Official Selection of the NBC Today Book Club. In the small town of Promise, Oklahoma, Chief of Police Charlie Grover has his fair share of trouble on his hands. Being a single father of a lonely and precocious teenage girl is only one of them. Promise is smack in the middle of south central U.S., more ... more »

A chilling new Alexandra Cooper thriller from the acclaimed Manhattan Assistant D.A. who lives the gritty and glamorous life she writes. The raves are in for Linda Fairstein's Alexandra Cooper novels. Riveting authenticity, says Vanity Fair. Grisham-esque, says Time. There is an anger and a passion in ... more »

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a ... more »

It's the glamour of 1961 Hollywood and the frightening power of a secret. It's murder, scandal, and historic events. It's all wrapped up in a love story. The Color of Blood is the story of Hollywood's favorite movie star, Miranda Lane, and the seemingly unstoppable force that threatens to destroy her ... more »

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten successive New York Times bestsellers. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware ... more »

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 »

Leo Bronski, an alcoholic Vietnam vet, is on shaky ground with his employer, the U.S. Postal Service in Anchorag. His boss transfers him to a dry Western Alaska village as temporary postmaster. He soon learns that his job duties include solving the mystery of the previous postmaster's death. Was it suicide ... 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 »