Matthew J. Lindblom

Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.

After the 80 year old matriarch of a small town dies, two town idiots devise a plan to steal her gold serpent ring that's rumored to be magical.

An injured dog finds it's way into the hearts of a family after escaping an underground dog-fighting ring.

When a depressed public defender ends his own life, he is sentenced to an eternity in Hell. However, after Satan takes notice of his skills, he is offered an afterlife-changing deal that may not fall in line with his own values.

A group of friends go out for a night on the town on New Years Eve. But after one of them is accidentally shot, the remaining three have to come up with a solution while other circumstances get in the way.

Pulling his girlfriend Allison into the whirlwind of his ambitions, Trent is desperately on the run from contracted hitmen Henry and Tim as he slips into the deep, desolate backroads that criss-cross the empty rolling plains. Along the way Trent stumbles upon Ben, a nomadic drifter who now calls these roads "home," along-side his wife Michelle as they wander in the vast openness that is the Flint Hills.

Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.