Bøger af Dana J Summers

Haley McGlinn has a car trunk full of light bulbs and a purse full of flashlights. She has good reason to fear the dark. Five years ago she survived a vicious serial killer. Gentleman Jack made sure the next three girls weren't so lucky.Boyd Tucker, a homeless Chicago panhandler, who was caught with Haley's pendant, is doing time for the crimes. Detective Tom Hunt has his doubts.When another murder shocks the city, and the victim bears Jack's signature, a tiny heart carved into her chest, Hunt turns to Haley's cloudy memory for answers.Haley is wrestling with her own questions: Who really kidnapped her? Who is sending her mementos of the ordeal? Could the only man she trusts be the killer?While an enraged Haley tracks the madman through a blinding snowstorm, an injured Hunt fights the dark demons of swift justice. But Jack has plans of his own, plans that could kill them both.

Aging hit man Lou Braga is losing his touch. Bad back, cloudy eyes, and clogged arteries. The last job he took was a flat-out fiasco. In the world of contract killing, he's gone from top notch to cheap joke. He'd be happy to kick back and live out his time smoking cigars and drinking scotch. But Mia, his only daughter, is on Benny 'Graves' Epstein's radar. And that means her life span just got shorter. Benny would off his own mother if there was a buck in it. Sending Mia away is only part of the answer, because Benny has eyes everywhere. Lou knows the only sure way to protect her is to settle an old score. But to do that he must go underground.To flush him out, Benny goes low, way low, low enough to kidnap Lou's best friend, his Chihuahua, Edward. The move ignites the old Lou, the Lou hell bent on winning no matter what. But now a wise-cracking ten-year-old kid named Zero is also in Benny's crosshairs and Lou has a soft spot for him. The guns-blazing approach could get the boy killed. On the other hand, brute force is the only way to deal with Benny. Battling his crumbling health, he struggles to save both Mia and Zero, while holding off dark forces from the past.

In Oakley, Florida, in 2005. Frank Jackson and Diane Ferguson are killed with a pipe wrench. The problem? Frank and Diane have no connection. Guy Fowler was convicted but claims to have been drunk at home when the murders occurred. Fingerprints on the wrench say otherwise. Retired police officer Bart Long, now riddled with cancer, believes Fowler is innocent. As a last request, he asks his son, small-town cop Jake Long to find the real killer. Jake wants no part of the cold case that nearly cost his father his marriage. But when Nell Stoner reports her boyfriend missing, Jake is drawn back in time. Neck-deep in the double homicide, Jake contends with an unfaithful wife, illicit drugs, killer twins, and a psychotic woman who uses snakes to murder her enemies.Best thriller and Unpublished Book of the Year, Royal Palm Awards, Florida Writers Association.

Winner of the Florida Writers Association's Royal Palm Award for best suspense novel, and The Mystery Writers of America Freddie Award.Political cartoons are supposed to tick people off, not drive them to violence. Tim Ryder finds out the pen is not only mightier than the sword, but is the sword. Ryder is trying to bury the past, but it's a stubborn corpse. Seven years ago he drew a cartoon series that earned him a Pulitzer, but drove a presidential candidate to put a bullet in his head. After drinking himself out of the profession, he moves to Orlando, Florida to draw for a small daily. He gets into an altercation with a reader over a Middle East cartoon. The man threatens him, and is arrested. Ryder goes back to the drawing board. But his troubles expand like a fat man at a free buffet, when local politicians begin turning up dead and the murder scenes are staged to resemble cartoons Ryder has drawn. Now the cartoonist must face not only the demise of the newspaper industry, but also demons from the past and those in the present that will change him forever.

There was a time when Simon Crumb didn't believe in ghosts. That was before he accepted a dare by the school bullies to go into a haunted house for a selfie. There, he's confronted by a vengeful spirit. He manages to escape. But as he races home on his bike, he realizes the ghost has hitched a ride with him. In his phone. The entity wants something, demands something. But Simon's nightmares about a roaring freight train, a rickety bridge, and a strange medallion bring him no closer to the answer. And what about the bullies who pushed him into the dare? Do they have a connection to the past that could spell danger to Simon and his friend, Nikki? Simon and Nikki dig into the history of the haunted house on Blaine Street and uncover a tale of treachery, deceit, and murder. Can they solve a mystery that has been buried for decades? Gold winner in the middle-grade fiction category, Royal Palm Awards 2020.