In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power - France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well known man ... more »

After the recent birth of her third child, Missouri genealogist Torie O'Shea is itching to get back to work. When she's approached to research and write a book about a recently deceased local woman who attained fame in the thirties and forties as a jazz singer, Torie figures she's found her new project ... more »

The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit ... more »

No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling "master of the psychological thriller" (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist ... more »

With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals , award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory in a haunting thriller that blends modern technology ... more »

In 1905, John Vanbrugh, an untrained but ambitious American architect, is trying to establish himself in his profession. One morning he is startled to receive an invitation from the Duchess of Marlborough, the American-born Consuelo Vanderbilt, who asks him to visit her at Blenheim Palace, the family ... more »

When Filomena Buscarsela takes her teen-aged daughter to see their extended family in Ecuador, it's more than a homecoming. Filomena hasn't been back in years, and the trip brings back memories of her previous life there as a revolutionary. Strangest of all, people keep asking her if her lover--who died ... more »

Suspect , Michael Robotham's "lightning-paced debut" ( Entertainment Weekly ) was universally hailed as "taut and fast-moving" ( Washington Post ) first novel. Now Robotham delivers a first-rate psychological thriller in Lost , a worthy follow-up to Suspect . On a cold London night ... more »

CHAPTER ONE Miss Selena Cott If you were my daughter, said the comte de Broglie, taking Selena Cott's hand and kissing his own thumb, as was the continental custom, I would put you across my knee and paddle you. Selena, who had known the comte since she was a baby, smiled at him and in her mind's eye ... more »

With his acclaimed bestsellers, Hostage (a New York Times Notable Book) and Demolition Angel, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose. Now, in The Last Detective, Crais returns to his signature character, Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole ... more »

Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now the reputation he has built taking Everest to the top has been noticed beyond the boardrooms ... more »

A trip to the Revere Public Library proves fatal for thirty-six-year-old Yolanda Fiore. In this fifth Periodic Table Mystery, retired physicist Gloria Lamerino is back in her hometown, Revere, Massachusetts, after a hair-raising week visiting her friend Elaine Cody in California. She's not inclined to ... more »