Thin Air (Jessica Shaw, 1)

A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.
“Lisa Gray explodes onto the literary stage with this taut, edge-of-the-seat thriller, and her headstrong protagonist, Jessica Shaw, reminiscent of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, delivers a serious punch.” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author
Private investigator Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after receiving a photo of a three-year-old kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, Jessica is stunned to recognize the little girl as herself.
Eager for answers, Jessica heads to LA’s dark underbelly. When she learns that her biological mother was killed the night she was abducted, Jessica’s determined to solve a case the police have forgotten. Meanwhile, veteran LAPD detective Jason Pryce is in the midst of a gruesome investigation into a murdered college student moonlighting as a prostitute. A chance encounter leads to them crossing paths, but Jessica soon realizes that Pryce is hiding something about her father’s checkered history and her mother’s death.
To solve her mother’s murder and her own disappearance, Jessica must dig into the past and find the secrets buried there. But the air gets thinner as she crawls closer to the truth, and it’s getting harder and harder to breathe.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gray, Lisa

Mystery

Thomas & Mercer

They Don't Tell: Child Abuse: A Mother's Perspective

Self-Help

Emotions

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"6 Feet Under" is a 2016 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the May 2016 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include (in order of appearance) Denny E. Marshall (with "Haiku (brain)", "Haiku (debt)", "Haiku (plants)", "Haiku (space)", "Haiku (proposed)"), Terry C. Ley (with "Friends and Neighbors"), Michel Ge (with "the Inspector"), Abigail Smith (with "The End of June"), David Ford (with "Case Study of a Teenage Predator"), Kyle Hemmings (with "Shadow Of Night OR art"), Valorie Kristen Ruiz (with "Chain Link", "Demographics"), Ruth Z. Deming (with "I'm Sick of it All", "Lawn Party"), Julie Ramon (with "Ghosts", "Once in the park"), Maria-Jose Villamar (with "Our World"), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with "Pattern from Saturn art"), Joe Randazzo (with "Burning What's Left Of The Castle"), Jeremiah Castelo (with "The Taste of Water"), Bill DeArmond (with "Dig Deeply the Grave"), Michael Lee Johnson (with "Clockmaker (V)"), Lisa Gray (with "The Monster"), Linda Golden (with "Girl Left Behind"), Richard Schnap (with "Bibliography", "Grey Days"), Bob Strother (with "Once Is Enough"), Sej Harman (with "Prisoners"), Janet Kuypers (with "cage", "choke"), Steve Sibra (with "A Drowning Boy Visits the House ", "of the Recent Dead", "Morocco"), Janet Kuypers (with "guide"), Marlon Jackson (with "To The Finish Line"), Janet Kuypers (with "stagger"), Al Ortolani (with "Feathers", "My Brother as Salt-Pork"), Sarah Parfait (with "Watermelon Farm"), David Rossell (with "Ellipses art"), Robert Laughlin (with "Forced Move to a Small Apartment"), Carrie Ives (with "Lightning Louise"), Stefan Benz (with "[death comes tiptoeing]", "summerlong"), Priscilla Pilar Estrada (with "The Important Blues"), Janet Kuypers (with "difference"), Taylor Cornell (with "Bruise and Fire"), Janet Kuypers (with "Ending a Relationship"), Josh Bennett (with "Red Valley"), Janet Kuypers (with "fought"), Tiffeni Crawford (with " Feet Under "), David Michael Jackson (with "Man on Wall art"), Brittany Kearney (with "Coming Home"), Tim T.K. (with "Family"), Janet Kuypers (with "kindness"), Nathaniel Sverlow (with "Girt from God"), Phil Temples (with "Black Friday"), David Sowards (with "cartoon"), Raymond Manuel Aguirre (with "Following in My Father's Footsteps"), Allan Onik (with "The Prince and the Ghost"), and Janet Kuypers (with "Private Lives Three").

6 Feet Under: "Down in the Dirt" magazine v136 (May 2016)

Literature & Fiction

Ford, David

Kuypers, Janet

Randazzo, Joe

DeArmond, Bill

Strother, Bob

Johnson, Michael Lee

Ley, Terry C.

Sibra, Steve

Marshall, Denny E.

Ge, Michael

Smith, Abigail

Ruiz, Valorie Kristen

Deming, Ruth Z.

