Bøker av Glenda Norwood Petz

Murder. Unexplainable disappearances. Illegal surveillance inside private homes. Human organ trafficking. A secret society with unorthodox customs. Are these occurrences mere coincidences, or are the inexplicable phenomena connected?Welcome to Sunnyside Meadows, an elite community housing eclectic, bizarre citizens, one of whom is a cold-blooded murderer hiding in plain sight.Undercover FBI Agents Cal and Janna Dillard are sent to Newton, Pennsylvania to investigate reports of a human organ trafficking ring, unaware that the home they're assigned to in the Meadows was the site of two grisly murders a month prior. Their residency inadvertently involves them in a homicide investigation being conducted by Dale Benson, a dogged detective who's committed to proving that Bill and Barbara Hamner were murdered by someone in the neighborhood.Collaborating to solve both cases, what they uncover is disturbing and unlike any assignment they've ever been embroiled in. A unique clique led by the mysterious Belladonna, a dark figure whose true identity is unknown, dominates the Meadows and its inhabitants. But this is no ordinary cult. The sect members are toxic and inhumane with ravenous appetites, and all are willing to kill to keep their ominous secret quiet.Cal, Janna, and Benson have less than twenty-four hours to devise a plan that will get them onto heavily guarded and secured property to rescue the young girl who's being held hostage and prevent her from becoming the lodge's next casualty.

Meet Daniel Chesterfield, a 6'7" foul mouthed straight arrow with a trite sense of humor and deep love and respect for law, order, and justice. Trading in his detective shield in Palm Beach County, Florida for a Sheriff's badge in the rural town of Cowbell, Montana, Dan is assigned to take over the Bear Creek County Sheriff's Office Sub-Station. Doesn't sound like much of a challenge for a lawman, right?Except that none of the deputies have ever received any formal training, they have no experience in law enforcement, they don't wear uniforms, and they patrol in their personal vehicles. Ridiculed by other departments and fellow law enforcement officers because of their ineptitude, Dan is determined to provide the necessary training needed to make reputable deputies out of them and bring respect and honor to the department. However, that won't happen without comical incidents.The competency of the department and the deputies is put to the test when the half-naked body of the daughter of a local, prominent rancher is found at Dead Man's Landing, a section of Hanover Pass where Emma Cooper often took nature walks. A preliminary investigation suggests that Emma's death was the result of a grizzly attack. Forensic analyses proves otherwise. Not only was she murdered, but the test results reveal that she'd given birth only minutes before her demise, yet there was no baby at the scene.When Dan visits Flying Aces Ranch to deliver the news to Harrison Cooper about the death of his daughter, he inadvertently stumbles upon a second crime being committed against him.Who killed Emma Cooper and stole her newborn son? Was it the same person who wants her father dead? Are the two crimes coincidental or connected? Dan's investigation will lead him to multiple suspects, but only one of them is guilty of murder, and he's closer to Dan than he realizes.Solving these two crimes aren't the only problems facing Dan. A nemesis from his past has followed him to Montana to finish a job he started months before - sending Daniel Chesterfield to his grave.

In this third installment of the Ghost Girl series, Dr. DeeDee Olsen Blanchard and Police Chief, Christi Newsome, investigate when a fourteen-year-old is arrested for shoplifting.Sage Barclay committed the crime intentionally wanting to get caught. The reasons why are alarming and disturbing. Her mother's new boyfriend, Neil Comstock, has taken up residence with them, and he's mentally and verbally abusive to Sage. Her mother, Doris, doesn't believe the stories her daughter has told her about her beau. Why should she? He never mistreats Sage in her presence. Doris is convinced that Sage is jealous over the relationship her mother has with Neil and is trying to split them up.When Doris and Neil are summoned to the police station after Sage's arrest, DeeDee immediately realizes there's a problem with Neil Comstock when she sees the spirits of two young girls who have attached themselves to him. It doesn't stop there. The number of spirit appearances increases every time DeeDee sees him. Who are the young girls and how is Neil involved in their deaths? What no one knows is that Neil Comstock is a disingenuous imposter and murderous child predator with a dark and vicious history who targets vulnerable, single women with young daughters. Now that he's lured Doris Barclay into his web of deception, he has Sage Barclay set in his crosshairs.Can DeeDee and Christi uncover his lethal past and reveal his true identity before he can make Sage Barclay his newest victim?

