Blake Larsen

The body count is rising in Northern Pines... Tragedy has stalked Blake Larsen her entire life. After the violent death of her parents leaves her orphaned, her Green Beret brother Caleb is all she has left. He was there the day she graduated high school and the first person she called after she became a federal agent. Then the cops find him swinging from the rafters. The horrific discovery pushes Blake to the edge of despair. Then one of Caleb's closest friends is violently murdered outside her front door-and the killer snatches a folder from his dying fingers. It's clear Kyle was silenced moments before coming clean. After detectives slow-walk their investigation, Blake resolves to uncover the truth. Her way. Blake teams up with Ryan Walker, another of Caleb's former comrades-in-arms. As they grow more and more entangled in the dark, intimate underworld of Northern Pines, they learn how far the killers will go to keep a small town's secrets buried. For years they've silenced victims and police alike through murder, corruption, and intimidation. For Blake, this is personal. If the cops won't deliver justice, she will.

Heads or tails? Three hours into her new job, Blake Larsen stumbles across her first body. But this is no ordinary murder. The scene is elaborately staged, with the victim's head clinically severed from her shoulders. Blake is certain this isn't the killer's first time. Then, a second woman goes missing, a young, beautiful Army wife named Nina Crawford. When the kidnappers-claiming to be ISIS-release a horrific, videoed ransom demand threatening to livestream her execution, the attention of the entire country turns to Northern Pines. And a countdown begins. Nina has 48 hours to live. The two cases must be connected. But why murder one woman and kidnap another? Why deliberately fan the flames of media attention? And why does the killer's MO match two cold cases from almost a decade earlier? As the FBI searches for terrorists, the body count rises, and protesters battle on the normally placid streets of Northern Pines, only one thing is clear: nothing about this case makes sense. Blake knows she's in a race against time. And the clock is ticking…

Pine Ridge is a haven for lost souls. What happens when a haven becomes a living hell? Lieutenant Blake Larsen is on the trail of her own family tragedy when another rips apart Pine Ridge Retreat, a troubled teen camp on the edge of Northern Pines. A girl named Chloe Perez is dead, and a missing teenager with a troubled past-Jax Mitchell-is the prime suspect. Though Blake is desperate to uncover the truth about her parents' horrific murder-suicide, duty calls. When deputies first arrive at Pine Ridge, security refuses to let them through the gate. Why? What are they hiding-and why will no one talk? Does it have anything to do with the strange devotion the camp's staff have for their leader? When Blake learns that Chloe's father is the speaker of the State House, she finds herself in the eye of yet another public storm. With her suspect list growing and bodies piling up, Blake's investigation itself comes under pressure. Someone wants to shut her down. But Blake made a dead girl a promise.

Murders don't repeat themselves. But they do rhyme. Blake Larsen knows pain and trauma more than most cops. Her parents died in a brutal murder-suicide when she was just a teen. She's spent her entire life believing her father was a senseless murderer. One week ago, her elderly neighbors were found slaughtered. The scene was staged to look exactly the same as the night two decades earlier that stole Blake's future from her. And she doesn't believe in coincidence. As Blake dives into the case, every clue seems to lead back to her own haunted history. Her reputation in town is thrown into the gutter, and violence knocks on her front door. Any normal person would give up. But Blake doesn't have that choice. A killer is coming for her. She needs to find them first.