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When a dog walker in a local Virginia park finds the bodies of a mother and daughter, Detective Amanda Steele is first on the scene. Her own daughter has a toy just like the girl’s elephant and seeing the child like this is her worst nightmare come true. Heartbroken, she vows to get justice.

During a winter thaw, a young man’s body is pulled from a riverbank. His name is Chris Randall—and someone is determined to keep the truth about his death hidden. When Detective Madison Knight arrives on the scene, she quickly realizes this isn’t a simple homicide. Chris’s mother has lived for years with a devastating secret—one that shattered her family long before her son was murdered. She’s convinced the killer is the one man with the most to lose: Chris’s father.

It’s almost Christmas, and with the festive season in full swing, Denver, Colorado, would be an idyllic destination - if not for Detective Mack McClellan’s conviction there’s a serial killer on the loose. Brandon and his team are called in when a man’s body is found next to a dumpster, and the victim shares a commonality with a few men who were reported missing. It’s a motive the FBI hasn’t seen before, and it will have Brandon and his colleagues questioning who sits on the side of justice - them, or the killer they’re hunting.

A pregnant young woman is found in a shallow grave in a quiet neighborhood. At first glance, how she died looks like suicide—but Detective Madison Knight knows better. The dead don’t bury themselves. The victim, Lacy Rose, appeared to be rebuilding her life. But as Madison digs deeper, a darker past emerges—and the people closest to her had reasons to want her silenced.

When a prominent defense attorney is found brutally murdered, Detective Madison Knight is pulled into a case that feels disturbingly familiar. The killing mirrors an unsolved murder from eight years earlier—one Madison has never stopped thinking about. Reopening the cold case, Madison uncovers a chilling link between both victims and Dimitre Petrov, the ruthless head of the Russian Mafia. This wasn’t random. It was unfinished business.

When a sixty-eight-year-old woman is found dead outside a hospital, slumped in a wheelchair, Detective Madison Knight expects a straightforward case. At first glance, there’s no sign of foul play. But the evidence tells a different story. What appears to be an accident is murder. And when two more bodies surface, Madison realizes the deaths aren’t random—they’re connected and deliberate.

The girl in the ballerina dress lies still on the carousel with her face toward the blue sky. In her tutu and slippers, she’s ready for her next performance. But as the morning sun shines down upon her, she no longer feels its warmth on her cheeks. Her bright light is gone forever. When the body of Hailey Tanner is found in a local park, Detective Amanda Steele races to the scene. Interviewing her devastated parents, they confirm that Hailey never made it home from her dance class.

The beat of the music was thumping and vibrating in her skull. It was getting harder to walk straight, and he offered to take her back to her room. She should have said no. When she woke up, she didn’t remember much. All she knew was that her life would never be the same again. Ferris Hall was mutilated and left to bleed to death in his Valencia, California, motel room.

When Detective Amanda Steele’s niece, Ava, begs her to look for a missing schoolfriend, she immediately agrees to take on the case. Eighteen-year-old Reese left home three nights ago after fighting with her mother and hasn’t been seen since. But when the teenager’s body is discovered brutally murdered, poised dramatically at the prom venue, Amanda is devastated she didn’t save the girl in time.

Detective Madison Knight is about to get married when detectives from a neighboring city storm the wedding and arrest her fiancé, Troy Matthews. He's being charged for the murder of his childhood friend Dylan Graham, recently shot to death in his home. But the motive dates back to a fateful night from twenty-four years ago when seventeen-year-old Emily Kane was raped and strangled at a beach party.

In Egypt’s Western desert lies the tomb of an unnamed pharaoh that hides a secret so powerful, it could destroy the world as we know it. Archaeologist and adventurer Matthew Connor has made a career of finding legends the world has all but forgotten. Though there’s one in particular that has fascinated him for years - the Emerald Tablets. Myth says that they possess the knowledge of the universe, allowing humankind to traverse Heaven and Earth, and have the power to bestow wealth and wisdom upon whoever possesses them.

Detective Madison Knight responds to a fatal shooting at a crowded train station. Two women are dead. The gunman is gone. And there’s no clear motive—only chaos and unanswered questions. Witnesses report a third woman at the scene. Young. Agitated. And she fled before police arrived. Madison knows she’s the key to everything.

Joni Weir kissed her husband good-bye just that morning, but she never figured it would be the last time she’d see him alive. When the news hits that Officer Barry Weir was shot and killed in the line of duty, Detective Madison Knight and every cop in Stiles is itching for revenge. With evidence pointing to a drive-by shooting, the investigation takes Madison into the seedy underbelly of the city in the search for justice. But as she digs, the evidence only becomes more puzzling.

When therapist Sidney Callahan is found murdered in her remote home, Detective Madison Knight arrives at a crime scene that doesn’t add up. There are signs of a violent struggle—but no forced entry. And the peaceful retreat setting only deepens the mystery. Sidney specialized in past-life regression therapy and was preparing to publish a book exposing her patients’ experiences. Madison quickly suspects one of them didn’t want their secrets revealed. Then the investigation takes a darker turn.

A late-night drive leaves Detective Madison Knight stranded on a dark country road. When her phone’s flashlight catches a suitcase dumped in a roadside ditch, she makes a discovery she won’t forget. Inside is the body of a young woman. Tara Jackson was only twenty-one when she was stabbed to death and stuffed into the luggage. As Madison investigates, troubling secrets surface. Then another body is found—another young woman. Same age. Same look. The resemblance isn’t coincidence. It’s selection.

Detective Madison Knight is house hunting when a call changes everything. A woman’s body has been found on a residential property—stabbed multiple times, with no weapon in sight. The victim is a Jane Doe. The crime scene offers a single clue: two letters scrawled in blood across the floorboards. GB.

Savannah, Georgia, used to be a tranquil tourist destination - until human body parts started floating down the river.

The bodies of a husband and wife are found in a patch of woods in small-town, rural Arkansas by a neighboring farmer. They were shot with an arrow, gutted, and left to bleed out. The killer also removed their eyes and replaced them with large cat’s-eye marbles. The murder method and signature are too bizarre to point toward an isolated incident, and FBI Special Agent Brandon Fisher recognizes this right away. His boss with the Behavioral Analysis Unit, Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper, confirms that he’s crossed paths with this killer several years ago.

FBI Special Agent Brandon Fisher and his team join forces with Miami PD Detective Kelly Marsh to find a missing woman Kelly believes was taken by a serial killer. From their first meeting, Brandon sees the detective as competition, and this isn’t helped by the personal history she shares with his boss. Brandon sees the similarities between Detective Marsh’s missing person case and the two cold cases: All three victims served time for vehicular homicide while driving under the influence and disappeared three days after being released from prison.

A high-profile double homicide pulls Detective Madison Knight into direct conflict with her own department. Both victims are found dead inside the home of a powerful businessman—his wife, and an unidentified man quickly dismissed as a problem no one wants examined. From the start, Madison is ordered to keep the investigation quiet. Protect the family. Protect the department. Ask no questions. Madison refuses.