Tami Hoag

In Louisiana, Deputy Sheriff Annie Broussard catches Detective Renard beating a man the whole town believes is guilty of murder even though a court acquitted him. Annie arrests Renard, only to become ostracized by the town and suspended from the police department. But Renard too is suspended and in a twist of fate the pair must join forces to investigate the murder anew. By the author of Guilty as Sin.

Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this bestselling series. Through Leone's pioneering, science-based investigatory skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work.

Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as the heart of a killer, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together....

Elena Estes, a former undercover cop turned PI, is devastated when she realizes a body she finds in a south Florida canal is that of her friend Irina Markova, a groom with whom she once worked at a horse stable. Assisted by ex-lover Det. James Landry, the tough-as-nails Elena immerses herself in Irina's murder investigation. One of the suspects happens to be Bennett Walker, the ex-fiancé Elena hasn't seen in 20 years, who was previously tried and...

In the dead of night he performs his profane ceremony. He arranges the body. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. Then he lights the match. 'Ashes to Ashes'. The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator. The city is in uproar. But as he strikes the match over his third victim, he has a witness, a teenage runaway who sees the cremator's face in the flickering light of the pyre. Advocate Kate Conlan struggles to unlock the motivation of her chief...

It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore...

"When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no evidence of forced entry, not a clue that points to a...

Ellen North is an assistant county attorney in the small town of Deer Lake, Minnesota. Having relocated to the boonies to escape the big-city crime scene, she and the rest of the town are shocked when little Josh Kirkwood is kidnapped. A suspect is quickly apprehended and it looks like the police have gotten their man.

Attorney Laurel Chandler tries not to fall for the charm of notorious bad boy writer Jack Boudreaux, a man who has seduced half the women in Bayou Breaux.

Trauma nurse Julia McCarver was in shock when she answered the door and found the past standing there in the person of former football quarterback S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once, but three times after she had suffered from his selfishness, and she had no intention of making it a fourth. But S.T. wants two weeks to convince Julia that he's changed.