Her eyes widen at her reflection in the steel blade as it comes closer, closer, closer...

Detective Madison Knight thought a midnight drive through the countryside would help clear her mind, but she thought wrong. Her car runs out of gas, stranding her in the middle of nowhere in pitch darkness. When she gets out to stretch her legs, the beam of her phone's flashlight lands on a suitcase in the ditch.

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College student Courtney Middleton disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone presumed she was dead...

Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The other was a wife and mother of two children and has Madison seeing a ghost from her past. She's convinced the woman is her missing college friend,

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She's dying, and she knows it. If only she can stay alive long enough to leave one last message. As the rain beats against the metal roof, she uses her blood-soaked fingertip to scrawl on the floorboards... The letters GB.

Detective Madison Knight has been house hunting, but a call from her real estate agent has nothing to do with finding the perfect property. She's found a woman's body, stabbed multiple times. Madison

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She sees his face all the time—eyes open, eyes closed, it doesn't matter. When no one's around, she lets herself sink into her fear. He came for her once; he could come for her again.
When a sixty-eight-year-old woman is found dead outside the hospital in a wheelchair with an anti-abortion sign strapped to its back, Detective Madison Knight expects it to be an open-and-shut case. On the surface, there are no signs of foul play, but the

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"Gritty and emotionally jagged... Power Struggle pours on the suspense as one twisted assassin plays hide-and-go-seek with a detective who refuses to give up." –Tome Tender Book Blog

He led her into the barn and locked her in a small cage, and he left her there—alone—for now. But she had a feeling he'd return and when he did... She closed her eyes, not even wanting to think about could come next.
Detective Madison Knight

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Her breath hitches, and her stomach lurches, tossing up bile into the back of her throat. The man holds the revolver to her head and says, "Let's play a little game." She closes her eyes with each pull of the trigger, almost praying for a bullet. They told her if the gun doesn't kill her, they'd take their time...
The recent murder of a defense attorney has Detective Madison Knight fueled to find justice for him and a lawyer who was killed

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When a young man washes up on the shore of the Bradshaw River, Detective Madison Knight and her partner are called in to investigate. But the case takes a complicated turn when he's identified as the son of local business tycoon Marcus Randall. As one of the wealthiest and most influential men in the city, he has a lot of connections, and one of them just happens to be the police chief. Madison and Chief McAlexandar have butted heads before, but...

Detective Madison Knight concluded the case of a strangled woman an isolated incident. But when another woman's body is found in a park killed by the same line of neckties, she realizes they're dealing with something more serious. Despite mounting pressure from the Sergeant and Chief to close the case even if it means putting an innocent man behind bars, and a partner who is more interested in saving his marriage than stopping a potential serial killer,...