Author: jaschneider
A small town divorce lawyer (“I know people’s secrets”) blames herself when a client’s teen daughter is brutally murdered. She investigates and finds herself the killer’s next target. Grieving the loss of her NYPD detective husband, former defense attorney Mia Peale moves to Grand Cove, Connecticut, desperate for a sense of community and hoping to rebuild her life. Now, starting a family law … life. Now, starting a family law practice, she’s finally found friends and peace – until the teen daughter of one of her clients is brutally murdered, and the girl’s boyfriend stands accused. Kelly Payne was an…
“Maria Moran’s first inkling of trouble was the coppery taste in her mouth. It came suddenly, a rushing whoosh of something that made her gag, and when she reached to wipe her mouth, her hand came away smeared with blood.” So begins this thriller about a young intern, Jill Raney, determined to investigate tragedies and terror at a famous fertility and genetic engineering hospital. When two … When two pregnant women die and a fetus is delivered with severe chromosomal abnormalities, Jill’s superiors — including handsome, smitten-with-her resident David Levine — insist there’s no common link. But her suspicions deepen…
“Just finished…am completely blown away!” GoodreadsA young woman, obsessed by a man she considers a predator, climbs a fire escape and thinks she sees a murder.Out of work actress Ava Beck, reduced to working in a West Village flower shop, starts to watch handsome, womanizing hedge funder Peter Greer, who lives near. He likes to romance his girlfriends with flowers.Ava notices bruises on his … flowers.Ava notices bruises on his troubled-looking date named Chloe. Concerned, she follows them after work to Chloe’s studio, second floor in the rear of a brownstone. She hears them arguing, climbs up the fire escape…
“Scarier than GASLIGHT…” GoodreadsA perfect marriage deteriorates as a woman starts to fear that her husband is a killer… she somehow connecting her fears to the suicide of Ben’s first wife, Susannah?Increasingly obsessed with discovering what really happened, Annie finds homicide detective Connor Payne, who has never let go of the case. Tensions at home explode into cat-and-mouse terror, with Annie desperately, secretly, trying to investigate…Advance praise for Into the Dark:“It starts with creeping menace; then at every twist and turn you feel Annie’s fear and self-doubt, her deepening dread, and worst of all, her terror of losing both her…
A traumatized young witness may be the key to cracking a serious crime — but can Detective Kerri Blasco unravel his secrets when the boy is too terrified to speak? A gripping and emotional read.
Detective Kerri Blasco is on the trail of a criminal who terrorizes his victims with chilling text messages — then comes to claim their lives. With her own safety on the line, can Kerri stay one step ahead of a killer who’s always watching?
Mari wakes up in an unfamiliar apartment, a dead man lying next to her. Detective Kerri Blasco strives to patch together Mari’s memories and absolve her of a quickly descending murder charge — but will the truth free Mari, or condemn her?
Are Liddy Barron’s recurring, nightmarish visions the key to finding a missing girl? A recovering amnesiac and an intuitive homicide detective are drawn together by the disappearance of a college student in this tense and twisting read.
“Doctors as a new detective duo – what a concept! This one will leave you breathless!” ~ Readers Favorite“A girl stumbling off the curb. He almost didn’t see her…” A beautiful young TV star, Jody Merrill, dies mysteriously and police are stumped. They are even more at a loss when the grisly remains of yet another actress, Jody’s co-star, are found. Detectives request the help of doctors Jill … the help of doctors Jill Raney and David Levine, police friends and detectives on their own. For Jill and David this is personal; they are heartbroken since both murdered young women…
Another doctors & cops adrenaline-packed thriller: A murderous religious zealot threatens women (“sinners!”), and a little baby. First, tension enters the relationship of young doctors Jill Raney and David Levine over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels he’d be safer adopted anonymously. Their stress turns to horror when they discover that a killer with hideous … killer with hideous attack methods is after certain women, and Jesse — whom he calls “devil spawn” — and Jill & David’s hospital which he calls “the devil’s workshop which must be destroyed!” Jill and David join…