New Release! The Lee Campbell Mysteries

In this spellbinding thriller series, psychologist-turned-criminal-profiler Lee Campbell is determined to keep working with the NYPD while enduring painful reminders of his past. He is still traumatized by the unsolved disappearance of his sister in the mid-'90s, and struggling to recover from a nervous breakdown. As a police profiler, Campbell sees the gruesome handiwork of the most brilliant and deranged criminal minds in New York. Despite his own pain, he must match wits with the most diabolical of them and stop their heinous, bloody crimes.  

"A dark, intriguing thriller." - Publishers Weekly

C. E. Lawrence’s Silent series is another homegrown indulgence for thriller fans. Like Hamilton, Lawrence has created a character readers can grow to love imperfect, honorable, and entertaining. Indeed, Campbell’s entire precinct is worth revisiting. They are not some alien species, these cops—they get slighted by office politics, get the hots for one another, and spill coffee on the ties they hate to wear. Yet their dedication is heroic, and in delineating their humanity, Lawrence brings us into closer communion with the heroism in our own mundane selves. - Chronogram

"Pulse-racing, first-rate. . .a wild ride down a dark road." - John Lutz , New York Times bestselling author of Urge to Kill 

 "Carole Lawrence has achieved a rare level of authenticity, not only in character development, but also in the realistic use of behavioral science. If you want to read a serial-killer thriller that's solidly based on frightening reality, (Silent Screams) is the one." —Louis B Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor of forensic psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 

"C. E. Lawrence is multi-talented. Her abilities in the areas of the stage, both in writing and acting, are well-known and appreciated. She is also garnering quite the reputation as an author of thriller and suspense novels; a reading of SILENT VICTIM, her latest offering, demonstrates why. Lawrence pushes plot and character boundaries to put an entirely new twist on the whole concept of the serial killer."
— Joe Hartlaub via BookReporter.com 

In the streets of New York City, the Slasher chooses his victim—and makes his move. As he wraps his fingers around the girl's pretty throat, his power increases. As he carves into her skin, his words become flesh. As he arranges her lifeless body in a loving tableau, his fantasies demand more violent sacrifices. . .

At first, NYPD detectives suspect a jealous boyfriend is behind their latest investigation. But psychologist-turned-criminal-profiler Lee Campbell senses something darker, even ritualistic, about the murder. More chilling, he's convinced he's witnessing the genesis of a full-blown serial killer.

But time is running out. A new victim has been chosen. Campbell must search the most terrifying recesses of the human mind—and his own past—before the screaming starts again.   

At first, they look like suicides. Two bodies within a week — one found floating in New York's East River, another electrocuted in the bathtub, but forensics show that the victims were drugged, then killed. As the death toll grows, so does the brutality of the murders--and the killer dubbed "The Flesh Collector" continues to prey. 

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 NYPD criminal profiler Lee Campbell joins the frantic pursuit of this madman who delights in taunting police with gruesome messages. Somewhere in the killer's terrifying handiwork lie the clues to his twisted psyche. But the case is growing disturbingly personal, and getting close enough to stop the monster might just mean getting close enough to become his next victim. 

The killer picks her up in a Manhattan night club. Another trendy victim of the latest downtown scene. Young. Fresh. Healthy. Perfect. The police find her body in a Bronx park. Pale as a ghost. Peaceful in death. Her life has been drained away. Slowly. Methodically. Brilliantly.

In his time with the NYPD, criminal profiler Lee Campbell has seen the gruesome handiwork of the most deranged minds in the city. But this latest killer is something new. Something unbelievably twisted. A blood-obsessed lunatic who chooses his victims with deadly, loving care—and forces Campbell to confront the demons in his own life. 

 He chooses his tools with precision. Stalks his victims with cold efficiency. Plans his attack using mathematical logic. And now he is ready to play, but there are rules to his game. 

When the killer's first letter arrives at the station, NYPD profiler Lee Campbell suspects the writer is daring him to match wits with a dangerous--and brilliant--criminal mind. But once this "Alleyway Strangler" starts leaving specially targeted messages with each surgically carved corpse, Campbell realizes it's not just personal. It's perfectly calculated ... to destroy him.

Death wears a mask – NYPD profiler Lee Campbell arrives to find the victim lying in the lobby of her building in a pool of blood and wearing a white mask. 

When he learns the girl was an actress, he follows the trail to an off-Broadway theater where she was rehearsing for a play. But Campbell suspects the killer was rehearsing, too — for another murder — because one of the victim’s co-stars has just received a warning: “You’re next.”