C. L. Brees

THE CORONER RULED HER DEATH A SUICIDE. UNFORTUNATELY, THINGS IN CEDAR LAKE ARE NEVER SO CLEAR-CUT.Lindsay Ross. The outspoken, hold-nothing-back school newspaper editor had dirt on everybody in the little Saskatchewan town. The girl with an endless list of invisible enemies. The girl DS Anderson and Gemma found hanging in the sawmill outside town on that May evening in 2009. Her death made front-page news for weeks, but she was just another grim case of suicide by the end of the investigation.And for thirteen years, everyone in town accepted it at face value. That was until paramedics wheeled Taylor Jackson, an old acquaintance, into Gemma's emergency room. He had something to confess; Lindsay Ross did not take her own life.In Trail of Deception, DS Anderson must return to Cedar Lake to uncover the truth. During his unofficial investigation, he confronts a laundry list of suspects from his past, many of whom he had hoped never to see again. As the investigation ramps up, he delves deeper into Lindsay's past, uncovering a web of deceit. And these lies shatter everything he thought he knew about everyone in his small hometown.As several suspects vanish, the urgency to find out what happened to Lindsay grows. But can DS Anderson uncover the truth? Or will he become another victim claimed by Cedar Lake?

★★B.R.A.G. MEDALLION HONOREE★★★★2020 IAN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST★★AFTER TEN YEARS AWAY, DETECTIVE SERGEANT CHRISTIAN ANDERSON MUST RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN. AS THE TOWN'S BURIED SECRETS COME TO THE SURFACE, IS HE PREPARED FOR WHAT HE WILL DISCOVER?What should have been a typical February morning changed the instant he answered his phone. It was Gemma. His one true friend and the only thing that kept him connected to Cedar Lake. Her older sister, Cassidy, vanished from the front steps of a rehab center two days ago and no one has seen or heard from her since. Adamant something terrible has happened, Gemma pleads for DS Anderson's help.As he tries to understand Cassidy's present, DS Anderson must first delve into her past. And as he digs deeper he exposes a dormant secret that connects them all. With the secret out, several suspects emerge, each all too eager to point the finger the other way.Running out of time, can DS Anderson not only save a lost soul, but can he unravel another mystery that has haunted him the past twenty-four years?

CALEB'S HUSBAND DISAPPEARED TWO YEARS AGO. JUST AS HIS LIFE IS ON THE UPSWING, AN UNCONTROLLABLE FORCE THROWS HIS PERFECT LIFE ON A DOWNWARD SPIRAL. As one of the most up-and-coming criminal defense attorneys in St. John's, Newfoundland, Caleb Winters has virtually everything anybody could hope for: incredible friends, a new lover, and nearly perfect record of crushing his foe, Crown Prosecutor Andrew Murphy, in court. An early morning phone call on the day of his closing submissions dredges up faded memories. Skeletal remains were found north of town and the constabulary believes them to be of his missing husband, Sebastian. After losing his case in court, Caleb's new lover disappears. He suspects his angry client is responsible for his disappearance, but his pleas with the constabulary only drive them to put Caleb at the top of their suspect list. As the days go by, and the bodies pile up, the constabulary must consider the possibility someone else is behind the mayhem. With a handful of suspects, all with a motive for wanting to ruin Caleb's life, will the constables assigned figure out who's accountable for the chaos? Or will Caleb find himself like his friends; departed too soon?

AFTER SURVIVING A FOILED KIDNAPPING AND ATTEMPTED MURDER IN COLORADO, ALEX JONES FINDS HIS LIFE ONCE AGAIN THROWN INTO CHAOS. DARK ENDING, the sequel to An Unsettled Past, fast-forwards seven years to find Alex now working as a homicide detective with the NYPD. Only recently promoted from patrol, he is thrust into the spotlight as the lead investigator on a series of grisly murders after several young women are discovered in Prospect Park; strangled and mutilated. The investigation gets more personal after several more victims appear, each having cryptic messages from the killer. Alex can't shake the lingering feeling that somehow his troubling past, the one he thought he buried at the secluded cabin in Colorado has somehow resurrected itself and followed him to New York.In the end, it's a race against the clock to find the killer and piece together the clues before he strikes again. But will Alex succeed or will this be the concluding chapter in his tumultuous life?

THERE WAS ONE UNCERTAINTY IN HIS MIND; WOULD HE SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE GRADUATION?In the Denver suburb of Ridgewood Hills chaos lies in wait. Just weeks away from his high school graduation, an unexpected morning triple homicide upends Alex Jones' life when he and his friends find themselves in the crossfire of a tangled conspiracy on the brink of unraveling. To Alex, it's just bad luck, yet, when those close to him become entwined, Alex fears he may be the connection to everything.When more bodies turn up, and tensions around town grow, Alex launches a discreet investigation which thrusts him into the secret world of a father assassinated thirteen years earlier. And what he uncovers forces Alex to reconsider everything he assumed he knew about his life.With the skeleton's of his family's underground life revealed, does Alex have enough strength to confront the killer's head-on? Or will his life befall to a deadly game of retaliation for an unsettled past?