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"Wonderfully researched...Searing and brilliant...A must-read!"-- Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True Crime The first case -- the one that launched an epidemic of teacher/student abuse cases -- written by New York Times bestselling author, Gregg Olsen. You know how the story ended...but do you know how it all started? Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby daughter whisked from her arms. She was then shackled and returned to her jail cell. Just years ago, the pretty, personable Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy-- she had a handsome husband, four beautiful children, and a beloved following of students. Then she was accused of child rape, and her whole world turned upside down. Rapist Or Victim? How did a 34-year-old married teacher fall in love with one of her sixth-grade students? Was it a complete lapse of judgment, or-- as she contends-- the meeting of two soulmates? Were the two planning to run away together-- before police caught them in a parked car? Did the couple have illicit sex in every room of the Letourneau house, as the teenager told the tabloids? Read about the case that shocked the world and rocked the headlines-- about the lonely life of Mary Kay Letourneau and the young object of her obsession, the boy who fathered two of her children. You may think you know the story of Mary Kay Letourneau-- but you don't know the whole story until you've read...If Loving You Is Wrong. Includes interviews with Mary Kay Letourneau. Amazon.com Review: The tale seems ripe for tabloid exploitation: the fresh-faced blond elementary schoolteacher and mother of four just couldn't keep her hands off that 13-year-old boy. Worse yet, Mary Kay Letourneau had become obsessed with the slight, Samoan teenager while he was still a student in her sixth-grade class--and he fathered two babies with her. Yet in the hands of true crime writer Gregg Olsen, If Loving You Is Wrong becomes a poignant profile of an emotionally stunted young woman tightly wound up in a web of lies too fragile to sustain the weight of her own compulsions. The facade the Letourneaus presented to the world was that of a devoted, upwardly mobile young couple. In reality Steve and Mary Kay were on the verge of financial and emotional bankruptcy. They married because she'd become pregnant and appearances were everything to Mary Kay's parents, ultra-conservative, family-values-promoting politician John Schmitz and his icy wife, Mary. Olsen, whose previous books include Abandoned Prayers and Black Widow, does a superior job with the story, interviewing Letourneau herself as well as friends and neighbors, researching and assembling the facts behind the lurid headlines in a nonjudgmental manner that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about the bigger issues at stake. Was Mary Kay Letourneau a pedophile, a child rapist, a female Humbert Humbert? Or was she, as she claims, a woman who'd found a soul mate and a true love that defied America's puritanical norms? Read If Loving You Is Wrong and decide for yourself. -- Patrizia DiLucchio Review The Tucson Citizen called Olsen "One of America's favorite crime writers."

WITH PHOTOS! Three complete short stories by Investigation Discovery's Dark Minds show host M. Williams with an introduction to the collection by New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen. DANCE WITH THE DEVIL In August 1982, a 30-year-old woman, Jane Goodwin, was found murdered in her Newark, New Jersey apartment. Her killer had strangled Jane until she passed out. Then, reportedly, he ripped open her blouse, posed her with her breasts exposed, and repeatedly stabbed Jane in the chest. He left no fingerprints or DNA-just a shattered, grieving family. Over the next 19 years, three other women were attacked in a similar fashion. Two of them, Karen Osman (at Rutgers University in Newark) and Carmen Rodriquez (in Hartford, Connecticut) died at this monster's hand. Police eventually caught their assailant, Edwin "Ned" Snelgrove, a promising college grad with an uncontrollable desire to hurt women. Ned was jailed. Yet while serving a 20-year sentence, he developed a twisted obsession with one very sick hero-infamous serial murderer Ted Bundy, a man he wrote about extensively in his prison letters to a friend. Ned studied the notorious killer, looked up to him. And as Ned festered in prison, waiting for the day he was to be cut loose, he decided he would be better than Bundy when he got out and started killing once again. Author M. William Phelps takes readers to some very dark places here, so hang on. EASTBOUND STRANGLER Here, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Phelps takes readers and fans of the series deep into his personal life and a dark connection to the Eastbound Strangler case, how he feels about several suspects named by law enforcement, and shares an exclusive interview he conducted with a woman who claims she was with the Eastbound Strangler and his final victim, Kim Raffo, on the night before Kim's body was found. In November 2006, the bodies of four women were discovered in a drainage ditch behind a row of hotels, on the fringes of Atlantic City, New Jersey. After years of intense investigation, law enforcement remains baffled by the fact the victims' shoes were missing, and their heads were all pointing east. Three of the women were known prostitutes who worked "The Track," a wasteland of broken dreams behind the casinos, on the dark side of Atlantic City's famous boardwalk. NOTHING THIS EVIL EVER DIES Did Son of Sam have an intimate, homosexual relationship with a fellow (serial killer) inmate while in prison? Was Sam's real name Richard Falco? Has Son of Sam-who claimed in 2011 that he does not want to seek parole because he has been "freed" by Jesus Christ-been perpetrating a fraud with his supposed "salvation"? In quoted excerpts from these exclusive letters written by Son of Sam to serial killer Gary Evans, a deeper, more interesting and eccentric psychopath emerges. For the first time, author Phelps explores how Son and Sam and serial killer Gary Evans (from Phelps's bestseller Every Move You Make) became best friends while doing time together in a New York state prison. If you thought you knew Son of Sam, think again. THE SERIAL KILLERS DOWN THE ROAD In this introductory essay, author Gregg Olsen recounts the serial killers who've crossed his path in Washington State - Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway, Linda Burfield Hazzard, and Robert Yates.

