Katia Lief

Invisible Woman

"WHEN ANNIE'S IDENTITY IS STOLEN...SHE RUNS BUT CANNOT HIDE." After discovering an email revealing her husbands infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, Annie takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and Julie soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything comes undone. Her credit cards are stolen just a she's arrested for grand larceny. The police realize she is the victim of identity theft, but she has yet to understand the true scale of the crime. And when Annie turns to Julie for help, she finds that her twin sister has disappeared...along with her baby. Now with her daughter--and her own life--on the line, Annie is going to fight for what is hers. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books.

Here She Lies

Your time is up... Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts. The only man her family can turn to for help is retired FBI profiler John Geary. But Geary suspects she's been taken by a serial killer who targets mothers. Every seven years he strikes, enacting a gruesome ritual. And Geary knows that there's much worse to come.... Emily has five days left. Five days of waiting. Five days of hell. Five days before the killer returns for her son...

Five Days to Die

Karin Schaeffer thought she had already defeated evil. But there was more. Three years ago, Detective Karin Schaeffer wanted to die when a madman murdered her family—and she would have if her partner, Mac MacLeary, hadn't pulled her back from the edge of the abyss. Now they are married, with a toddler son, and Karin is learning to live again. Then Mac's parents are slain in a brutal home invasion . . . And Mac vanishes . . . And a new nightmare begins. Karin is determined to do whatever it takes to find her husband. But the answers waiting for her in the shadows are almost as unbelievable as his disappearance. Karin pursues the truth—leading her away from her home in Brooklyn to the terrifying heart of the Mexican drug wars to Cape Cod in winter—as dark secrets about the man she loves are revealed. . . .

Next Time You See Me

"ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED...." New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl--but this time she is part of Daves family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call comes, they know she's not alone. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books".

One Cold Night

Soul Catcher

You Are Next, Katia Lief’s riveting debut thriller for Avon Books, is the taut, roller coaster tale of a serial killer’s surviving victim—and her determination to turn from hunted to hunter. Katia Lief is destined to be a superstar of romantic suspense, right up there with Lisa Gardner, Alex Kava, and Wendy Corsi Staub, and You Are Next is a bravura display of her extraordinary ability to cause a reader’s pulse to race and blood to chill at the same time.

You Are Next

A gift inspires unexpected insight and generosity Karin and Mac enjoy a quiet Christmas morning at home with their family. But after Mac gives Karin a special gift, she finds herself alone in Coney Island on a cold, winter day with a band of misfits who want her gift for themselves.

The Gift: a Karin Schaeffer short story

Karin Schaeffer's hisband is missing presumed dead. The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents. Karin is determined to do all she can to find her hisband, dead or alive... but she's about to discover how little she knows about the man she married. -- Cover.

Hide and Seek

"Laugh-aloud funny." -Publishers Weekly Dawn and Hank's breakup is so fresh that she can see the tan line where her engagement ring used to be. She is still in love with Hank, who dumped her for Christine-and they're living together now. But when Dawn realizes how much Hank misses her, and might even regret their breakup, the game is on. Dating in 1980s Manhattan is confusing enough. Then Mike Blitsky-a.k.a. Mike Mauvais of "Misled Mike's Marvelous Men," a transvestite escort service-bursts into Dawn's life when she becomes the editor of a tell-all memoir he's writing to pay for his legal defense. Unbeknownst to Dawn, Hank is Mike's lawyer, defending him against charges of running a male prostitution ring. Dawn's friend Katherine, a doctoral student in eighteenth century literature, is hired to do research for Mike's book. With everyone working at cross purposes, the result is a modern day comedy of errors that doesn't wind up until the wedding bouquet goes flying in the final scene. "Wonderfully funny and terribly true."-Fay Weldon "Urban, hip, sad, funny, a tipsy walk on the wild side."-Malcolm Bosse

Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride

"WHO WILL LIVE AND WHO WILL DIE?" A team of burglars plans to rob a secluded country house in Waterbury, Connecticut while the famous owner is away visiting relatives for the holidays. But volatile relationships within this family lead to a last minute change in plans, and three generations convene in Waterbury instead. When the burglars arrive to find the house occupied instead of empty, a simple crime quickly becomes complicated in this gripping psychological thriller. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs Novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly.

