Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January ... more »

The bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Eighth Day now strikes his most harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to nearly inhuman limits. As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, ... more »

Professor Jason Larson (Lars), a scholar of Romantic and Victorian poetry at a prestigious Connecticut university, has an unusual way of looking at the world. He sees romance and beauty in everyday life, and lives life to the fullest. He treasures every moment with his family, every sunset--and every ... more »

Mal Foley was a lawyer once, until he disobeyed a court order requiring him to reveal a client's role in a shootout that killed three, one a cop. Years later, Mal wants his law license reinstated. However, he must express remorse for his misconduct to satisfy the court, which he is loathe to do. In fact ... more »

The startling reviews of Tropic of Night announced Michael Gruber as one of the most talented thriller writers to debut in many years. Now, with the much-anticipated publication of Valley of Bones , Gruber fulfills that genre-bending promise as perhaps no writer since Graham Greene, with a genuinely ... more »

Suzanne Trayle is a Search Angel whose success in tracking down and reuniting birth mothers and their children has earned her national fame as The Orphan's Private Eye. In this nail-biting novel of suspense, she is pulled into a different and altogether more dangerous search. To protect the safety of ... more »

In this deft, multilayered thriller, a disgraced lawyer trying to revive his tattered career stumbles across a hidden case of cold-blooded murder and discovers that he must pursue justice even though doing so might just cost him what little he has left--possibly even his life. Attorney David Hirsch was ... more »

Alfie Woodard, Special Air Service tracker, aboriginal spiritual leader, and contract killer for drug lord, Jay Burrell. Alfie knows how to stalk a victim, torture a victim, and how to blend into society without suspicion. But, it's his ritualistic murders, the aboriginal magic, and the way he devours ... more »

Laura Lippman is one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today, the winner of every major award the genre has to offer. Now she dazzles once again with a riveting stand-alone novel that takes on the secret -- and not-so-secret -- lives of teenage girls, illuminating a dark tragedy ... more »

Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger returns in this thriller from bestselling author Keith Ablow. Having achieved celebrity status with his last case, Clevenger is tapped by the FBI to catch an elusive murderer known as The Highway Killer who has left twelve bodies strewn across twelve states. But ... more »

William Bernhardt's powerful series of legal thrillers featuring crusading attorney Ben Kincaid have won him a die-hard following and widespread critical acclaim as a master of the courtroom drama (Library Journal). Now, on the heels of his national bestseller Criminal Intent, William Bernhardt returns ... more »

When the body of congressional intern Nadia Zarinski turns up outside the stage door of Ford's Theatre, D.C. police detectives Mo Johnson and Rick Klayman, who happens to be a Lincoln buff, are assigned the case. Nadia worked in the office of Senator Bruce Lerner, ex-husband of Clarise Emerson, head ... more »