Above all else, I’m a storyteller and I am most often inspired by real life. The crimes in this book are 100% real. As terrifying as they are on the page, as shocking as it is to watch them come to life in the television series Murder Is Forever, there’s something to remember: the bad guy always gets caught. JAMES PATTERSON MURDER BEYOND THE GRAVE. Stephen Small has it all – a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking . . . MURDER IN PARADISE. High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, developers Jim and Bonnie Hood excitedly tour Camp Nelson Lodge. They intend to buy and modernise this beautiful rustic property, but the locals don’t like rich outsiders changing their way of life. After a grisly shooting, everybody will discover just how you can make a killing in real estate . . .