Google-Waterbury

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

Dead Rich

Niets is wat het lijkt... Ze dacht dat ze veilig was Na de moord op haar man en kind heeft Karin Schaeffer eindelijk haar leven weer op orde. Ze is getrouwd met rechercheur Mac en ze hebben een zoontje. Wanneer Mac's ouders worden overvallen en vermoord en Mac spoorloos verdwijnt, belandt Karin opnieuw in een nachtmerrie. Ze gelooft niet in de vermeende zelfmoord van haar man. Als ze hem denkt te zien op een vliegveld is ze vastbesloten hem te vinden. Tijdens haar zoektocht wordt ze geconfronteerd met de duistere kant van de man van wie ze houdt.

Ik zal je vinden

"IS FAME REALLY WORTH ALL THE TROUBLE?" Aspiring cartoonist Catherine "Cat" Gold earns her living as a celebrity assistant in uptown Manhattan, while navigating the cramped downtown spaces of life, love, and alternative art. Her boss is Rochelle "Rocky" Love, a celebrated 1970s feminist and has-been 80s radio and television star who is convinced she can forge a 90s comeback with an autobiography. But the ghostwriter hired to glorify her life instead reveals a battleground of treachery and hypocrisy, littered with lies and sex that cross all the boundaries. When Cat herself experiences Rockys duplicity and learns that the icon is a fraud, she is fueled by a sense of disappointment and conspires with the ghostwriter to reveal the unspeakable truth about their narcissistic boss. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Wonderfully funny and terribly true."--Fay Weldon "Urban, hip, sad, funny, a tipsy walk on the wild side."--Malcolm Bosse "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books.

The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love

KILLING EVE meets THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD A Cold War spy’s deceits rise through time to haunt his American son, in a dual narrative split between postwar Berlin and early twentieth century New York City. Past becomes prologue as a father’s secret life and untimely death begin to make treacherous sense before delivering one final surprise. Skilled and capable, Con Mathis works for the New York District Attorney’s office. He’s movie-star handsome, charming, well educated, haunted by his expat German father’s suicide, and devoted to his mother Ruth and sister Sophie. Having completed an undercover assignment investigating the Wall Street money laundering operation of a Russian kingpin, he unwinds at a Manhattan bar, drinks too much and meets Emmy, a compelling German woman he thinks could be his soul mate. The next day, hungover and foggy, he realizes that he lost his keys and wallet at her place and needs to go back, but he can’t remember exactly where she lives. By the time he finds her, the woman he felt so drawn to turns out to be unstable, even dangerous. Far from a stranger, Emmy is a missive from his late father’s Cold War past. In meeting Emmy, Con’s search for meaning in his father’s long ago suicide collides with his hidden life as a Stasi agent in Cold War Berlin. As the discoveries become more troubling, Con launches an investigation that inadvertently puts his beloved American mother and sister at risk.

House of a Thousand Eyes

"Former Detective Karin Schaeffer has nothing left to live for after serial killer Martin Price destroys all she holds dear. Known as 'The Domino Killer' because he leaves dominoes as a clue to his next victim.

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...

(Karin Schaeffer 1)

IF HE CAN'T HAVE HER, NO ONE WILL Award-winning journalist Darcy Mayhew thinks she has faced her worst nightmare when her beloved husband dies in a car accident. But after moving to New York City with her teenage son to begin their lives anew, she discovers she has a stalker. Not only is the worst yet to come, but her husband's death may not have been an accident after all. Praise for Katia Lief's Novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." -Richard Montanari "Brilliant." -Suspense Magazine "Exhilarating." -The Mystery Gazette "Taut, clean storytelling." -Publishers Weekly "Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." -New York Journal of Books

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