Becky Westerfield, a medical student who's a child of a wealthy suburb, comes home to search for her father, who has dropped from sight. Her mother tells her that he's on vacation, locale unknown. Becky doesn't believe it and she goes to her father's drugstore, in the heart of Chicago's West Side ghetto ... more »

I told you not to come... Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination ... more »

An Interview with Clinton Smith Welcome to EXIT: the most deadly and efficient intelligence agency the world has ever known. But when allegiances are compromised, and promises are broken, EXIT begins to implode...and terror reigns. A fast-paced military thriller that will appeal to fans of Tom Clancy ... more »

E-book extra: A Statement by J.A. Jance. Somehow, brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle is back -- prowling the Arizona desert and seeking to feed his insatiable hunger for blood, fear, and revenge. Intellectually, Diane Ladd Walker knows Carlisle died in the prison cell she and her sheriff husband sent ... more »

"The video begins with the President walking toward a marine helicopter . . ." From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man ... more »

"Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense," raved the Washington Post. "A new synonym for terror," crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief ... more »

It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily, this so-called ... more »

Las Vegas in the 50s is a city of extremes: wealth and poverty, beauty and cruelty, fidelity and crime. As plans are underway to construct the first all-black casino on the city's ghettoized West Side, a white trumpeter named Deacon rolls into town. Before he sets two feet in this world, the city's powerful ... more »

In Spring Lake, New Jersey, Emily Graham buys a Victorian house her family had sold in 1892 after one of Emily's forebears, young Madeline Shapley, had disappeared. Now, a skeleton is found. It is Martha Lawrence, who had disappeared only four years before. In her skeletal hand is a finger bone bearing ... more »

When starving but hopeful 26-year-old artist Danny Cray upgrades his part-time work as a private investigator to full-time, his blind acceptance of misinformation coupled with a readiness to plunge headfirst into situations unknown transform a charming na vet and spirit of spontaneity into fatal shortcomings ... more »

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academiawith hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.s hunt for missing coeds and one ... more »

The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmless loner with a soft spot for stray dogs is only one of the questions nagging at ... more »