Erica Spindler

Rugged Jackson Reese had a heart full of scars to prove you shouldn't trust a society princess. So his troubled daughter's latest 'sitter' was worse than merely a thorn in his side – pampered, privileged Bentley Cunningham was the whole damn rose...complete with perfumed petals and a darkly rooted determination to succeed where others had failed. She might work magic on a pouty preteen, but only a miracle worker would convince Jackson she was woman enough for him...

THAT SPECIAL WOMAN!

Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina– all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder.

No one except small–town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melanie risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI profiler, that she' s right.

Suddenly Melanie is in the limelight, lauded for uncovering the Dark Angel. But her involvement makes her a target. For as she and Connor study the victims, their deaths, the signature the murderer leaves at every scene, Melanie comes face–to–face with the terrible truth. The profile Connor' s created fits someone in her own life...a profile of a cunning killer, one without remorse and bent on vengeance.

A dark, dangerous and twisted thriller.

It has been twenty–three years since Anna North survived a living nightmare. She was kidnapped by a madman who cut off her little finger – and then vanished

Today Anna lives in New Orleans and writes thrillers under another name. She finally thinks she's safe. Until letters start arriving from a disturbed fan, her apartment is broken into, a close friend disappears. And three redheads like Anna are found dead, their little fingers severed.

The nightmare has begun again

“moves fast and takes no prisoners. An intriguing look into a twisted mind.” – Publishers Weekly on Cause For Alarm

Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage – marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream...and opens the door to a nightmare....

Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's been waiting for. Stalking the couple, Julianna molds herself in Kate's image and insinuates herself into Richard's life, determined to tear their perfect marriage apart.

But for Kate and Richard, the nightmare has only begun. Because Julianna is not alone. From her dark past comes a man of unspeakable evil....

No one is safe – not even the innocent child Kate and Richard call their own.

Copycat

Erica Spindler

Five years ago, three young victims were found dead, posed like little angels. There were no witnesses. Strangely clean scenes.

The case nealy destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren.

Now the Sleeping Angel Killer is back.

But Kitt senses there's something different about the new rash of killings–a tiny variation that opens terrifying new possibilities.

Is the sleeping Angel Killer really back, or is it a copycat?

Young, ambitions detective M.C. Riggio is in charge this time. M.C. is smart enough to realise that Kitt's obsession with the case has given the detective an insight that she, herself lacks. But she's determined to prove herself and fears Kitt will blow the investigation–again.

Then Kitt starts receiving disturbing phone calls. It's him, the Sleeping Angel Killer, with an unthinkable offer: help find his copycat. Forced to rely on eash other, Kitt and M.C. must decide whether to trust a murderer, or risk becoming victims of a fiend who has taken the art of the perfect murder to horrific new heights.

"I'm in trouble, Liz. I've uncovered something.... They're watching...."That panicked message on her answering machine is the last time Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel, pastor of Paradise Christian Church in Key West, Florida. Compelled to uncover the truth about her sister's disappearance, she heads to Key West. Within hours of her arrival a successful banker jumps to his death. Then a teenage girl whom Rachel was counselling is brutally murdered. The ritualistic style of the killing is hauntingly similar to that used by the notorious "New Testament" serial killer; now on death row. Could the murder be related to Rachel's disappearance? Is a copycat killer at work? And why do the police refuse to help? For answers, Liz turns to Rick Wells, a former cop who worked the fringes of the "New Testament" investigation. Together they peel away layers of deception to reveal a terrifying adversary and the unspeakable evil at the heart of this island paradise.

Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was there, locked in her memories of blood spilling across a gleaming floor. In the sound of her own screams. And in the terror she'd felt the night her mother disappeared.

Then fortune smiled on Skye. With help she was able to put the horror behind her and look to the future.

But now that same fortune is leading her into the arms of dangerand back into the nightmare of her past. For the evil that has haunted her dreams has a human form a man obsessed with Skye since her birth. A man who knows who Skye Dearborn really is. And now that he has found her, he will do anything to keep her.

The low rumble of an outboard motor shatters the quiet of the lake. Treading water, fifteen–year–old Jane Killian waves her arms to alert the boater to her presence. But instead of veering off, he points his craft directly at her. The boat's hull fills her vision. A scream rips past Jane's lips, lost in the engine's roar

Now, seventeen years later, a series of reconstructive surgeries has restored her lovely face. She's the toast of the Dallas art community. And she and her husband, renowned plastic surgeon Dr Ian Westbrook, are completely in love–overjoyed that Jane is pregnant.

