Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to town with her two children, but minus one husband and one nanny. Libby's husband has been accounted for -- she left him back in Annapolis. However, the nanny, Sophie, is truly missing. As soon as Hitch starts to nose around, Sophie turns up ... more »

He appeared to be a decent, upright, honest citizen.... And yet appearances can be more than deceiving in the world of blackmail and extortion. The shocking gangland-style murder of known blackmailer Sy Kramer begs the question: which of Kramer's marks had given him his very last payoff? A politician ... more »

In Kelly's People, five top espionage agents have been given secret, life-saving organ transplants. Now they have a new mission, to hunt down a terrorist, an unstoppable shadow who has eluded the US at every turn. He seems almost superhuman. But the five men and women on his trail are a little more than ... more »

No one knows the dark side of "The Street" better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more ... more »

John Pellam, Hollywood location scout and former stuntman, is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Hell's Kitchen residents. Suddenly, buildings and lives are going up in flames. The pyromaniac's masterpiece is to be a devastating conflagration, with Hell's Kitchen ... more »

Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenow's novels set in Alaska combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, culminating in the dynamic character of Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. Here the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near ... more »

The Father Dowling mysteries have been Ralph McInerny's longest running series and have proven to be his most successful and best reviewed. In the latest installment, Father Dowling's spiritual retreat turns into a murder investigation when a man is found with an axe in his back on the grounds of a dying ... more »

In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond ... more »

In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breathtaking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero chance of saving his client from a death sentence. However, his obligation runs deeper than simply professional: Morrison's wife, a CIA executive ... more »

Joe Kurtz is back in this thrilling sequel to the bestselling HARDCASE. In HARD FREEZE, we learn Kurtz isn't finished with the Farino mob family--or rather, they aren't done with him. In addition, Kurtz may have found out who really killed his girlfriend, Samantha, and he really wants to make them pay ... more »

Television audiences around the world witness in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents. The captured gunman is revealed to be the son of one of Britain's most infamous nuclear defectors, which brings the believe-nothing Charlie Muffin into the investigation ... more »

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there, among the last-chancers known as resurrection men, he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group ... more »