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“Harris writes neatly and with assurance, and she avoids the goo that makes many equivalent books so sticky.”

Newspaper reporter Catherine Linton ignored her investigative instincts when her parents died in a mysterious car crash six months ago — grief obscuring the warning signs that something was amiss. But when she discovers the beaten body of her father’s nurse on Linton property, Catherine quickly realizes her parents’ death was no accident.

Though the sleepy Southern town that Catherine’s family has called home for generations still prickles with racial tension and decades-old classism, Catherine never expected that Lowfield, Mississippi, could harbor a murderer. Now, it seems everyone has a terrible secret. But how many people in Lowfield would kill to keep them hidden?

Catherine finds herself both the sheriff’s lead suspect and the killer’s next target. With the help of her handsome editor, Randall, and her quirky fellow reporter, Tom, Catherine must untangle the dark roots of the murders and stop the killer who wears a neighbor’s face.

“Not many novels, and no mysteries, have shaken me as brutally as A SECRET RAGE…Far more than the story of a crime, this is a scream of fury, of brutal humiliation… It strips bare the latent rage concealed within the gentlest of exteriors.”

“Extraordinary. Powerful.”

Dropped by her agent, New York City model Nickie Callahan decides to start over—moving back to the South to finish school at Houghton College in Knolls, Tennessee. But Knolls isn’t the quiet town Nickie remembers from her youth. A rapist is targeting the women of Houghton, growing bolder and more vicious with each brutal attack, leaving the community gripped by fear.

When the violence affects Nickie personally, she moves from fear to fury—resolving to catch the rapist at any cost. After joining forces with another survivor, Nickie discovers that the attacks are not random—the rapist knows his victims. With that small clue, and an ironclad determination to stop him from striking again, Nickie begins the grim search for the relentless assailant hiding in plain sight.

An Easy Death

Midnight Crossroad

Day Shift

Night Shift

Small Kingdoms and Other Stories*

Dancers in the Dark*

Layla Steps Up*

The Layla Collection: Dancers in the Dark and Layla Steps Up*

Sweet and Deadly*

A Secret Rage*

A Secret Rage & Sweet Deadly Omnibus*

Real Murders*

A Bone to Pick*

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse*

The Julius House*

Dead Over Heels*

A Fool and His Honey*

Last Scene Alive

Poppy Done to Death*

All the Little Liars

Sleep Like a Baby

Dead Until Dark

Living Dead in Dallas

Club Dead

Dead to the World

Dead as a Doornail

Definitely Dead

All Together Dead

From Dead to Worse

Dead and Gone

Dead in the Family

Dead Reckoning

Deadlocked

Dead Ever After

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse

Shakespeare’s Landlord

Shakespeare’s Champion

Shakespeare’s Christmas

Shakespeare’s Trollop

Shakespeare’s Counselor

Grave Sight

Grave Surprise

An Ice Cold Grave

Grave Secret

Pretenders

Inheritance

Pretenders & Inheritance Omnibus Edition

Haunted

Many Bloody Returns

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Death’s Excellent Vacation

Home Improvement: Undead Edition

An Apple for the Creature

Games Creatures Play

Charlaine Harris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Midnight, Crossroad trilogy, recently adapted for television by NBC as Midnight, Texas , the Sookie Stackhouse books, the basis for the critically-acclaimed HBO show True Blood , and the award-nominated Aurora Teagarden mysteries, now a series of movies on the Hallmark Movies Channel. Her latest novel is An Easy Death , the first book in her new Gunnie Rose series. She has lived in the South her entire life. Visit her on the Web at charlaineharris.comand facebook.com/CharlaineHarris.

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Small Kingdoms and Other Stories

Collection copyright © 2019 by Charlaine Harris, Inc.

“Small Kingdoms” © 2013 by Charlaine Harris, Inc.

“Sarah Smiles” © 2014 by Charlaine Harris, Inc.

“Small Chances” © 2016 by Charlaine Harris, Inc.

“Small Signs” © 2016 by Charlaine Harris, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in 2019 by JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

The stores in this collection were originally published in the following issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine :

“Small Kingdoms,” November 2013.

“Sarah Smiles,” September/October 2014.

“Small Chances,” September/October 2016.

“Small Signs,” November/December 2017.

Cover design by Tiger Bright Studios

ISBN 978-1-625673-77-0

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.