Lauren Street

Some secrets don't stay buried. Some were never meant to be found.Sheriff Rita Jonas has her hands full. Vandalism is on the rise at Apex Global's sites, and tensions between the townspeople and the corporation are heating up. When a construction crew uncovers a shallow grave on the edge of town, the simmering unrest explodes.Inside the grave: three skeletons, each with a single bullet to the skull.They were known as the Apex Three - contractors who vanished four years ago without a trace. Most believed they disappeared into the Wyoming wilderness. But now it's clear someone silenced them and got away with it.As Rita reopens the case, she's forced to untangle a web of silence, loyalty, and fear. And as new threats surface, she begins to wonder if the killer is still here.Watching. Waiting. Ready to strike again.Still Buried is the second book in The Still County Thrillers, a gritty, atmospheric series from Lauren Street. Perfect for fans of small-town secrets, fearless sheriffs, and murder that refuses to stay cold.

In these mountains, animals aren't the only ones being hunted...Chaos has a way of finding Rileigh and Mitch. This time, it comes when a bloodied FBI agent is found in the forest, begging them for help. The agent claims he's being hunted by a faceless enemy who's eliminated his entire team. The FBI can't help - they've been compromised.Mitch is the only one he can trust.Rileigh knows they should walk away.But she can't. The agent is terrified, desperate, and alone. Rileigh agrees to hide him until she and Mitch can uncover who's behind the murders. But with every question she asks, danger draws closer. The Smoky Mountains are vast, the shadows are deep, and someone is lurking within them.Someone out there knows her every move.And they're waiting for her to make the wrong one.The Company You Keep is the ninth book in the Bishop Smokey Mountain Thrillers series by Lauren Street.

A faceless corpse is only the beginning...Rileigh Bishop is hoping for a quiet evening with Mitch. The pair find their way to a diner where they can finally get some peace and quiet -Until the screaming starts.When two teenagers discover a dead body in the diner's storage room, Rileigh is on the scene. The corpse has had its face peeled off its skull, and an autopsy reveals the victim's heart was sliced in half inside his chest with a carving knife.Worse, the victim was a member of a notorious local gang embroiled in a long-standing feud.A feud that's just reached a boiling point.Hit and runs.Slashed throats.Victim after victim.It's more than a gang war. There's something else going on - Rileigh is sure of it. But can she cut through the carnage before the Smoky Mountains descend into chaos?A Friend Like You is the eighth book in the Bishop Smokey Mountain Thrillers series by Lauren Street.

The missing are never just gone in Rush; they're silenced by something more sinister.Former military police officer Sam Salazar thought she left chaos behind when she settled in Rush, California. Peace was what she wanted, chaos was what she found.When an outsider comes to town desperate to find answers to her daughter's disappearance, Sam's conscience won't let her look away - even though she knows she should.Sam dives into the investigation. But as she digs into the mystery, the case spirals, and connections surface between the girl's disappearance and the haunted legends of the town's exclusive Kalamack Club.Rush's powerful elite have their own rules, and those who dare defy them pay a steep price. If Sam's not careful, her quest for justice will turn her into the next ghost haunting Rush.The Girl Who Couldn't Get Out is the second novel in Lauren Street's The Salazar Redwood Forest Thrillers series, where the deeper Sam digs, the darker the secrets get.

Nina Turner loves two things: her fianc and murder.She subscribes to every true crime podcast, reads cold cases, and her Friday night is a bottle of wine and a true crime doc. Her fianc thinks her interest in dead people is a bit weird, but he's willing to let it slide, and together, they purchase a sprawling acreage.It's supposed to be their dream home.But Nina's unsettled. Everything about the house feels too familiar to be a coincidence. She does some digging and learns that the house was the site of a supposed murder - though only the girl's blood was found. Not her body.That's why the acreage feels so familiar - Nina listened to the podcast episode.But the episode didn't mention the hidden room Nina discovered.It didn't mention the missing girl's secret diaries.And it didn't mention the claustrophobic passageways in the walls. The ones just big enough to creep through.Something happened here.Something darker than anyone knows.And Nina's determined to figure it out... even if it means looking into her fianc 's past and discovering why he knows more about the house than he's letting on.Irreplaceable is the third psychological thriller from the best-selling team of Nolon King and Lauren Street. While it is thematically connected to Replaced, the books can be read in any order.

