Rick Reed

After discovering a young woman's body in her hotel bathtub drained of blood and missing her left hand, which later turns up on the second victim's body hours later, homicide detective Jack Murphy risks everything to beat a twisted serial killer at his own game.

Detective Jack Murphy and his partner are ordered to re-open a cold case where the suspect is also a policeman. But when the victim's sister and mother are targeted for violence troubling new questions arise.

An Indiana detective is out to stop a killer for hire who tortures for pleasure in this crime thriller from an author who "writes as only a cop can" (Nelson DeMille).

In Detective Jack Murphy's experience, the killers who blend in are the hardest to catch. But none are as elusive—or efficient—as Mr. Smith. A man of average height, weight and build, Mr. Smith is as ordinary as his name. Which makes it easy for him

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In this gritty crime thriller, a politically explosive murder case also hits painfully close to home for the detective in charge.

The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's identity is revealed, the horrific crime takes an even darker and far more personal turn. Nina Parsons was not only a deputy prosecutor, but the rumored lover of...

When his partner is framed for murder, an Indiana detective is drawn into Louisiana's criminal underworld in this "authentic and scary" crime series (Nelson DeMille on The Cruelest Cut).

Jack Murphy knows a setup when he sees one. Proving it makes his day. Especially when it involves his own partner. Lured into a trap, Evansville PD Liddell "Bigfoot" Blanchard is accused of murdering a cop who was investigating a shadowy...

Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and a lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D'Amico's life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near him, sending a branch down on his head. When he awakens the next day in the hospital, he discovers he has been blessed or cursed-he isn't sure which-with psychic ability. Along with unfathomable glimpses...

After Todd's mother dies from cancer, he moves back to his hometown in the foothills of the Appalachians from Chicago. It's 1997 and he's just been given a death sentence -- an HIV-positive diagnosis. Todd expects his remaining time on earth to be spent alone. But Cal, his handsome next-door neighbor, has other ideas. Cal is not the only surprise in Todd's new life. Todd begins having visions of an older woman, Essie, when he dims the lights. Is...

It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they leave their favorite night spot. That dark October night, three gay-bashers emerge from the gloom, armed with slurs, fists, and an aluminum baseball bat. The hate crime leaves Donald lost and alone, clinging to the memory of the only man he ever loved. He is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by Mark and what might have been. Trapped in a limbo...

One by one, he's killing them. Lurking in the digital underworld of Men4HookUpNow.com, he lures, seduces, charms, reaching out through instant messages to the unwary. They invite him over. He's just another trick. Harmless. They're dead wrong. When the first bloody body surfaces, openly gay Chicago Police Department detective Ed Comparetto is called in to investigate. Sickened by the butchered mess of one of his brothers left on display in a bathtub,...

The old house at the end of a dead end street was more of a dead end than any of them realized ...They were five misfit kids who banded together in their small Ohio River town. Over the years, they had organized various clubs, and now they form the Halloween Horror Club. The premise is simple: each week, each teen would spin a horrifying tale, and at the end of five weeks, the scariest story wins a prize.The twist: the stories have to be told in the...