Kevin Ryan is a writer in the much-maligned genre of true crime who desperately needs a devious, over-the-top story for the subject of his next book. How else can he keep his wife Valerie's roots dyed and keep himself from handing out taco samples at the local supermarket? When Kevin isn't Googling himself or spot checking his books' stock at stores around the country or online, he's bringing the hazards (ie, criminals and other crazies) of his job home to wife Val and twin daughters Taylor and Hayley. Kevin is on the hunt for the big one, the story that could break him out of the mid-list and onto the bestseller lists. And then there's a knock at the door--a story finds him... A distraught 20-year old Jett Carter shows up at the Ryan house because her mother and sister are imprisoned-perhaps if Kevin writes their story and reveals the truth, he might help exonerate them. The Carters' tale is the perfect white-trash-attempted-murder-love-triangle that Kevin's editor will love and his fans will devour. He begins to write "Love You to Death." Then on a beautiful summer day, the wheels of homicide are set in motion and Kevin's own story begins to eclipse the crime he is chronicling. When his #1 fan is murdered and another body turns up, the Ryans' life in Port Gamble and all that Kevin holds dear is in jeopardy. Somewhere in "Love You to Death" and within the "bunch of low rent losers" he's interviewing is the killer.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead. Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something's off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and cold, while charismatic Sharon has her husband wrapped around her finger. It isn't long before Sharon is charming her husband's congregation, and finds herself in a tryst with local, married optometrist Perry Nelson. After the affair ends both their marriages, Sharon and Perry tie the knot. But shortly afterwards, Perry disappears. When his body is shockingly discovered the bottom of a canyon, his death is ruled an accident, allowing grieving widow Sharon to claim his substantial life insurance. Trying to move on from the tragedy, Sharon soon remarries fireman Glenn Harrelson. But when the charred remains of Glenn's body are discovered with two bullet holes in his skull, the police can't help but question if both men dying in such mysterious circumstances is one coincidence too many... Shocking, sensational and gripping, this is the true story of the black widow Sharon Nelson, a must-read tale of greed, sex and murder in a sleepy Colorado town that will have true crime fans of The Staircase, American Mother and Making a Murderer hooked from start to finish. This book was originally published as Confessions of an American Black Widow and Bitch on Wheels. Read what everyone is saying about Confessions of an American Black Widow: "Another winner from Gregg Olsen!!! If you really love a great, nail-biting true crime novel, THIS is it!! Once you start, it's darned hard to put down. Seriously. Mr Olsen again takes you on a twisty, narrow road... you just cannot put this book down." Amazon reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ "You pick up this book and start to read. Suddenly you realize you cannot stop reading, you need to know what happened next... a page turner... this book deeply affected me and I eat true crime books for breakfast... amazing... one of Gregg Olsen's finest." Amazon reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ "I read this book in one sitting. I couldn't put it down." Amazon reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead.

