Vanishing Girls

He took everything . . . then came back for more.

Former Detective Karin Schaeffer has nothing left to live for after serial killer Martin Price destroys all she holds dear. Known as "The Domino Killer" because he leaves dominoes as a clue to his next victim, Price doesn't stop until an entire family is destroyed. Even when he's locked away in prison, the shadow he casts over Karin's life keeps her in constant darkness.

Then a policeman brings news to her door: Price has escaped. Karin knows where he's headed because of the message he left behind last time, scrawled in blood, on her bathroom mirror-

You are next.

But Karin Schaeffer refuses to run and hide. She feels no fear and has nothing left to lose. And so she waits. She won't stand by and let Price harm any more of her family. And she won't rest until she's put him back behind bars forever . . . or until one of them is dead.

Karin Schaeffer thought she had already defeated evil. But there was more.

Three years ago, Detective Karin Schaeffer wanted to die when a madman murdered her family-and she would have if her partner, Mac MacLeary, hadn't pulled her back from the edge of the abyss. Now they are married, with a toddler son, and Karin is learning to live again.

Then Mac's parents are slain in a brutal home invasion . . . And Mac vanishes . . . And a new nightmare begins.

Karin is determined to do whatever it takes to find her husband. But the answers waiting for her in the shadows are almost as unbelievable as his disappearance. Karin pursues the truth-leading her away from her home in Brooklyn to the terrifying heart of the Mexican drug wars to Cape Cod in winter-as dark secrets about the man she loves are revealed. . . .

THE DAY SEEMS PERFECTLY ORDINARY...UNTIL LAUREN DOESN'T COME HOME.

Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children in their comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Lauren doesn't come home, then fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day turns into a nightmare-and Alice begins to realize that nothing will ever be ordinary again..

The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant. Alice, herself pregnant, realizes she's being followed and has the creeping fear that she and her unborn twins are in danger. As the investigation intensifies, Alice is shocked as her familiar world begins to unravel. And as new life grows within her, she must fight to save her family-and herself...

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner

"Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders

"Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books

WHEN ANNIE'S IDENTITY IS STOLEN...SHE RUNS BUT CANNOT HIDE.

After discovering an email revealing her husband's infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, Annie takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and Julie soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything comes undone. Her credit cards are stolen just a she's arrested for grand larceny.

The police realize she is the victim of identity theft, but she has yet to understand the true scale of the crime. And when Annie turns to Julie for help, she finds that her twin sister has disappeared...along with her baby. Now with her daughter--and her own life--on the line, Annie is going to fight for what is hers.

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner

"Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders

"Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books

ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED....

New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl--but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call comes, they know she's not alone.

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner

"Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders

"Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books

WHO WILL LIVE AND WHO WILL DIE?

A team of burglars plans to rob a secluded country house in Waterbury, Connecticut while the famous owner is away visiting relatives for the holidays. But volatile relationships within this family lead to a last minute change in plans, and three generations convene in Waterbury instead. When the burglars arrive to find the house occupied instead of empty, a simple crime quickly becomes complicated in this gripping psychological thriller.

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner

"Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders

"Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books

A growing obsession.

Darcy Mayhew, a recently widowed young mother, relocates to New York City to pursue her career as an investigative journalist for the New York Times.  On her first day on the job, she meets Joe Coffin, an ordinary young man who hails from her hometown of Martha's Vineyard, and agrees to accompany him to lunch.  But one lunch with Joe quickly turns into a series of unwanted gifts, midnight phone calls, and even several break-ins.

An escalating threat.

Joe's fixation begins to threaten Darcy's job, her friendships, and even her family.  She goes to the police, only to realize how powerless she is in the face of a stalker who hasn't officially done anything worthy of a night in jail.  So when Joe attacks someone very close to Darcy, it's up to her alone to bring down the worst threat she has ever had to face.

If he can't have her, no one will.

Praise for Katia Lief:

“Nail-biting suspense.” –Richard Montanari

“Your heart will be pounding long after you’ve turned the final page.” –Lisa Gardner

“Suspense at a high level.” –Midwest Book Review

“Exhilarating.” –The Mystery Gazette

“Readers will want to read more of this talented writer’s work.” –New York Journal of Books

About the Author:

Katia Lief is best known for her internationally acclaimed crime novels, some written pseudonymously as Kate Pepper.  Her Karin Schaeffer thriller series, which began in 2010 with You Are Next and concludes in 2013 with The Money Kill, is currently being published by HarperCollins.  Katia teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan and lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.   Learn more at katialief.com

A serial killer is loose on Cape Cod.  Retired FBI profiler John Geary has five days to stop him--before it's too late for a mother and her son.

USA TODAY AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Mesmerizing…Your heart will be pounding long after you’ve turned the final page.” --Lisa Gardner, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love You More

“Taut, clean storytelling.” –Publishers Weekly

“I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors were locked.”  --Barbara Parker, New York Times Bestselling Author of Suspicion of Betrayal

“A gripping, poignant portrait of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil.” –Anne Frazier, Author of Play Dead

“Five Days has it all—an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you’ll never want to meet.” --Leslie Glass, Author of Sleeper
“Strikes terror into a lazy summer day." --Donna Anders, Author of In All the Wrong Places

"WE WERE DELINQUENTS, ADDICTS, MENTAL CASES, ORPHANS AND KIDS FROM BROKEN HOMES."

Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970's, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks.

Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict. In the loosening of family ties, and faced with an inscrutable headmaster, uncommunicative parents and a doomed first love, Kate makes shadowy passage through her questioning adolescence...finding solace in a 'soul catcher' dangling inside a geodesic dome built by a quirky boy whosurprises her with an unexpected friendship.

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books