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Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually turned up, bound and left for dead on the Columbia River’s rocky shore. Only Devin Bonner miraculously survived, but with no memories of what happened in the Oregon forest. After decades, the cold case generates heat for FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and her husband, Police Chief Truman Daly. They’re investigating the murder of a true-crime podcaster found at the river’s edge in the same location, and with the exact same manner of death.

One rainy night in the woods outside of Portland, Dr. Victoria Peres is called to the site of a haunting crime scene. Six beautiful young girls - all in white dresses and arranged in a perfect circle - have been left for dead. Only one girl, fighting for her life at a nearby hospital, has survived the carnage. Things get stranger still when Victoria and the police discover that the disturbing arrangement of the bodies - as meticulous as it is mysterious - is straight from the pages of a decades-old cold case.

The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. Lay low, follow rules, do nothing to sound an alarm, and relinquish all contact with the outside world. She’s ready to blend in. As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges. Mercy’s fiancé, Eagle’s Nest police chief Truman Daly, is faced with a puzzling series of murders....

A national treasure hunt with a $2 million prize has driven obsessed fortune seekers to overrun the small town of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. The hunt’s cryptic clues and the lure of wealth have exposed the desperate side of human greed: theft, fights, trespassing—and even the motive to kill. Police chief Truman Daly craves peace in his town but has a murder on his hands instead. Now the big prize isn’t the only thing hiding in the pines. So is a killer.

When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action. The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago - the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.

FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager’s skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island. Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case - and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past.

FBI Special Agent Ava McLane solves crimes; she doesn’t witness them. When she’s trapped in a mall without her weapon as a shooter picks off victims, she hides with a wounded teen and prays for her survival. But that’s only the beginning.... An epidemic of mass shootings has has swept across Oregon. The young shooters terrify the public, committing random murders before taking their own lives.

When a dead body turns up in the hot tub at a high-end resort on the rugged Oregon Coast, forensic investigator Lacey Campbell and her fiancé, Jack Harper, realize their vacation is over.

When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and dried. But evidence quickly surfaces that the victim was involved with another crime. A crime that has gone cold for twenty years. A crime of personal importance to Cate. Cate’s best friend, Samantha, went missing at fourteen, leaving behind nothing except a jacket and an island full of unanswered questions. Samantha’s disappearance has haunted Cate for more than half her life, and she might finally be able to find some closure.

Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner--and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend. Although she struggles with PTSD, the sweet life she’s living is a far cry from the gruesome work she left behind six months ago. But when skeletal remains turn up on Widow’s Island--and the MO of the killer is too familiar to Cate--the dream abruptly ends. What if the case she solved eight years ago isn’t as closed as she thought? Her hometown needs her, and despite her mental health and her boyfriend’s protests, she has no choice but to return.

A torrential two-day storm has cut off the small town of Solitude, Oregon, from the outside world. But for police officers Stevie Duncan and her husband, Zane, the ravages of nature have nothing on the nature of man. In the last forty-eight hours, a child was a mute witness to a double homicide; an unidentified body has washed up on the riverbanks; and now, at the foot of a submerged bridge, two FBI agents have been found shot to death inside their SUV. What's worse, the young charge they were enlisted to protect has gone missing.

Stevie Taylor had left her sleepy Oregon hometown for a more exciting life. But after her police chief father passes away, the LAPD cop returns to Solitude and signs on as a patrol officer, hoping to heal from her loss... and from the horrific things she's seen in the city. In Solitude, everyone knows everyone else's business - and, to Stevie's dismay, local gossip soon ties her to the new police chief and a man from her past.

It should be the happiest weekend of Officer Stevie Taylor's life. She's finally going to marry Police Chief Zane Duncan and live happily ever after in Solitude, Oregon. But all wedding plans grind to a halt when a dead body is found at a nearby campground. A vacationing A-list TV actor has been murdered...and all hell is about to break loose.

This wasn't how Police Chief Zane Duncan expected to spend his first Christmas with fellow officer and girlfriend Stevie Taylor. But when a local motel calls in the discovery of a dead body, the couple's holiday takes a grim turn. This is the second murder in Solitude within the week, despite the fact that their primary suspect is already in custody. Together, Zane and Stevie must face a disturbing truth - their small town may be harboring two killers.

Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: A skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back. Still caught up in the excitement of their new relationship, Stevie and Zane are determined to track down the drug’s source before more lives in Solitude, Oregon, are lost.

Für Mercy Kilpatrick bieten die Wälder Oregons die einzig wahre Sicherheit. Obwohl ihre Familie ihr nicht verziehen hat, dass sie den Prepper-Clan für das FBI verlassen hat, hält Mercy an ihren alten Überzeugungen fest. Es sind ihre Geheimnisse – so gut gehütet wie das kleine Schutzhaus, das sie in den Ausläufern des Gebirges heimlich gebaut hat. In einer Hütte in der Nähe ihres Verstecks trifft Mercy eines Tages auf ein junges Mädchen, dessen Großmutter mit einem Messer grausam ermordet wurde.

Ein schrecklicher Mord, eine Stadt in Aufruhr und eine junge Frau auf der Suche nach Antworten. Vor zwanzig Jahren wurde Emily Mills' Vater brutal ermordet. Dass der Mörder gefasst wurde, ist kaum ein Trost, denn die Tragödie trieb Emilys Mutter in den Selbstmord und ihre ältere Schwester Tara verschwand über Nacht aus der Stadt. Als ein Mord mit ganz ähnlicher Handschrift geschieht, ist Emily wieder die Erste am Tatort. Zufall? Agent Zander Wells vom FBI ermittelt.

Brynn Nealey nimmt als forensische Fachkraft an einem Such- und Rettungseinsatz teil. Durch einen tückischen Schneesturm in den Kaskaden kämpft sie sich zu den Überlebenden eines Flugzeugabsturzes vor. Alex Kinton, ein früherer U.S. Marshal mit einem Hang zur Selbstzerstörung, schafft es mit einer Lüge, von der Rettungsmannschaft mit in die Berge genommen zu werden.

Vor elf Jahren ermordete der College-Girl-Killer neun Studentinnen der Oregon State University - dabei verlor Dr. Lacey Campbell, forensische Odontologin für das gerichtsmedizinische Institut, ihre beste Freundin. Die Leiche wurde nie gefunden - bis jetzt. Das Grundstück, auf dem die sterblichen Überreste entdeckt wurden, gehört dem Ex-Cop Jack Harper. Zwischen Lacey und ihm knistert es gewaltig - aber der Skelettfund ist nur der Auftakt einer neue Mordwelle.

Ihre Kindheit bei einer Prepper-Familie im ländlichen Oregon hat Mercy Kilpatrick auf jede Herausforderung vorbereitet – selbst auf den feindseligen Empfang bei ihrer Heimkehr. Aber die FBI-Agentin ist nicht die Einzige, die in Eagle's Nest für Unruhe sorgt: Eine ganze Reihe von Brandstiftungen endet schließlich tödlich, als zwei Sheriffs ermordet werden. Mercy unterstützt Polizeichef Truman Daly bei der Suche nach dem Brandstifter, der zum Mörder geworden ist. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine regierungsfeindliche Miliz, die dem Verdächtigen möglicherweise Unterschlupf gewährt.