A sleepy Oregon coastal village with secrets as dark as its January storms. A new police chief with his own shadowy past.

The last thing Port Stirling Chief of Police Matt Horning needed on day one of his new job was for the mayor’s daughter to turn up dead in a mysterious tunnel on the Oregon beach. For one week in the dead of winter, Horning calls on all of his detective skills to investigate the unlikely murder. Will a psychopath ruin Horning’s new life before he can even start it?

A body is discovered in the cat café, and all the black cats are missing!

Sixty-something cat shelter volunteer Lynley Cannon always finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, but this time it’s not about her. Someone is targeting senior citizens, and when the elderly owner of the Blue Cat café turns up dead, Lynley’s mom could be next.

A black cat rescue, an old photo, an elaborate payback. Does the killer seek justice or vengeance? With death as the objective, the results are the same.

Kylie Preston’s dissected and preserved remains are found in a stolen car. Portland Homicide has no leads. Carl Wheaton, a close friend and colleague of the deceased, implores C. J. Cavanaugh to investigate. During the course of C. J.’s investigation for the killer the press has dubbed “The Butcher,” more bodies turn up mutilated in precisely the same manner as Kylie Preston. Each grisly discovery intensifies the race to capture The Butcher before he strikes again.