Meet Daniel Chesterfield, a 6'7" foul mouthed straight arrow with a trite sense of humor and deep love and respect for law, order, and justice. Trading in his detective shield in Palm Beach County, Florida for a Sheriff's badge in the rural town of Cowbell, Montana, Dan is assigned to take over the Bear Creek County Sheriff's Office Sub-Station. Doesn't sound like much of a challenge for a lawman, right?Except that none of the deputies have ever received any formal training, they have no experience in law enforcement, they don't wear uniforms, and they patrol in their personal vehicles. Ridiculed by other departments and fellow law enforcement officers because of their ineptitude, Dan is determined to provide the necessary training needed to make reputable deputies out of them and bring respect and honor to the department. However, that won't happen without comical incidents.The competency of the department and the deputies is put to the test when the half-naked body of the daughter of a local, prominent rancher is found at Dead Man's Landing, a section of Hanover Pass where Emma Cooper often took nature walks. A preliminary investigation suggests that Emma's death was the result of a grizzly attack. Forensic analyses proves otherwise. Not only was she murdered, but the test results reveal that she'd given birth only minutes before her demise, yet there was no baby at the scene.When Dan visits Flying Aces Ranch to deliver the news to Harrison Cooper about the death of his daughter, he inadvertently stumbles upon a second crime being committed against him.Who killed Emma Cooper and stole her newborn son? Was it the same person who wants her father dead? Are the two crimes coincidental or connected? Dan's investigation will lead him to multiple suspects, but only one of them is guilty of murder, and he's closer to Dan than he realizes.Solving these two crimes aren't the only problems facing Dan. A nemesis from his past has followed him to Montana to finish a job he started months before - sending Daniel Chesterfield to his grave.

With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only road on and off the island, is destroyed after being struck by a barge, Boone gets stranded with eleven others from his hotel, their location in the direct path of Hurricane Phillipe's landfall.Back at home in Nanette, Kayla is forced to face the storm alone with her children after her husband is arrested and charged with murder.The catastrophic hurricane also has another target in his sight - the protective dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee. Is the levee strong enough to withstand 150 mph winds, or will Phillipe be the hurricane that brings it down?

From the author of Ghost Girl and Hurricane comes a collection of her best horror short stories and novellas. We're All Dead Here contains ten tales of bone-chilling terror.Snowbound finds a young woman stranded on a desolate highway during a blizzard, a road that she was warned to stay off of. Sheltered inside her car, she is being stalked by night creatures with a thirst for human blood.In Midnight At the Morgue, night watchman, Carlo Ranerry, gets trapped in the basement morgue during a power outage - and he's not alone.What was supposed to be a pleasure trip to New York City turns into a sky terror when the small private jet is hi-jacked in Flight of Fancy.Other stories included are Autopsy, What Grows In the Garden, Riders On the Storm, Dentophobia, Kitty Kibbles, The Rocking Chair, and Scenic Route. All of these stories are nail-biting tales of fear that will haunt you long after you finish the book.

At 18, Joey Sheffield left home, putting a history of sexual abuse behind her. Fifteen years later, she's summoned home by her sister, Rosemary, to attend the funeral of the man responsible for the crimes committed against her - her father, MacArthur Sheffield.Not wanting to let her sisters down by not showing up, Joey puts her disdain for her parents and the home she grew up in aside and reluctantly returns to Sheffield Manor.Shortly after her arrival, she starts to notice odd occurrences. Voices coming from inside the walls, the stench of her father's cologne, and the aroma of smoke from his favorite pipe tobacco.Things aren't as they seem at Sheffield Manor. When Joey learns that no funeral arrangements have been made for her father, and that no citizens in the town of Cornish, Alabama are aware of his death, she realizes that she's been lured home under false pretenses - and for nefarious reasons.Someone inside the manor wants Joey dead, and they'll stop at nothing to ensure she doesn't leave there alive.*WARNING: This book contains graphic sexual content and adult language.

Diedre "DeeDee" Olsen was an average fourteen-year-old tomboy until she suffered a harrowing accident while playing summer softball. The head trauma she sustained leads to unimaginable consequences that flip her ordinary world upside down.DeeDee's no longer your typical, ordinary teen. Her head injury left her with the ability to see and communicate with the dead. Most of the spirits simply request her assistance by asking her to deliver messages of hope to grieving loved ones they left behind. Others have ulterior motives, like bringing their killers to justice.After a popular high school senior goes missing on Homecoming night, DeeDee inadvertently gets involved in the investigation when the girl's spirit appears to her with a special request and reveals information about her murder that no one else knows. Except for the killer.When he learns about DeeDee's supernatural abilities, and that she's assisting the local police department to solve the crime, she becomes his next target.Determined to prevent her from revealing what she knows about him, he makes it his mission to keep her quiet. Even if it means killing again.

When Joan Buchanan purchased the old Borloff home in Castleton, Kentucky, she was unaware of the mysteries and rumors enshrouding it. Castleton residents believe the house is haunted by the spirits of Borloff's missing wife and children and swear that the devil himself resides there.Joan doesn't believe in the supernatural; however, it doesn't take her long to realize that unexplainable events are occurring inside the home. Misplaced and missing items, strange noises and phantom odors are only the beginning of the Buchanan family's nightmare.Unbeknownst to them, a dark evil lurks inside the walls of the Borloff manor and it only has one goal - annihilating Joan and her two children.

