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Forensic psychologist and rookie FBI agent Alexis Forrest returns to her hometown of Broken Hill to investigate the disappearance of a missing teenage girl. Returning to this snowy New England town is the last thing Alexis wants to do. She has a strained relationship with her divorced parents whose relationship did not survive the disappearance and murder of Alexis’ older sister, or her dad’s prison sentence. The circumstances of this girl’s disappearance are surprisingly similar to her sister’s yet the local police aren’t exactly welcoming to an inexperienced FBI agent sent to ...

When a father vanishes with his two-week-old daughter, leaving behind a frantic wife and their eight-year-old son, forensic psychologist and FBI agent Alexis Forrest is called in to investigate. The man's blood-stained truck is discovered abandoned on a dirt road, but there's no trace of him or the baby. As Alexis delves into the case, she uncovers a tangled web of secrets and lies. With the serial killer responsible for her sister's death now behind bars, Alexis hopes for a fresh start in the small New England town where she grew up. However, peace is hard to find. Alexis tries to move ...

Forensic psychologist and FBI agent Alexis Forrest's search for the serial killer responsible for her sister's murder has hit a wall. All the evidence she has found has led her to the identities of numerous victims, yet the killer is still unknown. But he knows who she is, and he is watching her from the shadows. He is hiding in plain sight near Broken Hill, the snowy New England town that Alexis used to call home. Meanwhile, a young suburban mother goes missing while out on a morning run. When Alexis starts to dig deeper, she finds out that the woman's perfect marriage and family are not ...

Forensic psychologist and FBI agent Alexis Forrest is on the hunt for a serial killer who has been terrorizing New England for decades. Years ago, her teenage sister fell victim to this predator, but the wrong person was convicted and sent to prison and the real killer is still out there. The eerie calm of Broken Hill, Alexis's hometown, is shattered when a string of brutal killings resurfaces, echoing the nightmare of her past. For years, everyone thought he was gone and then he strikes again. After her father's house is burned down and her mother receives threats, Alexis knows she's ...

When she finds out that the man convicted of killing her sister may be innocent, FBI agent and forensic psychologist Alexis Forrest goes on the search for the real culprit. Evidence of her sister’s murder was found in a remote cabin, along with traces of dozens more young women. A serial killer has been stalking these woods for decades and he’s still out there. Alexis had returned to Broken Hill, the snowy New England town where she grew up, to investigate another case. But after finding the serial killer’s cabin with evidence of other victims, she will do anything to track him down. ...

He stole her name. She's stealing his freedom. Rowan Delafield spent fifteen years as a forensic accountant hunting down fraud. She thought she left that life behind to raise a family. She was wrong. It starts with a single envelope: a bank statement for an account Rowan didn't open, holding six million dollars she didn't earn, authorized by a signature that looks exactly like hers. Then comes the knock at the door. Arrested at dawn and charged with federal embezzlement, Rowan realizes the terrifying truth: This wasn't a mistake. It was a frame job. Her husband, Cameron—a wealthy hedge ...

Forensic psychologist and FBI agent Alexis Forrest returns in her most chilling case yet. Set against the backdrop of Broken Hill, the small New England town where she grew up, she now faces her darkest challenge: a fourteen-year-old boy doesn’t show up to school after spending the night with his father and stepmother. Meanwhile, Alexis receives a sinister note threatening her and her family from the serial killer who took her sister’s life. Together with her old flame and partner Mitch, a bookstore and coffee shop owner, Alexis embarks on a race against time to protect her loved ones ...

A staged Crimean battle. A deadly real-world shot. An impossible crime executed in full view of five hundred witnesses. When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson secure stalls for the much-heralded opening week of The Siege of Sebastopol at London’s Duchess Theatre, they anticipate nothing more dangerous than an evening of synthetic tragedy and theatrical gunpowder. The play’s thunderous climax is celebrated across the West End: a smoke-choked skirmish across the Malakoff redoubt featuring pyrotechnic flash-pans, roaring choristers, and stage weapons discharging blank cartridges. Yet ...

