, the more she’s forced to confront the horrors of her own past… and the ...

Murder in the Mountains: True Stories of Crime and Violence in Appalachia pulls back the curtain on the darker side of America’s most mysterious region. From the eerie case of the Greenbrier Ghost—where a murdered woman’s spirit allegedly testified in court—to the bloody Hatfield-McCoy feud, to modern-day horrors like the Pike County Massacre, this book exposes the crimes that shocked small towns and became Appalachian legend. Author R.M. Cochran weaves together true crime, history, and folklore in a haunting journey through real murders, betrayals, and cold-blooded violence hidden ...

🔪 Murder, Mystery, and Legends from the Heart of the Mountains 🔪 The Ozarks hold more than breathtaking landscapes—they hide secrets soaked in blood. Across Arkansas and Missouri, small towns and winding highways have been the hunting grounds of killers whose crimes remain unsolved. Legends have formed around these dark events, leaving behind whispered warnings and restless ghosts of the past. Inside True Crime: Ozarks, you’ll discover: 🩸 The Highway’s Harvest – A forgotten serial killer stalked the roads of northwest Arkansas, preying on hitchhikers and vanishing without a...

A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors, in this thriller from a master storyteller. "Chilling, gripping." —Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author...

America’s Hometown has a dark side. And the truth has been hidden in plain sight. Hannibal, Missouri is known around the world as the boyhood home of Mark Twain—a picturesque river town celebrated for its charm, history, and sense of American innocence. But beneath the postcards, museums, and storybook streets lies a far more unsettling legacy. True Crime in America’s Hometown uncovers the real crimes that shaped Hannibal in silence: brutal murders, unexplained deaths, disappearances that haunted families for generations, and scandals quietly erased from public memory. These are not ...

Fifteen cases. Three states. One river system carrying evidence across county and parish lines. Across the river towns of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, violence rarely remained within a single jurisdiction. Sheriffs, coroners, juries, prison officials, employers, political organizations, racial hierarchies, and federal courts shaped what investigators recorded—and what the law could eventually prove. Backwater examines fifteen documented cases spanning more than a century, from the Colfax and Thibodaux massacres to the murder of Emmett Till, the Scottsboro prosecutions, Parchman ...

"This series is my top reading escape, with colorful characters you care about, a great setting, good mystery plots--and a funny, heartwarming cat!" ~Reviewer "I'm former Secret Service, current Postal Service...and my little town of Ohia on Maui has crime mysteries as wild and crazy as anything I dealt with in DC!" ~Kat Smith, women sleuth, with her cat Tiki at her side to solve whatever comes up on a tiny island in Hawaii. "I hope this series never ends! Favorite cozies of all time." ~Reviewer

When a young woman dies in a late-night restaurant fire, the owner, Bobby Carter, is charged with arson and murder. The evidence is stacked against him, but something doesn’t add up. And his only chance for justice rests on the shoulders of small-town lawyer Leland Munroe… Leland is convinced someone’s out to frame his client. But as the trial heats up, he realizes that he's facing more than just a legal battle.

Two true tales of small-town murders Unfriendly: How a social media feud led to a double homicide When the bodies of Bill Payne and Billie-Jean Hayworth were discovered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home on January 30 2012, investigators initially assumed it was a drug deal gone awry. However, soon their attention was drawn to a vicious online feud that had been simmering in full view of the entire town of Mountain City for over a year. What followed was an unbelievable case involving a CIA agent, a secret relationship, and an impressionable local man who had never had a girlfriend. At ...

A letter throws Detective Kaitlyn Carr’s life into turmoil… Settling into a new routine, Kaitlyn believes that her troubles are behind her. But then she receives a letter from a retired FBI agent, which states that everything she knows about her father’s death is a lie. The FBI agent says that her father was murdered and promises to tell her what really happened, but only if she helps him first. To find out the truth, Kaitlyn must travel to a place with a near-constant cover of clouds and rain and investigate a series of cold cases that the FBI agent believes are connected to the same...

The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for...dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind. Grace had never been more terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust with her life. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a...

