Laura Griffin

"With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she's deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen. Sean Moran is on an undercover mission: The seaside community of Lost...

"Detective Nicole Lawson is fed up with her job and nonexistent love life. Her first date in months gets cut short by an urgent call from the chief of police. A body has been discovered at Lighthouse Point, and the medical examiner finds an array of strange clues. When the death is ruled a homicide, the news quickly reverberates through Nicole's beachside hometown. The Lost Beach police department swings into high gear. Leading the investigation...

Andrea Finch is a rising star in the Austin police department until a split-second decision derailed her career. On leave from her job, she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. Andrea's search for answers takes her to a dusty Texas border town where nothing is quite what it seems. FBI agent Jon North is working undercover in west Texas investigating an unsolved murder that may be linked to a broader plot. When the evidence points to Andrea's...

"When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she's decided to make her living as a wildlife photographer and put crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when one morning, she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep -- they've been murdered. Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers -- not only...

When abandoned human remains are found in a remote Texas gorge, Sara Lockhart, one of the nation's top forensic anthropologists, is drawn into an investigation that threatens to rock a small community to its very core.

"When a woman is found brutally murdered on Austin's lakeside hike-and-bike trail, investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads turns up on the scene demanding access and answers. She tries to pry information out of the lead detective, Jacob Merritt. But this case is unlike any he's ever seen, and nothing adds up. With the pressure building, Jacob knows the last thing he needs is a romantic entanglement, but he can't convince himself to stay away from Bailey....

"Elaina McCord's dream of being an FBI profiler is threatened by her very first case--investigating a string of murders near a Texas beach resort. The victims, all young women, were brutally murdered, their bodies in abandoned in a desolate marshland. Elaina's hunch--met with disbelief by the local police--is that these are only the latest offerings from a serial killer who has been perfecting his art for years, growing bolder and more cunning with...

Discover heart-racing intrigue in this Thriller Short of romantic suspense. Originally published in LOVE IS MURDER (2013), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. In this action-packed Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin plunges readers into an embassy under attack. Navy SEAL Mike Dietz and his team abandon a training mission to rescue hostages from an embassy under siege by terrorists. The odds...

After surviving a sniper attack on the local college campus, crime lab technician Sophie Barrett comes to believe that it was not a random, senseless act and works to make homicide detective Jonah Macon believe her.