Ellen Harper Books
All Ellen Harper wanted in life was to get over that damned, unwanted divorce. She tried, God knew she tried, but when her dark side showed up, things got ugly and people got hurt. Even burying herself in her Forensic Tech job hadn’t helped much. After her latest indiscretion, her Captain, Big Harv Patterson, had warned her to keep her nose clean and whip the inner demon or else she’d be sweeping the streets. But that wasn’t the only demon in Ellen’s life. Someone was kidnapping and killing young women in Chicago, leaving a calling card that set off a race against time that threatened to cost her everything.
Special Agent Sophie Lee reluctantly takes over an FBI profiling workshop when Manny Williams, her long time partner and profiler elite, is suddenly called away from the conference in Chicago. During the Q& A after the presentation, she meets Ellen Harper, the CPD's finest CSI and they hit it off. Then Ellen receives a call and the conference becomes a memory as the two unlikely partners are drawn into one of the most bizarre double murders in recent Chicago history... and this killer isn't done as Sophie and Ellen soon discover. Death stalks even them. Not everyone will see a new sunrise over Lake Michigan, will they?
Forensics expert Ellen Harper is pulled out of bed in the early morning by her dad, Captain Big Harv Patterson of the Chicago Police Department to process a murder scene in one of Chicago's ritziest neighborhoods. On top of that, he tells her to keep it quiet until she's arrives and talks to him. Strange for a man like Big Harv. Why? What comes next borders on bizarre and without doubt, Ellen's most intense case to date. It doesn't take long for her to realize more people will die, but who?
Ellen Harper is plunged deep into a murder investigation when she and her forensic department are called to the site of a double homicide involving corpses in the Chicago River. The second body, the daughter of a CPD Detective, also happens to be the subject of her dad's, Big Harv Patterson's, first case as a private detective. Was it a random act or was Ramona Ackles killed to send a message? The bizarre situation becomes more disturbing when Ellen and her new partner, the good-looking Aaron Holt, discover matching silver crosses belonging to both victims. The killer kills again and the mystery grows. Throw in money, power, and a fanatical preacher and the case becomes a tangled jungle. After more deaths, Ellen races against the clock to unwind the intrigue before more cops die, including her and her crew.