Shane Scully is back on the LAPD, hailed as a hero after bringing down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral. At a glamorous party with his new wife, Alexandra, Shane hears a world famous director make an ominous remark about the fate of his ex-wives. This is more than police business, it ... more »

It's a cold Cleveland November when trace evidence expert Evelyn James is summoned to the scene of a bizarre crime--a young woman has been forcibly drowned in the Cuyahoga River, her feet and legs chained and sunk in cement. When yet another body is found, murdered under similar circumstances, and the ... more »

At forty-two, psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin seems to have it all: a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter. But Joe's snug, happy world is crumbling. Recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he's dreading the inevitable and all too palpable deterioration of his body and mind. Then ... more »

Set in Venice, ex-partriot American Urbino Macintyre returns from a trip to Morocco and is reunited with his long time friend Barbara, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. The Contessa seems a little nervous and confesses that an old lacemaker, Nina Crivelli, has been following her around in an attempt to ... more »

Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to town with her two children, but minus one husband and one nanny. Libby's husband has been accounted for -- she left him back in Annapolis. However, the nanny, Sophie, is truly missing. As soon as Hitch starts to nose around, Sophie turns up ... more »

In Kelly's People, five top espionage agents have been given secret, life-saving organ transplants. Now they have a new mission, to hunt down a terrorist, an unstoppable shadow who has eluded the US at every turn. He seems almost superhuman. But the five men and women on his trail are a little more than ... more »

No one knows the dark side of "The Street" better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more ... more »

Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenow's novels set in Alaska combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, culminating in the dynamic character of Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. Here the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near ... more »

The Father Dowling mysteries have been Ralph McInerny's longest running series and have proven to be his most successful and best reviewed. In the latest installment, Father Dowling's spiritual retreat turns into a murder investigation when a man is found with an axe in his back on the grounds of a dying ... more »

Joe Kurtz is back in this thrilling sequel to the bestselling HARDCASE. In HARD FREEZE, we learn Kurtz isn't finished with the Farino mob family--or rather, they aren't done with him. In addition, Kurtz may have found out who really killed his girlfriend, Samantha, and he really wants to make them pay ... more »

Television audiences around the world witness in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents. The captured gunman is revealed to be the son of one of Britain's most infamous nuclear defectors, which brings the believe-nothing Charlie Muffin into the investigation ... more »

A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relent-less hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi ... more »