For Webster Martin, Shelly was a dream come true. Webster's best friend Carl fared less well. He'd gone home with Shelly's friend... and had a bullet in his head by morning. The night was unforgettable for Shelly, too. Dr. Harrison's experiments had borne fruit. But success often comes with a price. ... more »

Here is a brilliant, gripping medical detective story that follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first killed cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France, before ultimately spreading all around the world ... more »

His two previous novels, Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow, were international bestsellers. Now the compulsively readable (Publishers Weekly) John Connolly confirms his position as one of our leading crime novelists with a story of superb menace and style. The body of Grace Peltier, a brilliant Ph.D. ... more »

The year is 1984, the placethe Soviet Union. Victor Perov, a brilliant Soviet scientist agrees to a joint Soviet-American astrophysics project. Though his faith in Communism is unwavering, his scientific alliance with Katherine Sears, an American astrophysicist, soon turns romantic. When Katherine learns ... more »

John A. Broussard's Murder at Milltown Junior College is packed to the last page with murder and suspense. This exciting mystery begins with the murder of Milltown JC's un-beloved president Gilbert Green. Green has a despicable secret. Is that what got him killed? Or has someone simply gone mad? Academic ... more »

In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Because to every generation are born a select few souls with violet-colored eyes, and the ability to channel the dead. Both rare and precious--and rigidly controlled by a society that craves their services ... more »

EYE IN THE SKY Cyclops One: America's most advanced airborne laser system. Capable of taking out a dozen missiles and warplanes from three hundred miles away, it will change the face of combat forever -- perhaps rendering war itself obsolete. Until the plane carrying it vanishes in a storm over the Canadian ... more »

Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solving tool...and now wants to recruit her daughter. So ... more »

ROSS THOMAS is ranked as one of the very top thriller writers by his fellow authors, and his readers loudly agree. Thomas won two Edgar Awards, for The Cold War Swap and for Briarpatch. Ross Thomas died in 1995; since then, all but one of his 25 novels went out of print. This should never have happened ... more »

Edgar Award-winning author Jan Burke, acclaimed for her Irene Kelly novels, hits the ground running with a harrowing thriller featuring homicide detective Frank Harriman. When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las Piernas Police Department detective who disappeared a decade ago is discovered ... more »

A merciless killer on the hunt ... an innocent child in his sights ... a woman driven to the edge to stop him ... the killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic ... more »

In the glamorous world of professional golf, one match is synonymous with excellence, tradition, and prestige. The Masters is played on the sweeping fairways of Georgia's exclusive Augusta National Golf Club, drawing its annual pilgrimage of Lear-jetting international superstars, the spotlight of the ... more »