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Evan Delaney Novel Series

Meg Gardiner
China Lake by Meg Gardiner
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Evan Delaney Novel Series : Titles in Order

Book 5
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2–When Evan Delaney finds her father’s car at the bottom of a ravine, the police suspect suicide—but there’s no body.

Evan’s suspicions of something sinister are confirmed when she receives a call from her father’s kidnappers. The ransom isn’t money, but more of a puzzle—one that Evan has only 72 hours to piece together, as she follows a madman’s trail into the very heart of darkness.
Book 4
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2–Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she never knew how tough until now. 

She returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion, and learns that a number of her classmates have died young. Then, on the first night of the reunion, another one dies, this one savagely butchered. And she’s just the first. Someone has an axe to grind and Evan’s graduating class has something to fear.
Book 3
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2–When a woman’s body washes up on the shore of California’s Jericho Point, she’s identified as Evan Delaney.

Except that Evan is very much alive—apparently the victim of an identity thief who’d been scamming Hollywood elite. The thief may be dead, but the crimes she was murdered for—committed in Evan’s name—are turning Evan’s life into a nightmare. Now it’s all Evan can do to survive in the shadow of a dead woman’s lies.
Book 2
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2

After a hit-and-run accident leaves a friend dead, Evan Delaney wants justice. But she underestimates the power of the person responsible. When the witnesses begin dying one by one, Evan is unprepared for the dark places retribution will take her.
Book 1
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2

Evan Delaney learns that not only has her ex-sister-in-law joined a religious cult, but the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the fanatical group. But when murder raises the stakes, Evan is dragged even deeper into the nightmare.

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