With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals , award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory in a haunting thriller that blends modern technology ... more »

In 1905, John Vanbrugh, an untrained but ambitious American architect, is trying to establish himself in his profession. One morning he is startled to receive an invitation from the Duchess of Marlborough, the American-born Consuelo Vanderbilt, who asks him to visit her at Blenheim Palace, the family ... more »

When Filomena Buscarsela takes her teen-aged daughter to see their extended family in Ecuador, it's more than a homecoming. Filomena hasn't been back in years, and the trip brings back memories of her previous life there as a revolutionary. Strangest of all, people keep asking her if her lover--who died ... more »

Suspect , Michael Robotham's "lightning-paced debut" ( Entertainment Weekly ) was universally hailed as "taut and fast-moving" ( Washington Post ) first novel. Now Robotham delivers a first-rate psychological thriller in Lost , a worthy follow-up to Suspect . On a cold London night ... more »

With his acclaimed bestsellers, Hostage (a New York Times Notable Book) and Demolition Angel, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose. Now, in The Last Detective, Crais returns to his signature character, Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole ... more »

Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now the reputation he has built taking Everest to the top has been noticed beyond the boardrooms ... more »

A trip to the Revere Public Library proves fatal for thirty-six-year-old Yolanda Fiore. In this fifth Periodic Table Mystery, retired physicist Gloria Lamerino is back in her hometown, Revere, Massachusetts, after a hair-raising week visiting her friend Elaine Cody in California. She's not inclined to ... more »

From one of the foremost experts in the country on intellectual property law, a gripping legal thriller of depth and complexity Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists' rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator--and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures ... more »

New threats require new weapons. New villains require new heroes. The time is the near future. Osama Bin Laden has been succeeded by a generation of even deadlier terrorists who will stop at nothing in their fanatical quest to destroy the United States. Conventional security is no longer enough. Former ... more »

Electrifying, compelling, and ultimately terrifying, Two Trains Running is a galvanizing evocation of that moment in our history when the violent forces that would determine America's future were just beginning to roil below the surface. Once a devastated mill town, by 1959 Locke City has established ... more »

Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genre's most fearless writer, would dare create a spy so edgy, so explosive, so extreme, she should be rated X. Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. And now that the international spy network thinks she's as good as dead, she's even more dangerous than ever ... more »

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled-and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins Åsa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award and an international literary sensation ... more »