Books

He studied killers under one of America’s foremost forensic psychologists. Then, eight miles from his graduate seminar, he became one.

In August 2022, Bryan Kohberger arrived at Washington State University to begin a PhD in criminology. He had already earned a master’s degree under Dr. Katherine Ramsland - the woman who spent six years inside...

*He knocked. You answered. You made him coffee and showed him around.
You never saw him again.**

David Allen Whitmore has been inside your neighbor’s house. And the one before that. For eleven years, he has moved through rural Kansas carrying a clipboard, a service agreement, and a smile that read as ordinary. His clients trust him. They...

Some walls are built to hold up a building. Others are built to hide the dead.

When forensic cleaning specialist Wren Castor is hired to prepare an abandoned Omaha maternity center for demolition, she expects mold, medical waste, and old institutional rot.

She does not expect the smell coming from behind the east basement wall.

Inside the...

In 1999, a school bus carrying thirteen children left the Hollow Bend Halloween carnival and disappeared on Old Mercy Bridge. No wreckage was found. No bodies were recovered. By morning, the only things left behind were thirteen candy buckets arranged in a perfect circle — each holding one piece of candy and one small human tooth.

June Harrow was...

She came for research.
She stayed because he saw straight through her.

Mara Greer has built a career turning dangerous men into material. She knows how to ask the right questions, keep control of the room, and never reveal more than she intends.

Then she walks into The Meridian.

Private. Exclusive. Unsettlingly elegant. The kind of place where...

SHE BUILT A PLACE TO FIND LOVE.
HE FOUND A WAY TO FIND HIS NEXT TARGET.

Sophie Chen built Connect to help people find each other.

Then a woman is murdered just hours after a 97% match.

A message appears on Sophie’s screen:

I see what you built.

As bodies mount and someone called Oracle turns her dating app into a hunting ground, Sophie joins...

She has survived four centuries by one rule: never let them see you hungry.

Seraphina is a Siren in a city built over a wound in the world — and she has spent four hundred years perfecting the art of restraint. She feeds, she walks away, and she does not let herself be known. It’s kept her alive. It’s kept her sane. It’s kept everyone around her...

The email was four words.

Coffee, if you’re free?

Amelia Crane read it twice, set her cup down harder than she meant to, and did not answer. She had spent six years learning not to answer things like this. She’d rebuilt herself after the worst year of her life — a public, catastrophic near-wedding that three hundred people had already bought...

She hid the truth inside her paintings. Then someone killed her for it.

When artist Evelyn Blake is found dead in her coastal studio, Detective Clara Reed sees what everyone else misses: the room is too clean. The brushes too neat. And pressed into the wet paint of Evelyn’s last canvas — where a signature should be — is a mark Clara has seen...

The most haunted bar in America sits on the banks of the Ohio River. Built over a well no one will open. In

1896, a woman was found headless in a nearby field. Two men hanged for it. The head was never found. In

1978, a bartender was possessed. A priest performed an exorcism. The case went to court. The court did

not laugh. Bobby Mackey still...

1:56 a.m. November 13, 2022. The porch light on King Road was on. Everyone was home. By morning, four students were dead — and the man who killed them was driving back to his apartment, certain he had thought of everything.

He hadn’t.

In The Quiet Mind, Jeromy Baumbach reconstructs the Idaho student murders with the patience of a documentary...