Diane Fanning

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive....

Ten-year-old Krystal Surles watched as her best friend was murdered before the intruder slashed her throat with a 12-inch boning knife....

The nation wept when news broke of nearly three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2007....

Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note-typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it.....

Lisa Montgomery presented her husband, Kevin, with their newborn baby girl, while a state way, police were investigating the brutal murder of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett....

Susan McFarland watched, powerless, as her husband, Rick McFarland, went into a downhill spiral of get-rich-quick schemes, quirky shopping trips, and prescription-drug abuse....

Lucinda Pierce investigates the death of charity worker Sharon Fleming, who was brutally murdered....

A fast-paced thriller introducing an unforgettable heroine - Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce is physically and emotionally scarred by her job....

In Death on the River, best-selling true crime author Diane Fanning recounts a tragic kayak accident that left one man dead - and his fiancee arrested for his murder....

Michael Severance survived five tours of duty with the Air Force in the war torn Middle East. But he could not survive five months of marriage to Wendi Davidson....

The nice guy next door was hiding a dark secret - a homicidal obsession with young girls....

Sleep My Darlings is the deadly true story of a mother's betrayal of her natural instincts and the loss of two innocents' lives....

Two cases from the past return to haunt Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce....

In the fifth book in the series, Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce encounters a death that at first appears to be suicide....

A missing elderly man shows up dead on his son's front porch, his pockets full of acorns....

In the third book in the Lucinda Pierce mystery series, the detective unravels a labyrinth of evidence to track down a double murderer while exploring the depth of childhood scars....

One quiet Sunday morning, homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce is called to the scene after a bomb blast rocks a high school, killing a janitor and an unidentified student.

Beauty business entrepreneur Dean Faiello's "life of the party" attitude was constantly leading him to disaster....

Beneath a veneer of respectability and religion, Mary Winkler's soul festered as she struggled to be obedient and loving to her husband and her God....

May 30, 1944. In the middle of the night, Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin’s cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby, with her clearheaded scientific mind, can find a way to help prove her innocence....