Two impossible crimes. Two chilling true-life inspirations. One unparalleled consulting detective. Step back into the fog-shrouded streets of 1890s London with two meticulously crafted Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Written in the authentic, classic style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, these thrilling pastiche novellas pit the great detective against cunning adversaries who have weaponized the very laws of human biology and physics. The Enigma of Ashbourne Gables A locked room. A deadly timeline. A poison that defies medical logic. When wealthy young barrister Quentin Sterling suffers an agonizing ...

A locked timber office above the ice. A silent death without a wound. An invisible poison scented with summer meadows. When Sir Archibald Thorpe, President of the Board of Trade's Commercial Maritime Committee, bursts into 221B Baker Street on a fog-choked November evening, he brings news of a catastrophe that threatens to paralyze the British Empire's food supply. Percival Lowman, chief technical overseer of the Grand Union Cold Storage Syndicate, sits dead at his desk inside a hermetically sealed, cork-lined office suspended high above the frozen meat vaults of Bermondsey. The heavy door ...

The locks were untouched. The seals were unbroken. The stone floor remained pristine. Yet the greatest jewel of the British Crown has vanished into the London fog. In the subterranean depths of Whitehall, behind triple-tumbler Chubb mechanisms and four-ton steel doors, sits Vault Three. Designed to be impenetrable, it housed the Empress’s Tear—a legendary fifty-carat, unmounted Golconda pink diamond held in solemn trust for the Indian Empire. When the Chief Archivist opens the chamber alongside the Under-Secretary of State, they are greeted by an impossible impossibility: the glass ...

She trusted her. That was her first mistake. FBI Agent Alexis Forrest is supposed to be done with killers. Desk duty in Broken Hill, Maine. A baby on the way. A quiet life she's finally learning to want. Then her new friend's husband turns up dead. The local ME rules it a cardiac event. Natural causes. Nothing to investigate. But Alexis knows what a staged crime scene looks like. She knows what it means when a woman controls her husband's medication, asks his doctors all the right questions, and somehow knows details about the body that were never made public. She knows what this is. What ...

In the now-classic Forensics, internationally bestselling and award-winning “queen of crime” (CrimeReads) Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has...

"When science is divorced from conscience, the most splendid achievements of the engineer become merely the weapons of an organized savagery." On a tempestuous spring night at 221B Baker Street, the silence of chemical research is broken by an urgent delivery from Miss Octavia Crane, chief night superintendent of the London Pneumatic Despatch Company. A sealed, decommissioned underground line has violently hissed to life under sixty pounds of pressure, firing a dented brass carrier directly from the government vaults beneath Whitehall. Inside lies a horrifying mechanical herald: a broken ...

Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.

An impregnable fortress in Belgrave Square. A triple-tumbler Chubb vault opened without a scratch. Two hundred thousand pounds in untraced bearer bonds vanished into thin air—leaving behind only the salted head of a North Sea cod, wrapped in an Inland Revenue stamp. When Inspector Lestrade arrives at 221B Baker Street bearing a grotesque calling card and an impossible puzzle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson are drawn into one of the most intellectually daring and morally profound cases of their partnership. The victim is Sir Reginald Throckmorton: a tyrannical colonial magistrate ...

Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into Catrine Jarman's temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings' route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain.

The Singular Affair of the Hollow Quetzal A New Adventure of Sherlock Holmes When the rarest ornithological archives of the British Empire ring with the chime of tempered steel, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to unravel a conspiracy of unprecedented ingenuity. On a dense, fog-bound November morning at 221B Baker Street, an unhinged taxidermist collapses across the threshold, his fingers stained with cochineal and his mind unraveling in terror. He brings with him an impossible anomaly: priceless museum bird skins that have been hollowed out from within and replaced with dense, ticking ...

Now a gripping TV series starring Russell Hornsby and Michael Imperioli! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil’s Teardrop a spine-chilling thriller that puts renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent—Amelia Sachs, his own...

A sealed compartment. An empty abattoir. A dead banker cast onto the marsh. On a fog-choked October night in 1888, the 9:50 suburban express from Fenchurch Street pulls into the Hackney sidings. When the railway guard inspects composite carriage 412, he recoils from a scene of unbridled horror: the horsehair cushions are saturated with arterial crimson, shattered glass is smeared with gore, and the offside carriage door swings loose in the dark. Mr. Alistair Penhaligon, chief audit comptroller of the venerable Lombard & Dominion Banking Syndicate, has vanished without a trace—only for his...