Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh

Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh

A homicide detective's violent family history repeats itself in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh's novel of murder, secrets, and retribution.

For more than twenty-five years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents' murder-suicide.Until her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night: innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that ended in gunfire. There's just one chilling difference. Erin's husband, Justin, has vanished.

Bree knows how explosive the line between love and hate can be, yet the evidence against her troubled brother-in-law isn't adding up. Teaming up with Justin's old friend, former sheriff's investigator and K-9 handler Matt Flynn, Bree vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death, as she promised Erin's children. But as her investigation unfolds, the danger hits close to home. Once again, Bree's family is caught in a death grip. And this time, it could be fatal for her.

Melinda Leigh gave up her banking profession to raise her children and has never looked back. She began writing as a hobby and quickly developed an addiction to creating characters and stories. She has won numerous honors for her paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels since then. Her debut novel, She Can Run, was nominated for an International Thriller Award for Outstanding First Novel and sold over 100,000 copies in six months, making it the number one bestseller in both Kindle Romantic Suspense and Mystery/Thriller. Melinda is an active martial artist who possesses a second-degree black belt in Kenpo karate and teaches women's self-defense when she isn't writing. She shares a cluttered home with her husband, two teenagers, two rescue cats, and a couple of dogs.