Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate ... more »

In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox's extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a chain of events that endangers his life, fractures ... more »

Former CIA analyst Francine Mathews has created "one of the toughest female secret agents we've seen in a long time."* Using her firsthand expertise of international espionage, Mathews offers another brilliantly realized suspense novel so intense, so authentic, it lethally blurs the line between ... more »

Mitchell Smith combines strong characterizations with an ability to convey nature in all its raw glory to present readers with a world in the grip of a new Ice Age and a human race transformed by natural disaster and the collapse of civilization. In the frozen country of the Trappers, books are hand ... more »

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control... For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames ... more »

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in-no phone, no address, no ... more »

Paralyzed by drink and despair since the accidental death of his young daughter Shelby, Detective Kyle Sommers nonetheless must lead a task force to catch a brutal serial killer. Nicknamed the Cradle Robber, this murderer has methodically snuffed out the lives of children along the California coast. ... more »

Becky Westerfield, a medical student who's a child of a wealthy suburb, comes home to search for her father, who has dropped from sight. Her mother tells her that he's on vacation, locale unknown. Becky doesn't believe it and she goes to her father's drugstore, in the heart of Chicago's West Side ghetto ... more »

"The video begins with the President walking toward a marine helicopter . . ." From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man ... more »

It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily, this so-called ... more »

Las Vegas in the 50s is a city of extremes: wealth and poverty, beauty and cruelty, fidelity and crime. As plans are underway to construct the first all-black casino on the city's ghettoized West Side, a white trumpeter named Deacon rolls into town. Before he sets two feet in this world, the city's powerful ... more »

When starving but hopeful 26-year-old artist Danny Cray upgrades his part-time work as a private investigator to full-time, his blind acceptance of misinformation coupled with a readiness to plunge headfirst into situations unknown transform a charming na vet and spirit of spontaneity into fatal shortcomings ... more »