Tami Hoag

It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore...

"Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past? A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn't been seen since. Meanwhile,...

Horse trainer and former cop Elena Estes finds herself uncomfortably close to her old life as part of the Palm Beach elite when one of her friends is murdered and she uncovers connections between the crime and a group of local men--including her former fiancé--who have made a notorious habit of giving each other alibis for their bad behavior.

Four-year-old Haley Fordham witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate and newly married to FBI criminal profiler Vince Leone. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer. Takes place in 1986.

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns to the bestselling series of her career with a Kovac and Liska case that will delight fans and new readers alike. A murder from the past. A murder from the present. And a life that was never meant to be... As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses...

New Eden, Montana, seems to be a bit of heaven on earth. Marilee Jennings has left California and a broken romance to rebuild her life here, but her dream becomes a nightmare when she arrives to find her best friend, Lucy, has been killed, supposedly in a hunting accident.

Jace Damon, a bicycle messenger in Los Angeles working to support his little brother, does not know which way to turn when he is sent by low-class attorney Lenny Lowell to deliver a package and discovers the drop is an empty lot where someone is waiting to kill him--but when he goes to confront Lenny, he finds the lawyer murdered and himself the main suspect.

As a serial killer known as The Cremator terrifies the city, witness advocate Kate Conlan must cope with a homeless teenage witness with a hidden agenda, a legendary FBI profiler, and a powerful businessman whose estranged daughter may have been a victim of the predator.

The investigation into the death of a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop is supposed to be a formality, but when Sam Kovac begins to look into the details of his death, he uncovers a secret life that may have threatened the cop's life.

Newspaper woman Elizabeth Stuart tries to overlook the snobby attitude of the citizens of Still Creek, but circumstances take a turn for the worse when she becomes a murder suspect.