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Remember Dodge Hanley from last summer’s Smash Cut? He’s here helping a former girlfriend whose daughter is being stalked.
Back at work after her son’s near-fatal illness, NYC medical examiner Laurie Montgomery must investigate the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. Alas she thinks he has been poisoned but the toxicology report does not support this theory.
In a White House meeting in 2011, a covert concordat is struck to destroy the vast world-wide cocaine industry. The man chosen is a former head of Special Ops for the CIA, Paul Devereaux, nicknamed the Cobra.
Bad news for wedding planner Carrie Edwards: The bride has been brutally murdered, and Carrie is the main suspect. That’s when the handsome detective enters the plot.
Evan as LAPD detective Peter Decker investigates the suspicious death of neonatal nurse Adrianna Blanc, his friend Terry and her over-the-edge husband go missing, leaving Decker and his wife Rina to take care of their son.
Couples are being killed in choice settings like Paris and Stockholm, and NYPD detective Jack Kanon’s daughter and boyfriend were among the victims. Kanon hooks up with a Swedish journalist to hunt down the murderer.
When Dr. Brennan is asked to investigate a drowning death in Quebec, she discovers that the victim supposedly died in Vietnam in 1968. So whose remains are in his grave?
Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors – a legal legend in women’s rights law and his beautiful wife – the couple hosts a dinner party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine, only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped? Lauren, a deputy district attorney, and detective Sam Purdy are both privy to facts they can’t share with Alan, but Alan soon discovers that he has a most unusual perspective into what truly happened after the dinner party.
Set in the early 1900s, the author tells the interwoven stories of five different families—American, German, Russian, English and Welsh—all disrupted by WWI.
For decades after his wife’s death, Percy Darling has lived a solitary life on his farm outside Boston. Then, to help his daughter, he lets a progressive preschool move into his barn.
From the author of Water for Elephants, the author centers on a family of apes on a reality TV show.
Becky Brandon’s two-year-old is a holy terror (big surprise), her personal shopping clients aren’t calling because they are broke, and she’s throwing a surprise party for Luke (who has secrets of his own).
This Christmas, Emily Merkle is working in the toy department at Finley’s, the last family-owned department store in New York City. Jake Finley, the owner’s son, needs a miracle—a profitable Christmas season and Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Fortunately, it’s Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping others — and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking!
There’s a shooting in Chicago, and the family of a vet just back from Iraq needs V.I. to clear his name.
When there’s a Mafia hit at Lombardo’s Steak House in New York, reporter Nick Daniels is at a nearby table. He even gets evidence that will help him track down the killer. But is this wise?
Flowers, a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator first seen in Dark of the Moon appears for his fourth adventure, following Rough Country. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he’s sure he’s dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the “accident.” Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down…and the next day the boy’s found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn’t so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigenerational, multifamily conspiracy–a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he’s seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it…and in figuring out what to do next.
Decades ago, Renee fell in love while studying in Italy with friend Audrey. Then she came home and married her college boyfriend. Now Audrey is dying, and Renee’s life is about to change in a big way.
One story, two women, a contemporary academic, and a Sioux in the 1700s Dakotas who begin a great journey.
Hardnosed Santa Fe attorney Ed Eagle is back—all 6 feet 6 inches of him—and it would be foolish for you (or his new client) to put up any resistance.
Yes, Reacher is back after 61 Hours. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades–old, that Reacher can’t let go.
When defense attorney Mickey Haller is asked to change jobs and serve as prosecutor in the retrial of Jason Jessup, in prison for years after having been convicted of a grisly child murder and now seemingly exonerated by DNA evidence, he jumps at the chance—he’s convinced that Jessup really is the culprit. And then he seeks out Harry Bosch for help.
The bestselling author of The Christmas Box returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption.
This is the story of Mitch Rapp’s recruitment into the CIA. Deeply angered by the loss of 35 friends aboard Pan Am flight 103, the Syracuse University student eagerly joins up, but his successful assassination of his first target—implicated in the airline tragedy—is just the beginning of his education.
Filled with the intriguing twists and turns that have become Grisham’s trademark, this newest novel will prove once again that no one keeps readers in suspense like America’s favorite storyteller.
A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can’t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her—and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherine’s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.
In the second in a new Karon series begun with Home to Holly Springs, Cynthia joins Father Tim on a sojourn to Ireland, where they discover that tragedy has splintered the family owning the lodge where they are staying.
With several candidates vying for a headmaster’s position and the receipt of a mysterious letter alleging that one has dark secrets, Isabel Dalhousie is asked to check them all out in this 7th in a delightful series.
Spenser’s latest case (last case?) has him serving as muscle during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting—and he starts suspecting everyone of duplicity when the exchange falls through.
England’s prime minister is visiting, a bomb explodes, and MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is sent over to help with the investigation. The Camel Club gets involved, too.
Cotton Malone clicks on a mysterious email and logs into a site where he sees colleague and flame Cassiopeia Vitt being tortured. Her assailant wants Cotton to turn over something Cassiopeia supposedly left in his safekeeping—but what?
Way back when, Kay Scarpetta joined the air force to pay off her medical school debt. Now she’s helping out at Dover Air Force Base—where she hits a potentially career-stopping case. No. 18 in the series.
What’s the connection among a pirate attack on a Roman galley in 327, the bust-up of a British warship in 1916, and the contemporary destruction of several mosques in Turkey and Egypt? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, helped by Dirk Jr. and Summer.
Departing from both the Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance series, this is the story of a lifter—a hard-case criminal who uses any means necessary to get what his boss needs. The lifter’s intended victim: Washington, D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler; the guy protecting Kessler and his family: Corte, who’s got a one-track mind.
A former Miss Alabama, lovely Maggie has a great real estate career but hides her disappointment that she doesn’t have a family. She’s in for a big change.
Four stories you have never seen before.
Rescued by Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro after she disappeared as a four-year-old (Gone, Baby, Gone) and then dumped right back into an unhappy home, teenaged Amanda is missing again. A thriller you will not want to miss!
Detective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.’s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. As Alex and FBI Agent Max Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continues and it becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims’ movements–information that only a Washington insider could possess.
A bloody murder by crossbow and then another by bayonet—and this is NYPSD lieutenant Eve Dallas’s 2060 NYC.
After Brady Coyne gets together with drinks with an old neighbor, his ex-wife calls; seems she’s implicated in a murder. This is the final novel of the Boston author who died in 2009.
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