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October 16, 2025
Coming this December - A Festive Kill
Trapped by a snowstorm at a Christmas Eve dinner, Carolyn Ryder senses their stranded uninvited guest is lying. As the night deepens, every smile hides a secret—and every truth cuts closer to the bone.
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A Festive Kill: A chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts
❄️A FESTIVE KILL - a chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts.
🎄🔪 Murder, mystery, and holiday mayhem — all for just 99¢US!
Pre-order A FESTIVE KILL today for only 99¢US — the price goes up to $2.99US on Release Day, so don’t wait!
If you love dark, gripping mysteries with a twist of holiday spirit, this is your next must-read. 🎁💀
👉 Grab A FESTIVE KILL here for 99¢US before the deal disappears and increases to $2.99US on Release Day! -> https://mybook.to/A_Festive_Kill
A Festive Kill: A chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts
October 12, 2025
Coming this December - A Festive Kill
Some guests bring wine. Others bring your past. The storm outside is nothing compared to the one inside.
❄️A FESTIVE KILL - a chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts.
❄️Grab your pre-order of A FESTIVE KILL now for 99¢US before it increases to $2.99US on Release Day! -> https://mybook.to/A_Festive_Kill
Trapped by a snowstorm at a Christmas Eve dinner, Carolyn Ryder senses their stranded guest is lying. As the night deepens, every smile hides a secret—and every truth cuts closer to the bone.
A FESTIVE KILL is a chilling psychological thriller novella perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Alice Feeney.
A Festive Kill: A chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts
❄️A FESTIVE KILL - a chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts.
❄️Grab your pre-order of A FESTIVE KILL now for 99¢US before it increases to $2.99US on Release Day! -> https://mybook.to/A_Festive_Kill
Trapped by a snowstorm at a Christmas Eve dinner, Carolyn Ryder senses their stranded guest is lying. As the night deepens, every smile hides a secret—and every truth cuts closer to the bone.
A FESTIVE KILL is a chilling psychological thriller novella perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Alice Feeney.
A Festive Kill: A chilling holiday thriller novella that lingers long after the snow melts
September 25, 2025
🪓 Meet Bev Dalton
🪓 Meet Bev Dalton – the matriarch of the Dalton homestead in A Forgotten Kill. Wiry, sharp-eyed, and with a peppermint candy always on her tongue, Bev is the kind of woman who believes in “pulling up what don’t grow right by the root.” For twenty years, she’s ruled her family’s remote farm with a mix of scripture, suspicion, and cruelty so precise it almost feels like love. But when the past comes knocking, Bev’s carefully buried secrets—and the lengths she’ll go to protect her son—will chill you to the bone. Step onto the Dalton property… if you dare.
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A Forgotten Kill
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A Forgotten Kill
September 15, 2025
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August 24, 2025
A Beach Kill - Available Now!
Out now – FREE with Kindle Unlimited, or grab it on Kindle today.
⚓️Vacation turned nightmare.
⛱A beach soaked in blood. No bodies. No clues. ⌚️No time.
👨👩👧A family vanishes without a trace.
🌊Just a blood trail winding through the dunes—straight into the surf.
Chief Clayton Morelli has one chance to solve it— before the tide erases everything…
and the killer strikes again.
Blistering heat. Shifting sands. A predator watching.
A Beach Kill is a fast-paced summer thriller—perfect for fans of gritty, high-stakes crime fiction.
⚠️ Read it fast—because if Morelli’s too slow, someone else dies.
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A Beach Kill: An adrenaline-laced summer novella thriller that grips you from the first page
⚓️Vacation turned nightmare.
⛱A beach soaked in blood. No bodies. No clues. ⌚️No time.
👨👩👧A family vanishes without a trace.
🌊Just a blood trail winding through the dunes—straight into the surf.
Chief Clayton Morelli has one chance to solve it— before the tide erases everything…
and the killer strikes again.
Blistering heat. Shifting sands. A predator watching.
A Beach Kill is a fast-paced summer thriller—perfect for fans of gritty, high-stakes crime fiction.
