Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed August Spies is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house ... more »

Retired CIA case officer, Adam Pray, discovers that the life of a rich and idle Seattle playboy bored him to tears. So when a former co-worker offers him the chance to do a free-lance job for the Firm, he jumps at it. The job involves an effort to snare an international arms dealer from Austria in an ... more »

Twenty-five years ago, Rufus Harms was convicted of a murder he doesn't remember committing. When his memory is jogged by a letter from the army, he has a shocking realization: he never intended to kill anyone--he was coerced. From prison, Rufus files an appeal with the Supreme Court, unaware that the ... more »

With an unbroken string of bestsellers dating from the early '70s (beginning with 1971's The Scarlatti Inheritance) and over 200 million books sold, Robert Ludlum is an acknowledged superstar of the political thriller. Gayle Lynds, who was compared to Ludlum after her 1996 debut, Masquerade, has two ... more »

Dr. Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial killer, Lucy survived the trauma only to be tormented ... more »

When Jenna Blake goes to Florida with her roommate, Yoshiko, for spring break, the last thing she expects to find is another mystery! A series of seemingly natural deaths turn out to be suspicious. Each of the bodies has mysterious growths of some kind. As the body count climbs, Jenna's vacation gives ... more »

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The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD ... more »

Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime--a nightmare of seemingly supernatural origin. The smoldering remains of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. ... more »

In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is home to women who have been sold to brothels as punishment for their crimes. It is here that the shogun's dashing young cousin and heir apparent is found dead--stabbed through the eye with a long hairpin--in ... more »

Methodical, calculating, and detached during his usual kidnappings and murders (by which he literally bronzes his victims at the moment of their utmost despair), he lets himself go with family #9, developing a liking to the unorthodox and outspoken teenage daughter, who seems to be taunting him with ... more »

Nicholas Bryson was a deep cover operative for the secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission goes wrong, he's retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania. Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country's ... more »