Quinn & Costa Thriller

An edgy female police detective... An ambitious FBI special agent... A ticking-clock investigation... Together they are at the center of a search for a diabolical serial killer. The bond they forge in this crucible sets the stage for high-stakes suspense. Detective Kara Quinn, on leave from the LAPD, is visiting her hometown of Liberty Lake when she comes upon the mutilated body of a young nurse during an early morning jog. The manner of death is brutal and ritualistic. Meanwhile in DC, FBI special agent in charge Mathias Costa is staffing his newly minted Mobile Response Team. One of his first recruits is the brilliant forensic psychiatrist Catherine Jones. Word reaches Matt that the Liberty Lake murder is likely the work of the Triple Killer-it will be the first case for the MRT. Jones wrote the only profile on this brutal killer but is reluctant to join the unit, shaken by her sister's recent murder. Only Catherine holds the key to the killer's obsessive pattern-three murder victims, three deep slashes, killed three days apart, each cycle starting on March 3, then a three-year hiatus before he strikes again. This time they have a chance to stop him before he claims another victim... But only if they can figure out who he is and where he is hiding. The stakes are higher than ever before, because if they fail, one of their own will be next.

Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the desert hills just south of Tucson. When a college intern turned activist sets out to collect her own evidence, she, too, ends up dead. Local law enforcement is slow to get involved. That's when the mobile FBI unit goes undercover to infiltrate the town and its copper refinery in search of possible leads. Quinn and Cos find themselves scouring the desolate landscape, which keeps revealing clues to something much darker—greed, child trafficking and more murder. As the body count adds up, it's clear they have stumbled on much more than they bargained for. Now they must figure out who is at the heart of this mayhem and stop them before more innocent lives are lost.

A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime—the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands. Was the explosion an act of domestic terrorism, or was one of the dead the primary target? That is the first question Special Agent Matt Costa, Detective Kara Quinn and the rest of the FBI team need to answer, but they have few clues and no witnesses. Accused of putting profits before people after leaking fuel endangered an environmentally sensitive preserve, the West End Charter company may itself have been the target. As Matt and his team get closer to answers, they find one of their own caught in the crosshairs of a determined killer.

For three years, women have been disappearing-and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While LAPD detective Kara Quinn works undercover to dig into the women's murders and team leader Matt Costa officially investigates the in-custody death of a witness, Beau might finally have a chance at solving the case. But in a town where everyone knows everyone, talking gets you killed and secrets stay buried, it's going to take the entire team working around the clock to unravel the truth. Especially when they discover that the deep-seated corruption and the deadly drug-trafficking ring at the center of it all extends far beyond the small-town borders. A Quinn & Costa Thriller Book 1: The Third to Die Book 2: Tell No Lies Book 3: The Wrong Victim Book 4: Seven Girls Gone.