Gregg Olsen Books

“Compelling, gruesome . . . a great read.” —Mystery Scene “OLSEN WILL SCARE YOU—AND YOU’LL LOVE IT.”—Lee Child "OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS.”—The Seattle Times Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted—and feared—criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff’s detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won’t be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed. The feed will be live. And the blood will be streaming . . . Praise for Gregg Olsen’s novels “YOU’LL SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON AFTER READING GREGG OLSEN.” —Allison Brennan “READERS WILL GET THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME.” —Suspense Magazine “OLSEN KEEPS THE TENSION TAUT.” —Publishers Weekly “The fifth Waterman and Stark thriller from the very talented Gregg Olsen . . . it’s truly a great read.” —Mystery Scene Magazine

No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to unplug—and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam’s first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can’t save her. And Sophie disappears.In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they’ve heard in the news, they’re in the dark when it comes to Sophie’s disappearance. For Adam, at least there’s comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She’ll do everything she can to help. She must.But as Adam’s paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know—or they have yet to reveal all the lies they’ve hidden from the strangers they married.

A young woman's body is discovered in a secluded cove, arms outstretched and face untouched by injury. Leann Truitt, a redhead like the others, has tell-tale marks on her wrists, ankles, and neck, indicating she was bound. Beside her lies a puzzling symbol scratched into a rock. Detective Megan Carpenter, one of the first on the scene, is determined to solve the case with rookie Deputy Ronnie Marsh. As the investigation unfolds, Megan begins receiving unsettling messages that reveal someone knows about her traumatic past. She uncovers a chilling connection between Leann's murder and two other unsolved cases of redheaded women, all bearing similar marks and the same symbol at their crime scenes. Each victim was also pregnant, and the killer employs a methodical pattern of kidnapping and torture. When another body resembling the previous victims is found, Megan realizes time is running out to stop the twisted murderer. As she closes in on the killer, Megan must navigate her own secrets that threaten her future while protecting herself and Ronnie from imminent danger. The stakes rise as the killer continues to stalk, and Megan must act quickly to prevent further tragedy.

Oregon's Deschutes River. For years Liz and Owen have admired their neighbors, Carole and David, who seem to have it all: security, happiness, and a beautiful son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace. In a heartrending accident, Liz has changed the lives of everyone she loves-- and is concealing it. As two marriages buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into guilt and paranoia... and another neighbor has his own secrets, his own pain, and his own reasons for watching Liz's every move.

Detective Megan Carpenter is no stranger to evil. Escaping the horrors of her old life, she's vowed never to let anyone hurt her or those she loves ever again. Joining the small police force in Jefferson County's Port Townsend, Megan is determined to get every victim of a crime the justice they deserve. So when Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriff's office claiming her sister Ida Watson has been missing for over a month, Megan's instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report. Arriving at a secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, she finds Ida's teenage children alone and frightened. Then a few days later, close to the Watsons' home, the blackened body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned pickup truck. Megan must unravel the disturbing secrets of the isolated Snow Creek community if she is to catch the killer. But Megan has dark secrets of her own too...

The setting features a vibrant mural of a sunflower, complemented by shower curtains that, while yellow, are marked with striking red blotches, hinting at a deeper narrative. A photo of a teenage girl from South Kitsap High School leans against the mirror, suggesting a personal connection or story tied to her identity and the colorful yet chaotic environment surrounding her. This imagery evokes themes of youth, memory, and perhaps the contrast between beauty and turmoil.

Teacher's Pet Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby daughter whisked from her arms. She was then shackled and returned to her jail cell. Just years ago, the pretty, personable Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy-- she had a handsome husband, four beautiful children, and a beloved following of students. Then she was accused of child rape, and her whole world turned upside down. Rapist Or Victim? How did a 34-year-old married teacher fall in love with one of her sixth-grade students? Was it a complete lapse of judgment, or-- as she contends-- the meeting of two soulmates? Were the two planning to run away together-- before police caught them in a parked car? Did the couple have illicit sex in every room of the Letourneau house, as the teenager told the tabloids? Read about the case that shocked the world and rocked the headlines-- about the lonely life of Mary Kay Letourneau and the young object of her obsession, the boy who fathered two of her children. You may think you know the story of Mary Kay Letourneau-- but you don't know the whole story until you've read...If Loving You Is Wrong. Includes interviews with Mary Kay Letourneau.

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor's story of absolute evil--and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today--loving, loved, and moving on.

Ted Bundy, America's infamous serial killer, captivates two women: a cop whose sister might be a victim and a deranged groupie who raised her son to continue Bundy's legacy of charm and violence against women.

