Showing results by author "Blake Pierce" in All Categories

FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is among the FBI’s most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers. She plans on doing this forever—until she discovers she has months left to live. Determined to go down fighting, and to keep her diagnosis a secret, Rachel faces her own mortality while trying to save other’s lives. But how long can she go until she collapses under the weight of it all?

In City of Prey (Book 1), as the first female detective in 1920s New York City, Ava Gold has a lot to prove. But when a serial killer strikes, Ava finds herself up against an enemy more terrifying than she could ever imagine.

A bundle of books one (Her Last Wish) and two (Her Last Chance) in Blake Pierce’s Rachel Gift Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with more than 100,000 words.

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 when a new serial killer strikes, leaving a cryptic signature of a fleur de lis at each crime scene, Paige wonders: Will this diabolical killer outsmart them all?

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (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 and her crew sail into the beautiful northern city of Oslo, admiring its gorgeous archipelago of islands and its local architecture and cuisine. It is the perfect stop - until, on a fishing outing, London reels in not the local cod, but a dead body.

Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him - in fact, to reimagine her life, period.

When victims are found killed by electrocution, it is up to the FBI’s brilliant new agent Riley Paige, 22, to enter a serial killer’s warped mind and stop him before he can claim any more victims. Riley, fresh out of the academy and off her last case, is settling into FBI life, when a shocking twist threatens her partnership with her mentor Jake and undermines everything she thought she knew.

Young women are turning up dead in rural Utah, members of a commune of fundamentalist polygamists. Can Mackenzie White penetrate their closed ranks to find out who may be wanting them dead? And can she enter the mind of a killer and stop him before it’s too late? A dark psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and heart-pounding suspense, Before He Harms is book number 14 in a riveting new series -with a beloved new character - that will leave you resisting to pause late into the night.

When a popular personal trainer is murdered in a high-end suburb, FBI VICAP Special Agent Chloe Fine, 27, is summoned to sift through a small town filled with cheating spouses and figure out who may have wanted him dead - and why. Behind the manicured lawns, Chloe learns, lie broken marriages, lonely spouses, secrets, and endless lies - all hiding behind the veil of perfection. Beneath the carefully built facade of a polished, upstanding community lies a populace dishonest to its core. What secrets led to this man’s being murdered? And who will be next to die?

When two rock climbers turn up dead, each killed in the same disturbing way, FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White, mother of a newborn baby, must face her fear of heights as she is summoned to catch a serial killer before he strikes again. Mackenzie, settling into motherhood, wants to take some time off. But it is not meant to be. Rock climbers are turning up dead in Colorado, hunted by an elusive serial killer, caught at their most prone moments. A disturbing pattern emerges, and Mackenzie soon realizes she is up against a monster.

FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White, six months pregnant, calls off her formal wedding with Ellington and they elope instead. On their honeymoon, they finally have some downtime together - when a call comes in for an urgent case: Women are being strangled at a rapid rate in the D.C. area by what appears to be a serial killer. Even more disturbing: This killer is so meticulous that he leaves absolutely no trace.

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, murdered in grotesque and unusual ways, Avery can’t help but wonder: is there a serial killer on the loose?

In Cause to Save, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again. When Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - is herself stalked - and when people close to her are brutally killed, one by one - it seems the city’s worst fears are confirmed. But Avery is not so sure.

From number-one best-selling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A bundle of audiobooks - Cause to Kill (audiobook one) and Cause to Run (audiobook two) - in Blake Pierce’s Avery Black Mystery series!

When a body turns up floating beneath the frozen Charles River, the Boston Police summons its most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - to close the case. It doesn't take Avery long, however, to realize that this is no isolated murder: it is the work of a serial killer.

With a rash of people dying suspiciously from high bridges, jumping to their deaths in apparent suicides, the FBI is called in to investigate. On suspicion of a serial killer, FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is assigned the case - and soon realizes that she is up against something more diabolical than she could have imagined. Among the FBI’s most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers, she plans on doing this forever - until she discovers she has months left to live. Rachel decides not to tell anyone - and to go down fighting, taking as many serial killers with her as she can.

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.

When bodies are found badly decomposed in the Everglades, teeming with bugs, it is an entomologist’s nightmare. With others unable to crack the daunting case, the FBI calls in its brilliant forensic examiner and entomologist Fiona Red. Faced with the case of her life—and an urgent new serial killer—can Fiona fight back her own demons and solve it before the killer strikes again?

Amber Young, genius puzzle editor turned FBI special agent, is baffled when a new serial killer taunts the FBI with a word search puzzle. None of the searches seem to make any sense. And unless she can figure it out soon, time is running out to save his next victim’s life.

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.