Sallie Bissell Books In Order

In the Forest of Harm

Newcomer Sallie Bissell ushers you into a labyrinth of psychological terror in an electrifying debut, a novel of survival and friendship as three women embark on a hellish journey through a treacherous wilderness. Assistant D.A. Mary Crow has come a long way from a tiny cabin in Little Jump Off, North Carolina. The toughest young prosecutor in Georgia, ‘Killer Crow’ is going home, to visit her mother’s grave and then to hike with her two closest friends on the wilderness trail she loved as a child. Mary knows well the dangers these beautiful mountains hold: rugged climbs, treacherous precipices, dense fog, and acres of impenetrable brambles. But there are greater threats here, ones she never anticipated. Her most recent courtroom victory made more than headlines it made Mary a deadly enemy. He’s tracking Mary into the mountains to wreak vengeance and to bury a shattering secret. But he will not be the only predator who stalks the women through this merciless terrain. Here Mary and her friends will find a will to survive they never knew they possessed. Here they will find a capacity for loyalty and for violence they never dreamed possible…
deep within themselves and In the Forest of Harm.

A Darker Justice

From the critically acclaimed author of In the Forest of Harm, one of suspense fiction’s most exciting new voices, comes a stunning psychological thriller, a novel of conspiracy and revenge and of a ruthless killer whose shocking reign of terror can be stopped by only one woman.

A Darker Justice

For Assistant District Attorney Mary Crow, the misty mountains of Little Jump Off, North Carolina, still echo with secrets hidden in shallow graves. Now, at the request of the FBI, she is called back from Atlanta to her childhood home for a matter both professional…
and deeply personal.

Three federal judges are dead victims of an assassin so swift and skilled in the deadly arts that the only clue left behind is his trademark black feather. The killer s last victim was executed in a fashion so brazen, brutal, and horrifying, it even has hardened law enforcement officials rattled. They are desperate to protect the next suspected target Judge Irene Hannah but the stubborn jurist has adamantly refused federal protection.

It is up to Mary and tight lipped, hard boiled FBI agent Daniel Safer to protect her old friend and mentor as best they can. But the threat is much closer to home than Mary could ever imagine. When Judge Hannah disappears, Mary must follow her on a terrifying chase through the Carolina wilderness she knows and loves.

Deep within the beautiful and treacherous forest, a rogue killer and his army of soldiers are waiting. Soon Mary will have to confront a battle for survival in a place where there is no law and no mercy…
only A Darker Justice.

Call the Devil by His Oldest Name

Haunted by the death of her mother and tortured by the secret that died upon her best friend’s lips, assistant district attorney Mary Crow is obsessed with finding the man who holds the key to both those tragedies.

When her infant goddaughter is kidnapped, Mary knows the hunt she’s been dreading has begun. In a lethal game of cat and mouse that will take her along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Mary must save the child of the man she loves while she rips the secrets from the heart of a killer who could be mistaken for the very devil himself.

Sallie Bissell, fast distinguishing herself as the Patricia Cornwall of the Appalachian Mountains, delivers a tour de force of relentless suspense and heart stopping menace that Rendezvous raves ‘will leave you breathless.’

Legacy of Masks

This killer is so evil, he wears the most deceptive face of all .

Legacy of Masks

Ex prosecutor Mary Crow didn t expect a hero’s welcome when she returned home to Pisgah County, North Carolina. But what she did expect was the job she d been promised in the D.A. s office. Instead she found she d worn out her welcome before she even arrived and that she has more than a few enemies among the supporters of the corrupt sheriff she d caught sidelining in murder years before.

The new sheriff was one of Mary s childhood schoolmates, timid and nerdy Jerry Cochran. Only Cochran is neither nerdy nor timid anymore. And when a young girl is found brutally murdered and everyone, including the girl s parents and the police, is sure the killer is a young, mystical Ani Zaguhi Cherokee named Ridge Standingdeer, Mary s first case in her own law firm slams her into the heart of a controversy. As a prosecutor, Mary was used to tenaciously tracking down the guilty. Now she finds herself on the other side of the law, defending a client she s sure is innocent against a merciless system, a bigoted town and an even more ruthless killer. With her old lover Jonathan Walkingstick, Mary will have to go where she s never gone before a place where a psychopath with the perfect mask and a shocking secret is waiting to add Mary herself to his growing collection of silent victims.

From the Hardcover edition.