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Ellie Kline partners with Special Agent Clay Lockwood to track a serial killer along America's highways.

Katarina, The Master's protégé, is making a comeback one mark at a time, but she's slowly losing her razor-sharp edge. Seeking revenge, she's making bloody mistakes that just might cost her the one true desire of her heart. When The Master--aka Dr. Kingsley, the monster who kidnapped Cold Case Detective Ellie Kline as a teen--surfaces, Ellie and Special Agent Clay Lockwood track him to Florida. Each new horrifying clue adds a new whirl to the circle...

Knowledge is power peril... In a city as large as Chicago, the wicked never sleep. When an undocumented migrant teenager goes missing, military veteran and Special Agent Amelia Storm teams up with her partner to take down what could be the most shocking forced labor and sex trafficking ring her hometown has ever seen. The case reeks of mafia involvement, but even with an investigative reporter as an informant, there's little in the way of leads....

On a farm in the backwoods of Charleston, South Carolina, a hunter stalks prey -- the two-legged kind. Ellie Kline is working on linking several cold cases together and stumbles upon a human trafficking ring and a brutal serial killer.

"On New Year’s Eve, Charleston Cold Case Detective Ellie Kline vows this will be the year she finally brings Dr. Lawrence Kingsley to justice. Not only did the elusive serial killer force her to play his twisted games as a teen, but his reign of terror has killed countless other victims and traumatized the few who survived. When her boss hands her the files containing dozens of trafficked children, she’s instructed to close as many as...

Cross my heart and hope to die... With the death of the serial killer who kidnapped and tortured her as a child, Charleston Police Detective Ellie Kline is finally free. But with a traumatized girl to care for and a new lead detective who questions both her mental health and her investigation techniques, Ellie's problems are far from over. When the body of a young man is found outside a downtown bar, Ellie is pulled off the cold case files and...

Jealousy is evil. Greed is deadly. When a young man is found hanging inside a barn, it seems like an open-and-shut suicide. But the boy in question is none other than Bryce Mowery, son and only heir of the richest family in Savannah, and Bryce's father is claiming foul play. Much to her chagrin, Detective Charli Cross is sent to investigate and appease the farm and real estate magnate. But soon, it's no longer a question of if Bryce was killed,...

Silence is the most terrifying scream ... When the beloved minister of a small inner-city church is killed in a drive-by shooting while delivering sandwiches to the homeless, Savannah Homicide Detective Charli Cross is on the case. Who would want to kill a man who does so much good? And why? More importantly ... was the pastor targeted or chosen at random? While Charli and her partner, Detective Matthew Church, attempt to answer those questions, another...

"It's judgment day ... Charleston police detective Ellie Kline has been skating on thin ice since she overrode protocol to stop the Cupid Killer. But when a former drug dealer turned family man is knifed to death, her new boss pulls her in on the case. The new lead detective is convinced it's just another gang-related murder. But this was intimate. Savage. Personal. And exactly like the homicide of another low-level gang member who'd recently been...

If looks can kill, a smile can be deadly. Special Agent Stella Knox became an FBI agent to find the dirty cops responsible for her father's murder and make them pay. But fresh out of Quantico, her first case has her seeking justice for a different victim--three of them, in fact. The bodies of three teenage boys have turned up in a sleepy town outside of Nashville, TN. There're no fingerprints, no DNA, and very little to connect the murders,...