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In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher, ending the serial killer’s reign of terror over the city of Seattle. But now in his eighties, Edward’s action-packed glory days are long behind him. The decorated former Seattle police chief has given up his high-maintenance Victorian home to his grandson Matt for a quiet life at the nearby Sweetbay Village Retirement Residence, where mac-n-cheese Wednesdays have become the highlight of his week. Though it’s hard to watch his grandfather get older, Matt is thrilled to inherit the large house he grew up in. Already an accomplished chef with a popular restaurant and a TV show in the works, Matt’s dream life is finally within reach…until he discovers a crate buried in the backyard that holds a secret about his grandfather so terrible, it threatens to ruin all their lives if it ever gets out. Especially his girlfriend Sam’s, whose mother was killed when she was only two years old. As Matt struggles with his dark family secret, Sam’s obsession with solving her mother’s murder continues to grow. A true crime writer now working on a book about the Butcher, Sam has always suspected her mother was one of his victims, even though she was killed two years after the Butcher was supposedly gunned down. But when new victims begin to turn up, their murders eerily similar to the Butcher’s all those years ago, Sam realizes she might be right. The more she digs into the old murders, the more dangerous it gets…and the truth is closer to home than she ever could have imagined. “A tense, suspenseful, thoroughly creepy thriller” (Booklist), The Butcher sinks its teeth in you from the very first page.

'Hillier is the master of suspense' FREIDA MCFADDEN'Top-of-the-line thriller writing...You're not going anywhere until you finish reading' JEFFREY DEAVERIf he can't have her...Psychology professor Dr Sheila Tao is an expert on human behaviour, so when she begins an affair with charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she's well aware she's playing with fire. Consumed by lust and riddled with guilt, Sheila ends their three month fling when she becomes engaged to a kind and loving man who adores her. But Ethan has different plans...NO ONE CAN.When a star student is stabbed to death, it's clear someone is raising the stakes of violence, sex and blackmail on campus. Before long, Sheila is caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with Ethan: the lover she couldn't resist is now the monster who will never let her go.'A tightly paced thriller...terrifying' CHOICE 'Pulls off that sleight of narrative hand with remarkable skill' BOOKLIST 'This fast paced thriller will keep fans of Lisa Gardner and Chelsea Cain guessing' LIBRARY JOURNAL

'Jar of Hearts will have readers gasping in shock. Suspenseful, gritty and utterly unforgettable.' Riley Sager, author of Final GirlsFive years ago, Geo's first love was revealed as a terrifying serial killer. But he escaped custody and went on the run.Now, bodies are turning up, killed in exactly the same way as before.The message is clear: he's making his way to her, one murder at a time...An utterly pulse-pounding thriller by fan favourite Jennifer Hillier, perfect for anyone who loves Riley Sagar, Noelle W. Ihli, Alice Feeney, and Lisa Jewell.Readers are OBSESSED with Jar of Hearts:'Wow, just wow!!!!!!! Amazing read start to finish!' Reader review, 5 stars'Gritty, disturbing and SO good !' Reader review, 5 stars'Oh my word! I bloody loved this book!' Reader review, 5 stars'Dark, tautly written with flawed and real characters, I couldn't stop reading!' Reader review, 5 stars'WOW. !!!!!! . . . I'm sitting here stunned . . . one of the best books I've ever read.' Reader review, 5 stars

'Hillier is the master of suspense' FREIDA MCFADDENAlone in a maximum-security prison cell in Seattle, Abby Maddox - the former lover of Ethan Wolfe, the killer who left more than a dozen women in his wake - is a celebrity. Abby has little human contact apart for the letters that pour in from her demented fans. But a new wave of murders gives Abby a chance for a plea bargain - because this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the bodies of the victims: Free Abby Maddox.Jerry Isaac will never forget his attacker. He wants Abby Maddox to rot in jail - but he knows she could be the key to this disturbing new case. Can he and one of Wolfe's surviving victims, Professor Tao, put the pieces together before Abby's number one fan takes another life in their perverted pursuit of justice?A killer's revenge is brutal and bittersweet . . .

When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all.Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges.

Pulsing with the dark obsession of Radiohead’s song “Creep,” Jennifer Hillier’s superb debut thriller is a terrifying cat-and-mouse game between a woman with everything to lose, and the lover she couldn''t resist…who’s now the monster who won’t let her go.A popular psychology professor in Seattle, Sheila works hard to keep her secrets hidden. On the surface, she’s an expert in human behavior and a well-liked educator, but nobody knows she’s a recovering sex addict in therapy—not even the love of her life, Morris. And she needs it to stay that way, or she could lose everything. But Ethan Wolfe is impossible to resist. The graduate student is brilliant, charming, and seductive as hell. He’s also Sheila’s teaching assistant, and thirteen years her junior. Ignoring the risks to her career and relationship, they begin an illicit affair that lasts three months, until Morris asks her to marry him. Determined to get her life back on track, Sheila commits to a future with her fiancé, a man she’s not sure she deserves. But Ethan can’t move on so easily. He didn’t pursue his professor for as long as he did to get dumped for some boring, middle-aged suit. Ethan’s made plans too, and he doesn’t take rejection well. When the body of one of Sheila’s students is discovered floating in Puget Sound—a young woman Ethan was rumored to have dated—it’s clear that the graduate student has secrets of his own. And he’s not about to let Sheila get away.

