Böcker av Brian Bandell

The world hung in the balance because she wanted to live, because he couldn't live without her. Former Florida police officer Monique "Moni" Williams carries in her bloodstream the most deadly substance on the planet, an intelligent alien microorganism. The alien life forms seek to transform Earth into a habitat suitable for their resurrected aquatic species, which fled their destroyed planet. Her skin is the only barrier preventing the start of this disruptive process. Moni is highly contagious. A drop of her blood, saliva or even a tear will overwhelm the defenses of any human or animal. They become alien-controlled slaves that undergo rapid mutation. Moni has prevented the aliens from conquering her mind, although their voices haunt her. She's been robbed of her ability to speak, communicating through a newfound telepathy, planting ideas and thoughts in the minds of both friends and foes. Moni's only ally is her boyfriend, Aaron Hughes. Despite being chased by agents from the FBI and the military, Aaron refuses to leave her side as she flees to the barren desert of New Mexico. A scientist, Aaron fights for a cure while the aliens strip away more of her humanity by the hour.Moni hopes her exile in the desert will protect the Earth from her plague, but she soon finds herself under assault from the desert's most dangerous inhabitants. The aliens are determined to spill Moni's infected blood or take away the man she loves. Equally threatening, rival policewoman Nina Skillings pursues Moni across the country, seeking revenge for her friends the aliens killed in Florida. Meanwhile in Florida, a sadistic mutant lurks in the underground waterways, hunting people. Renegade environmental scientist Harry "Lagoon Watcher" Trainer believes it's connected to the alien invasion and he's determined to pursue it through the watery depths beneath the state's limestone surface. In this dark maze of underwater caves, the air is far away, but terror is always near. Moni must decide. Should she cling to her humanity? Or should she embrace the purple, acidic blood flowing through her veins? As Nina says: "There are no judges out where we're going. There's survival, there's death and there's the one thing worse than death, and that's what your girlfriend is."

Everything else has gone viral, so why not murder? Three Miami teenagers seeking internet fame thought it would be a riot to post videos of risky pranks online, then a police officer gets killed and their fun really begins. The more outrageous the murder, the more hits they garner. Chris, Jorge, and Kelso spend their lives in obscurity, but the victims in their viral videos are Famous After Death. With his religious sensibilities offended by the millions of hits the anonymous murder videos are getting, cyber cop Clyde Deauville pursues those responsible. Yet the closer he gets to the answers, the closer the bloodshed creeps to his door. Will Clyde become famous for the wrong reason?

Mute is a twisting ride that will leave readers speechless. A detective's love for an orphaned girl witness has her turning a blind eye to evidence that could stop a wave of unnatural murders. Mute follows detective Monique "Moni" Williams, who has never lived an easy life-with an abusive ex-con father, a two-timing, pistol-wielding ex-boyfriend and a racist boss-it's hard to see how things could possibly get more difficult for her. After she meets a child that she bonds with, Moni must protect the girl from a mysterious threat stalking everyone near the Indian River Lagoon. A serial killer is on the loose on Florida's Space Coast, and Moni has been put in charge of the key witness in the biggest case of her life: an eight-year-old girl called Mariella. The child has gone mute after losing both her parents one harrowing night. Now, Moni struggles to protect the child and break her silence, while more reports of inexplicable deaths and animals with eerie purple eyes pile up. Her bond with the child is tested by a police force demanding answers. What does the lagoon's rotten stench have to do with a mute little girl? Can Moni save Mariella from what lurks along the water? Who is really facing the most danger? Find out in this suspenseful, page-turner that will keep you guessing until the very end.