Then Jane's happiness shatters. A woman with ties to Ian is found brutally slain. Unbelievably, the police make him their prime suspect and, still in shock, Jane receives an anonymous message that reads simply, 'I did it on purpose. To hear your screams'. The police, including Jane's estranged sister, Detective Stacy Killian, believe the message is from a crank. But Jane knows better. It's from him. The man who stole not only her face, but her sense of security. The man she has always believed deliberately hit her–and got away with it. Now he's found her again. Living with this terror, Jane digs into Ian's past in an effort to prove him innocent. But each new clue she uncovers points not to Ian's innocence–but to his guilt. And as she struggles against doubt and suspicion, her stalker moves closer.

Finally, Jane must face a horrible truth: Her tormentor knows everything about her. Her likes. Her dislikes. Her daily routine. Most terrifying of all, he knows her fears. He feeds on them. He will use them, until finally he can See Jane Die.

Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler

WELCOME TO THE GAME ...

Dark, violent and addictive, White Rabbit is the most sinister fantasy role–playing game yet invented. Named after the character in the children's story who lured Alice into Wonderland, White Rabbit lures its participants into a labyrinth of fear and fantasy. But has the fantasy gone too far this time, and become shocking reality?

When ex–detective Stacy Killian discovers the gruesome murder of her friend, she has reason to suspect that her death is somehow connected to the game of White Rabbit. the faint trail of clues leads Stacy towards the game's brilliant creator Leo Noble. But is he the killer, or the game's next victim? Who within his privileged circle can she trust?

When the killer strikes close to Stacy, leaving behind a terrifying calling card, she realises that her every move is being watched, maybe even manipulated by a brilliant but depraved mind intent on playing the game for the highest stakes possible.

Because White Rabbit must be played out to the end, there's no escape. Anyone can die before the final move is made, the game is over ... and the killer takes all.

Last Known Victim

Erica Spindler

In August 2005, amid death and destruction, hurricane–savaged New Orleans has a new dark force to fear

As the rescue efforts unfold, a grisly discovery is made at one of the massive refrigerator 'graveyards.' One of these metal hulks contains six human hands – all female, all right hands. The press has dubbed the unknown predator 'The Handyman'.

Captain Patti O'Shay is a straight–arrow, by–the–book cop who is assigned to the case. But her tough, unflinching character is fractured when her husband and fellow police captain is found murdered.

In August 2007 Patti, still grieving and disillusioned, gets a call from homicide: skeletal remains have been unearthed in City Park. The unknown victim – a female – is missing her right hand. But for Patti, this grave holds something even more shocking: beside the victim's bones is her husband's police badge.

Patti is fearless, but so is the killer. As he stalks her she is forced to question all she believes in, to doubt the code she has lived by because she knows that if she doesn't find The Handyman first, she will become his last known victim.

Erica Spindler weaves a masterful tale of murder and suspense against the backdrop of a city transformed by disaster. It is a story you will not soon forget.

'Addictively suspenseful' – New Mystery Reader on Copycat

'Another spine–tingling thriller with a twisted ending. Copycat will keep you on the edge of your chair and up for hours turning page after page' – Writers Unlimited on Copycat

All his life, Rush Cousins had been haunted by the mystery of his shadowed past. His search for his roots led him at last to Ashland Plantation, an elegant, decaying estate deep in the Mississippi Delta, where he presented himself as nothing more than a handyman in need of work...

The disguise brought him closer to Ashland's long–buried secrets...But it also meant he had to find some way to distance himself from his sudden, stunning passion for the plantation's beautiful, embittered mistress, Annabelle Ames–a woman whose lonely obsession with the past strangely seemed to mirror his own...

Hunter Powell knew that his days as a family man were behind him. Once Aimee Bourdeaux had tried to convince him otherwise – but though she had brightened Hunter's nights, she couldn't make him love. For that, they would have needed a miracle.

Enter the miracle – in the form of the son Hunter never knew he had. The little boy's very face made Hunter curse himself for ever seeking out Aimee. He was determined to be alone! So whatever had possessed him to come here – where love lay waiting to make a man whole...if some small miracle could open his heart?

BLOSSOMS OF THE SOUTH! – With hearts of gold and determination of steel, three Southern beauties blossom in the arms of the men they love!

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.

Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumours of strange happenings, of neighbours who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?

Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?

As each step closer to the truth expose

Andie. Julie. Raven. Three very different women bound by more than friendship.

They were only watching

The mysterious lovers that the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession

Now, fifteen years later, someone is watching Andie. Someone who won't let her forget the unsolved murder of 'Mrs X' or the disappearance of 'Mr X'. Suddenly, Andie doesn't know who her friends are and realises that loyalty can mean murder.