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Matt Owens is a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist, but at 35 he's adrift, more inclined to hit the bottle alone than the Miami Beach club scene. But when his beloved younger sister Mandy comes to visit, Matt wants to show her a new world. It's the trip of her dreams, but the nightmare begins when Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor. When her lifeless body is found, one clue-a grisly rock song downloaded onto her iPod-may be the calling card of a serial killer.Shattered with grief and guilt, Matt vows to find Mandy's killer, following a chain of musical clues that lead him from an abandoned London rock club to a crumbling Scottish castle and finally to the ancient bone-strewn catacombs below Paris. Only one person believes in his quest-Eve Bellamont, a dedicated French detective whose own five-year obsession to find the same killer has made her an outcast in her own department. Together, they race to decipher the "killing songs" that the madman leaves with each victim and stop him before another beautiful young woman dies.

PJ Parrish is pleased  to present OUR NOIR, a collection of short stories and a Louis Kincaid novella.The collection includes:LOST AND FOUNDMaybe there was something that happened to men when they stood on bridges, like standing in the middle of a bridge put them half-way between something good and bad. Or weak or strong. Or between yesterday and tomorrow.ONE SHOTIt was all his fault. He knew he had to make it right some-how. That is why he had come back here. He knew that suddenly. He had come back here, to this house, to try and save himself and his family. To give it one last shot.GUTTER SNIPESThe sign wasn’t some mystical crystal ball that was going to help him beat Bulldog and light the way for the re-purification of the greatest game ever invented. It was just a rusty old relic of a vanishing era.PRIDESometimes the female lions band together and roar as a group to drive the killer male away. They roar as one to make sure their cubs survive. That night, when the roaring builds to its crescendo, I lay there and listen. I listen, trying hard to interpret the sounds, trying hard to hear my own heart.CLAW BACK (A Louis Kincaid novella)Louis Kincaid has lost his career, his lover and in many ways, himself. Desperate to find something meaningful in life, he is willing to get down on his knees and ask his nemesis, the local sheriff, for a chance at getting back his badge.  The sheriff gives him that chance, providing he can prove himself in a just-breaking case: Her name is Grace. She's eight years old. And she's missing in the Florida Everglades.  

A LITTLE SEX. A LITTLE DEATH.When a headless corpse is found in an abandoned cattle pen in a remote area of South Florida called The Devil's Garden, police connect the dots and they lead 60 miles due east to the gilded island of Palm Beach. The dead man is a friend of Reggie Kent, a gentle man who spends his time escorting lonely rich women to social events. But when the Palm Beach socialites close ranks against Reggie, he becomes the prime suspect in the grisly murder and turns to Louis Kincaid to clear his name. But what do the disparate worlds of cattle ranching and Palm Beach society have in common? And why are they hanging Reggie Kent out to dry? When other headless bodies turn up, Louis sets his sights on an unlikely suspect—a prominent Florida senator with a penchant for sadistic sex. But Louis quickly finds out that in Palm Beach, the ultimate oasis of privilege and power, the rich will do anything to keep their secrets hidden.

Louis Kincaid is wearing a badge again -- as part of an elite homicide squad. But the return to his Michigan home comes at the bidding of a man who once vowed to destroy him. When the cold case deaths of two little boys collides with the white-hot murder of a mega-church minister, Louis finds himself fighting to unearth the secret past of his police captain -- and the demons of his own childhood.

A deep freeze is bearing down on the Florida Everglades, the kind of brutal storm the locals call a killing rain. For Detective Louis Kincaid, the coldest night of the year has brought a terrifying new chill-a grisly discovery that tightens his every nerve in warning. The body proves this is no routine case. It's the start of a nightmare. And when the killer chooses his next victim, there's no doubt the detective is matching wits with a predator who is as ruthless as they come. Now, with time running out, Kincaid is on a desperate hunt of his own, tracking a twisted adversary one step away from committing the ultimate horror.

In the wake of a hurricane, a tiny skull washes up on the beach in front of Louis's cottage. Days later, the bullet-riddled body of a woman surfaces in the mangroves. She has no ID-except for an odd ring carved of coral. Sensing a connection, Louis begins his investigation, a search for the truth that will lead him down a trail of secrets and lies-to the Island of Bones, where treachery never dies and the living never escape.

The placid town of Sereno Key is being rocked by a serial killer who is targeting black men, leaving his victims marked with black paint. When police zero in on a suspect, his wife hires Louis to help clear him. Lured from Michigan to work as a PI by his ex-boss, Louis joins forces with a novice FBI profiler, Emily Farrantino, and they quickly discover these are no ordinary hate crimes and that Sereno Key is only the latest stop on a psychopath's road tour from hell.

One by one, the bodies of the police officers are found, brutally executed with mysteriously coded death cards placed by every corpse. And the only sound louder than the doors of Loon Lake, Michigan being locked against evil is the sound of hearts beating in terror. When Louis Kincaid joins the small force and starts investigating, he doesn't realize that the truth—and the killer—is closer at hand than anyone can know.

For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean's daughter Amy, only five at the time, has been plagued by dream-like memories of a violent killing, and it is assumed that the murder she has seen is her mother's. But as Amy's veracity as a witness is put to the test, Louis and Joe realize that the details of her visions are not consistent with the evidence—in particular, the time period during which Jean was killed. A strange question emerges: Whose murder did Amy really see?