In the Carnival days leading up to Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney is accused of murder—committed in the line of duty as a Major Crimes investigator for the New Orleans Police Department. I know what it’s like to love your home, so Rooney is in anguish as his beloved city is under attack. And the would-be terrorists may be local.
Amid crowds of revelers, Rooney follows a fearsome trail of clues, racing from outlying districts into the city center. He has no idea what—or who—he’ll face in defense of his hometown, only that innocent lives are at stake. This might be my most delicious thriller yet.
I can’t imagine a worse crime than one done against a child. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and senior midwife Lucy is fearless enough to try.
Rumors begin to swirl, with blame falling on everyone from the Russian mafia to an underground adoption network. Fierce single mom Lucy teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective, but I’ve given her a case where the truth is far more twisted than Lucy could ever have imagined.
The US government is at the forefront of everyone’s mind these days and I’ve become incredibly fascinated by the idea that one secret can bring it all down. What if that secret is a US president’s affair that results in a nightmarish outcome?
Sally Grissom, leader of the Presidential Protection Division, is summoned to a private meeting with the president and his chief of staff to discuss the disappearance of the First Lady. What at first seemed an escape to a safe haven turns into a kidnapping when a ransom note arrives along with what could be the First Lady’s finger.
It’s a race against the clock to collect the evidence that all leads to one troubling question: Could the kidnappers be from inside the White House?
So many of my detectives are dark and gritty and deal with crimes in some of our grimmest cities. That’s why I’m thrilled to bring you Detective Rory Yates, my most honorable detective yet.
As a Texas Ranger, he has a code that he lives and works by. But when he comes home for a much-needed break, he walks into a crime scene where the victim is none other than his ex-wife—and he’s the prime suspect. Yates has to risk everything in order to clear his name, and he dives into the inferno of the most twisted mind I’ve ever created. Can his code bring him back out alive?
In the deep south of Mississippi, Ruby Bozarth is a newcomer, both to Rosedale, and to the Bar. And now she’s tapped as a defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from an old family has Rosedale’s upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby’s inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction.
Ruby is determined to build a defense that sticks for her college football star client. Looking for help in unexpected quarters, her case is rattled as news of a second murder breaks. As intertwining investigations unfold, no one can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women on the jury. They may be hiding the most incendiary secret of all.