Når søstrene Nikki, Sami og Tori Knotek hører ordet mor, oplever de det – selv efter ti år – som en ørns kløer, og det fremkalder minder, de har holdt hemmelige siden deres barndom. Frem til nu. Bag de lukkede døre i deres hus i Raymond, Washington, udsatte deres sadistiske mor, Shelly, i årevis sine piger for et utænkeligt misbrug, fornedrelse, tortur og psykisk terror. Gennem alt dette udviklede Nikki, Sami og Tori en samhørighed og en trods, som gjorde dem langt mindre sårbare, end Shelly kunne forestille sig. Selv da andre blev trukket ind i deres mors mørke og perverse net, fandt søstrene styrken og modet til at flygte fra et tiltagende mareridt, som kulminerede i adskillige mord. ’Min mor – en seriemorder’ er en rystende og hjerteskærende overlevelseshistorie om ubeskrivelig ondskab – og om den frihed og retfærdighed, som Nikki, Sami og Tori risikerede deres liv for. Som søstre til evig tid og aldrig mere ofre fandt de et lys i mørket, som gjorde dem til de stærke kvinder, de er i dag – kærlige, elskede og på vej videre.

From the #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author comes a gripping psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking, set in a gentrified Oregon community that becomes the backdrop for an unthinkable tragedy. Now available in a mass market paperback edition for the first time!It only takes one fleeting moment for Liz Camden to change the lives of everyone she loves.The community along Oregon’s Deschutes River is one of successful professionals and perfect families. For years, up-and-comers Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David. They appear to have it all—security, happiness, and a beautiful young son, Charlie.Then Charlie vanishes without a trace, and all that seemed safe is shattered by a tragedy that is incomprehensible—except to Liz. She can’t undo the terrible mistake she made. Or her unforgiveable decision to conceal it.As two marriages crack and buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into her own dark place of guilt, escalating paranoia, and betrayals even she can’t imagine. Because there’s another good neighbor who has his own secrets, his own pain, and his own reasons for watching Liz’s every move. . . . Someone who knows that the mystery of the missing boy on the Deschutes River is far from over.“Olsen WILL SCARE YOU—AND YOU’LL LOVE IT.” —Lee Child

Die junge Frau liegt mit ausgestreckten Armen da. Ihre Lippen sind leicht geöffnet. Ihr Gesicht ist unversehrt, und ihr Haar ist wie ein Fächer um ihren Kopf gelegt. Eine Rothaarige. Genau wie die anderen. Als die Leiche von Leann Truitt in einer abgelegenen Bucht in Mystery Bay gefunden wird, ist Detective Megan Carpenter eine der ersten am Tatort. Das Opfer hat verräterische Spuren an den Handgelenken, Knöcheln und am Hals, wo sie gefesselt wurde. Aber das ist noch nicht alles. Neben Leanns Leiche liegt ein rätselhafter Hinweis - ein ungewöhnliches Symbol, das in einen Stein geritzt ist. Mit der neuen Deputy Ronnie Marsh unter ihren Fittichen und den Ermittlungen im vollen Gange erhält Megan plötzlich beunruhigende Nachrichten. Jemand weiß über ihre traumatische Vergangenheit Bescheid. Jemand weiß, was sie getan hat. Entschlossen, sich auf den Fall zu konzentrieren, stellt Megan bald eine besorgniserregende Verbindung zwischen Leanns brutaler Ermordung und den ungelösten Mordfällen an zwei anderen Frauen her - alle rothaarig, mit den gleichen Spuren an ihren Körpern, den gleichen Symbolen an den Tatorten und, entsetzlicherweise, alle schwanger. Der Mörder verfolgt seine Beute, entführt und foltert sie nach einem sehr genauen und geplanten Muster. Und er ist noch nicht fertig ... Ein süchtig-machender, fesselnder und absolut mitreißender Krimi des New-York-Times- und Amazon-Bestsellerautors. Was Leser:innen über die Detective-Megan-Carpenter-Serie sagen:¿¿Oh mein Gott! Wow! Ich habe dieses Buch geliebt!! ... es war unglaublich! Ich kann es nicht erwarten, mehr zu lesen! Es hat mich förmlich gefesselt. Ich konnte es nicht aus der Hand legen. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿Eine großartige und gruselige Geschichte, perfekt für den Winter. Ich würde gerne mehr von diesem Autoren lesen. Fantastisch und gut geschrieben, sehr empfehlenswert. NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿Ich liebe, liebe, liebe Detective Megan Carpenter, eine knallharte, gründliche, geradlinige Detective, obwohl sie in ihrem Privatleben mit vielen Problemen zu kämpfen hat. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿Wenn du erstklassige, charakterstarke Krimis magst, ist dies genau das richtige Buch und der richtige Autor für dich, denn Gregg Olsen ist einer der besten Autoren, die es derzeit in diesem Genre gibt. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿

