Pretty Dead

People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory of her brother, the return of her first love, or the brooding, magnetic Jared—she cannot say. What if it's something more . . . Something to do with the sudden tear in her perfect nails. The heat she feels when she's with Jared. The blood rushing once again to her cheeks and throughout her veins. For Charlotte is a vampire, witness to almost a century's worth of death and destruction. But not since she was a human girl has mortality touched her. In what way will you be transformed? Until now.

“A suspenseful, thrilling read that will keep you on pins and needles until the last page.” —Liezel and Angie's Book Blog Beautiful. Perfect. Dead. In the peaceful seaside town of Cape Bonita, wicked secrets and lies are hidden just beneath the surface. But all it takes is one tragedy for them to be exposed. The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she's next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to a boy from her physics class. The one she's never really noticed before, with the rumored dark past and a brooding stare that cuts right through her. There's something he isn't telling her. But there's something she's not telling him, either. Everyone has secrets, and theirs might get them killed.

The new homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first unsolved murder at Seaview High. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killer, and the teen who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. "Utterly savage." –Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They’ll Never Catch Us "Hand this fast-paced thriller filled with plenty of twists and drama to fans of Holly Jackson or Karen M. McManus." -SLJ A 2023 Edgar Award Nominee! After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen. With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmother’s books. But the more Cecelia digs into the town’s secrets, the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending.

One By One. . . Two decades ago, at a private women's college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found. . . They Disappear. . . Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it's an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish. . . And Die. . . As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she's being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game--a game that only will end when she dies. . . "If you like Dean Koontz, you'll love John Manning!" --Wendy Corsi Staub, New York Times bestselling author

Barbara is dead, VERY dead, but she just wants to check social media and spend time with her almost-boyfriend. She definitely doesn't want to attend spirit school and learn how to be a spirit guide. Talk about inconvenient! Barbara's instructor, Vineet, isn't making her afterlife any easier. Vineet is zany, nerdy, and a little bit weird. They're polar opposites, but somehow, some way, they have to work together to make humans' wishes come true. Pretty Dead Girl is part of the Spirit School series, but can be read as a standalone story.

When peace and love turn into deadly conflict... Inspector Ikmen and Inspector Sulleymen uncover the dark legacies of Istanbul's past in Pretty Dead Things, the tenth chilling thriller from the Inspector Ikmen series. Barbara Nadel will impress fans of Andrea Camilleri and Jason Goodwin. 'Riveting... Nadel takes us far beneath the surface of the city's ancient streets... A heady and stunningly exciting take on the crime genre' - Lancashire Evening Post When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across the city when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in the sixties. According to her husband, Emine never really left behind the free love pleasures she discovered back then and he suspects she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked? What readers are saying about Pretty Dead Things: 'A well planned novel with a mixture of the politics and social history of Istanbul as a background to a thrilling mystery starring Inspector Ikmen' 'The plot is one of her [Barbara Nadel's] best and her characters [...] have become fully fleshed individuals by this point in the series'

From New York Times bestselling author Samantha Towle comes a gripping psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. I'd once believed that nothing would equal the pain of losing my parents. I was wrong. I had barely even begun to process their deaths when it started. The love notes, flowers, gifts ... all anonymously left on my porch. Then, I opened my door to a dead bird. At first, I thought it had died naturally.I knew that wasn't the case when I found my neighbor's cat the next day. Then, the murders started. The victims ... women who looked eerily similar to me. I had a stalker. A murderous one. And I had no clue who he was. He never showed me his face. Not even when he carved his final message into me. I survived that night. But my life was over. It had ended the moment Tobias Ripley's infatuation with me began. So, I changed my name and moved away. Now, I live a life of solitude. I don't make connections with anyone. Until Jack Canti walks into my life with his sharp eyes and easy smiles. Only Jack isn't the man he says he is. And when the murders start again, I'm left wondering if it's a copycat. Or worse ... What if Tobias wasn't the real killer after all ... and the murderer has been right here with me all along?

The 5th book in the Vikki Mattsen crime series. A female detective, police procedurals, women Sleuth murder mystery. A small-town ambitious beauty queen and schoolteacher, ready to jump into the national pageant scene, is found brutally murdered. Mattsen and Gomez investigate. Chasing truths in a maze of lies: every secret holds a deadly surprise. When a small-town beauty queen and beloved schoolteacher is found brutally murdered, Detective Vikki Mattsen and her partner Mike Gomez are called in to investigate. As they delve deeper into the case, they discover a tangled web of secrets and lies, including acquaintances of the deceased, who may have played a role in the crime. With pressure mounting to solve the case and bring the killer to justice, Mattsen and Gomez race against time to untangle the truth and stop the murderer before they strike again.