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L’agent du FBI récemment à la retraite, Kate Wise, 55 ans, se retrouve à quitter sa vie tranquille de banlieue quand la fille d’une de ses amies est assassinée chez elle - et qu’on la supplie d’apporter son aide. Kate pensait qu’elle avait laissé le FBI derrière elle après 30 ans de bons et loyaux services en tant que l’un de leurs meilleurs agents, respectée pour son esprit brillant, son attitude coriace et sa troublante capacité à traquer les tueurs en série. Mais fatiguée de la petite vie tranquille de banlieue et à un carrefour de sa vie.

FBI Special Agent Faith Bold doesn’t believe she can ever return to the force after the trauma she’s been through. Suffering from past demons, she feels unfit for duty and content to retire—until Turk walks into her life. Turk, a former Marine Corps dog, wounded in battle, suffers from his own demons. But he never lets it show as he gives everything to Faith to get her back on her feet. Each are slow to warm up to each other, but when they do, they are inseparable.

FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live. Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter. She wants to go down fighting and to take as many serial killers with her as she can, but she can feel herself slipping.

Paige King, a Ph.D. in forensic psychology and an agent at the FBI’s elite BAU unit, has an uncanny ability to enter serial killers’ minds. But when a new serial killer leaves a trail of victims on horror film sets, Paige finds herself outmatched by a diabolical killer—who may just be as brilliant as she. Who will win the deadly game of cat and mouse?

Fiona Red, a brilliant but quirky FBI loner, spends most of her time in the lab or at crime scenes. She comes from a family used to being around death and bodies, her parents having run a funeral parlor, and she would have run the family business if not for a tragedy in her past: her sister was abducted when she was a teenager, and never found.

FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live. Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter. She wants to go down fighting and take as many serial killers with her as she can, but she can feel herself slipping. She has taken a turn for the worse, and won’t be able to hide much longer.

Amber Young, genius puzzle editor turned FBI special agent, is summoned to a new crime scene: a serial killer has left a mysterious drawing as his signature, clearly hinting at his next victim. And unless Amber can crack its riddle in time, another life is waiting to be claimed. Once again, Amber may just be the only one who can stop him.

FBI Special Agent Nicky Lyons is stunned when a cassette tape arrives in the mail, blasting a killer’s voice, taunting her to stop him from taking his next victim. In this killer’s diabolical game of cat and mouse, Nicky must ask herself if she one step ahead of him, or a useful pawn in his game?

When victims are found dead, arranged in peculiar boxes, FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift must race to decode the killer’s motive—and the meaning behind his madness—before he strikes again.

With her tattoos and piercings, MIT tech genius Cami Lark is rebellious and anti-authoritarian—and finds herself in deep trouble when she hacks the FBI. Faced with the choice of prison or aiding the BAU hunt down serial killers, Cami reluctantly partners.

With her tattoos and piercings, MIT tech genius Cami Lark is rebellious and anti-authoritarian—and finds herself in deep trouble when she hacks the FBI. Faced with the choice of prison or aiding the BAU hunt down serial killers, Cami reluctantly partners. Yet when victims of a new serial killer turn up, clearly targeted via some form of technology Cami has yet to decipher, Cami wonders if she has lost her touch. And if she doesn’t solve the riddle quickly, another life may just be at stake.

When a mysterious polaroid is discovered in a vintage shop, a key clue to a decades-old serial killer is unearthed. And when a direct connection is made to a recent, urgent case, FBI Special Agent Nicky Lyons finds herself in a deadly race against time to save a victim’s life—and her own.

Paige King, a PhD in forensic psychology and a new arrival at the FBI’s elite BAU unit, has an uncanny ability to enter serial killers’ minds. But she is stumped when a series of victims are found staged in odd ways in public places. What message is this killer trying to send? Might Paige herself be his next target?

When a second theater actress goes missing, FBI Special Agent Nicky Lyons, 28, must enter the world of theater to enter the killer’s mind before it’s too late. Was he stalking them? What drives him? And where is he hiding them?

From number one best-selling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce comes book four in a gripping new series: a string of murders in subways and homeless encampments bears all the mark of a killer escaped from a local mental hospital. When the FBI’s new unit targeting criminally-insane killers is assigned, Special Agent Valerie Law suspects this killer may not fit the profile—and may be more sinister than anyone expects.

Nicky Lyons, 28, a missing-persons specialist in in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, is an expert at tracking down abductees and bringing them home. The connection is personal: After Nicky’s twin sister was abducted at 16, Nicky made stopping kidnappers her life’s work. But when the vice president’s daughter is abducted, Nicky must wade through layers of authority to take the lead in a mass of law enforcement. The consequences have never been higher—and Nicky has never been more in the spotlight.

FBI Special Agent Laura Frost is summoned to a mysterious crime scene: a victim has been left tied to a carved, wooden figurehead from an old ship—the second such victim in two weeks. What is the symbolism behind this killer’s signature? And can her psychic gift lead her to the answer?

The FBI’s elite new unit targeting criminally insane killers is summoned when a series of murders occurs that bears the signature of a psychotic killer. But something bothers FBI Special Agent Valerie Law about this case: This killer, she fears, may just be more normal than anyone suspects.

In Left to Die, FBI special agent Adele Sharp is a German-and-French raised American with triple citizenship—and an invaluable asset in bringing criminals to justice as they cross American and European borders. When a serial killer case spanning three US states goes cold, Adele returns to San Francisco and to the man she hopes to marry. But after a shocking twist, a new lead surfaces and Adele is dispatched to Paris, to lead an international manhunt.

In Murder (and Baklava), when London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her long-time boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, pre-determined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way—accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.