Three cops are forced to team up once again when the brutal case that almost destroyed them one year ago is reopened after a shocking connection to the current cases they are each working on is revealed. Original.

What Burns Within

Ruttan, Sandra

Literature & Fiction

Leisure Books

Constables Hart and Tain embark on their strangest and most disturbing case yet when a four-year-old boy is found beaten death in the park and his older brother, claiming that he witnessed the whole thing, accuses their sister, who is now missing. Original.

The Frailty of Flesh

United States

When a body is found in a dumpster bearing details similar to the very first case they had worked on together, Hart and Tain wonder if the sadistic murderer known as the Missing Killer is back from the dead. Original. 150,000 first printing.

Lullaby for the Nameless (Nolan, Hart & Tain Thrillers)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A suspicious death. A missing baby. A corrupt police department. When a man shows up in reporter Lara Kelly's office with a video that appears to show a woman falling to her death, Lara is intrigued but suspicious. The man claims he went to the police, but that they refused to investigate. Under pressure from her editor to use the video to build a story about the incompetence of the local police captain, Lara gathers enough evidence to print a story about a suspected suicide. Detective Tymen Farraday, the newest cop in a precinct plagued by scandal, is ordered to investigate and discredit the reporter if necessary. When potential evidence is stolen and Lara is attacked, Farraday is forced to put his grudge against reporters aside and work with the journalist to solve the murder while trying to protect her from the killer. Just when they think they have the evidence to arrest a suspect, two more murders turn the investigation in an unexpected direction. The guilty have already shown that they'll stop at nothing to protect their secrets. In a town where one person holds all the power, not even the police can be trusted. And the prime suspect isn't the only person Lara and Farraday need to worry about. (Advanced Praise for Suspicious Circumstances) "..there is never a dull moment. It's a hard book to put down."" Tony Hillerman, Edgar Award-Winner and New York Times Bestselling Author "Suspicious Circumstances has to be one of the most satisfying mysteries going that grips the reader from beginning to end." Clive Cussler, NY Times Bestselling Author, Acclaimed worldwide as the Grandmaster of Adventure "Here is the new voice, and what a voice! Eloquent, sassy, compassionate and written with a style so assured it's hard to believe it's a debut... This is talent writ huge." Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-Winning Author of The Guards "Sandra Ruttan's SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES is crime fiction with booster jets--a white-hot blazing ride sure to slam you down some of the darkest, twistiest back alleys that ever corrupted a small city's secret heart." Cornelia Read, Author of A Field of Darkness "Secrets and lies, new murders and old, all unravel and unwind within the pages of SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES to create a complex and compelling crime-fiction debut. Sandra Ruttan has a keen eye for description, a wonderful ear for dialogue, and an acute instinct for the nuances of characterization. " Anne Frasier, USA Today bestselling author of Hush "Sandra Ruttan's Suspicious Circumstances soars. It is complex, exciting, and elegant. In musical terms, it's listening to Bach. I'm in love with Lara Kelly, the smart, strong, vulnerable protagonist. Her detective lover better move fast or I'm in there. A gripping adventure, a large cast of marvelous characters, and twists that follow turns. Read it. You'll love it too." Robert Fate, Author of Baby Shark "A well executed procedural with a spark between our protagonists, an excellent feel for political machinations on a small town scale and a plot that twists and turns like a bad tempered rattlesnake." Russel D. McLean, Crime Scene Scotland (About the Author) Sandra Ruttan had her first newspaper column at the age of thirteen. She studied journalism and communication theory before focusing on special education. She spent several years working with children with learning disabilities while completing a creative writing diploma. Sandra is co-founder and submissions director for Spinetingler Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Crimespree Magazine, Spinetingler, Demolition, The Cynic and Flashing in the Gutters. She lives in western Canada with her husband, two dogs and too many cats.

Suspicious Circumstances

Tico Pub

Child abductions, arson, and rapes. Three series of very different crimes are terrorizing the city. But the evidence suggests that they might all somehow be related.

Thomas & Mercer

Missing girls are turning up murdered, in ways that eerily resemble the MO of the killer from the first case that Hart, Nolan and Tain worked on together. Did they get the wrong man the first time?

Lullaby for the Nameless

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What Burns Within

The Frailty of Flesh

Lullaby for the Nameless (Nolan, Hart & Tain Thrillers)

Suspicious Circumstances

What Burns Within

Lullaby for the Nameless