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 »

The President of the United States has hired Kirk McGarvey as interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through congressional hearings. But what should be the culmination of McGarvey's career has activated a twenty year old Russian plot. The Cold War is over, but McGarvey is, and ... more »

Attorney Pete Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet Pennsylvania town, has a few unfortunate clients, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost ... more »

An announcement is made at a meeting of the British Intelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." An "invisible" is CIA-speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country and ... more »

A cultured city scarred by war. An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. A young woman who claims to be a Russian grand duchess. A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice. A political movement growing in power. . . . Deeply atmospheric ... more »

Robert Philip Hansen thought he could outsmart the system. In the mid-1980s, the mild-mannered FBI bureaucrat and father of six began selling top secret information to agents of the Soviet Union. A computer expert, Hansen carefully encrypted his stolen files: anyone but his contacts would destroy the ... more »

Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the ... more »

J.J. Donovan is a private consultant--an expert people turn to when they've run out of options. In this fast-paced sequel to Broken Machines , Donovan and his partner Boris are unwittingly drawn into a scheme to murder sick people for their viatical or death benefits. The murders are being carried out ... more »

As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Dale Townsend comes upon a chilling scene--a young man, knives in his hands and the body of a woman at his feet. But the enigmatic suspect refuses to answer any questions, and, bizarrely, there is no forensic evidence to link him to ... more »

Mackie dreaded the mail. From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest ... more »

In one moment, time is ripped apart . . . Spectators gape as frogs rain down in Queen Salome's arena. Simultaneously yet two thousand years later, a dark-eyed shepard boy appears outside the New Mexico laboratory . . . babbling in an ancient, near forgotten tongue. Almost immediately, before the astonished ... more »

Not all police officers are bad. And very rarely does an officer join the force already corrupt. But, Chicago police Sergeant Joe Donegan has a plan. To him, the police badge is a license to steal, an easy way to get whatever he wants without consequence. Donegan knows where to strike and he knows which ... more »