Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy goes after a serial killer who always takes two victims. The first victim he kills quickly, leaving clues on her body to the location of the second victim, who will be killed slowly if she is not rescu...

Always packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration. Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a lan...

Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered onl...

A pair of killers with the monikers Jack and Jill are brutally murdering prominent Washingtonians in preparation for assassinating the president. Detective Alex Cross investigates the case as well as that of a brutal child murderer wh...

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obv...

Former FBI man Terril McCaleb is jolted out of retirement when he learns that the woman whose heart now beats in his chest, was not a willing donor--she was murdered. Burdened by a terrible guilt, McCaleb desperately searches for the ...

This debut novel introduces a charming psychopath worthy of Hannibal Lecter. Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami police department. He’s also a sociopath--completely incapable of normal human emotions-...

Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman...

Sidney Archer is devastated when she learns that her husband, Jason, was killed in a plane crash. Or was he? Jason had been selling corporate secrets to pad his own pockets, and the powers at Triton Global were just catching on. Someo...

A Gaslight Mystery-- The new mystery series Catherine Coulter calls 'Tantalizing...' As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a c...

When Spenser is hired to conduct a surveillance job on an unfaithful husband, he discovers a second investigator, hired by the husband to look after his wife, in a case that embroils him with corporate corruption and murder. Reprint.

Kate White brings back Bailey Weggins from IF LOOKS COULD KILL to help an old friend investigate a series of murders at her country bed-and-breakfast--which will be in big trouble if the crimes aren't solved. As the situation gets mor...

A lovely but murderous spring follows the quiet, snowbound winter in this addition to the long-running mystery series featuring Hamish Macbeth, a constable in the Scottish Highlands. Lochdubh newcomer Effie Garrard, discovered next to...

Amelia and her Egyptologist husband are in Dahshoor on a much-coveted burial chamber dig at the Black Pyramid. But the brazen moonlight abduction of their 8-year-old son has alerted Amelia to the presence of her arch nemesis, the Mast...

While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years ...

America’s "Queen of Suspense' delivers a genuine nail biter featuring Nell MacDermott, a young congressional hopeful with psychic powers, and her husband, Adam Cauliff, a successful architect. Adam, along with a few of his ...

Lee Child says it's "stunning… certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary… a major achievement."Jeffery Deaver says that "fiction doesn't get any better than this." Gill...

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen...

Fresh out of the oven: the first in a new series of baking mysteries. Includes recipes! All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slippe...

b#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERb b"High-powered, intricately wrought suspense."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times brb"Hold on tight. . . . This novel will give you whiplash as you rabidly turn pages. . . . May be [Lee ...

In the quiet town of Painters Mill, an Amish family of seven has been found brutally murdered on their farm. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate i...

With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspon...

divWith this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel.The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshi...

Navajo detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must race against time to find out who murdered a fellow officer, and who is trying to spread the bubonic plague across the land. The only lead they have is a fiery young female biologist, e...

When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective, vanishes mysteriously, Spense joins the search for the missing woman, following a perilous trail that leads him to a sociopathic ex-lover and into a d...

When Rex Fortescue falls dead after taking a sip of his midday tea, it is obvious to most that his drink was poisoned. But when rye is found in one of his pockets, the reasons are not so obvious. Miss Marple must dissect an old nurser...

A killer is watching . . . The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Mor...

Out of all of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, Rubber Band stands out as one of the most intricate. The normally unflappable detective is brought on to investigate what appears to be a clean case of larceny, but soon it turns into a ...

When an unexpected blizzard dumps the body of a murdered waitress, along with the snow, on the steps fo Sewell & Sons funeral home, undertaker and amateur sleuth Hitchcock Sewell races against time--and the media--to find the kill...

Another thrilling Faith Fairchild adventure from the Agatha Award-winning author of The Body in the Belfry. The Fairchild family is blissfully on sabbatical in Lyon, France, when their peace is interrupted by Faith's discovery of a bo...