A killer turns a young family's dream holiday into an unfathomable nightmare....Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the hope of restoring their faltering marriage. The birth of thei...

The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave

The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of history’s most intrigu...

A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? A...

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mournsthe death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf forcompany. But those books have begun to whisper to him in thedarkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imaginat...

Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously ...

Led by Trevor Lucas, a plastic surgeon accused of a series of grisly crimes, eighteen murderers and rapists have seized control of a unit in a hospital for the criminally insane, and forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger must risk his...

The hero of 'Serpent' and 'Blue Gold' confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaim...

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one...

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemp...

Devastated by the murder of his estranged police officer son on the day of his own release from prison, former bank robber Max Holman launches a renegade investigation and discovers that the chief suspect is being wrongfully targeted ...

Returning from Johansen's New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the ...

When an experiment to erase the horrific memories of her family's brutal murder goes awry, criminal profiler Arden Davis is forced to confront the nightmare of her past when the very same killer strikes again, forcing her to question ...

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surg...

Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Archer woke up one morning to discover her entire family had disappeared. No note. No clues. Nothing and no one to tell her where they went, what happened to them, whether they are alive or dead. Twenty-five ...

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The...

Holly is on her way to be married to Jackson Oxenhandler, her steady beau, when her wedding day is shattered by a serious crime that takes place very close to home. A highly disciplined team of men hit a bank in Orchid Beach, Florida,...

[A] great mystery series can be something akin to a nineteenth century novel--a luxuriant experience that allows readers to live with a character over years. IIt's tempting to view James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series....as if it ...

When a strange letter signed 'Thanatos' -- the ancient Greek name for death -- lands on Irene Kelly's desk, the intrepid reporter doesn't think much of it; she gets crazy mail all the time. A less cryptic message is sent when a body t...

Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. 'It happened in this very room...

Blood Orchid is the third adventure of one of Stuart Woods's most engaging characters, Chief of Police Holly Barker. This time out, Holly is trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of her fiance. With the help o...

The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family—mother, father, and brother—had vanished without a word, w...

While photographing the rescue and cleanup efforts following a dam collapse in Colorado, journalist Alex Graham finds herself overhearing a conversation that she shouldn't--it seems that the dam collapse was not the result of an earth...

Francesca Hatton, a WWI Red Cross volunteer, has always felt nothing but deep devotion to the grandfather who raised her and her five cousins. But after his death, Francesca begins to learn things which suggest that her grandfather wa...

Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season of discontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, he has little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that won't let him go, patients who do...

Introduced in The Monkey’s Raincoat, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole has a smart mouth, a flair for martial arts, a passion for truth, and a borderline sociopath for a partner. When a ruthless hotel magnate hires Cole to find a pric...

The head of Detroit's Environmental Protection Department, Lacy Green struggles to deal with her growing feelings for seductive Mayor Drake Randolph, a situation that becomes complicated when her investigation into the illicit activit...

Night WorkKate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person ...

Just when popular lawyer/sleuth Paul Madriani gets safely settled into his new life in San Diego--conveniently near his lover Susan McKay--trouble erupts. His first case in the breezy border town appears simple enough: find the eight-...

They've taken our son, Marion.' In all his life, no matter who he was with, Marion 'Doc' Ford had been passionately, irresponsibly in love with only one woman. Her name was Pilar, and she was married to a thuggish politico named Balse...