twisted' Lisa Gardner 'Olsen is a top-notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning' Publishers Weekly Praise for Gregg Olsen: 'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee Child 'Wickedly clever. Now in a desperate race to save Jenna, Emily must match wits with the most cunning, diabolical killer she's faced yet in her career-a killer who's just placed her and her daughter at the top of his list. A Cold Dark Place As Emily fits the puzzle pieces together, she realizes the danger surrounding her daughter is worse than she'd imagined. But an even darker connection threatens to claim even more victims. Eerie similarities link the crime scenes. And on the heels of this brutal slaying, another follows in Salt Lake City. Then within days of the first murder, another family is butchered, this time in Iowa. Jenna knows the boy suspected of murdering his family and wants to help him-perhaps too much. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna is one step ahead of her. Single mother and cop, Emily Kenyon spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. In a secluded farm house in the Pacific Northwest, a family has been slaughtered-and a teenage son has disappeared. 'Gary is an anti-hero for our times, Everyman and the Outsider rolled into one, and his zeitgeist will explode off the page and roll down your chin with each mounting episode.' John Lake (author, Hot Knife)

He thinks Gary should get a job, meet people and interact with the real world. You'll see things his way and you'll want to stay. But whatever the reason, I have come adrift from mankind, and that is where I intend to stay. I shall offer no explanation, no mitigation for what I am. Nothing to account for the person I have become. There were no traumatic events in adolescence, no heartbreak or rejection in early adulthood.

I have developed a detachment from the rest of the human race. But will any of it matter in the end? Welcome to a cold, dead place.

Jerry Howard, Ray Combs, and Dave Winslow find themselves with nothing left but a fighting chance against these four cloaked beings called 'The Fallen'. Agent Kate Taggens, field agent of the UOIA (Unusual Occurences Investigative Agency)an ominous government branch of services, is sent to find and retrieve Matheson before the body count rises. Upon announcing their need for the teenager Donny Matheson at all costs, they promise the continuation of civilian death every day that he is out of their grasp. When a lethal viral outbreak in the US is revealed as a government cover-up on live television, four extra-dimensional entities in black cloaks are revealed to be behind the waves of unnatural deaths. Donny Matheson, however, is just learning. Agent Kale Taggens knows this, Detectives Jerry Howard and Ray Combs know this, and Officer Dave Winslow does as well.

The Cold Dead by E.E. Winston IV