Oh mein Gott!! ... Dieses Buch hat mich einfach umgehauen ... Ich konnte nicht aufhören zu lesen ... selbst, wenn ich es wollte. Die Geschichte hat mich an der Kehle gepackt und mich alle paar Kapitel nach Luft schnappen lassen ... Wow!! Shalini's Books and Reviews, ¿¿¿¿¿ Verstreute Fußabdrücke waren wie heruntergefallene Blätter auf dem Boden zu sehen. Sie blickte hinunter in die Schlucht, und wieder füllte sich ihre Brust mit Angst. Eine Leiche lag still und regungslos im Gebüsch. Als Ruth Turner ins Büro des Sheriffs in Port Townsend im Jefferson County kommt und behauptet, ihre Schwester Ida Wheaton sei seit über einem Monat verschwunden, weiß Detective Megan Carpenter instinktiv, dass es sich hier um mehr als eine einfache Vermisstenanzeige handelt. Auf dem Weg zu Idas abgelegenem Bauernhaus in den Hügeln über Snow Creek findet Megan Idas zwei Kinder allein und verängstigt vor. In dem Haus gibt es keinen Fernseher. Keine Videospiele. Nichts von der Außenwelt. Irgendetwas an der Familie Wheaton stimmt nicht und löst bei Megan eine schmerzhafte Kindheitserinnerung aus - von dem Tag, als ihre Eltern plötzlich verschwanden. Dann wird die Leiche einer Frau in einem verlassenen Pickup in der Nähe des Hauses der Wheatons entdeckt, und Megan ist überzeugt, dass die Fälle miteinander verbunden sind. Um den Mörder zu fassen, muss Megan die Geheimnisse der abgelegenen Gemeinde Snow Creek aufdecken. Aber Megan hat ihre eigene dunkle Vergangenheit ... Von dem New York Times-, Wall Street Journal-, USA Today- und der Amazon- Bestsellerautor kommt der erste absolut atemberaubende und unaufhaltsame Kriminalroman der Serie um Detective Megan Carpenter. Was Leser:innen über Die dunkle Schlucht sagen: Heiliger Strohsack, was für eine umwerfende Lektüre, die alles hat: sensationell, gruselig, süchtig machend, mit einer atemberaubend komplexen Handlung von Anfang bis Ende, ... ich habe es geliebt! ... Das wird zu meinen besten Büchern des Jahres gehören. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Oh mein Gott! Wow! Ich habe dieses Buch geliebt!! ... es war unglaublich! Ich kann es nicht erwarten, mehr zu lesen! Es hat mich förmlich gefesselt. Ich konnte es nicht aus der Hand legen. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Fantastisch! Ich glaube, dies ist das bisher beste Buch dieses Autors. Das Buch ist düster, intensiv und bringt einen zum Fluchen. Die Handlung ist gut aufgebaut und die Figuren sind faszinierend. Ich habe es in einem Rutsch durchgelesen und kann es kaum erwarten, bis es weitergeht. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Eine großartige und gruselige Geschichte, perfekt für den Winter. Ich würde gerne mehr von diesem Autoren lesen. Fantastisch und gut geschrieben, sehr empfehlenswert. NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Ich liebe, liebe, liebe Detective Megan Carpenter, eine knallharte, gründliche, geradlinige Detective, obwohl sie in ihrem Privatleben mit vielen Problemen zu kämpfen hat. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Wenn du erstklassige, charakterstarke Krimis magst, ist dies genau das richtige Buch und der richtige Autor für dich, denn Gregg Olsen ist einer der besten Autoren, die es derzeit in diesem Genre gibt. Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿

