Fractured Lives: A gripping serial killer thriller by Charlotte Roddy (Charles Fort Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

One phone call can change everything... Disgraced investigative journalist Mara Brenner has returned home to Florida intent on hiding out and drinking away her failures. Then Liam Hadley, an old friend with troubling ties to the past, calls with a bizarre request. "I need you to help me prove that I didn't kill my wife." Oriana Hadley, a high-powered attorney for a global GMO company, is missing. Detectives believe she's dead. And Liam is at the top of their suspect list. As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers disturbing links between Oriana's disappearance and the deaths of young foster girls in Miami Beach. And whoever's behind the deaths will stop at nothing to silence anyone who gets too close -- including her.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Six Mile Creek by Richard Helms (Back Alley Books) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A riveting new rural thriller from three-time Shamus Award nominee and two-time Derringer Award winner Richard Helms! Prosperity, North Carolina, used to be a red clay farming community populated mostly by the descendents of families that had settled the land over two centuries earlier. Then, developers from a huge city in the next county discovered its rolling hills and winding streams, and decided to turn it into a suburb. Former Atlanta cop and hometown high school football hero Judd Wheeler returned to Prosperity eight years ago to take a position as the Chief of the new Police Department. With one tragic exception, it's been a quiet, uneventful job. Now, the body of a young illegal immigrant Mexican girl has been found alongside the banks of Six Mile Creek. For the first time since his return to Prosperity, Wheeler finds himself with a murder on his hands. His investigation will place him in direct opposition with his closest childhood friend, ratchet up racial and class ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense