One summer night, two men break into an isolated manor house and kill Lady Anne Robinson. Her son, Thomas, convinces the police that his father's beautiful personal assistant sent the killers, but Thomas is known for his overactive imagination, and he has reasons to lie. Thomas's father, Sir Peter Robinson ... more »

Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. It's still a good life-tending ... more »

Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan. From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses--all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal ... more »

A heart-pounding rappel into the chasms of darkness. Whitney Burke is a renowned cave researcher and marine biologist who has abandoned her livelihood after losing an assistant in a tragic caving accident. Though Whitney vows never to enter Labyrinth Cave again, her husband and daughter join a NASA-sponsored ... more »

Menley Nichols never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old-son. Her marriage to Adam, a high-profile criminal attorney, has started to fall apart -- but the birth of their daughter Hannah promises to revitalize their relationship. Adam decides to rent a house on Cape Cod ... more »

Special Agent Antonio Burns has come to Colorado for a family reunion of sorts. He and his father plan to confront Antonio's brother, Roberto, whose life is teetering on the wrong side of the law. For thirty years a father and his sons have shared an addiction to dangerous, extreme climbing in the world ... more »

Jacobia Jake Tiptree left her high-powered career for a dilapidated fixer-upper and the dream of a quiet existence in the quaint town of Eastport, Maine. But she found that no matter how carefully you remodel your life, murder can take up residence anywhere. Its Eastports most notorious landmark: the ... more »

While author Miles Van Meter promotes his bestselling true-crime book, Sleeping Beauty, the story of a serial killer accused of injuring Miles' sister and murdering the parents of high school soccer star Ashley Spencer, the killer escapes custody. Now Ashley's on the run, not knowing that the key to ... more »

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization ... more »

Fifteen-year-old Matthew Moore seems to have a charmed life . . . until a mysterious fire forces his grandmother to move in with his family. The elderly woman insists on recreating the bedroom of Cynthia, her favored child who died tragically more than a decade ago. Soon Matt's life insidiously begins ... more »

E-book extras: Exclusive Crichton interview. Also: As Explained by M.C.: Highlights from Michael Crichton's 30-plus years of making complex concepts understandable and entertaining. Plus: The Crichton Canon, an introduction to his 12 prior novels and 4 works of nonfiction. In the Nevada desert, an experiment ... more »