Alexa Steele

In an elite suburb of New York City, girls are dying. That doesn’t happen in Greenvale, with its immaculate lawns, exclusive yacht clubs and multi-million dollar mansions. But behind its perfect façade, its trimmed hedges and luxury cars, a darkness lies. Girls, dependent on Adderall, outmaneuver each other to get into top colleges, while the mothers’ need to live vicariously only makes it worse. Bella DeFranco is one of the Bronx’s top SVU detectives. At only 37, she disarms everyone with her stunning good looks, yet she is as tough as most men—and a lot smarter, too. Yet when is summoned to Greenvale, she finds herself getting lost in a case that even she can’t comprehend. She stumbles into a land of secrets, a place where husbands hide their pasts from their wives, where friends are not what they seem, and where no one wants to know too much. As she digs deeper into layers of suburban dysfunction, she comes to learn that, behind all the fake smiles, there is a subtle violence--rivaling even her crime-ridden streets of the Bronx. With a killer on the loose, time running out, and a new partner who never recovered from his washed-up alcoholic days, the odds are stacked against Bella. She is determined, though, to save these girls, whatever the cost. Yet as she gets close, the depth of psychosis she discovers shocks even her…. THE LOST GIRLS (BOOK #2 IN THE SUBURBAN MURDER SERIES) is now available!

The Forgotten Girls (Book #1 in The Suburban Murder Series)

THE LOST GIRLS is book #2 in the #1 bestselling Suburban Murder series, which begins with THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS, book #1 (a free download)! The brutally beaten body of a young girl is discovered in a marsh in Jamesport, one of New York’s most elite suburbs. Police comb the area, while many speculate her murder might be connected to the abduction, six months earlier, of three girls from Jamesport. The FBI has evidence of an underage prostitution and trafficking ring which may be related. At the request of the FBI, Billy Dee, captain of the Ninth Precinct in the Bronx, head of its Sex Crimes Unit, sends two of his most seasoned detectives to Jamesport to conduct their own investigation: Bella de Franco and Jimmy “Mack” Menendez. They are sent north, back into the land of the beautiful. Between local politics, fractured families, a heroin epidemic and a dark secret that the wealthy town strives to keep hidden, the unspeakably dark and twisted reality lurking behind Jamesport life is uncovered. As they learn that everything is not what it seems in this wealthy suburb, Bella and Mack must race against the clock to save one last girl before she is sold across state lines, where she will vanish forever. Book #3 in the Suburban Murder series will be released soon!

The Lost Girls (Book #2 in The Suburban Murder Series)

THE COVETED GIRLS is book #3 in the #1 bestselling Suburban Murder series, which begins with THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS, book #1 (a free download)! In the magnificent, sought after Hamptons a young au pair has vanished. When she shows up savagely raped and murdered, in the Bronx, top SVU detective Bella de Franco is called to the scene and ordered to find her killer. She enters the life this young woman led, from the sleazy NYC nanny agency whose owner runs a sex ring, to the wealthy families who employ these girls, both in the city and at the beach, and finds a world whose physical beauty masks a twisted existence. Bella is no longer a stranger to places where privilege and money hide secrets. She and her new partner, Mack, have just solved two murders in towns inhabited with the one percent. But in this fabled playground of the rich, where thirty million dollar homes hide behind electric wrought iron gates and hand cut hedges, Bella encounters a culture sharper, and more shocking, than anything she has seen before. Husbands with power and influence, revered for their money and status, do whatever they want. Wives, fixtures for a public image, look the other way, as long as the perks keep coming. Friends, who love the lifestyle, keep friends secrets. Even the kids, who once knew better, remain quiet in the face of it all. Bella works tirelessly to uncover the truth about the high paid escorts, phony marriages, and broken families that littered the life of her victim, and to find who it was who needed the young girl out of the way. But she doesn’t expect the answer she gets, one that leads her to question all she thought she knew…

The Coveted Girls (Book #3 in the Suburban Murder Series

DIE VERLORENEN MÄDCHEN ist Buch 2 in der #1 Bestseller Serie “Vorortmorde”, die mit DIE VERGESSENEN MÄDCHEN beginnt. (Buch 1 jetzt als kostenloser Download verfügbar!) Der grausam zugerichtete Körper eines jungen Mädchens wird in einem Sumpf in Jamesport entdeckt, einem von New Yorks exklusivsten Vororten. Die Polizei durchkämmt die Gegend, während viele spekulieren, dass der Mord mit den drei Mädchen zu tun hat, die vor sechs Monaten aus Jamesport verschwunden sind. Das FBI hat außerdem Hinweise auf einen Prostitutions- und Menschenhändlerring mit Minderjährigen, der möglicherweise eine Verbindung zu dem Fall hat. Auf Wunsch des FBI schickt Billy Dee, der Captain des 9. Reviers in der Bronx und Leiter der Abteilung für Sexualverbrechen, zwei seiner besten Leute nach Jamesport um eigene Ermittlungen anzustellen: Bella de Franco und Jimmy “Mack” Menendez. Also machen sich die beiden auf den Weg in den Norden, zurück ins Land der Reichen und Schönen. Zwischen Kleinstadtpolitik, zerrütteten Familien, einer Heroin Epidemie und einem dunklen Geheimnis, das die reiche Stadt zu verstecken versucht, decken die zwei Kriminalbeamten die Abgründe in der Realität des idyllischen Lebens von Jamesport auf. Nachdem sie lernen, dass in dieser wohlhabenden Stadt nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint, müssen sie, in einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, versuchen das letzte Mädchen zu retten, bevor sie über die Staatsgrenze verkauft wird und für immer verschwindet. Bald erhältlich - Buch 3 in der Serie “Vorortmorde”!

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