What if, in the blink of an eye, you lost everything that you held dear? Your husband, your children, your family, and your home. Follow Autumn Marie Jensen on her roller coaster ride of emotions as she attempts to readjust to living in a world where she doesn't fit it, and where nothing is as she remembers. After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Autumn takes her '64 cherry red Thunderbird convertible out for what she intends to be her last joyride. Refusing to undergo costly and painful therapy that can't save her life, she decides to take matters into her own hands and end it. However, her plans are disrupted when an event occurs inside Gunny's on Route 93 in Kingman, Arizona that changes her life forever. When she recovers from the baffling experience, Autumn returns home to find that her husband, Simon, is married to another woman, the adolescent son and daughter that she left at home when she went for a drive are now adults, and that she's been missing for eleven years. What happened to Autumn Marie Jensen inside Gunny's that resulted in an eleven-year disappearance? Where was she for all those years, and why can't she remember any details about the night she vanished? One essential question those around her desperately need answered - is the Autumn who came home the same Autumn who vanished? The returned Autumn possesses a unique ability that she didn't have before, and it terrifies those who witness it. Although Autumn suffers incredibly heartbreaking losses, through her painful sadness, she exudes what it means to love unconditionally, how to let go of a relationship that no longer exists and never will again, and that deeply loving someone sometimes means sacrificing oneself.

Ghost Girl DeeDee Olsen Blanchard is back with another supernatural case to solve.Now an adult and Child Psychologist, she practices medicine in her hometown of Pahokee, Florida. New patient, seven-year-old Ethan Portman, is brought to DeeDee by his mother for treatment of what she believes is a dissociative disorder, telling DeeDee that he has always been a happy and loving child but has suddenly become despondent, refuses to eat, and no longer plays with his toys.Upon her assessment of, and conversation with Ethan, DeeDee discovers that his condition isn't medically related. Ethan is being haunted by the dead twin brother that he never knew existed who is attempting to persuade him to join him so that they can be together forever. To Dee Dee's shock and dismay, she understands that the only way her patient can be with his dead brother is for him to die as well.Determined to learn about the life and history of Nathan Banks, the deceased twin, DeeDee must go deep into the Florida Everglades to solve his murder. What she finds in her quest for the truth is gruesome and heartbreaking.Nathan's ghost leads DeeDee and her husband, David, to Earl and Maylene Tibbetts, an ill-bred, illiterate, backwoods degenerate couple with a long history of abducting and murdering children across the state of Florida. The Tibbetts' farm hides many dark and disturbing secrets, and it's up to DeeDee to expose Earl and Maylene and the multiple crimes they've committed. Putting her own life at risk, she sets out to not only free the souls of the children trapped on the farm, but also to rescue the five living ones who remain there before the Tibbetts kill them, too.

On January 20, 2025, Lucius Belvedere Maximus is inaugurated as the newly appointed President of the United States. Loved and admired by an astronomical and loyal following, he's not your average politician. In fact, he's not even human. Under the guise of a mortal man, Apollyon the Destroyer has been elected to the highest office in the land. His mission? To sow worldwide discord, chaos, death, and destruction.With the assistance of his Vice President, Greg Coates, they launch and unleash Operation Wormwood, a lethal, manmade virus designed to annihilate mankind. The incurable disease has a 99% mortality rate and is remarkably transmissible, killing its victims within hours of becoming infected.With the deadly viral outbreak raging across the world, catastrophic events increase in occurrence and intensity. Earthquakes, cataclysmic storms, locust invasions, floods, raging wildfires, and global volcanic eruptions are all precursors to the impending grand finale.The few survivors who remain after billions of deaths from Wormwood, and international destruction from an onslaught of disastrous events, will bear witness to an extinction level event - the end of the world.

The crypt located on Row 2 Column 6 at Greenview Cemetery Mausoleum has been disintegrated. The coffin once interred inside the crypt now lies empty on the concrete floor of the vault. Its wood is cracked and shattered. The shredded satin lining of the coffin appears as though fingernails clawed through the fabric. The body of recently entombed Bradley Cavanaugh is missing.Dead men can't escape from their graves and walk away, can they?Sheriff Nick Dunn of the Carter County Sheriff's Office doesn't believe in the supernatural and is convinced that the incident is an act of vandalism carried out by a gang of juvenile hoodlums. When the missing body fails to turn up in a search of the cemetery, Dunn opens his investigation into the macabre and bizarre case.Through Patrice Cavanaugh, widow of the deceased, and her sister, Gabby Morgan, Dunn learns that Bradley Cavanaugh was an aggressive, abusive alcoholic who had multiple enemies in life. Did one of them steal his body from its grave as retribution for Cavanaugh's wrath against them? Or was the body taken for a more vengeful purpose, one that will terrorize Patrice and drive her insane?As Dunn closes in on who's behind the disappearance of a human corpse, he realizes that Patrice is in grave danger from someone extremely close to her, someone who hated her husband passionately and had sworn revenge on him for destroying her life.When Dunn comes face to face with the horrifying truth, he encounters a reality that's too unbelievable to be true.