⚠️ Read it fast—because if Morelli’s too slow, someone else dies.
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A Beach Kill: An adrenaline-laced summer novella thriller that grips you from the first page
August 11, 2025
A Fall Kill now available in audio book
🍂AVAILABLE NOW!! 🍂
A group of real serial killers disguise themselves as famous horror movie villains and run rampant during Halloween night. Who is real, and who is fake? Trick or treat? Don’t answer the door.
The audio book of A Fall Kill, Book #4 in The Killing Seasons is now available through all platforms including Audible, Audio Books and Apple Books just to name a few.
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A Fall Kill
A Fall Kill: The Killing Seasons FBI Crime Mystery Series, Book 4
A group of real serial killers disguise themselves as famous horror movie villains and run rampant during Halloween night. Who is real, and who is fake? Trick or treat? Don’t answer the door.
The audio book of A Fall Kill, Book #4 in The Killing Seasons is now available through all platforms including Audible, Audio Books and Apple Books just to name a few.
Here are just a few links for you to listen to the fantastic narration by Cassandra Ailing of the Amazon #1 thriller.
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A Fall Kill
A Fall Kill: The Killing Seasons FBI Crime Mystery Series, Book 4
July 6, 2025
🎄CHRISTMAS IN JULY🎄
Even though it’s summer outside, this chilling Christmas thriller will have you reaching for a blanket. A self-contained holiday mystery perfect for 🎄CHRISTMAS IN JULY🎄—grab your copy now!
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Christmas has come to Erin’s Bay, and with it, Santa’s Little Killers, a sinister trio who sneak into homes at night and leave grisly gifts under the tree.
A Wintry Kill, available in Kindle and FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
A Wintry Kill
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Christmas has come to Erin’s Bay, and with it, Santa’s Little Killers, a sinister trio who sneak into homes at night and leave grisly gifts under the tree.
A Wintry Kill, available in Kindle and FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
A Wintry Kill
July 1, 2025
TODAY ONLY!! DON'T MISS OUT!
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Carolyn Ryder returns to her hometown in Iowa, unaware that the #1 Most Wanted Serial Killer in the country has moved there as well.
The winters in Willow Falls, Iowa are cold, brutal and unforgiving. And so is the town’s newest visitor. Except he’s not passing through. He’s here on vacation, for some fun and he’s going to stay for a while.
They call him “Robin Hood”, a winter serial killer who has left a gruesome trail of horror and death across four Midwestern states. His grisly trademark is skewering his victims to tree trunks using a hunting crossbow.
Now he’s here…
For ex-FBI Special Agent Carolyn Ryder, winter is the season to reflect, to come home, to take stock and to grieve. Willow Falls for her is filled with sorrow and regret. She has returned to her hometown to bury her mother after a long battle with illness. Her sister blames Carolyn for not caring, for not being there for her and their mother, for being a cold, dispassionate person who was more interested in building her career than in the family.
In the close-knit community of Willow Falls, Ryder has no reputation, no authority and no say with the townsfolk. To them she’s a stranger, an outsider, someone who can’t be trusted.
Then the first body is discovered; a local, a teenage girl found almost crucified to a white pine deep in the forest.
The local police aren’t equipped to deal with something like this, yet they stubbornly refuse Ryder’s help. With no support, Ryder decides to go it alone, to follow the clues herself, to trust her instincts. Slowly she starts to formulate a theory as to who the killer is. But no one will believe her. It’s too incredible to conceive.
Lock the doors, check the windows, stoke the fire and keep the lights on. It’s winter, and a new kind of predator has just come out of hibernation.
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Carolyn Ryder returns to her hometown in Iowa, unaware that the #1 Most Wanted Serial Killer in the country has moved there as well.
The winters in Willow Falls, Iowa are cold, brutal and unforgiving. And so is the town’s newest visitor. Except he’s not passing through. He’s here on vacation, for some fun and he’s going to stay for a while.
They call him “Robin Hood”, a winter serial killer who has left a gruesome trail of horror and death across four Midwestern states. His grisly trademark is skewering his victims to tree trunks using a hunting crossbow.
