When a series of grisly murders disrupt the quiet life of a small cathedral town in 1830s England, the local vicar is slowly drawn into the investigation. However, plagued with a dark secret of his own, he must first come to terms with his past before he can save his town, his daughter, and himself. ... more »

For Shane Scully, it starts with a call over the police radio. It's in the suburbs--not in his jurisdiction. He doesn't have to respond. But when he hears an officer is down, and that it's one of his best friends, he flies into action. He arrives at an upscale neighborhood and finds Federal ATF and Los ... more »

For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany’s hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm. Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses ... more »

The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope. On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrences wife ... more »

GREETINGS FROM THE DEAD, declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing -- along with his entire ... more »

In the critically acclaimed novels The Advocate and Officer of the Court, Bill Mesce Jr. introduced readers to a new hero in the world of military suspense. The Defender is the electrifying tale of Major Harry Voss's most riveting case yet: a wartime court-martial that could cost an innocent man his ... more »

Tropical Heat is an intricately plotted novel peopled with characters struggling to survive not only a southern summer heat wave, but crimes of passion, sexual obsession, and the economic and social upheavel of the mid-1950s. When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell, ... more »

Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. PECCAVI The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas ... more »

When a midshipman plunges six stories to his death, the US Naval Academy begins investigating an apparent suicide. But there's a bizarre twist: the young man's body is found wearing undergarments that belong to Midshipman Julie Markham, a senior at the academy. Julie's father Ev, an Annapolis graduate ... more »

Matthew Spear, a young Greek-American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, a sometime art dealer who has inherited an impressive collection from her mysterious grandfather. Matthew soon discovers that the jewel of the old man's cache is none other than the Holy Mother ... more »

Straight out of today's hospitals and labs-and tomorrow's headlines-comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time...as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate ... more »

Forensic expert Cat Ferry has a stellar reputation until a panic attack paralyzes her at a New Orleans murder scene. Praying the attack is a one-time event, she continues working, but when the same killer strikes again -- raising fears that a serial killer is at large -- Cat blacks out over the victim ... more »