Jennifer Hillier amps up the terror of her “truly frightening” (Suspense Magazine) debut thriller, Creep, returning to the Pacific Northwest college town where one killer’s stranglehold has ebbed...but another sick mind emerges from the shadows.Sitting alone in a maximum-security prison cell, Abby Maddox is a celebrity. Her claim to fame is the envy of every freak on the outside: she’s the former lover of Ethan Wolfe, the killer who left more than a dozen dead women in his wake and nearly added Puget Sound State professor Sheila Tao to the tally. Now Abby, serving a nine-year sentence for slashing a police officer’s throat in a moment of rage, has little human contact—save for the letters that pour in from demented fans, lunatics, and creeps. But a new wave of murders has given Abby a possible chance for a plea bargain—because this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the bodies of the victims: Free Abby Maddox. Jerry Isaac will never forget the attack—or his attacker. The hideous scarring and tortured speech are daily reminders that the one-time Seattle PD officer, now a private investigator, is just lucky to be alive. Abby Maddox deserves to rot in jail—forever, as far as Jerry’s concerned. But she alone may possess crucial evidence—letters from this newest killer—that could crack open the disturbing case. With the help of Professor Sheila Tao, seasoned police detective Mike Torrance, and intuitive criminology student Danny Mercy, Jerry must coax the shattering truth from isolated, dangerous Abby Maddox. Can he put the pieces together before Abby’s number one fan takes another life in the name of a killer’s perverted idea of justice?

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher, ending the serial killer’s reign of terror over the city of Seattle. But now in his eighties, Edward’s action-packed glory days are long behind him. The decorated former Seattle police chief has given up his high-maintenance Victorian home to his grandson Matt for a quiet life at the nearby Sweetbay Village Retirement Residence, where mac-n-cheese Wednesdays have become the highlight of his week. Though it’s hard to watch his grandfather get older, Matt is thrilled to inherit the large house he grew up in. Already an accomplished chef with a popular restaurant and a TV show in the works, Matt’s dream life is finally within reach…until he discovers a crate buried in the backyard that holds a secret about his grandfather so terrible, it threatens to ruin all their lives if it ever gets out. Especially his girlfriend Sam’s, whose mother was killed when she was only two years old. As Matt struggles with his dark family secret, Sam’s obsession with solving her mother’s murder continues to grow. A true crime writer now working on a book about the Butcher, Sam has always suspected her mother was one of his victims, even though she was killed two years after the Butcher was supposedly gunned down. But when new victims begin to turn up, their murders eerily similar to the Butcher’s all those years ago, Sam realizes she might be right. The more she digs into the old murders, the more dangerous it gets…and the truth is closer to home than she ever could have imagined. “A tense, suspenseful, thoroughly creepy thriller” (Booklist), The Butcher sinks its teeth in you from the very first page.

“Top of the line thriller writing…You better call in sick, because you’re not going anywhere until you finish reading it. Oh, and you might want to lock the door, too. Just to be safe.” —#1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver Fans of Chelsea Cain and Lisa Gardner will devour this edgy thriller about the gruesome secrets hidden beneath a small-town amusement park. From the author of Creep, Freak, and The Butcher, Jennifer Hillier’s “fine knack for creating hideous killers” (Booklist) is vividly on display.Welcome to Wonderland. By day, it’s a magical place boasting a certain retro charm. Excited children, hands sticky with cotton candy, run frenetically from the Giant Octopus ride to the Spinning Sombrero, while the tinkling carnival music of the giant Wonder Wheel—the oldest Ferris wheel in the Pacific Northwest—fills the air. But before daybreak, an eerie feeling descends. Maybe it’s the Clown Museum, home to creepy wax replicas of movie stars and a massive collection of antique porcelain dolls. Or maybe it’s the terrifyingly real House of Horrors. Or…maybe it’s the dead, decaying body left in the midway for all the Wonder Workers to see. Vanessa Castro’s first day as deputy police chief of Seaside, Washington, is off to a bang. The unidentifiable homeless man rotting inside the tiny town’s main tourist attraction is strange enough, but now a teenage employee—whose defiant picture at the top of the Wonder Wheel went viral that same morning—is missing. As the clues in those seemingly disparate crimes lead her down a mysterious shared path of missing persons that goes back decades, she suspects the seedy rumors surrounding the amusement park’s dark history might just be true. She moved to Seaside to escape her own scandalous past, but has she brought her family to the center of an insidious killer’s twisted game? Acclaimed author Jennifer Hillier’s bone-chilling thriller is masterful and fast-paced, hurtling toward a shocking, bloody conclusion.

