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Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 26 minutes Narrator:  Jane McDowell Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  After lying dormant for 10 years, an elusive serial killer strikes again, leaving few clues—and the only way for FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to catch him in the present is to solve the riddles of the past. Women are turning up dead, and in this dark psychological thriller, Riley Paige realizes she is in a race against time. The murders of the past were too perplexing to be solved back then. Can Riley solve them 10 years cold? And connect the dots to the present-day crimes? When Riley finds her personal life in crisis, playing cat and mouse with a brilliant psychopath may just be too much for her. Especially since there is something that is just not sitting right with this case…. Review: People in a small town are winding up dea...

Release Date:  August 6, 2019 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 29 minutes Narrator:  Jane McDowell Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  In this heart-pounding thriller, women are being found dead on train tracks across the country, forcing the FBI into a mad race against time to catch the serial killer. FBI Special Agent Riley Paige may have finally met her match: a sadistic killer, binding victims to the tracks to be killed by incoming trains. A killer smart enough to evade capture across many states - and charming enough to go unseen. She soon learns it will require all of her faculties to enter into his sick mind - a mind which she unsure she wants to enter. And all with a final twist that is so shocking, even Riley could not expect it. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense,  Once Bound  is book number 12 in a riveting new series ...

Release Date:  July 16, 2019 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 34 minutes Narrator:  Jane McDowell Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  A serial killer is killing victims at rapid speed, and in each crime scene, he leaves an unusual signature: an hourglass. The sand in it is designed to fall for 24 hours and when it is empty, a new victim appears. Amid intense media pressure, and in a frantic race against time, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige is summoned, with her new partner, to crack the case. Still reeling from the fallout with Shane, trying to sort out her family life and to help Bill get back on his feet, Riley's plate is already full. And as she enters the darkest canals of this twisted killer's mind, this just may be the case that sends her over the edge. Review: Still not liking the new narrator.  This book finds Riley trying to once again balance life, ...

Release Date:  April 3, 2018 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 44 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers, inside the secure confines of its own base? And why? The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead. As Riley finds herself immersed in the military culture, she is amazed to realize that serial killers can strike even here, in the midst of the most secure location on earth. She finds herself in a frantic cat and mouse chase, racing to decode the killer’s psychology. Yet she soon discovers she is up against a highly-trained killer, one that may, even for her, be too deadly an opponent. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, ONCE S...

Release Date:  August 10, 2017 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 10 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  When Special Agent Riley Paige finally decides to take a well-needed rest from the FBI, a request for help comes from the most unlikely source - her own daughter. April's best friend is devastated by the death of her sister, a freshman at Georgetown. Worse, she is convinced that the suicide was staged, and that her sister was murdered at the hands of a serial killer. Riley reluctantly looks into the case, only to discover that two other freshman girls at Georgetown recently killed themselves in the same grotesque way - by hanging. As she realizes foul play may be afoot, she brings in the FBI. The case takes Riley deep into the privileged campus of one of the world's most esteemed universities, into the unsettling world of the wealthy, a...

Release Date:  March 23, 2017 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 50 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense FBI Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Men and women are turning up dead in the outskirts of Seattle, poisoned by a mysterious chemical. When a pattern is discovered and it becomes clear that a twisted serial killer is on the hunt, the FBI calls in their best asset: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley is urged to return to the line of duty—but Riley, still reeling from the attacks on her family, is loath to return. Yet as bodies mount, and the murders become more inexplicable, Riley knows she has no choice. The case takes Riley deep into the unsettling world of nursing homes, of hospitals, of drifting caretakers and psychotic patients. As Riley delves deeper into the mind of the murderer, she realizes she is hunting the most terrifying killer of all: one whose madness knows no depths...

Release Date:  December 21, 2016 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 21 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  A prison break from a maximum security prison. Frantic calls from the FBI. Special Agent Riley Paige's worst nightmare has come true: a serial killer she put away years ago is loose. Riley is used to being the one hunting, but for the first time, she finds herself - and her family - to be the ones being hunted. As the killer stalks her, he also begins a new rampage of kills, and Riley must stop him before it is too late - for the other victims, and for herself. But this is no ordinary killer. He is too smart, and their game of cat-and-mouse too twisted, and he somehow manages to elude her and always stay one step ahead. Desperate to stop him, Riley realizes there is only one way: she must delve back into the past, into this killer's...

Release Date:  September 13, 2016 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 45 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Women are turning up dead on a lone stretch of highway in Delaware. Some go missing for an inexplicable length of time, while others are turning up dead, their bodies left out for display in bizarre and mysterious ways. When a pattern is discovered, it becomes clear to the FBI that a twisted serial killer is on the hunt—luring girls in devious schemes—and that he won’t stop killing, ever. The FBI, desperate to crack the case, urges Special Agent Riley Paige to take it on. But the brilliant Riley, still reeling from past cases, has finally found peace in her home life, and is determined to help her daughter April get back on her feet. Yet when the murders become too disturbing, too urgent—and when her former partner Bill implores her—Riley fin...

Release Date:  December 21, 2017 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio Length:  14 hours 29 minutes Narrator:  Elaine Wise Genre:  Mystery/suspense Police Buy:   Audible  |  Paperback Synopsis:  A bundle of books #1 (ONCE GONE) and #2 (ONCE TAKEN) in Blake Pierce's Riley Paige Mystery series. In ONCE GONE, women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley is on paid leave herself, recovering from her encounter with her last serial killer, and, fragile as she is, the FBI is reluctant to tap her brilliant mind. Yet Riley, needing to battle her own demons, comes on board, and her hunt leads her through the disturbing subculture of doll collectors, into the homes of broken families, a...