C. J. Lyons

The brutal murder of a teenage girl … Lucy Guardino is back. The violence is the worst she's ever seen, the stakes are higher than ever…and things get personal. It's a vicious crime: the brutal killing of a teenaged girl. When detectives call FBI Agent Lucy Guardino to the scene, their focus is on who and why? Was it the girl's Afghan father striving to regain his honor after she became too Westernized? Her Jewish boyfriend? Someone from Afghanistan...

Can you save everyone – or must you choose? Lucy Guardino is a normal Mum. Except she works for the FBI. The first gripping crime thriller in a New York Times bestselling series for fans of Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant and Val McDermid. A loving mum and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and an FBI detective, Lucy Guardino is living a fulfilling and contented life running the FBI's Sexual Assault team. Until the day she comes up...

A deadly new drug epidemic puts an ER doctor in danger: "A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read." –Sandra Brown, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Thick as Thieves Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. Her Pittsburgh ER has been deluged by young patients who've overdosed on a new drug called FX. After Cassie discovers that the source of the FX on the streets is her own hospital, her best friend is killed...

Second in the series that's "a perfect blend of romance and suspense" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Nerves of Steel (Sandra Brown). Two months ago Dr. Cassandra Hart was forced to kill a man. The man who murdered her best friend, almost killed Detective Mickey Drake, and seriously wounded her. Now she's back at work in her Pittsburgh ER, but nothing seems the same. When she fears that a young boy is being abused by his "perfect"...

Just your average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock...

Until recently Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino was a shining star in the FBI's roster. But after killing a man and disobeying orders, Lucy's been sidelined, chained to her desk. When a mysterious letter arrives hinting that, thanks to Lucy, the wrong man was blamed for a string of serial rapes, kidnappings, and killings four years ago,

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A doctor's legal battle and a detective's stalker threaten their lives and their love in this romantic suspense thriller by the author of The Next Widow. #1 New York Times–bestseller Sandra Brown called Nerves of Steel, the first Hart and Drake novel, "A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read." In the second book, Sleight of Hand, you saw Hart and Drake risk everything to save a child and you knew they were meant to be together....

How do you choose between catching a paedophile and defending your family? It's Lucy Guardino's first day back at work after she killed a man to protect her daughter. Little does she know she's about to be thrown back in the deep end… When serial child abuser 'Daddy' reappears wanting revenge on his first victim, June Bernhart, the FBI must scramble to protect her and track him down before it's too late. But things are changing at the Bureau: Lucy's...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: An explosives specialist confronts killers-and his own conflicted heart-in the West Virginia wilderness . . . A West Virginia mountain, the middle of a blizzard, killers on his trail . . . no place for a city boy like Lucky Cavanaugh, an ATF explosives specialist. Outmanned, outgunned, and shot, he takes Forest Service Wildlife Biologist Vinnie Ryan hostage until he convinces her that he's one of the good guys. Vinnie...

The New York Times–bestselling author introduces a Glock-carrying soccer mom in the first three books in the Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller series. She may be a loving mom and wife, but Lucy Guardino is also a kick-ass federal agent who's not afraid to wield her skills in the series that's "action packed, authentic, and intense" (Lee Child). Snake Skin Lucy Guardino is living the perfect life in Pittsburgh as a Supervisory Special Agent...

It's the kind of case that chills Caitlyn to the bone. Missing person. College student. Beloved daughter of a world leader in biotechnology. She was last seen on a spring break cruise. No witnesses. No motives. Just one possible lead - reports of a stranger who may have lured the young archeology major off the ship and into the jungles of Guatemala. When Caitlyn follows her hunch into the jungle - with the FBI's Jake Carver by her side - the trail...