Villamar, Maria-Jose

Damon, Julie

Castelo, Jeremiah

Golden, Linda

Schnap, Richard

Harman, Sej

Jackson, Marlon

Priscilla Pilar Estrada

Literary

An isolated highway in the middle of the desert--the perfect place to hide a secret. LA-based artist Laurie Simmonds disappeared two months ago, her campervan abandoned on the isolated Twentynine Palms Highway, miles from anything--or anyone. With the police investigation stalled, her parents put all their faith in private investigator Jessica Shaw to find out the truth of what happened. Jessica and her partner Matt Connor discover that two other women are missing, their disappearances connected to the same highway. When a link emerges between these women and a group of former college friends, Jessica feels certain they're closing in on their target. But no sooner do they follow this up than Laurie's parents get spooked and drop the case. Jessica is blindsided but determined not to give up: three women are missing, and many more may be at risk. She can't turn her back on them. But the more she pulls at the threads of the truth, the closer she comes to danger. Can she find out who's behind these crimes before they come for her?

Dark Highway (Jessica Shaw, 3)

Review\n“A deftly plotted slice of modern noir with a tough and likeable heroine…a proper thrill ride.” ―Best Magazine\n“A clever twisty mystery with plenty of Jessica’s dry wit and an ending that is just begging for the next in the series―highly recommended.” ―Susi Holliday, author of Substitute\n“Super smart, rocket paced with a twisting turning race against time, Lonely Hearts is one of the best books I’ve read this year. A total must read!” ―Steph Broadribb, author of Death in the Sunshine\n“Lonely Hearts is a riveting, unputdownable thriller. Lisa Gray is a real talent.” ―Lloyd Otis, author of Dead Lands\nShe found love on Death Row with her prison pen pal. She’s been missing ever since. Can Jessica Shaw track her down? 
A missing persons case should be pretty straightforward for private investigator Jessica Shaw. After all, it’s what she does best. But this latest case proves to be anything but straightforward. 
Christine Ryan is desperate to find her childhood friend Veronica Lowe. Veronica disappeared more than fifteen years ago, not long after having a child with a Death Row inmate, notorious serial killer Travis Dean Ford. When Ford’s widow, Jordana, is murdered in the same way as his victims, Christine fears Veronica and her daughter will be next. If they’re even still alive… 
Discovering that both Veronica and Jordana were members of the Lonely Hearts Club, a pen pal service for women who want to write to men in prison, Jessica realizes she needs to find Veronica before the killer does. But as Jessica follows the leads it begins to feel like someone is following her. Travis has been dead for years, so who is hunting the Lonely Hearts?

Lonely Hearts (Jessica Shaw)

Review\n“Revenge piled on revenge, all of it served ice cold.” ―Kirkus Reviews\n“This taut, twisty standalone from [Lisa] Gray is dense with buried motives and betrayals…Fans of Colleen Hoover’s Verity will find much to enjoy.” ―Publishers Weekly\n“Another triumph from Gray…It’s all thrills in this police procedural with a twist.” ―The Sun\n“The Dark Room is all kinds of brilliant! Super suspenseful, packed with escalating tension, and a double twist ending that floors you with a one-two punch. Utterly compulsive!” ―Steph Broadribb, author of Death in the Sunshine\n“The Dark Room is smart, sexy and a totally twisted mystery minefield - I loved it! Five stars!” ―Susi Holliday, author of The Hike\nAll’s fair in love and revenge in this taut thriller from bestselling author Lisa Gray. 
Ex–crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers’ forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever expect, or want, to see captured on film―the murder of a young woman. 
But that’s impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened five years earlier. 
He has never been able to shake his guilt from that terrible night. It cost Leonard everything: his career, his fiancée, his future. But if the woman didn’t really die, then what actually happened?

The Dark Room

Genre Fiction

Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2020 Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter--a convicted murderer whose execution is days away--Jessica can't resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she's guilty. As Jessica looks for answers, she finds that local rumors point one way and evidence points another. And nobody wants to face the truth. Meanwhile, Jessica can't shake the feeling that someone is stalking her--now more than ever, she knows she can't trust anyone. As Jessica digs deeper, she encounters local secrets in unlikely places--including the police department itself. But the clock is ticking, and Jessica must find the truth fast--or Rue's bad memory may be the death of them both.

Bad Memory (Jessica Shaw, 2)

The Final Act

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