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When an eleven-year-old is abducted on her way to school, the FBI doesn’t waste a moment, sending agents to scour the area and embedding Special Agent Ava McLane with the distraught family. In the eye of the storm is local detective Mason Callahan, whose life is crumbling to pieces - he’s related to the victim, and his longtime confidential informant has just been murdered.

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.

All Detective Mason Callahan wanted was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a chance to get away and unwind before Halloween. Until he finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat and covered his face with a mask. Mason was the last person to see him alive and will stop at nothing to find his friend’s murderer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When two men kidnap former FBI agent Cate Wilde’s fiancé, the boldness of the crime rattles the community. Desperate to find the man she loves, Cate joins forces with the FBI and the local sheriff’s department to launch an investigation and bring Dr. Henry Powers home. Cate soon learns that a brotherhood of bank robbers abducted Henry in the hopes that he might be able to save their youngest brother, who had been shot during a robbery. But this man is beyond saving, which spells life-threatening danger for Henry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ritualmorde und die Schrecken der Vergangenheit: Im romantischen Thriller Merciful Secret – Verzeihet meine Sünden muss sich FBI-Agentin und Prepperin Mercy Kilpatrick etwas Schrecklichem stellen, um ihren 3. Fall zu lösen. 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.

Feuerprobe für FBI-Agentin Mercy Kilpatrick: Merciful Truth – Erkennet die Wahrheit ist der 2. Romantik-Thriller um die toughe und erfahrene Prepperin Mercy Kilpatrick und Polizeichef Truman Daly. 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.

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.

Überleben ist ihr oberstes Ziel – doch was, wenn die Bedrohung aus den eigenen Reihen kommt? Der Romantik-Thriller Merciful Death – Erbarme dich ihrer ist der 1. Fall für die toughe FBI-Spezialagentin Mercy Kilpatrick, eine erfahrene Prepperin. Jetzt macht ein Serienkiller Jagd auf Überlebenskünstler in ihrer Heimatstadt ... Mercy Kilpatrick, aufgewachsen in einer Prepper-Familie in Oregon, wurde seit ihrer frühen Kindheit auf jede Art von Katastrophe vorbereitet. Trotzdem zwang eine Familientragödie sie zur Flucht.