Der gelbe Kunststoff des Duschvorhangs ist mit blutroten Spritzern übersät. Das Opfer bis zur Unkenntlichkeit entstellt. Ein einlaminiertes Foto eines Teenager-Mädchens von der South Kitsap Highschool ist an den Spiegel gelehnt. Grauenvolle Tatorte sind nichts Neues für Detective Megan Carpenter, aber als sie in der Wohnung einer Frau ankommt, deren Leiche brutal zugerichtet wurde, stellt Megan schockiert fest, dass sie das Opfer kennt. Monique Delmont hatte Megan vor Jahren geholfen, als sie in Gefahr war. Und der Mörder hat eine verstörende Visitenkarte hinterlassen: zwei laminierte Fotos einer sechzehnjährigen Highschool-Schülerin - Megan. Jemand verhöhnt sie auf die schlimmste Art und Weise, und Megan ist überzeugt, dass sie weiß, wer dafür verantwortlich ist. Sie muss ihn nur finden. Mit der Hilfe ihrer neuen Partnerin, Deputy Ronnie Marsh, beginnt Megan ihre Ermittlungen und stößt auf Verbindungen zu drei Frauenmorden, die fast zwanzig Jahre zurückliegen - eines der Opfer war Moniques Tochter. Als weitere Fotos der jugendlichen Megan in der Wohnung ihres Freundes in Snow Creek gefunden werden, weiß sie, dass der Mörder seine Kreise enger zieht und bereit ist, erneut zuzuschlagen. Kann sie ihn fassen, bevor er sie findet? Und wird sie das ultimative Opfer bringen müssen dafür, dass sie versucht hat, ihre schreckliche Vergangenheit zu verbergen und ihr ganzes Team belogen hat? Der neue spannenden Fall für Megan Carpenter vom New-York-Times-, Wall-Street-Journal-, USA-Today- und Amazon-Bestsellerautor Gregg Olsen. Was Leser:innen über Auf schmalem Grat sagen: Das beste Buch bisher. Megan ist eine starke Frau, die keine Zeit verschwendet. Ich würde ihr auf keinen Fall in die Quere kommen wollen! ... eine aufwühlende Geschichte, die einem den Atem stocken lässt, und ich musste ständig daran denken, wann immer ich es nicht gerade las. Gregg Olsen hat sich mit diesem Buch selbst übertroffen. NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Die ersten Szenen packen einen, ziehen einen in das Geschehen hinein ... Die Handlung bewegt sich schnell mit Action und Spannung. Ich habe in jeder freien Minute weitergelesen! Ich musste herausfinden, was passieren würde. NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿ Ich liebe Megan ... eine großartige Serie, bei der mir sich ständig die Nackenhaare aufstellen, und ich liebe es. B for Book Review, ¿¿¿¿¿ Diese Story hat mich einfach gepackt und in nur wenigen Stunden bis zum Ende mitgerissen. Ich konnte es nicht aus der Hand legen. Die Handlung, die Charaktere, Megan ... die ganze Geschichte ist hervorragend. Goodreads Rezensentin ¿¿¿¿¿ Das ist eine Serie, die mit jedem Buch immer fesselnder wird ... Ich konnte es nicht aus der Hand legen ... Sehr empfehlenswert und eine Fünf-Sterne-Lektüre, ich habe jede Seite geliebt ... Goodreads Rezensentin ¿¿¿¿¿

