"A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB--what the FBI calls an unknown subject--the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in...

"When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular"--

Two years after Jack Pellum's beloved Olivia, a photographer, was strangled near the Huron River, Jack remains obsessed with finding the killer, whom he believes to be a man wearing a fedora he saw watching her a few days before her death. He continues to blanket the city with flyers bearing the suspect's image. Then Carl Dumisani, his former partner, reports that someone has written, "There's a killer, and he wears a crooked hat," on the wall near...

"No one was more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he's tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. From his earliest days as a surveillance specialist, Peter has scrupulously done everything by the book, hoping his record will help him escape the taint of his past. When Peter was a boy, his father, a section chief in FBI counterintelligence, was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians--a catastrophic breach that had cost him...

"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...

Lady Dover had plenty of secrets, and her past wasn't quite what she'd made it out to be. Nor is it entirely in the past--which becomes frighteningly clear when a crime lord emerges from London's seamy underbelly to threaten Alec. Joining forces with Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly, Kendra must navigate the treacherous nineteenth century while she picks through the strands of Lady Dover's life As the noose tightens around Alec's neck, Kendra will do anything...

"The Frog Ledge annual Holiday Light Festival is a spectacular success -- until Santa pulls up in his sleigh DOA. Pet patisserie owner Kristan 'Stan' Connor thinks it's her boyfriend's uncle Seamus. But it's actually a Christmas tree farm employee rumored to be a mean drunk with a soft spot for feral cats. Stan has no idea why he was dressed as St. Nick, or why he's dead. Or where Seamus is. He was supposed to play Santa for pet photos at the shop,...

"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to...

English professor Lila Maclean knew there would be drama when she agreed to consult on Stonedale Universioty's production of Puzzled : The Musical. But she didn't expect chaos: the play is a disaster, the crumbling theater appears to be haunted, and, before long, murder takes center stage. The show must go on. Yet as they speed toward opening night, it's clear that other members of the company may be targeted as well. Lila searches for answers while...