Now he’s here…
For ex-FBI Special Agent Carolyn Ryder, winter is the season to reflect, to come home, to take stock and to grieve. Willow Falls for her is filled with sorrow and regret. She has returned to her hometown to bury her mother after a long battle with illness. Her sister blames Carolyn for not caring, for not being there for her and their mother, for being a cold, dispassionate person who was more interested in building her career than in the family.
In the close-knit community of Willow Falls, Ryder has no reputation, no authority and no say with the townsfolk. To them she’s a stranger, an outsider, someone who can’t be trusted.
Then the first body is discovered; a local, a teenage girl found almost crucified to a white pine deep in the forest.
The local police aren’t equipped to deal with something like this, yet they stubbornly refuse Ryder’s help. With no support, Ryder decides to go it alone, to follow the clues herself, to trust her instincts. Slowly she starts to formulate a theory as to who the killer is. But no one will believe her. It’s too incredible to conceive.
Lock the doors, check the windows, stoke the fire and keep the lights on. It’s winter, and a new kind of predator has just come out of hibernation.
June 3, 2025
Available Now In Audio Book
For lovers of audio books, AVAILABLE NOW through audible and other audio book outlets!
* A Winter's Kill
* A Spring Kill
* Mill Point Road
* Ravenwood
* Audrey Kills Again!
Curl up and listen to these Amazon #1 thrillers.
Keep a look out for A Summer’s Kill and A Fall Kill, books #3 and #4 in The Killing Seasons which will be released in the next few weeks.
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* A Winter's Kill
* A Spring Kill
* Mill Point Road
* Ravenwood
* Audrey Kills Again!
Curl up and listen to these Amazon #1 thrillers.
Keep a look out for A Summer’s Kill and A Fall Kill, books #3 and #4 in The Killing Seasons which will be released in the next few weeks.
🎧 JK Ellem Audible : https://shorturl.at/oJFbO
May 13, 2025
HAPPY RELEASE DAY!
HAPPY RELEASE DAY! A DARK KILL is now available in Paperback, Kindle and FREE on Kindle Unlimited!
Grab your copy today:
https://mybook.to/A_Dark_Kill
A Dark Kill
Ex-FBI discovers her hometown is full of hidden killers. “Monsters are everywhere. You just can’t see them.”
Spring has returned to Erin’s Bay, bringing with it something dark and sinister. Someone has followed Carolyn Ryder back from Ravenwood to the peace and tranquility of the town she now calls home. An unfamiliar killer hides in the township, fixated solely on her.
Chief of Police, Clayton Morelli, doesn’t believe Carolyn, thinks that she is overreacting when she tells him about the town’s past. Undeterred, Carolyn finds an unlikely ally in the head-strong Abigail Brenner, a young, brash woman who knows all too well about Erin’s Bay's buried secrets and evil history.
It’s going to take all their courage, strength and cunning to defeat what’s coming for them.
“This town’s got history, a dark history, every town has. Erin’s Bay isn’t immune.”
The seasons come and go, but true evil never leaves.
Grab your copy today:
https://mybook.to/A_Dark_Kill
A Dark Kill
Ex-FBI discovers her hometown is full of hidden killers. “Monsters are everywhere. You just can’t see them.”
Spring has returned to Erin’s Bay, bringing with it something dark and sinister. Someone has followed Carolyn Ryder back from Ravenwood to the peace and tranquility of the town she now calls home. An unfamiliar killer hides in the township, fixated solely on her.
Chief of Police, Clayton Morelli, doesn’t believe Carolyn, thinks that she is overreacting when she tells him about the town’s past. Undeterred, Carolyn finds an unlikely ally in the head-strong Abigail Brenner, a young, brash woman who knows all too well about Erin’s Bay's buried secrets and evil history.
It’s going to take all their courage, strength and cunning to defeat what’s coming for them.
“This town’s got history, a dark history, every town has. Erin’s Bay isn’t immune.”
The seasons come and go, but true evil never leaves.