Mami, ich habe Angst. Marlenas süßer Junge liegt mit seinem kleinen Arm auf ihrem Oberschenkel. Es ist stockdunkel, und sie kann Möwen hören. Sie erkennt, dass sie in der Nähe des Wassers sein müssen, und eine neue Panik steigt in ihr auf. An einem eisigen Wintermorgen um 2 Uhr morgens in den schicken Vororten von Jefferson County meldet der Familienvater Ben Parker seine Frau Marlena und seinen kleinen Sohn als vermisst. Detective Megan Carpenter eilt zu dem beeindruckenden Haus der Familie und findet die Flure mit Bildern der hübschen Mutter und ihres Sohnes geschmückt. Aber das ist nicht alles. Eine Flasche mit pränatalen Vitaminen im Badezimmerschrank verrät, dass Marlena schwanger ist. Warum hat Ben das in seinem panischen Anruf bei der Polizei nicht erwähnt? Die perfekte Ehe ist nur Fassade: Das Paar ist getrennt, es gibt Gerüchte über eine Affäre, und die Nachbarn berichten von lauten Streitereien. Megan beschattet eine junge Frau, die sie für Bens heimliche Freundin hält, und findet ihren leblosen Körper dann in einem abgelegenen Waldstück. Bens Uhr liegt in der Nähe der Leiche, und der Fall scheint gelöst, aber Megan ist sich sicher, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Bens Familie ist wohlhabend, hat eine Privatinsel und Verbindungen in hohe Kreise. Versucht jemand, ihre Ermittlungen zu beeinflussen? Als Megan sich zu fragen beginnt, ob die Antwort auf der streng bewachten Insel der Parkers vor der Küste liegt, lässt eine schockierende Enthüllung sie alles in Frage stellen. Kann Megan die fehlenden Teile des komplexesten Falls ihrer Karriere zusammensetzen und Marlena und ihren kleinen Jungen lebend nach Hause bringen? Oder wird es zu spät sein, sie zu retten? Ein absolut spannender Mystery-Thriller, der dich bis zum Ende fesseln wird, vom New-York-Times-, Wall-Street-Journal- und Amazon-Bestseller-Autor. Perfekt für Fans von Robert Dugoni, Michael Connelly und James Patterson. Leser:innen sind begeistert von Am stillen Wasser: Absolut herzzerreißend... hat mein Herz und meine Seele ergriffen ... Eine fantastische Lektüre! Goodreads Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Ich MUSSTE dieses Buch unbedingt lesen... es wird dich weit über deine Schlafenszeit hinaus wach halten... ein spannender Thriller, bei dem du dich um dein Leben sorgst. Die Spannung ist nicht von dieser Welt! @ThrillByThePage_, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Wow... hat mich von Anfang bis Ende gefesselt... Ich habe bis in die frühen Morgenstunden gelesen. Goodreads Rezensent Hat mich von der ersten Seite an gefesselt ... ein Muss. NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Hat mich komplett umgehauen! @escape_tammy, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Habe es verschlungen ... so zwingend ... spannend ... ein Buch, das ich nicht weglegen konnte. NetGalley Rezensent Wow ... hat mich in Atem gehalten! NetGalley Rezensentin, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Hat mich von der ersten Seite an gefesselt. Goodreads Rezensent, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife. On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only her charred remains. Her husband Nick was visibly devastated by the loss. What investigators failed to note, however, was that Dawn's lungs didn't contain smoke. Was she dead before the fire began? So begins this true crime story that's unlike any other. It investigates Nick Hacheney, a philandering minister who had been carrying on with several women in the months before and just after his wife's death. He would be convicted for the murder five years to the day after the crime.From one of the foremost names in true crime, A Twisted Faith is a gripping and truly unforgettable story of a man whose charisma and desire rocked an entire community.

"No matter what you see, no matter what you've heard, assume nothing. Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State's Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It's the perfect getaway to relax--and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam's first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can't save her. And Sophie disappears. In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they've heard in the news, they're in the dark when it comes to Sophie's disappearance. For Adam, at least there's comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She'll do everything she can to help. She must. But as Adam's paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know--or they have yet to reveal all the lies they've hidden from the strangers they married."--Goodreads.

True crime journalist Gregg Olsen, author of the instant bestseller If You Tell, unravels the twisted tale of a shocking murder in Amish country.On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the country's strictest religious sect. But behind his quiet façade was a man involved with pornography, sadomasochism, and drugs. After the suspicious death of his pregnant wife, Stutzman took his preschool-age son, Danny, and hit the road on a sexual odyssey ending with his conviction for murder. But the mystery of Eli Stutzman and the fate of his son didn't end on the barren Nebraska plains. It was just beginning...Olsen's Abandoned Prayers is an incredible true story of murder and Amish secrets.

AN OLD WAY OF LIFE Thirty-year-old Barbara Weaver was content to live as the Amish have for centuries-without modern conveniences-but her husband, Eli, wanted a life beyond horses and buggies. Soon he gave in to the temptation of technology, and found ways to go online and meet women. When Barbara was found dead, shot in the chest at close range, all eyes were on Eli...and his mistress, a Conservative Mennonite named Barb Raber. A NEW KIND OF BETRAYAL-AND DEATH. . . Barb drove Eli to appointments in her car. She gave him everything he asked for: a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting spots-and sex. Above all, she gave him the cell phone he would use to plan a murder. The Weaver case marked only the third time an Amish man was suspected of killing his wife in more than two hundred years in America. But the investigation raised almost as many questions as it answered: Was Barb Raber the one who fired the fatal shot? Or was Barbara Weaver dead before someone entered the house? What did Eli's friends, family, and church really know about him? And will life among the "Plain People" ever be the same?

