MELISSA F. MILLER SERIES:

In Absentia

In Absentia

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

When a five-foot-nothing lawyer's client goes missing, nothing will get in the way of her efforts to find him—not even a violent terrorist cell, a trained assassin, and an opioid-trafficking ring. You guessed it. Sasha McCandless-Connelly is back. When Sasha's client is a no-show for his federal sentencing hearing in a bulk money smuggling case, the presiding judge is not amused. He gives her the weekend to locate the guy or face the consequences. She tracks down her client in a remote West Virginia town, but it's not the end of her problems—it's just the beginning. He's being held hostage by violent men who are convinced he's the key to eight million dollars that have gone missing from a terrorist organization's coffers. After a day passes with no word from Sasha, an increasingly worried Leo leaves the kids with a friend and heads to West Virginia in search of his wife. He arrives only to end up...
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Clingmans Dome

Clingmans Dome

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Tracker Aroostine Higgins and Special Agent Patton Banks, a criminal investigator with the National Park Services Investigative Services Branch, have a strained relationship. He doesn't trust her, and she doesn't agree with his by-the-book approach. They're far from an investigative dream team. But when Aroostine picks up the trail of a fugitive during a visit to Clingmans Dome, the pair is thrown into an investigation together. Alan Steven Reynolds is a notorious jewel thief. He and four accomplices pulled off the largest single heist in history. Three of the men went to prison, Reynolds went on the run, and the fifth finagled a non-guilty verdict. Now, Roo and Patton must comb the dense forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in search of the jewel thief—and the jewels. Reynolds isn't only running from the law, though. As the investigators track the wanted man, their every move is also being tracked by someone...
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Twisted Path

Twisted Path

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

DNA evidence doesn't lie. Except when it does. When a man is murdered, DNA evidence identifies the killer. The only problem? He's currently serving a life sentence for murdering the man's wife more than six years earlier. The medical examiner's office turns to forensic pathologist Bodhi King for help. But Bodhi's conflicted: he worked on the original case before his retirement. As Bodhi untangles the web of evidence, his quest for clarity calls his former colleagues' work into question and leads him down a treacherous path of secrets, lies, and violence. This time, his commitment to the truth may prove fatal. Twisted Path is the fourth book in the Bodhi King forensic thriller series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.
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Full Fathom Five

Full Fathom Five

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Full Fathom Five (Book 13.5) is a McCandless-Connelly Family Mystery Novella! It's the week after Christmas, and the McCandless-Connelly family is snowed in. Really snowed in. Roads are closed. Stores are closed. A curfew is in place. And Sasha and Leo's five-year-old twins are climbing the walls. A game of hide and seek is supposed to keep Finn and Fiona busy, not turn up a sixty-five-year-old mystery. But this is Sasha and Leo. Soon they're cut off, locked in, and hot on the scent of a dangerous secret.
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Chosen Path

Chosen Path

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Once set in motion, the wheel of the truth cannot be stopped. Forensic pathologist Bodhi King has an international reputation as the expert to consult when there's an unexplained death cluster. So he's not surprised when the call comes in about a troubling spate of deaths in a remote town on the U.S.–Canadian border. He is surprised when he arrives in the tiny community tucked away in the mountains and every door slams shut in his face. The people there don't want his help, even as their own are dying. It would be the easiest thing in the world to walk away, but that's not the path Bodhi's chosen to walk. So he digs into the town's dark crevices in search of the truth. But what he finds will force him to confront his own beliefs about courage, compassion, and the sanctity of life and of death. Bodhi King returns in Chosen Path, the seventh book in the series by USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller.
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Crossfire Creek

Crossfire Creek

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

A mother and her eleven-year-old daughter vanish from their Crossfire Creek home. The girl is vulnerable. The mother, impulsive. Tracker Aroostine Higgins is called in to find them, fast, before they're hurt ... or worse. Aroostine assumes her Rue Jackman alias, packs up her truck, and hits the road with her dog Rufus by her side to do what she does best: Find the missing. Unofficially, under the radar, and not necessarily entirely legally. Meanwhile, Special Agent Patton Banks of the National Park Services Investigative Services Branch is tasked with solving the execution-style murder of a low-level criminal. Officially, entirely legally, and as quickly as possible. When Aroostine's search gets tangled up with Patton's investigation, the collision sets off a barrage ... and she's caught in the crossfire. Don't miss this fifth-in-series thriller from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F....
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Irreparable Harm (A Legal Thriller)

