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Being sidelined after her last assignment has allowed Savannah Detective Charli Cross too much time to think. So when she's called to a new murder case, she's relieved to trade her preoccupation over the threatening letters she's received for a double homicide investigation. Her relief doesn't last long. Nothing could have prepared Charli for the gruesome scene she and her partner find at a local park. A teenage couple have been slain, their throats...

Silence is the most terrifying scream ... When the beloved minister of a small inner-city church is killed in a drive-by shooting while delivering sandwiches to the homeless, Savannah Homicide Detective Charli Cross is on the case. Who would want to kill a man who does so much good? And why? More importantly ... was the pastor targeted or chosen at random? While Charli and her partner, Detective Matthew Church, attempt to answer those questions, another...

Jealousy is evil. Greed is deadly. When a young man is found hanging inside a barn, it seems like an open-and-shut suicide. But the boy in question is none other than Bryce Mowery, son and only heir of the richest family in Savannah, and Bryce's father is claiming foul play. Much to her chagrin, Detective Charli Cross is sent to investigate and appease the farm and real estate magnate. But soon, it's no longer a question of if Bryce was killed,...

In the face of malice, evil is spawned. Savannah Police Detective Charli Cross thought she'd seen it all. But when Charli and her partner, Matthew Church, are called in on a missing persons report from a local funeral home, she realizes this may be the most bizarre and perplexing case yet. Not only are three funeral home employees missing, but one left her car in the funeral home parking lot overnight. Stranger still, the cremator was filled with...