In the critically acclaimed novels The Advocate and Officer of the Court, Bill Mesce Jr. introduced readers to a new hero in the world of military suspense. The Defender is the electrifying tale of Major Harry Voss's most riveting case yet: a wartime court-martial that could cost an innocent man his ... more »

Tropical Heat is an intricately plotted novel peopled with characters struggling to survive not only a southern summer heat wave, but crimes of passion, sexual obsession, and the economic and social upheavel of the mid-1950s. When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, ... more »

Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. PECCAVI The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas ... more »

When a midshipman plunges six stories to his death, the US Naval Academy begins investigating an apparent suicide. But there's a bizarre twist: the young man's body is found wearing undergarments that belong to Midshipman Julie Markham, a senior at the academy. Julie's father Ev, an Annapolis graduate ... more »

Matthew Spear, a young Greek-American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, a sometime art dealer who has inherited an impressive collection from her mysterious grandfather. Matthew soon discovers that the jewel of the old man's cache is none other than the Holy Mother ... more »

Straight out of today's hospitals and labs-and tomorrow's headlines-comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time...as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate ... more »

Forensic expert Cat Ferry has a stellar reputation until a panic attack paralyzes her at a New Orleans murder scene. Praying the attack is a one-time event, she continues working, but when the same killer strikes again -- raising fears that a serial killer is at large -- Cat blacks out over the victim ... more »

Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss the Girls, James Patterson*s explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted--and deadly. When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes, FBI agent John O*Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker*s alluring ... more »

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match-and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations-in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death ... more »

Bailey Weggins, the very clever and the very irreverent true crime writer for Gloss , a leading women's magazine, is in desperate need of a little R&R after solving the murder of her boss' nanny. A trip to the Cedar Inn and Spa seems like the perfect remedy. Bailey, totally full of Zen after her ... more »

Courage is often enough to drive a soldier forward, to make him climb out of his foxhole and face enemy fire. But it takes something else, something more than courage, to keep going when every instinct and every shred of reason tells him to stop. The men of Recon Team Kilo, a Special Forces unit operating ... 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 »