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Detective September Rafferty - Nine to her friends - recognizes the artwork that arrives in the mail. She created it back in second grade. Now a killer's words are slashed across it in what looks like blood. He knows her. September's investigation leads to her old classmate, Jake Westerly. She wants to believe Jake is innocent. But trusting anyone could be her last mistake....

Ein kleines nächtliches Abenteuer wird für die Teenager Shiloh, Kat und Ruth aus Prairie Creek in Wyoming zum Albtraum: Die wilde Shiloh, deren Stiefvater sie misshandelt, Kat, deren Mutter im Sterben liegt, und die scheue Pfarrers-Tochter Ruth wollen einfach nur mal etwas anderes erleben, als sie sich nachts aus dem Haus schleichen, um nackt baden zu gehen. Einen zusätzlichen Kick erhält ihr Vorhaben durch die Tatsache, dass in Prarie Creek vor Kurzem drei Mädchen verschwunden sind.

For process-server-turned-private-investigator Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted PI Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife number two: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell.

The Crissmans, owners of Crissman & Wolfe department store, were once one of Portland's most powerful families. There's still enough fortune left to sow mistrust between Lucy, her bohemian sister Layla, their brother Lyle, and his grasping wife Kate. When a charity event at the Crissman Lodge ends in a fatal poisoning, Lucy becomes a prime suspect. But the truth is even more twisted, and Lucy can't be sure which of her family is being targeted...or who to fear.

Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, 30-something ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to becoming a P.I. herself. Next thing she knows she's socializing with the Purcells, a rich, eccentric rich family with a penchant for going crazy and/or dying in spectacularly mysterious ways.

Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work as a process server. But things have been looking a little brighter lately. Her hobby doing PI work is kind of fun, especially when she lands a real case - that pays real money. But the case is about Bobby Reynolds, best friend of Tim Murphy, the only guy she's never gotten over. Everyone except Tim believed Bobby murdered his young family - isn't that why he vanished?

Die drei amerikanischen Bestseller-Autorinnen Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush und Rosalind Noonan bündeln ihre Kräfte in "Greed - Tödliche Gier", einem hochspannenden Thriller, in dem ein psychopathischer Killer Jagd auf eine ganze Familie macht. Prairie Creek, Wyoming, USA: Vor zwanzig Jahren vernichtete ein Feuer das Anwesen der Dillinger-Familie, kostete Judd Dillinger das Leben und ließ seine Freundin für immer verkrüppelt zurück. Man beschuldigte damals einen Serien-Brandstifter, der zu jener Zeit sein Unwesen trieb. Doch heute geschehen erneut ominöse Dinge in Prairie Creek.

Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family's old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who'd been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again. Ira Dillinger, the family's wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming wedding. Eldest son, Colton, and his siblings don't approve of their father's gold-digging bride-to-be. But someone is making his displeasure felt in terrifying ways, setting fires just like in the past. Only this time, there will be no survivors.

"Was sie zuvor mit mir getan, das tu ich jetzt den andern an" ritzt er ihnen in die nackte Haut, nachdem er sie vergewaltigt und stranguliert hat. Seine Opfer sind alle jung, hübsch, brünett - genau wie die eine, auf die er es abgesehen hat: Detective September Rafferty vom Laurelton Police Department, Oregon. Ihr schickt er eine ihrer Kinderzeichnungen, auf die er in blutroten Buchstaben seine tödliche Nachricht kritzelt. September versteht sofort, dass sie den Serienmörder offenbar aus Kindertagen kennt und er hinter ihr her ist - doch warum?

Weil sie verspätet aus der Mittagspause zurückkehrt, entgeht Liv um Haaresbreite einem Massaker an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Doch galt der Anschlag wirklich der Firma, die Gerüchten zufolge für das US-Militär arbeitet? Liv befürchtet, dass sie das eigentliche Opfer hätte sein sollen. Sie vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit dem mysteriösen Päckchen, das sie vor wenigen Tagen aus dem Nachlass ihrer Adoptivmutter erhalten hat. In Panik kidnappt Liv den nächstbesten Wagen samt Fahrer. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Undercover-Detective August Rafferty.

The branding iron glows in the moonlight as he presses the searing metal into his victim's flesh. She must wear the devil's sign, just like the others. He knows the curse that afflicts them - and he'll make sure they carry it to their graves....

Vor der Post in Oregon wird die nackte Leiche des Postboten gefunden. Um seinen Hals trägt er ein Schild mit den Worten "Ich muss für das bezahlen, was ich getan habe". Wenig später taucht ein weiterer nackter Mann auf, gefesselt, vor einer Grundschule. "Ich will, was ich nicht haben kann" steht auf dem Schild um seinen Hals. Dabei handelt es sich ausgerechnet um den Stiefbruder von Detective September Rafferty.

In high school, rumors can make or destroy a reputation. A thoughtless nickname can turn each day into a living hell. Gossip is irresistible—and contagious. But sometimes, gossip can kill. Mackenzie Laughlin, formerly with Oregon's River Glen police department, has reluctantly agreed to investigate a local woman's disappearance. The case reconnects her with Jesse James Taft, a PI gifted at getting under Mac's skin. But when the body is found tangled in river weeds, Mac and Taft realize that the case has changed, from one missing woman to a hunt for a terrifying and relentless killer.

Mackenzie Laughlin has reluctantly moved to the Villages as bodyguard to Daley Carrera, who claims someone is pranking her and her husband. Mac expects a simple case of petty squabbles between new and longtime residents. Instead, she hears rumors of squalid affairs and sinister disappearances that tie in to a missing persons investigation led by her partner, Jesse James Taft.