The Killings Begin
She does not ask permission. And you know why the killings begin.
Ready for her world to open up, eighteen-year-old Gia Delgado is fearless—an unconventional arrangement with three men, a Madrid penthouse in The Peacock, a future on her own terms. She makes no apologies, does not look back—and no one is allowed to fall in love.
Five years of the unexpected—dancing in a basement club, river cruises through Europe, a wedding in Rotterdam—unfold with the found family Gia never knew she needed. She discovers firsthand what fierce loyalty and keeping secrets actually feel like.
Across the Atlantic, Judge Tracey Lauch’s forgotten childhood memories come flooding back. Something inside him breaks—and he does not stop there. It is not until a local newspaper publishes the patterns in the crimes that he flees to Europe, hoping distance will keep the impulse under control.
When their paths cross at a sunlit European café, you are inside Tracey’s head. You watch him fight it. And you know that one of the women sitting at that table will not make it home.
The Killings Begin is unlike any murder novel you have read—because you are not trying to solve it. Instead, you are anticipating who will be next.
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Death in a Dark Alley
In the same city on the same night. But you know it will end in loss.
As a child, Isabelle Ronaldo has her nose in a book, her fingers on a piano, and never tames her wild hair. In her backyard sitting by the pool, with Brazilian jasmine perfuming the air, she meets Frank—and they become best friends.
Imagining her future with no office, no desk, just the intimacy of the rivers in Europe—Isabelle works hard to become Spectrum’s first female riverboat captain. Frank always looks like he has it together, but he does not. Restless and reckless, he recruits Lydia into something illegal—and when Isabelle discovers what he is doing, it slowly unravels the friendship she believes is unbreakable.
Isabelle, Frank, and Lydia arrive in Strasbourg, dressed for a glittering evening at the Valentine’s ball. Tracey Lauch is also in town—but he is drawn to its Gothic cathedral and to Mimi, a woman taken in by his charm, unaware of the evil beneath it.
Their lives converge, and nothing unfolds the way Frank—or Tracey—expects.
Death in a Dark Alley is about a friendship fracturing, a dangerous man’s actions—and the helplessness you feel watching both come apart.
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“The ending had me floored and I'm still not over it”
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A Body Washes Ashore
No one shows everything. And only you see what is coming.
Staff in formal black jackets in a chandelier-lit room welcome Remy Martin and her younger cousin Frannie to their Meet Other Guests dinner. At a table for six, Tracey Lauch and his new bride join them—in love and thoroughly enjoying their honeymoon. A Spectrum cruise that winds through France, stopping at Monet’s garden—and by the time they disembark, a friendship has formed that none of them expect.
During a visit to Sicily, Remy is caught off guard. With only crumbs left on their plates and their wine glasses full, Frannie announces to the other women that Remy loves them and leaves them—just like men do to women. What is coaxed out of Remy are her rules, created from a shattered heart, designed to protect her emotions.
While the women share what they rarely share, the men are on the road. A trip in a green convertible to Budapest, where Tracey sings at the top of his lungs. His new friends enjoy his company and trust him—his kindness is real to them, his darkness is real only to you.
A Body Washes Ashore explores what happens when the rules we create are broken—and the unsettling weight you feel while watching everyone trust the wrong person.
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After the Killings
She has never let go. And she never imagined what the truth would cost her.
Penelope Huber is retired from the force, building something new—a job she loves, a first triathlon on the horizon—but absolutely not done with the case. The women who died deserve better than cold files and fading memory, and Penelope refuses to let them be forgotten.
Tracey Lauch returns to North Carolina one last time. His home in the Mediterranean is waiting—a future with Charlotte and baby Sarah, as meticulously constructed as everything else he has built. He just needs to close a few doors.
Then Tracey invites Penelope in. Wrought iron chairs, a low table, an enormous Meyer lemon tree—and a conversation that makes her investigation and her world look entirely different.
This is not about catching a killer. It is about what murder does to the people left behind—the trust, the grief, and the forgiveness.
After the Killings is where truth and loyalty collide in ways that change everyone—including you.
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"I loved this series and this last book was the cherry on top"
"The climax is a tour de force of revelation and redemption"
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