Eriksson (Darkwater Bay) Series

With a murderous secret and a dark history few but Helen Eriksson know, an uncertain path lies ahead of her. Helen's past, present and future are on a collision course with a sense of morality she wonders if she ever possessed. Her husband's corpse is barely cold, laid to rest under a shroud of suspicion directed at her by former peers at the FBI. Revenge boils in her veins against the one who shattered her perfect life, or the carefully constructed illusion of such. One thing Helen does not believe is that coincidences happen. So when an opportunity falls into her lap to slip through the web of the FBI investigation into her ex-husband's murder and darken the doorstep of the man she holds responsible for her professional ruin, Helen is hard pressed to resist the lure. Rather than arriving in Darkwater Bay anonymously, Helen walks with full knowledge into what she understands could be a trap sprung by her nemesis, Danny Datello. But the shield of a police detective's badge can't protect her from what she fears she has become by genetic birthright – a hardened murderer just like the father who shaped her into the woman she has become. What Helen doesn't count on is investment in anything but her own plot of revenge. To her surprise, the discovery of a body mere hours before her arrival in Darkwater Bay draws her into more than her own conflicted desires, but a corrupt city with its own secrets. Even more shocking is the realization that Helen craves more than Datello's punishment; justice for a dead victim.

Following the events in Forgotten Place, Helen has little time to mourn losses and misfortunes - and her role in the carnage -before a massive amount of human blood is found in an equipment storage chest back stage at a New Year's Eve concert. After a brief search, a young woman's body is discovered, only she isn't what she appears to be at first glance. As Helen debates her need for involvement in the investigation, Johnny Orion seems determined to prove that he's still the state's top cop - with or without all of his recent memories intact. Yet Helen's the one doubting her abilities before long when a case she thinks is cut-and-dried takes a sudden turn into chaos and unexpected victims start piling up. When two victims are undeniably related to Detective Crevan Conall, Helen realizes her error, that the personal tragedies around her resulted in missing an important clue, one that solves the case. A surprising twist in the end serves Helen's warped sense of justice, which cannot run parallel with the law this time.

Helen Eriksson's insight shifts gears - from the secrets of others to the mystery of her true identity. When she turns to her father for answers, it nearly destroys her other life. Is Wendell Eriksson the ultimate sinner, or an unqualified saint? Lost in her own doubts and fears, it takes another murder to yank Helen's focus back where it belongs. (Eriksson Novel #6)

(Book five in the Eriksson Series) After two months on the outside of law enforcement, Helen's frustration and boredom allows her to be easily lured into a new investigation - the abduction of Danny Datello's newborn daughter. With Johnny Orion away in the capital, working a very secretive case for the governor, Helen's anger grows irrationally when she discovers that Johnny is linked to the prime suspect in the infant abduction, that her case might be far more than one missing infant. Her fears are confirmed by the appearance of a dead child on the shores of Darkwater's bay. Is Datello involved in human trafficking on top of everything else? As Helen and Devlin Mackenzie race to find the answers, neither one of them realizes the danger to both of them lies much closer than anyone imagines. And when everyone else believes the case is closed, Helen finally begins to understand what Jerry Lowe meant when he warned her that it was only the beginning, because for her, the biggest mystery is now fully exposed.

(Book 3, Eriksson Series) An early morning at physical therapy to rehabilitate Helen Eriksson's recent injury turns into a nightmare rife with déjà vu for the Darkwater Bay police department. Helen interrupts an attack on a young woman - the daughter of former Assistant District Attorney David Ireland - on the anniversary of his murder. Helen leaps at the opportunity to finally link a crime to her personal nemesis Danny Datello, long suspected in the murder-for-hire of ADA Ireland. Knowing he's guilty is a far cry from proving it, however, especially when the evidence Ireland had that incriminated him was never recovered. Now, it seems that something has prompted Datello to search for this elusive proof of guilt and destroy it at any cost. Like everything else in Darkwater Bay, nothing is as it seems on the surface. As Helen and her fellow detectives race to beat Datello and his hired guns to the evidence, another link to Jerry Lowe seems to cement Helen's theory that Datello is the criminal heart of the city. But while she's focused on her quenching her desire for revenge, Helen dismisses her instincts that tell her something about this case doesn't quite add up.

(Second book in the Eriksson Series) Helen Eriksson is pulled into a new investigation when Darkwater Bay police approach her for help after another homeless man is found dead in a dumpster in Downey. His cause of death is certain -- a drug overdose, but the disturbing similarities to five other homeless men discarded with the refuse cannot be overlooked. The other causes of death? A complete mystery, one which Helen and her colleagues at Downey Division must uncover before more men are killed. Frustrated with Helen Eriksson's secrets and lies, Johnny Orion embarks on a distant journey that leads him to seek the truth independently. What he uncovers isn't nearly as disturbing as the suspicion growing about Helen's past -- and her present behavior. In Darkwater Bay, the panacea of work can't completely distract Helen from the reality that her lies are continuing to catch up with her, that Special Agent Mark Seleeby isn't giving up on his investigation into her ex-husband's murder or her role in that crime, and that there could have been an eye-witness who saw what she did. Fear makes her careless. Distrust of everyone puts her life at risk, and in the end, threatens to expose a past she desperately wants to deny.

