Karin Schaeffer

by 4 books in this series
#1 - You Are Next
#1 - You Are Next
An ex-cop with a death wish. A serial killer with a gruesome agenda...

Detective Karin Schaeffer was a happily married mother until she got too close to catching a serial killer.

The press nickname him The Domino Killer because he systematically murders whole families, leaving a trail of bloody dominoes as the only clues to his next victim. Having brutally slain Karin's husband and child, he left her a chilling message scrawled in her daughter's blood: YOU ARE NEXT.

But now the Domino Killer has escaped prison and the police believe he's on his way to find her.

And Karin is waiting...
#2 - Hide and Seek
#2 - Hide and Seek
Karin Schaeffer's husband is missing presumed dead.

The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents in what looks like a robbery gone bad...Karin is determined to do all she can to find her husband...alive or dead.

Only she's about to discover how little she knows about the man she married.

But someone else is watching the Schaeffer family. Watching, waiting and biding their time before they reveal the dark secrets of Mac's past - and exact a terrifying revenge.
#3 - The 12th Victim
#3 - The 12th Victim
The police call him... the working girl killer. But no woman is safe...

The 11th victim is found only a short distance from Karin Shaeffer’s house. At the crime-scene she discovers a local prostitute stabbed to death, the knife left embedded between her breasts.

It is the signature of the ‘Working Girl Killer’ – a serial killer who has terrorised New York City for the last three years. The police are clueless but when Karin’s best friend becomes the lead investigator, she finds herself drawn into the investigation as a consulting detective.

But next time the killer is going to strike all too close to home...
#4 - Dead Rich
#4 - Dead Rich
The rich play by their own rules…

Former New York City homicide detective Karin Schaeffer should be enjoying a family holiday in Sardinia. But she and her husband, Mac, arrive on the island to find their children and nanny missing.

Is the kidnapping connected to Mac’s last case: investigating the infidelities of billionaire Godfrey Millerhausen? And, if so, just how far will the he go to protect their secrets?

A Karin Schaeffer Novel

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