In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister...First, the suspicion: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Then, Tanya was charged and convicted with felony child abuse of her son. She was later tried and ultimately convicted for first degree murder of Morgan. It would become a landmark trial that unfolded in a series of reversals and bizarre twists of fate as it gradually revealed another side of Tanya Reid—of her own troubling childhood and the dark secrets that drove a woman to the cruelest deception of all...

What if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? Rylee is 15. She comes home from school one afternoon to find the most shocking thing possible - her father dead, with a knife through his heart, and a key clutched in his hand. Her mother's purse is on the counter, but she appears to be long gone. A message in blood is written on the floor ... run. With her brother in tow, Rylee begins a dark journey, one that will uncover horrific and chilling crimes and lead her to an unexpected and gruesome discovery about her real father and what - or who - is behind his insatiable desire to kill. By the journey's end Rylee's childhood is a long way behind her.

Olsen delivers the chilling tale of a mother so desperate for attention that she murdered one of her children and repeatedly attempted to suffocate the other. This is the first book to focus on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a disorder in which parents create fake illnesses in their children to receive attention from their families and medical practitioners.

Small towns hide big secrets . . . Kitsup County forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman is well known for giving a voice to the voiceless: the corpses of people who are often victims of violent crimes. Birdy is letting her teenage nephew Sean stay with her for a while, but the family reunion is put on hold when she gets a phone call from the coroner's office. An unidentified foot has been found in Banner Forest. The only clue to its owner: pink nail polish on the toenails. As Birdy teams up with homicide detective Kendall Stark to investigate, she soon discovers that people all over town are hiding secrets that can prove deadly if they are uncovered. 'Real narrative, a great setup and a gruesome crime . . . As good as it gets.' Lee Child 'His many-layered mystery will keep fans of crime fiction hooked.' Publishers Weekly

In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves.Claire and Dora were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed. But as their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard’s accounts, the sisters came to learn that Hazzard would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions.

A buried crime resurfaces, fueled by dark passions and a thirst for revenge. Only one person can stop the killings and identify the murderer, as they confront the face of death reflected in the mirror.

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story. In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of death--including that of his own son--have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman? The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Olsen's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth--about Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years.

So sehr die Krankenschwester Tanya Reid sich auch um ihre eigenen Kinder kümmert, die werden immer labiler. Ein Krakenhausaufenthalt löst den anderen ab, und nie gibt es genaue Diagnosen. Die Nachbarn beginnen sich zu fragen, was in dieser Familie nicht stimmt, und als sie genauer hinschauen, erhält das Bild von der fürsorglichen Mutter Risse.

Nasiona zła kiełkują w ciemności i chłodzie… Na odludnej farmie w północno-zachodnich Stanach Zjednoczonych dochodzi do brutalnego morderstwa rodziny, a ich nastoletni syn znika. Emily Kenyon, samotna matka i policjantka, prowadzi śledztwo w tej sprawie. Jej córka Jenna, mająca bliski kontakt z podejrzewanym, pragnie mu pomóc, co prowadzi do niebezpiecznych sytuacji. Wkrótce po morderstwie w Iowa, kolejne brutalne zbrodnie mają miejsce w Salt Lake City, ujawniając niepokojące podobieństwa. Mroczna siła czai się w cieniu, zagrażając kolejnym ofiarom. Emily, łącząc elementy układanki, odkrywa, że zagrożenie dla jej córki jest znacznie większe, niż się spodziewała. W desperackim pościgu za mordercą, który wpisał ją i Jennę na swoją listę, musi stawić czoła najprzebieglejszemu przeciwnikowi, z jakim kiedykolwiek miała do czynienia. To niesamowity thriller z mrocznym tematem i misternie skonstruowaną fabułą, który sprawi, że po lekturze będziecie spać przy zapalonym świetle. Autor, Gregg Olsen, wykorzystuje swoją wiedzę o umyśle przestępcy, tworząc wciągającą powieść kryminalną, która chwyta czytelnika za gardło i prowadzi w mroczne zakamarki ludzkiej duszy.

Lodernder Hass Als das Haus ihrer Familie in Flammen aufging, war Hannah Griffin dreizehn Jahre alt. Im Garten machte die Polizei damals einen grausigen Fund: mehrere Leichen, darunter Hannahs Brüder und ihre Mutter. Zwanzig Jahre später – Hannah ist inzwischen glücklich verheiratet, Mutter einer Tochter und CSI-Detective – glaubt sich die junge Frau weit entfernt von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit. Bis sie eines Tages ein anonymes Paket zugestellt bekommt. Inhalt: ein Paar verkohlter Kinderschuhe. Hat der Killer noch eine Rechnung offen? Oder versucht jemand anders die brutale Wahrheit ans Licht zu zerren? “Komplexe Spannung, knisternde Authentizität, blutige Details – Dieser vielschichtige Krimi wird Spannungsfans nicht mehr loslassen.” (Publishers Weekly)

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