When a killer weaponizes hypnosis, FBI Agent Cooper Trace finds himself within a labyrinth of psychological warfare. But can he stay a step ahead as he battles new symptoms of his own disease? SHATTERED LIFE (A Cooper Trace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ella Swift. The series begins with SHATTERED MIND (Book 1). The Cooper Trace series is a gripping and intense crime thriller saga, showcasing an intricate and troubled protagonist. With its non-stop action, suspenseful moments, unexpected turns, and fast-paced narrative, this series will have you hooked well into the night. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Mary Burton, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!
When FBI Agent Cooper Trace is diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease, he finds himself having to keep it a secret and in a final race against time to catch diabolical serial killers—before it’s too late. When victims of a new killer are found with mirrors shattered around them, Cooper must race to decode the mysterious signature—while grappling with his own new mental state. SHATTERED MIND (A Cooper Trace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) is the first novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ella Swift. The Cooper Trace series is a gripping and intense crime thriller saga, showcasing an intricate and troubled protagonist. With its non-stop action, suspenseful moments, unexpected turns, and fast-paced narrative, this series will have you hooked well into the night. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Mary Burton, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!
As a ruthless killer hunts victims with rare diseases, FBI Agent Cooper Trace strives to stop the murderer while his own brain works against him. Can Cooper crack the chilling code before he becomes the final target? SHATTERED FATE (A Cooper Trace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 5) is the fifth novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ella Swift. The series begins with SHATTERED MIND (Book 1). The Cooper Trace series is a gripping and intense crime thriller saga, showcasing an intricate and troubled protagonist. With its non-stop action, suspenseful moments, unexpected turns, and fast-paced narrative, this series will have you hooked well into the night. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Mary Burton, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!
As terminal patients become targets of a sadistic killer, FBI Agent Cooper Trace must outwit the murderer while battling his own degenerative disease. Can Cooper stop the killer before time runs out—for the victims and for himself? SHATTERED HOPE (A Cooper Trace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 3) is the third novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ella Swift. The series begins with SHATTERED MIND (Book 1). The Cooper Trace series is a gripping and intense crime thriller saga, showcasing an intricate and troubled protagonist. With its non-stop action, suspenseful moments, unexpected turns, and fast-paced narrative, this series will have you hooked well into the night. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Mary Burton, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!
When pharmaceutical executives are found dead from their own drugs, it falls to FBI Agent Cooper Trace to untangle the mystery. But with his own mind and body betraying him, can he uncover the murderer in time? SHATTERED DREAM (A Cooper Trace FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 4) is the fourth novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ella Swift. The series begins with SHATTERED MIND (Book 1). The Cooper Trace series is a gripping and intense crime thriller saga, showcasing an intricate and troubled protagonist. With its non-stop action, suspenseful moments, unexpected turns, and fast-paced narrative, this series will have you hooked well into the night. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Mary Burton, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!
The man she barely escaped in her youth stands ready to welcome her home. Lily Thomas can no longer run from her past. With her New York publishing career in tatters and a stalker tracing her every step, she flees to her hometown in hope of a fresh start. But when the obsessed fiend follows, she fears the only person who can help her is the man whose heart she broke 12 years ago. FBI Special Agent Cooper Adams never got over losing his childhood sweetheart. Dedicating his life to taking down human traffickers, he’s still tormented by the shocking event that sent Lily running from his arms. While elated by their chance reunion, the discovery of a bloody warning splattered across her front door sparks Cooper’s protective instincts for his former love. With nowhere safe from the terror, Lily receives threatening messages tying Cooper to her ordeal. And with each clue they uncover, the agent believes the crimes of the past are on a collision course, and tragic consequences are imminent. Can Lily and Cooper solve a brutal sex trafficking case decades in the making, or will a shadowy force rip their love apart? Truth is in the Darkness is the second standalone novel in the suspenseful Paynes Creek romantic thriller series. If you like small-town characters, dark twists and turns, and the perfect balance of action in and out of the bedroom, then you’ll adore Heather Sunseri’s riveting tale. Buy Truth is in the Darkness to face the horror today!
ONLY MURDER (a Sadie Price FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) is the debut novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Rylie Dark. Special Agent Sadie Price, a 29-year-old rising star in the FBI’s BAU unit, stuns her colleagues by requesting reassignment to the FBI’s remote Alaskan field office. Back in her home state, a place she vowed she would never return, Sadie, running from a secret in her recent past and back into her old one, finds herself facing her demons—including her sister’s unsolved murder—while assigned to hunt down a new serial killer. Two women are found dead in a remote area of Northern Alaska, near Sadie’s hometown, floating under the ice, their bodies preserved, much the same way Sadie’s own murdered sister was found—a memory that still plagues her. The case strikes way too close to home, blurring Sadie’s judgment, stirring up memories of her estranged father and murdered sister, memories she’s not ready to grapple with. This part of Alaska—icy, rough, remote, populated by outcasts—proves impenetrable even for a seasoned FBI agent like Sadie. The killer, matching his landscape, is more sinister and smart than anyone Sadie has encountered. Amidst the perplexing clues, Sadie remains sure of only one thing: he will strike again. Against her wishes, Sadie must team up with Sheriff Logan Cooper—single, begrudging, and with a dark past of his own. Together, they must enter the canals of this killer’s twisted mind and seek help from the locals, however hostile, to solve the pattern of these murders before another girl turns up dead. With a major storm coming, can Sadie solve the murders before it’s too late? Or will she end up as the next body floating under the ice? An action-packed page-turner, the SADIE PRICE series is a riveting crime thriller, jammed with suspense, surprises and twists and turns that you won’t see coming. It will have you fall in love with a brilliant and scarred new character, while challenging you, amidst a barren landscape, to solve an impenetrable crime. Books #2-#6 in the series—ONLY RAGE, ONLY HIS, ONLY ONCE, ONLY SPITE, and ONLY MADNESS—are now also available.
Police officer Tom Bevans is nicknamed the Sad Man by his colleagues. As a Family Liaison Officer he is always the bearer of bad news - it is his job to tell the friends and family of victims the fate of their loved ones. But Tom is weighted down by crimes both old and new - haunted by the death of his best friend Dani, whose murder has never been solved. When a rare opportunity emerges for Tom to take the lead in a horrific murder investigation, he is determined to get justice for the victim. A young girl has been found in her own home, cut so badly - and so carefully - that she has bled to death, leaving a deliberate pool of blood in the shape of angel wings....
A FEMA crisis manager by day and serial killer by night becomes romantically involved with the FBI unit chief hunting him down. Will she learn his dark secret? If you're a fan of "Dexter" and "American Psycho," this is the book for you! "Killing Matt Cooper" is a harrowing and erotic glimpse through the eyes of a serial killer: a first-person account of the love that drives a monster. Narrator Samuel H. Knight chronicles a swirling maelstrom of misogyny, sex, violence, and fantasy -- all the things that he believes will lead him back to his Love. "Fearlessly written, the author holds absolutely nothing back." -- Danielle Evans (reviewed on Goodreads and on Smashwords) "Devilish and fun in a creepy sort of way ... Which I am, in some ways, ashamed to have found as captivating as I did." -- Leo Walsh (reviewed on Goodreads and on Smashwords) "Like Raskolnikov ... a mixture of the noble and the manipulative is part of the killer's constitution, with the possibility of redemption in the wings." -- Cole Davis (reviewed on Goodreads and on Smashwords) "Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit that, despite my complete and utter repulsion to the subject matter, this was a page turner for me." --Marcy O'Dell (reviewed on Goodreads)
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