A sinister secret lies buried—one that swallows two young teens into an abyss of mystery. When two young teens at a county fair are drawn to desperate cries emanating from the House of Horrors, their world spins into chaos. They never enter, but suddenly, they're gone—vanished into thin air. Thus begins a baffling mystery into which rookie detective Teresa Simmonds and veteran Allan Yeats are thrown headfirst into a maze of secrets and lies. As they unravel the web of secrets and cover-ups, the question haunts them: What happened to Yasmine and Jerry, and why does no one want the truth ...

In Mersey, Tennessee, there's a new kind of brotherhood...one that defies laws of man. The men who belong to the Dark Falcons Motorcycle Club have all the guts and heart to back up their beliefs. And they have the same passion for the women they claim, love and cherish. If you love steamy romance, tough men, small towns and action and adventure, this series is for you!

The Grace Thompson Cozy Mystery Collection: Stories 1–10 Ten charming cozies, one unforgettable sleuthing duo—and a clever Westie who always sniffs out the truth. From flower festivals to escape rooms, small-town bakeries to lakeside vacations, murder has a way of blooming wherever Grace Thompson and her best friend Chloe Sutton go. With Rosie the Westie at her side, Grace untangles twisted motives, long-buried secrets, and sinister puzzles hidden in the heart of Bloomsville and beyond. Inside this box set, you’ll find: A prequel that reveals Chloe’s past and the shocking case that ...

Readers who enjoy James Patterson, Elmore Leonard, and Robert B. Parker should love every moment of this collection. Danny Acuff, a badass detective and prior Force Recon Marine, isn't afraid to stick his nose where it doesn't belong. And in both Take Down (Book 1) and Gravel Road (Book 2), he ends up in the fights of his life.

✅ Three complete, pulse-pounding, action-packed mystery thrillers ✅ Over 1,500 pages of explosive suspense, dark secrets, and shocking twists ✅ Ruth and Aaron’s slow-burn, impossible romance as they hunt killers across Texas Texas Ranger Ruth Baker and her partner Aaron Tate confront the deadliest cases of their careers—a political assassination that ignites a wave of copycats, wildfires weaponized to conceal murder, and a nightmare that thunders across the rails at midnight. BLOOD ORCHARD Peace can't come from the barrel of a gun. When a beloved national figure is gunned down at ...

An addictive FBI mystery with a twist you won’t see coming. FBI Agent River Collins knows the fear of being taken—because she’s lived it. Twenty years ago, she escaped her abductor. He was never caught. She’s never stopped looking over her shoulder. Now, in the quiet college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, two mothers vanish within hours of each other. Their cars are found abandoned. Their children are left waiting. And the only person who sees the disturbing pattern is River. As she digs deeper, the case drags her into the darkest corners of her own past—nightmares she’s ...

Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the sleepy little town. Money has been tight after the bushfires, and it’s about to get tighter if they can’t find a way to pay their suppliers to keep their business going and keep the bank from foreclosing on their property. So when Jackie receives a mysterious phone call offering them $100,000 to let someone bury a body on their land, the answer isn’t as simple as they thought it would be.

Lark Monroe runs Pawsitive Connections with a smile that doesn't always reach her eyes, an alpaca named Al Pacacino who thinks he's royalty, and a talent for recognizing broken people. Because she's one of them. She's built a sanctuary in Pawsitive. Forty acres of second chances for animals nobody else wanted and humans who've forgotten how to trust. It's easier to fix other people's problems. Safer. Her own? Those stay buried. But the past she left behind isn't staying there. And the man she hired to fix her fences sees straight through every wall she's spent five years building. Turns out...

A respected businessman. A brutal murder. And a conspiracy that could bury the truth forever. When Derrick Styles is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, the case against him looks airtight. His fingerprints are on the weapon, he was seen arguing with her, and he was the last one to see her alive. But Styles claims he’s innocent. Veteran defense attorney Jim Cohen has heard that claim before, but this case feels different. The evidence keeps shifting. The witnesses don’t add up. And no matter which thread he pulls, it leads back to the same place—someone within the investigation is...