"If you are reading this letter, I am dead and I would be most grateful if you could solve my murder..." When Owens receives a letter from a dead man imploring her to solve his murder, there's only one catch: Timothy Savage's death was so obviously the suicide of a demented individual that the case has been closed. A postmortem discovers clear signs that Savage was indeed murdered. And she finds DNA from a kidnapped child whose remains were recovered...

From the award-winning author of The Accomplice and The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel "Izzy" Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes,...

"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor-and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...

Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England, and the small cathedral town of Lafferton is under water. A landslip on the moors has closed the roads and exposed a shallow grave: twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Harriet Lowther have been found. Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Cold cases are always tough, and this one will be Simon's most grisly, dangerous, and complex case yet.

Assigned to run Department Q, Detective Carl M�rck is satisfied with picking up long-cold leads. So he's naturally intrigued when a closed double murder case lands on his desk. And when M�rck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. The supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has secrets that influential individuals would kill to keep buried. (Bestseller)

When Jamie and Charlotte join the theater program at Oxford, accidents start anew, giving them no choice but to throw themselves into a cold case.

Laurie Moran, now an award-winning TV producer, is still haunted by the murder of her husband in front of their son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new "cold case" series. They will pay a victim's friends and family to reenact the crime on TV, giving each the chance to clear their name - unless, of course, someone is guilty.

"It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears. Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast that focuses...

"Vivvy Bouchet, daughter of a known psychic, was ten when she saved a boy's life by making an impossible prediction. Now she's an astrophysicist in Texas, devoted to science, but the boy she saved has become a cop who continues to believe she can see things no one else can. When he begs for help on the high-profile cold case of a kidnapped girl, Vivvy steps back into the ocean of voices that once nearly drowned her. She is forced to team up with detective...

"When Eloise Anderson, the owner of an antiquarian bookshop, arrives at the grand Aircroft estate to ask retired librarian Jane Hunter and eccentric collector Cameron Clewe for help, Jane and Cam expect a bookish inquiry. But the bookseller has a different sort of assistance in mind--clearing her mother's name of a murder Eloise is convinced she didn't commit. Eloise's mother has just died after spending many years in prison for allegedly killing...