Johnny Orion recruits a former priest turned police detective to work with his unit in the state police, and Helen immediately clashes with the Reverend Detective's methods. Meanwhile, a trial looms large on the horizon of Darkwater Bay. Wanted or not, Zack Carpenter gets help proving a motive that has eluded everyone for nearly two years. Will it be enough to secure the conviction?

(Eriksson Novel #7) In the final chapters of Helen Eriksson's quest for the truth about herself, she uncovers the secret in Darkwater Bay that Jerry Lowe once warned her wasn't meant to remain buried. When the dust settles from the final confrontation, she wonders who will be left alive, and on whose side they'll stand.

The victims are left without blood at nearly bloodless crime scenes. Helen Eriksson knows it can't mean what it appears to be, but faces an uphill battle convincing her colleagues that clinical vampirism is a real disorder, nothing new, and not what pop culture has led the public to believe. The race is on to figure out who the killer is, and how the crimes are committed before it happens again.

(Eriksson #8) Hedra Dearhart is an outcast with vivid dreams. When she begins writing about her nightmares for English Composition, all she envisions is a high GPA. But someone notices eerie similarities between what she writes and crimes reported in the newspaper. The snag is that the dreams occur before the news breaks. What follows is a head-scratching mystery for the police in Darkwater Bay.

With a smear of lipstick leaving a scrawled and cryptic message, Helen Eriksson's world is shattered. Wendell is missing. Jerry Lowe is—God only knows what. A killer's prediction that the murders wouldn't stop with his arrest is the only truth in the devastating culmination of events in Darkwater Bay.

Helen Eriksson is drawn back into profiling when an alleged family annihilator murders his wife and children in a suburb of Darkwater Bay before he vanishes without a trace. Before she can even begin to examine the evidence, Jeremy Rhodes, the bitter father of a six-year-old child killed by a monster Helen once interviewed early in her career with the FBI arrives. Since his son's murder, he has become not only an advocate for missing children, but also a celebrity sleuth trying to capture criminals who have evaded justice. He informs the police that he plans to solve their case first, since he's been investigating four identical cases in different states that have occurred over the past decade. His threat to use his celebrity to hurt Helen's family by exposing her in an even more unfavorable light forces her to agree to work with him. With her old mentor, David Levine, Helen and her new adversarial partner delve into a mystery and expose the horrifying history of a killer who seems to view death as a gift.

For months, Helen Eriksson and Tony Briscoe have had a love-hate relationship. On a sultry August night, Helen faces a difficult choice after a suspicious fire and death is linked to Briscoe. She can make sure Tony goes away forever, or she can find the truth. Either way, they are destined to walk the last mile in the investigation together.

Eriksson (Darkwater Bay) Book 10: With Johnny and Helen out of law enforcement in Darkwater Bay, a new and dangerous element makes a move, leaving a pair baffling mysteries involving multiple jurisdictions, and two men with past links to Helen’s career show up and draw her back into active duty. When the motive in the crime clearly seems to implicate Helen as the mastermind, the team must scramble to uncover the truth. When the day is done, Helen finds herself in an even more vulnerable position and seemingly on a collision course with the consequences for breaking the law in the past.

During Helen Eriksson's last investigation, she made a deal with her reluctant partner—Gia Malone would help her in any way Helen deemed necessary, and when Helen closed her case, she'd help Gia not only find her long-lost brother, but uncover the truth about what happened to Gia's mother. Helen expected what she would find—a mother murdered by a stepfather who would most likely be in prison, if not for that crime, for something else. Certain that her prediction would be fulfilled, Helen delegates the investigation to her brother Crevan Conall, who traces the family's roots back to Boston, and quickly learns that Gia is a very gifted liar, one who rivals Helen's skills at deception. As each lie is exposed, the case becomes less clear, drawing Helen away from Darkwater Bay to lend her skills solving a mystery that culminates in a disturbing conclusion.

A wedding draws them close together at an exotic destination. A storm isolates them from the outside world. A murder puts everyone in danger. And one big lie threatens the foundation of the life Helen Eriksson believes she has. Time is not on Helen’s side as she reaches the moment where she must decide how to confront a dangerous enemy who has refused to stop stalking her.

Helen Eriksson is embroiled in a 30-year-old mystery in an unlikely setting, with conspirators who are determined for different reasons to see that Helen fails to discern the truth, and the crime remains unsolved.

(Eriksson #11) Helen Eriksson’s greatest fears are realized when her new life suddenly crumbles around her. With limited options available, Helen is forced to make a difficult decision, to expose her past in order to save the people she loves from the man determined to destroy all of their lives. Battered on every front, Helen's past collides with her present and threatens the future she finally believes she can have.

Johnny Orion enlists the help of fellow officers in the search for his wife, Helen Eriksson, who is officially a missing person, while Stephen Jarecki, now with the FBI, returns to Darkwater Bay to put forth his theory regarding Helen’s disappearance. Meanwhile, an amnesiac is dependent on a stranger who identifies herself as "Helen," who is determined to get both of them home on her terms.