Teresa Crowe

When psychotherapist Charlotte Crown is suspended after a client is linked to his daughter’s disappearance, she’s desperate for a lifeline. Dr. Bannon, a charismatic psychiatrist, approaches her with an unconventional offer to join his private practice, where therapy isn’t just about healing – it’s about stopping crimes before they happen. As Charlotte enters this shadowy world, she quickly realizes that her new clients aren’t typical offenders. There’s Willow, the botanist haunted by nightmares of her toxic garden; Nathan, an arsonist at war with his own flames; Elijah, a cult leader losing grip on his flock; Grace, a seductive black widow chasing her next deadly romance; and Isabella, a cold-blooded fixer seeking answers to her own emptiness. They’re all here for therapy, or so it seems. When a string of mysterious murders surfaces, the line between patient and predator begins to blur. As Charlotte digs deeper, she uncovers chilling connections to her own past, her sister’s death, which may not have been the accident she believed. Caught in a web of lies and danger, Charlotte must untangle the truth before she becomes the next victim. But in a room full of miscreants, no one is innocent – and some secrets are worth killing for.

In a town that buries its secrets as deeply as its dead, one young woman dares to dig them up.

Coco Hancock knows death. As an apprentice at Fletcher’s Funeral Home in the coastal town of Mystic Beach, she’s grown used to the hush of mourning and the steady rhythm of grief. But something feels off about the funeral for sixteen-year-old Ersilia Solomon.

Then Coco finds Ersilia’s journal.

Inside are chilling clues that suggest a darker truth. As Coco delves deeper into the community’s murky waters, she learns that things are not what they seem. To make things worse, she learns that these people are connected to her own mother’s death years before.

Coco must risk everything to expose the truth before she becomes the next target. As she fights to bring justice to the silenced, Coco will discover that some battles don’t end with a funeral. They begin there.

A smell in a dormitory hallway was the first warning. The horror behind the door was unthinkable.
In the fall of 2000—only weeks into the semester at Gallaudet University—freshman Eric Plunkett was found brutally murdered in his dorm room. The discovery shattered a campus known for its closeness and safety. Within the insulated world of the Deaf community, fear spread fast, while a language barrier between investigators, students, and the media created confusion at the very moment clarity was needed most.

Weeks passed. Then months. No arrest.

When students returned after winter break, they carried hope that the nightmare had ended. But early one morning in January 2001, a fire alarm went off in Cogswell Hall. Strobe lights flashed through the dorm rooms to wake Deaf students, an emergency system meant to protect. Instead, the alarm led to another devastating discovery: Ben Varner, dead and mutilated.

The message was unmistakable: the campus was facing something far worse than a single murder.

Death Space: The True Story of A Deaf Serial Killer at Gallaudet University tells the story of two killings at Gallaudet University and the relentless investigation that followed. It chronicles the discoveries, the fear, and the resilience of a community under siege, the police pursuit of a killer, the courtroom convictions, and what became of the murderer, revealed through an interview with the author, a faculty member at Gallaudet University.

There’s a fine line between a liar, a psychopath, and a serial killer. Sometimes the only difference is what they’re willing to do to protect the lie.
Most people have lied at some point. Children start early, and many adults get comfortable with small distortions: the white lie, the omission, the half-truth meant to avoid conflict or spare feelings. But for others, lying becomes a way of life—habitual, compulsive, and eventually predatory.

From everyday deception to high-stakes manipulation, from scammers seeking money to individuals seeking power, lies can escalate into something far more dangerous. And at the far end of that continuum lies the most lethal deception of all: the lie designed to lure a victim into harm or death.

Pants on Fire: Liars, Psychopaths, and Serial Killersexplores the spectrum of deception, the psychological profiles behind different kinds of liars, and the warning signs that distinguish low-impact dishonesty from malicious exploitation. Most importantly, it offers practical strategies for recognizing manipulation early, setting boundaries, and protecting yourself from becoming the next target.

College is supposed to be a place of learning, but history shows it can also be a hunting ground.
The United States has a long and unsettling history of homicide on school and college campuses, dating as far back as the mid-1800s. These crimes take many forms: student-on-student violence, attacks on faculty and staff, and offenders who deliberately target students.

To increase transparency and safety, federal law requires institutions to report crime data under the Jeanne Clery Act. Yet even with prevention efforts, campuses remain vulnerable environments. In rare but chilling cases, serial offenders have exploited colleges because they offer something every predator seeks: access. Even tight-knit communities, like the Deaf community, are not immune.

The Last Class: The Killing of College Students by Murderers, Hearing and Deafexamines the patterns and risk factors behind campus homicide, including the social and psychological conditions that allow frustration, resentment, and violence to escalate. It also offers practical safety considerations and strategies that students can use to reduce vulnerability and respond more effectively to danger. Because awareness isn’t paranoia. It’s protection.

Some murders disturb us more than others, not because they’re more violent, but because they violate our deepest social rules.

We expect family and friendship to offer safety, belonging, loyalty, and care. That is why familicide, the killing of one’s own relatives, shocks the public so deeply. It represents a profound rupture of what society views as sacred.
The motivations are complex and varied: Jealousy, revenge, financial gain, control, escalating conflict, and sometimes the distorted belief that a killing is an act of “mercy.” In many cases, familicide is rooted in domestic violence and coercive control.

Murder within friendship carries its own taboo. When a friend kills a friend, it tears apart our assumptions about intimacy and trust. It forces us to ask how something meant to protect can become the context for harm.
Taboo Deaths: The Murder of Family and Friends by Family and Friends explores why certain murders feel uniquely unsettling, the psychological and social dynamics that make them more likely, and the warning signs that relationships are becoming dangerous. Most importantly, it offers safety considerations, because even in close relationships, awareness can save lives.

When a child is murdered, the story doesn’t end with the crime. It begins again, inside the lives of the people left behind.
In Death Space, Pants on Fire, The Last Class, and Taboo Deaths, readers explore homicide through different lenses: deception, campus violence, and murders committed by family and friends.

But after the headlines fade, families remain living, with devastation that reshapes everything. How do parents survive the unthinkable? How do they breathe again when the future they imagined has been destroyed?

Making Lemonade: Surviving the Tragedy of a Murdered Adult Child introduces three parents whose adult children were murdered and follows their journeys through shock, grief, and permanent loss. Through their stories, paired with professional guidance, readers learn strategies for enduring the trauma, navigating complicated grief, and rebuilding a life that will never be the same but can still hold meaning. Survival is possible, even after tragedy.