“A fast-paced, razor-sharp thriller” (Mark Edwards, author of Follow You Home) from the author of the “truly frightening” (Suspense Magazine) Creep follows a police officer investigating a string of disappearances at a mysterious amusement park.By day, Wonderland is a magical amusement park boasting a certain retro charm. Excited children, hands sticky with cotton candy, run frenetically from ride to ride while the tinkling music of the oldest Ferris wheel in the Pacific Northwest fills the air. But behind the scenes, the rides need repairs, and the clown museum is filled with a lot more than just wax figures. Someone is working hard to keep the park’s dark secrets hidden beneath its weathered attractions. Vanessa Castro’s first day as deputy police chief of Seaside, Washington, is off to a bang. The unidentifiable homeless man rotting inside the tiny town’s main tourist attraction is strange enough, but now a teenage employee is missing. Clues lead Vanessa into a mysterious web of missing persons cases that goes back decades. She moved to Seaside to escape her own scandalous past, but has she brought her family to the center of an insidious killer’s twisted game? Filled with fast-paced chills and a shocking, bloody finale, Wonderland is “top of the line thriller writing…You better call in sick, because you’re not going anywhere until you finish reading it. Oh, and you might want to lock the door, too. Just to be safe” (Jeffrey Deaver, New York Times bestselling author).

'Shocking, twisted and brilliant. For fans of Shari Lapena, Liz Nugent and Gillian Flynn.' WILL DEAN'The pacing is fantastic; you can't stop reading' KARIN SLAUGHTERALL IT TAKES TO UNRAVEL A LIFE IS ONE HOME TRUTHMarin used to have it all. A gorgeous husband, a great job, a growing family. Until her world fell apart the day her young son disappeared...A year later, the search has gone cold. With her sanity ebbing, Marin hires a private investigator to pick up where the police left off.But instead of finding Sebastian, she learns that her husband is having an affair. Furious, Marin sparks back to life. She's lost her son; she's not about to lose her husband. This enemy has a face, which means it's a problem Marin can fix. Permanently.'You don't just read this book; you inhale it' Mary Kubica'A dark and dazzling treat for crime fiction fans' Mark Edwards'Outstanding... Simply fantastic' Alex Lake

'The master of suspense' Freida McFadden, New York Times-bestselling author of The Housemaid'One of the finest suspense writers of her generation'S. A. Cosby, New York Times-bestselling author of All the Sinners BleedSome lies can save you. Some lies can break you...Twenty-five years ago in a small beachside town, a charming drifter met three inseparable teenage girls, Barb, Lorelai and Nicolette, at Wonderland, the local amusement park. Days later, Lorelai was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded bog near where she was murdered.Now, Wonderland - the infamous site of murders by the serial killer dubbed The Carnival Killer - is about to reopen, revitalizing the dying town. With their past safely behind them, Barb and Nicolette have moved on with their lives. But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession about killing a high school girl, and a new body of a young woman washes ashore, the truth about what happened to Lorelei all those years ago - and what is happening now - threatens the very fabric of the town itself.-----------------------------------------------------------Readers love Jennifer Hillier...'CAPTIVATING! Right from the very beginning I was hooked''She literally blew my heart and mind away at the same time''5 billion stars! I loved it so much''Had me reeling several hours after finishing it''Exactly the type of thriller that I LOVE...I can't tell you enough that you can't miss this one'

Paris Peralta es arrestada en su propio cuarto de baño: está cubierta de sangre, sosteniendo una navaja de afeitar y su famoso esposo yace muerto en la bañera. Pero a pesar de lo terrible que parece, no es el inevitable cargo de asesinato lo que más le preocupa. Los medios se lanzan como sabuesos y no la dejan en paz. Es solo cuestión de tiempo antes de que alguien de su largo pasado oculto la reconozca y destruya la nueva vida que se ha esforzado tanto en construir.Veinticinco años antes, Ruby Reyes, conocida como la Reina del Hielo, fue condenada por un asesinato similar en un juicio que conmovió a Canadá a principios de los noventa. Ella sabe quién es Paris en realidad y, cuando está a punto de salir inesperadamente de prisión, amenaza con descubrir todos sus secretos. Sin otra opción, Paris finalmente debe enfrentarse de una vez por todas al oscuro pasado del que escapó.Lo único peor que un cargo por asesinato son dos cargos por asesinato.

El nuevo libro de la autora de Cosas que hacemos a oscuras Marin tenia la vida perfecta: es duena de una cadena de peluquerias de lujo y esta casada con Derek, su novio de la universidad, que tambien dirige su propia empresa. Son admirados en su comunidad y forman una familia ejemplar hasta que su mundo se derrumba el dia que secuestran a su hijo Sebastian. Marin es una sombra de si misma un ano despues. La busqueda del FBI se ha enfriado, la difusion del caso se ha desvanecido, ella y su esposo apenas hablan asi que Marin decide contratar a un detective para que continue investigando. Pero, en lugar de encontrar a Sebastian, descubre que Derek tiene una aventura con una mujer mas joven. Este descubrimiento devuelve la vida a Marin. Ha perdido a su hijo y no esta dispuesta a perder tambien a su esposo: Kenzie es una enemiga con rostro, lo que significa que este es un problema que Marin puede resolver.