Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend's garage. But he's a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took ... more »

When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicid, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered ... more »

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan learns an Air TransSouth flight has gone down, with eighty-eight passengers and crew, in western North Carolina. Tempe joins the FBI, the NTSB, and other agencies to search for explanations. A disembodied foot that could not have belonged to a passenger is found ... more »

America's best true-crime writer (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. LAST DANCE LAST CHANCE Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic ... more »

From Florida's steamy underbelly comes the blistering new novel from the bestselling author of The Serpent Club, the harrowing thriller that Publishers Weekly called fast-paced, shocking, and hypnotic. Now Tom Coffey shifts coasts and dives into the darkest human desires -- sex, drugs, revenge, and bloodshed ... more »

A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, renowned detective Lincoln Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come ... more »

Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, has written bestseller after bestseller. Before I Say Good-Bye is her latest and it hit the NY Times list as soon as it arrived in bookstores. Collected here are all 22 of Ms. Clark's mysteries, beginning with her very first book, Where are the Children ... more »

An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernseys wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those ... more »

In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the edge, and finds himself drawn into a lethal struggle with a deadly adversary--and then another, and another, and another. Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach ... more »

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever. A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she ... more »

Financial chicanery is Stephen Frey's forte, and in his newest thriller (following The Insider and The Day Trader), he sets up one of the world's richest men and a young bank executive, who's trying to wrest custody of her son from her well-connected ex-husband, in a sting operation to expose blatant ... more »

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three ... more »