In Rush, Northern California, not even the dead can find peace.Former military police officer Sam Salazar knows what it means to lose everything. After the death of her 5-year-old daughter, she moved to a secluded town in Northern California, surrounded by ancient Redwoods and twisting highways. She finds peace in the isolation.Until a member of her narcotics anonymous group tells Sam that they saw her sister, Dorothy.The same sister who died when Sam was a child.Sam digs through layers of silence but uncovers no death certificate, grave, or body. Nothing seems right, and Sam's determined to unearth the truth.But the small town has a dark side.The tight-knit community doesn't like outsiders poking in their business.More and more people claim they saw Dorothy.With each ghostly sighting, the mystery thickens, blurring the line between the past and the present, the dead and the living.With every step closer to uncovering what happened to Dorothy, Sam must confront a haunting question: Is unearthing the truth a path to closure or a door to untold horrors?The Girl Who Couldn't Stop Dying is the first novel in Lauren Street's The Salazar Redwood Forest Thrillers series, where the secrets of the past threaten to engulf the living in shadows.

Her perfect life is a lie... but who's the liar?Denise Grady is supposed to be dead. After a car crash claims the life of her sister and her nephew, Denise is ravaged with survivor's guilt. She finds solace in the arms of the only person as shattered as she is: her sister's widowed husband.Their shared grief turns to love, and the pair restart their lives together. They purchase a house at the edge of a master-planned community. And for a moment, life seems perfect.But perfection is fragile, and reality has cracks.Denise's toothbrush changes color. The expression on the painting above the mantle subtly changes from a smile to a scowl. And the presence of her dead sister lingers... Denise swears she can even smell her perfume and hear her voice.Her therapist calls it survivor's guilt.But Denise thinks something else is happening. Something is pushing her in a dark and dangerous direction, towards the same path her mother once walked. As the line between reality and madness blurs, Denise must unravel the truth that lurks beneath the shadows of her perfect life.From the dark imaginations of Nolon King and Lauren Street, the best-selling authors of Replaced, comes In Her Place, a psychological thriller that peels back the layers of a seemingly perfect life to reveal the lies that entangle us all.

Jessica Clarke had the perfect life. Until someone stole it.Jessica Clarke has the perfect life. She's married to the man of her dreams, they've bought a house in white picket fence suburbia, and she's just adopted a new baby.Everything is as it should be.Until she gets home to find her keys don't work. When she knocks, a woman who looks a lot like her answers while holding Jessica's baby. When Jessica screams, her husband comes -And insists that he's never met Jessica before.He calls her an imposter.A fraud.A liar.But Jessica knows he's lying.Someone has taken her life. Her husband. Her baby.And she wants it all back.Replaced is the first psychological thriller from the best-selling team of Nolon King and Lauren Street.

A lavish riverboat casino should be the perfect place to unwind after nearly being buried alive, but ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop knows better. This casino is run by a real estate tycoon who's gathered all the movers and shakers so he can convince them to let him develop a pristine piece of land.Add in a mix of protestors, and it'll be anything but a peaceful night on the river.When the curtain opens for the tycoon's big introduction, he's sitting on stage.With his throat slit.And his guts on his lap.Screams.Chaos.Security rushes to radio back to shore... but the communication devices have been destroyed. And the boat? Dead in the water.Every passenger is a suspect.The killer wants to turn the casino into a floating graveyard.And Rileigh is his big prize.A Gamble Either Way is the fourth book in The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thriller series by Lauren Street.