Rescuing Felix, a Mexican street dog, from a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak discovers Felix is a former DEA drug-sniffing dog, who has led a very colorful, dangerous and profitable life, which draws her into a deadly criminal underworld from which she and Felix may not return.

A bank robbery in August of 2019 begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota....

Cary Mackin is a TV journalist who has covered crime for nearly twenty years. After losing her job she moves to a small town in Connecticut-only to get caught up in the web of a deranged serial killer. Cary has a dark secret that drives everything she does: a deep-seated, lifelong fear that one day she will be murdered. As the madman Cary stumbled upon continues to terrorize the beautiful countryside where she now resides, will her premonition come...

While at coal baron Edward Berwind’s fete, Emma and Derrick discover murder is in attendance when a chambermaid is found dead in the coal tunnel, and, asked to assist in this investigation involving a stolen diamond necklace, discover dark deeds that must be brought into the light.

A disgraced investigative reporter, Conn Whitman’s long-distance swims keep him centered and sane—until he kicks a submerged object while swimming—something with the density and resilience of human flesh—and wonders if it’s connected to an unsolved murder in a nearby town. Conn and his fiancée, Celine Gabrielli, combine their talents—his decades of journalistic research, her PhD in psychology, and a wealth of knowledge about the traditional...