Keri Locke Mystery (German)

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found. Still obsessed with finding her, Keri buries her grief the only way she knows how: by throwing herself into the cases of missing persons in Los Angeles. A routine phone call from a worried mother of a high-schooler, only two hours missing, should be ignored. Yet something about the mother's voice strikes a chord, and Keri decides to investigate. What she finds shocks her. The missing daughter-of a prominent senator-was hiding secrets no one knew. When all evidence points to a runaway, Keri is ordered off the case. And yet, despite pressure from her superiors, from the media, despite all trails going cold, the brilliant and obsessed Keri refuses to let it go. She knows she has but 48 hours if she has any chance of bringing this girl back alive. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A TRACE OF DEATH marks the debut of a riveting new series-and a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

Mystery and suspense in the new masterpiece by # 1 bestselling author Blake Pierce. A TRACE OF MURDER (Book # 2 of the Keri Locke Mystery series) Keri Locke, detective in the LAPD Missing Persons Unit, is still haunted by the kidnapping of her own daughter. The first new track in years gives Keri strength to resume the search to finally save her daughter. At the same time, she receives the desperate cry for help from a famous cosmetic surgeon from Beverly Hills, whose wife has been missing for two days. A rich lady in society may be fighting for her life. It has no enemies and no reason to go into hiding. Keri takes over the case. She gets a new partner she can't stand because Ray is recovering from his injuries in the hospital. Her investigation leads her into the elite world of Beverly Hills, the world of the rich and beautiful, behind whose facade hide lonely housewives, addiction to shopping and meaningless résumés. Keri, who delves deeper and deeper into this world, quickly loses the overview: Was this woman stalked? What is behind the rumors about their past? Is she in hiding? Was she kidnapped? Or maybe something much more terrible happened to her? A dark psychological thriller full of tension and palpitations. A TRACE OF MURDER is book # 2 of the captivating new series - with an endearing main character and the potential to keep you awake late into the night.

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. In A TRACE OF VICE (Book #3 in the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. It leads to a violent confrontation with The Collector-which, in turn, offers more clues that may, after all this time, reunite her with her daughter. Yet at the same time, Keri is assigned a new case, one with a frantic ticking clock. A teenage girl has gone missing in Los Angeles, a girl from a good family was who duped into drugs and abducted into a sex trafficking ring. Keri is hot on her trail-but the trail is moving fast, with the girl being constantly moved and with her abductors' single, nefarious goal: to cross her over the border with Mexico. In an epic, breathtaking, cat and mouse chase that takes them through the seedy underworld of trafficking, Keri and Ray will be pushed to their limits to save the girl-and her own daughter-before it is all too late. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A TRACE OF VICE is book #3 in a riveting new series-and a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. In A TRACE OF CRIME (Book #4 in the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. She winds her way through a twisted underworld, and step by step, she gets closer to finding her daughter. Yet she has no time. Keri is assigned a new case: a dad calls from an affluent community and reports that his teen daughter vanished on the way home from school. Shortly after, ransom letters arrive. Twisted, filled with riddles, they make it clear that there is little time to save the girl. They also make it clear that this is the work of a diabolical killer who is toying with them. Keri and the police must scramble to find the kidnapper, to understand his demands, to decode the letters, and most of all, to outwit him. But in this master game of chess, Keri may find herself up against a foe even she cannot understand, and for the missing girl-and her own daughter-she may just be too late. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A TRACE OF CRIME is book #4 in a riveting new series-and a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A TRACE OF HOPE is the final book in the Keri Locke series, bringing the series to a dramatic conclusion. In A TRACE OF HOPE (Book #5 in the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, is closer than she's ever been to finding her daughter. Finally, she gets a fresh lead-and this time, she will do whatever it takes to bring her home alive. At the same time, a new, urgent case is assigned to Keri: an 18 year old girl has gone missing after being hazed by her sorority. As the race is on to find her, Keri plunges deep into the world of pristine college campuses, and comes to realize that all is not what it seems. A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A TRACE OF HOPE is book #5 in a riveting new series-and a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A bundle of books #1 (A TRACE OF DEATH) and #2 (A TRACE OF MURDER) in Blake Pierce's Keri Locke Mystery series! This bundle offers books two and three in one convenient file, with over 120,000 words of reading. In A TRACE OF DEATH (A Keri Locke Mystery-Book 1), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found. Still obsessed with finding her, Keri buries her grief the only way she knows how: by throwing herself into the cases of missing persons in Los Angeles. A routine phone call from a worried mother of a high-schooler, only two hours missing, should be ignored. Yet something about the mother's voice strikes a chord, and Keri decides to investigate. What she finds shocks her. The missing daughter-of a prominent senator-was hiding secrets no one knew. When all evidence points to a runaway, Keri is ordered off the case. And yet, despite pressure from her superiors, from the media, despite all trails going cold, the brilliant and obsessed Keri refuses to let it go. She knows she has but 48 hours if she has any chance of bringing this girl back alive. In A TRACE OF MURDER (A Keri Locke Mystery-Book 2), encouraged by the new lead that has landed, the first in years, Keri Locke pursues it with all that she has, determined to find her daughter and bring her back alive. Yet Keri, at the same time, receives a phone call from a frantic husband, a famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who reports that his wife has been missing for two days. A wealthy socialite with no enemies and little reason to leave her life, he fears the worst has become of his wife. Keri takes on the case, assigned a new partner whom she hates, as Ray still recovers in the hospital. Her investigation leads her deep into the elite Beverly Hills world of the idle rich, to encounters with lonely housewives, and those with shopping-addicted, empty lives. Dark psychological thrillers with heart-pounding suspense, the KERI LOCKE MYSTERY series is a riveting new series-with a beloved new character-that will leave you turning pages late into the night. Book #3 in the Keri Locke series is also now available