A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSINGEvery once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes...Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty Utah mother went missing in December of 2009, the media was swept up in the story-with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to Susan-and that he and the boys had been camping in the middle of a snowstorm. It was hard to know what, or who, to believe.AND A CYCLE OF DEVASTATION BEGINS...Over the next three years, bombshell by bombshell, a world of secrets about the Powell family came to light. Josh's father, Steve, who was sexually obsessed with Susan, would ultimately be convicted of unspeakable perversion. Josh's brother, Michael, would commit suicide. And in the most stunning event of them all, Josh Powell would murder his two little boys before killing himself. Why did he do it? What really happened to Susan? This is the shocking true story of the Powell family that no reader will soon forget.

When her grandfather suffers a suspicious, fatal heart attack at her wedding, Violet can barely conceal her joy. Predator by predator, she's coming for them. But the secrets she now keeps come with a price.

From Gregg Olsen, bestselling author of If You Tell, comes the heartbreaking true story of a mother's darkest secrets coming to light in Cruel Deception.In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister...First, the suspicion: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Then, Tanya was charged and convicted with felony child abuse of her son. She was later tried and ultimately convicted for first degree murder of Morgan. It would become a landmark trial that unfolded in a series of reversals and bizarre twists of fate as it gradually revealed another side of Tanya Reid--of her own troubling childhood and the dark secrets that drove a woman to the cruelest deception of all.

In this true story-a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights-Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves. Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard's accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.

For Detective Kendall Stark of Kitsap County in Port Orchard, Washington, memories of her teenage years are overshadowed by a classmate''s tragic death, which was ruled an accident. All these years Stark has kept her suspicions to herself, until her high school''s upcoming fifteen-year reunion reopens old wounds. Tori and Lainie O''Neal, the twin sisters who somehow survived the fateful crash, will meet again after years of estrangement, now more bitter than ever in the aftermath of a vicious murder. With the help of forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman, Kendall discovers a chilling pattern of unsolved fatalities. Before another victim is claimed, Stark races to unmask one the most relentless killers she''s ever encountered--a killer with the perfect disguise...

"A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environment where danger was a miner's heroin." -Seattle Times"Investigation at its best." -Tucson CitizenOn May 2, 1972, 174 miners entered Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, on their daily quest for silver. From his office window, safety engineer Bob Launhardt could see the air shafts that fed fresh air into the mine, which was more than a mile below the surface. Sunshine was a fireproof hardrock mine, full of nothing but cold, dripping wet stone. There were many safety concerns, but fire wasn't one of them. So when thick black smoke began pouring from one of the air shafts, Launhardt was as amazed as he was struck with fear. When the alarm sounded, less than half of the dayshift was able to return to the surface. The others were too deep in the mine to escape. Scores of miners died almost immediately, but in one of the deepest corners of the mine, Ron Flory and Tom Wilkinson were left alone and in total darkness, surviving off a trickle of fresh air from a borehole. The miners' families waited and prayed, while Launhardt refused to give up the search until he could be sure that no one was left underground. In The Deep Dark, Gregg Olsen looks beyond an intensely suspenseful story of the rescue and into the wounded heart of Kellogg, a quintessential company town that has never recovered from its loss.

"Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets ... In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposâe. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who's pulled millions into her euphoric orbit ... To hear Marnie Spellman tell it, when she was a child, a swarm of bees lifted her off the ground and toward the sunlight, illuming her spiritual connection with nature--an uncanny event on which Marnie built a cosmetics empire and became a legend, a healer, and the queen of holistic health and eternal beauty. In her inner circle is an intimate band of devotees called the Hive. They share Marnie's secrets of success--including one cloaked in darkness for twenty years. Determined to uncover the possibly deadly mysteries of the group, Lindsay focuses her investigation on Marnie and the former members of the Hive, who are just as determined to keep Lindsay from their secrets as they are to maintain their status"--

A dark pall hangs over Port Orchard, Washington, after the grisly remains of four young women surface in a matter of weeks. For Sheriff''s Detective Kendall Stark, the case is beyond the scope of anything she''s ever faced. The only thing she has to go on is the shocking brutality of the slayings--the work of a depraved killer on a gruesome mission. Time''s running out and Stark''s instincts tell her victim number five has already been targeted. As a last resort, she investigates a local reporter''s uncanny insights into the murders, while forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman confronts the chilling handiwork of a vile mastermind. Together these two women are determined to end a psychopath''s reign of terror...

Fifteen-year-old twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan of Port Gamble, WA, known as "Empty Coffin" because of a local legend, investigate a former friend's Christmas suicide and, along the way, discover a secret from their own past.