Irreparable Harm (A Legal Thriller)

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

There's a smartphone app capable of crashing a commercial jet. And it's for sale to the highest bidder.There's a smartphone app capable of crashing a commercial jet. And it's for sale to the highest bidder . . . Attorney Sasha McCandless is closing in on the prize: After eight years of long hours, she's about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up. Then a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard. She gets to work mounting a defense for the inevitable civil lawsuits. But, as Sasha digs into the case, she learns the crash was no accident. She joins forces with a federal air marshal and they race to prevent another crash. As they get closer to the truth, people start to turn up dead. And Sasha's next on the list. She'll need to rely on her legal training and Krav Maga training in equal measure to stop a madman and save herself.
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Clean Break

Clean Break

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Aroostine Higgins returns in a page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author Melissa F. Miller. When a tourist reports an abandoned car at a remote trailhead at the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Aroostine Higgins is the logical choice to investigate the high-profile case. After all, it's her job. She's a consultant to the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch, and she specializes in tracking people. But when a search of the car turns up a blood-soaked hat that's a match for a missing woman and a scrap of paper bearing the name "Rue Jackman," the case becomes personal. Under the alias of Rue Jackman, Aroostine helps find missing Native American women who've been forgotten by the system. The only problem is the missing woman isn't Native, and Aroostine has no idea why her alias is on that piece of paper.
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Innocent Mistakes

Innocent Mistakes

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Little kids, little problems. Big kids ... federal felony charges? Attorney Sasha McCandless-Connelly has her hands full with her six-year-old twins, but she adores her pack of nieces and nephews. So when her sister-in-law calls and tearfully announces that sixteen-year-old Colin has been arrested, she flies into action to protect him. Colin's accused of using the Internet to make threatening statements, a federal felony. Social media posts by Colin threaten his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with violence—and worse. Colin swears he didn't make the posts, and Sasha believes him. Then the private messages turn up. As she shines a light on the high school's dark underbelly, the teenagers close rank, and the whispered secrets multiply. But she's confident she can clear Colin's name. Then someone actually tries to make good on the threat to kill the other boy. Colin's taken into custody on an attempted murder charge, and the...
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Inevitable Discovery

Inevitable Discovery

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

A college kid who's a doppelgänger for a dead man. A pattern and practice of possible prosecutorial misconduct. And a husband and wife team who refuses to look the other way. Sasha and Leo are back. When Sasha spots a young man who looks exactly like her dead brother Patrick, the resemblance is too strong to ignore. She won't rest until she uncovers the truth about him—even if that truth has the power to destroy her family. Meanwhile, she and her law partners have taken on a pro bono case that's getting murkier by the moment. They ask for Leo's help to investigate a series of abuses by the authorities. If they're right about what's happening, exposing it threatens to tear the city apart. In the aftermath of both bombshells, she'll be left to wonder if sometimes ignorance really might be bliss. Inevitable Discovery is the thirteenth full-length novel in the USA Today bestselling Sasha McCandless series.
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Called Home

Called Home

Melissa F. Miller

Thriller / Suspense / Mystery

Aroostine Higgins is back in USA Today bestseller Melissa F. Miller's enthralling series. With nothing left to lose, Aroostine becomes a relentless hunter who won't stop until she finds a missing teenager and brings justice to a hurting community. After her husband dies in a car accident, Aroostine wants to be left alone to mourn. But life has other plans for her. When a teenage girl goes missing, the authorities write her off as a rebellious runaway. An old friend implores Aroostine to help track down the girl for her desperate mother. Still reeling, Aroostine sets off on a cross-country hunt that puts her in the cross-hairs of a shadowy organization with violent ties as she searches for a girl who has very good reasons to want to stay lost.
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