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After her mother’s death, 17-year-old Emily go to live with her grandfather in NC, where the dead drop little notes and the wallpaper remakes itself.
In his 14th thriller to feature ace Oklahoma trial lawyer Ben Kincaid (after 2004’s Hate Crime), Ben goes to Washington, D.C., to defend his home state’s senior senator on a murder charge.
A reporter chases down sexual predators helps get a child advocate arrested. But when the advocate disappears, evidently victimized by vigilantes with more on their minds than justice, our reporter starts questioning her rush to judgment…good and scary if you can take it!
Why does the victim of a shipwreck carrying the human cargo have the same rose tattoo as a woman scandalously involved with a New York congressman? Sex crimes prosecutor Cooper puts these two cases together.
Wall Street investment banker Michael Cantella’s substantive bank account has just been wiped out, and his company is blaming him for its own misfortunes. The culprit seems to be Michael’s first wife, Ivy, who vanished on their honeymoon. Pretty spooky stuff!
Milo Sturgis receives a DVD of a battered woman who accuses several fellow teachers at an exclusive private school of horrific sexual predation. Later she is found dead. Dependably creepy.
Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis. He’s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do…and he’s usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him.
Unbeknownst to her identical twin Bennie Rosato, Alice Connelly is on the run from her drug-dealing confederates who are trying to kill her. Alice sees only one way out – to become Bennie.
Shaw – the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth – witnesses the murder of a mysterious man in Provence, his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool. Shaw barely escapes the incident himself; and with a new partner in tow, begins to realize that there has to be another organization at work that rivals his own in secrecy.
After 45 years, a woman attends her first high school reunion and it proves to be a catalyst for Dorothy and her classmates to rethink themselves and their choices.
Finishing a job as temporary game warden in Baggs, WY, Joe Pickett saddles up and rides out to investigate spooky goings in the hills.
Winter having shut down the Elm Creek Quilt Camp, Bonnie finds herself in Hawaii helping set up a quilting retreat—and dealing with her troublesome ex.
When husband Jonathan’s twin brother, Charles, is murdered. Olivia shares his grief. But–wait–was it really Charles who was murdered?
A once thriving ad executive who has lost everything decides to walk across the country.
While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result.
Members of a cult dating back to the time of Christ are perturbed by the haunted face painted by Eve’s daughter Jane, and plan to make her a sacrificial victim eight days hence.
On the anniversary of his beloved wife’s death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request. I want you to marry again. And to that end she’s chosen three women she asks him to consider.
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency aren’t visiting the breathtaking Okavango Delta to see the sights—a guest lies suspiciously dead at one of the safari lodges.
A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood red lipstick.
Trapped in a S. Dakota town, Jack Reacher is asked by a local cop to protect the only witness who can help put away a brutal crime ring.
When Charlie, son of single-mom attorney Valerie Anderson, ends up in the care of Dr. Rick Russo, married to stay-at-home mom Tessa, everyone’s life is upended.
Lisbeth Salander is in an intensive care at a Swedish hospital and under guard—she’s accused of three murders. This is the conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
“Can I interest you in saving America?” That’s the text message Peter Fallon receives from a Wall Street bigwig. It’s not a challenge he can turn down, especially since the country is in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Hidden somewhere in New York City is a box of 1780 bonds with a face value of ten thousand dollars. The Supreme Court is about to decide if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand dollars, at five percent interest, will be worth a very pretty penny…Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, must find the box—and fast.
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back, facing down the town’s new sheriff. Amos Callico, who’s eyeing the governorship and is starting by shaking down the local merchants for protection money.
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades. Tragedy strikes when Brian McCarron shoots and kills Kate Gallagher’s husband on their army post in Virginia. Brian pleads self-defense. Now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army’s most accomplished young lawyers, will defend Brian in a high-profile court-martial. Terry’s co-counsel is Meg McCarran, Brian’s sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who insists on leaving her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans—and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.
In the 20th of the Prey series, investigator Lucas Davenport’s surgeon wife was witness to a robbery gone wrong at the hospital pharmacy and is now targeted for murder.
In this sequel to Presumed Innocent, Rusty Sabich’s wife has met a questionable death, which, once more, puts Rusty up against prosecutor Rusty Molto.
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