C. J. Lyons

The brutal murder of a teenage girl … Lucy Guardino is back. The violence is the worst she's ever seen, the stakes are higher than ever…and things get personal. It's a vicious crime: the brutal killing of a teenaged girl. When detectives call FBI Agent Lucy Guardino to the scene, their focus is on who and why? Was it the girl's Afghan father striving to regain his honor after she became too Westernized? Her Jewish boyfriend? Someone from Afghanistan...

A deadly new drug epidemic puts an ER doctor in danger: "A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read." –Sandra Brown, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Thick as Thieves Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. Her Pittsburgh ER has been deluged by young patients who've overdosed on a new drug called FX. After Cassie discovers that the source of the FX on the streets is her own hospital, her best friend is killed...

A serial killer comes back from the past. Agent Lucy Guardino is back, and she's facing the fight of her life…This unputdownable crime thriller from CJ Lyons will grip readers of Lynda la Plante, Angela Marsons and Tess Gerritsen. Until recently Lucy Guardino was a rising star in the FBI. But after disobeying orders and killing a man, Lucy's been sidelined, chained to her desk. When a mysterious letter arrives hinting that, thanks to Lucy, the wrong...

Can you save everyone – or must you choose? Lucy Guardino is a normal Mum. Except she works for the FBI. The first gripping crime thriller in a New York Times bestselling series for fans of Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant and Val McDermid. A loving mum and wife, dutiful daughter, consummate professional, and an FBI detective, Lucy Guardino is living a fulfilling and contented life running the FBI's Sexual Assault team. Until the day she comes up...

After Shock: In this thriller novella, an FBI agent must save herself from a psychopath in order to protect her family. As head of the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad, Agent Lucy Guardino has a reputation for bringing the lowest of lowlifes to justice. But today is different. Because the man who has taken her prisoner has promised Lucy three things: that before this day is over, she will be dead; that someone in her family will...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: An explosives specialist confronts killers-and his own conflicted heart-in the West Virginia wilderness . . . A West Virginia mountain, the middle of a blizzard, killers on his trail . . . no place for a city boy like Lucky Cavanaugh, an ATF explosives specialist. Outmanned, outgunned, and shot, he takes Forest Service Wildlife Biologist Vinnie Ryan hostage until he convinces her that he's one of the good guys. Vinnie...

A former FBI agent must save her husband from a killer in the Idaho mountains, in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author. As an FBI Special Agent, Lucy Guardino, faced horrors of all kinds. But now, she must face turning forty. Her birthday features black balloons, gag gifts, and a visit to her surgeon who isn't happy with the way her leg has healed. Then she finds a missed message from an old friend, a sheriff in a remote region...

A teenage girl with a bloody past investigates a suspicious rehab center in the New York Times–bestselling author's dark psychological thriller. Morgan's father, a convicted serial killer, raised her to follow in his sadistic footsteps. But now she's determined to protect her freedom and not get locked away. So, despite ongoing temptation and a bloody past, Morgan swears off murder. To tame her sociopathic instincts, Morgan cons her way into...

How do you choose between catching a paedophile and defending your family? It's Lucy Guardino's first day back at work after she killed a man to protect her daughter. Little does she know she's about to be thrown back in the deep end… When serial child abuser 'Daddy' reappears wanting revenge on his first victim, June Bernhart, the FBI must scramble to protect her and track him down before it's too late. But things are changing at the Bureau: Lucy's...

Black Sheep C.J. Lyons It's the one mystery Supervisory Special Agent Caitlyn Tierney has never solved: her father's unexplained suicide after arresting his best friend for murder. It drove Caitlyn to become one of the FBI's best agents-and often the most unorthodox. Her latest case is no exception when the man she holds responsible for her father's death asks for help in finding his missing daughter. Caitlyn's search brings her back to her North...