Detective Wade Jackson is in for a shock when he's summoned to the police chief's office-his sergeant has been poisoned, and Jackson's been tapped to lead the investigation. But before the Eugene Violent Crimes unit has a chance to respond, two people are gunned down at a licensed marijuana nursery. Jackson and his colleague Detective Lara Evans are on the case-but there are more suspects than evidence, and the crime is baffling. Soon, more people are hospitalized, and when Evans discovers a link between the poisonings and edible pot, she and Jackson suspect that the product tampering and shootings are connected. As the task force investigates new leads, it's clear that the detectives are on a dangerous trail, one that forces them to question everyone-even their own team. But they'll have to uncover the truth fast...before the next victim falls prey.

Agent Jamie Dallas loves undercover assignments that get her out of the Phoenix Bureau. But her new case is risky-an FBI agent is mysteriously dead, and a medical device company is targeting competitors with dangerous acts of sabotage. Dallas infiltrates TecLife, spies on her new bosses, and tries to steal a sample of their mutant bacteria. But soon her life is in danger when she's caught in a battle between companies, each hoping to kill the competition while launching a billion-dollar blockbuster. Meanwhile, a famous actor is found beaten and murdered in an abandoned cannery, and a young detective lands the case of a lifetime. Determined to bring justice to his favorite star, Detective Cortez follows a trail of evidence that leads to the medical-product war-but he has no idea how deadly it is. Can Dallas survive long enough to stop a researcher who's gone over the edge and save millions of consumers from getting caught in the crossfire?

Agent Jamie Dallas loves undercover assignments that get her out of the Phoenix Bureau. But when a woman and her baby disappear from an isolated community of preppers in Northern California, she knows the risk of infiltrating the armed group is dangerously high. Once inside the compound, she discovers that the brothers who founded Destiny are scheming something far more devious than kidnapping or murder. Meanwhile, her local FBI contact, Agent McCullen, is pulled from her team and assigned to investigate the murder of a woman with phony ID, found at the bottom of a motel pool. Soon Dallas finds herself in deeper trouble than she's ever encountered-with no way to reach her contacts. Can she break free of the bunker and stop their bizarre end-of-world plans? Will Agent McCullen identify the killer in time to help? The Trigger is a gripping story that highlights our greatest fear-how a megalomaniac and a hacker-for-hire can threaten civilization as we know it.

Inspired first by a layoff, then by fellow crime-fiction author Joe Konrath, L.J. Sellers decided to put novel writing first with the goal of making a living from fiction. Along the way to her amazing success, she wrote numerous blogs about her goals, methods, writing process, and how she adapted to a changing industry. In this book, she shares humorous personal essays, nonfiction features, and a host of blogs about her journey to become a full-time novelist. The book also includes a long chapter with writing, editing, and promotion advice, as well as detailed information about her writing process. The final chapter highlights features she wrote about amazing women in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and the author of the bestselling and highly praised Detective Jackson mysteries as well as three standalone thrillers. All nine of her novels have an average 4.5-star rating on Amazon.