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THE TWO MASSACHUSSETS HOMICIDE COPS WONDERED WHY I WAS MENTIONED SO PROMINENTLY IN A MURDERED NUN'S OLD DIARY. I knew why. Many years before she became Sister Veronica, Ronnie Frost was a vivacious college co-ed -- and my lover. I always wondered what became of her after she mysteriously disappeared. I also knew I had to find out who killed her! Was her murder random? Or tied to something in her past? IF YOU LIKE STRONG CHARACTERIZATIONS, GREAT DIALOGUE AND SURPRISES, PULITZER-NOMINEE LAWRENCE DE MARIA’S ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES.” (John Crudele, New York Post);...

An exhilarating adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most....

Love is complicated but death is permanent... A man is shot dead in the street. A close friend is accused of murder. A Russian crime lord lurks in the shadows. Local reporter Adele Plank knows that in the San Juan Islands things are rarely what they seem and that secrets run as fast and deep as the waters that surround them. She must fight to uncover the truth and stay one step ahead of those who would silence her forever. "A well-crafted series with a beautiful location and a variety of wonderfully interesting characters." -Barbara Jean Lemon

"You’ll find yourself listening to the suspenseful reading by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd way past your bedtime." - Jersey's Best The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist—a powerful tale of...

A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen’s life is good - two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. That past is attracting the attention of someone invisible and unstoppable. Trouble’s just beginning. So is the body count in this backwoods Tennessee town. As threats mount and Gwen’s hunted by an enemy who pulls all the strings, Kezia has her back.

Are you a fan of Jack Reacher, John Wick, and The Equalizer?! Meet Ray Price. Ex-Cop, Ex-Plosive! "There's so many laugh out-loud moments, you almost forget everyone is fighting for their lives." Ray Price's days as a Detroit cop are over. When word drops that his estranged younger brother is missing, Ray escapes from his broken career--and even more broken marriage--to return to his small Michigan hometown looking for answers. Teaming up with an on-the-run hooker, Ray quickly becomes convinced someone involved with the powerful, corrupt family running the town made his brother disappear....

If you love action-packed, page-turning, suspense thrillers where the women hit back fast and furious, you'll love Angel Fortune and her fearless team! LA's Deadliest Private Eye returns in another gripping new adventure! A human sex-trafficking network reaching from The Port of Los Angeles to Beijing. Billions of dollars at stake. Who can Angel Fortune trust? No one! Still basking in the glow of a red carpet appearance at the Hollywood premiere of Avenging Angel, the movie supposedly Inspired by Actual Events, Angel Fortune is summoned by LAPD to the scene of a brutal murder. Weeks later, ...

Ali Reynolds returns in this suspenseful thriller featuring New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s signature “fast pacing, surprising plot twists, and a strong, principled heroine” (Booklist). Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of...

Samantha Moon has hunted demons, devils, and the unexplained across Southern California and beyond. Life is complicated enough juggling client cases and family life, but when she gets a call from her friend Allison claiming she saw Sam walking the streets of Beverly Hills, things go from weird to downright disturbing. Sam knows she was nowhere near Beverly Hills at the time, she was dropping her daughter at school. Then at midnight a silent, blank‑eyed double appears in her own backyard and the mystery becomes something far darker. This look‑alike is not a trick of the light or a ghost ...

New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder In Alaska, one hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found...

On a snowy night on the outskirts of Lyon, France, the son of the Somarec chairman is brutally attacked. The assailant leaves only one clue - a cryptic message: "Najuno, remember." A reminder of an environmental tragedy Somarec was responsible for 20 years earlier in Chile.... Sister Blandine, a former detective who left police work behind to enter the convent, is on the case.

When a grieving widower walks into Samantha Moon’s office with a vampire-hunting kit in his pockets and revenge in his heart, she’s ready to help him find his wife’s killer. But Ron doesn’t want a detective—he wants a monster. Specifically, he wants to become one, if only for a night. All he needs is one swallow of her cursed blood to give him the speed, strength, and fury to face the creature who destroyed his life. But nothing is simple in Samantha’s world of dark bargains and moral lines. As the price of vengeance unfolds in violence and tragedy, she’s forced to question ...

Running made him look guilty. A manipulative killer will do anything to keep it that way. A brutal murder pits an innocent man against a killer in a manipulative game of cat and mouse that ends in a shocking twist. Freedom tastes sweet to Chase Evans, especially after serving a five-year jail sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. Aided by a new security job from his old Buddy Blake Rockford, he vows to stay out of trouble and get his life back on track ... until he ends up accused of killing the very man he was assigned to protect on his first day on the job. With the deck stacked ...

The weight of a long-buried secret can haunt a man's present. For Cooper Hudson, a thriving Seattle businessman, his past has returned with a vengeance. Suddenly, the unexpected death of Javier, a college companion from decades ago, is casting a dark shadow over Cooper's prosperous life. Back in those college days, heartbreak and jealousy clouded the air as Cooper's relationship with Juliana ended, only for her to find solace in Javier's arms. Their contentious history, marked by public confrontations, now places Cooper squarely in the crosshairs of a dogged detective, convinced that old ...

A missing girl. A haunted past. A man with nothing left to lose. Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk now works as a private contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won't touch stranger abduction cases. He's still haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago when she was just a child, still unsolved, and stranger kidnappings hit too close to home. Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears from her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can ...

The first in the Amos Decker series, Memory Man is an astounding audiobook from blockbuster author David Baldacci, where an extraordinary man races to hunt down a terrible killer. When Amos Decker returned home eighteen months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think...

When a college student vanishes in downtown Austin, private investigator Ag Malone is hired by her wealthy stepfather to track her down. What begins as a routine missing persons case quickly unravels into something far more twisted. The girl’s abandoned car, a trail of surveillance footage, and a shady security firm point to secrets someone is desperate to keep hidden. But Ag’s real breakthrough comes when he follows the money! As Ag closes in, he realizes he may have been hired not to solve the case—but to bury it. Fast-paced, sharp-witted, and full of Texas grit, Texas Tangle ...

Today marks the two-year anniversary of starting my new hobby. It had been a terrifying, thrilling, and all together fulfilling journey. No one had suspected a thing, as far as I knew. The first few times I did it, I felt immediate panic afterward, but as soon as the reports of horrible freak accidents showed up in the news, I knew I was safe. Ashley Gerard lived in a small city and spent her days doing whatever she pleased thanks to an inheritance she received. With no job to tie her down, she was free to wander and enjoy her life. She enjoyed being alone, except for hanging out with a few...

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus. For ten years, something has gnawed at Isaiah Quintabe's gut and kept him up nights, boiling with anger and thoughts of revenge...

When a shy ten-year-old named Bri walks into Samantha Moon’s office with her very first case file—“The Bike Rack Mystery”—Sam knows she’s in for more than babysitting. Together with her daughter Tammy, Sam joins the pint-sized detective on a quest to track down a rusted, three-hooped bike rack that keeps appearing and disappearing around town. What starts as a cute Scooby-Doo romp soon turns stranger, with hints of haunting, dimensional folds, and a surprising encounter with a time-traveling, world-hopping inventor. Through it all, Sam remembers why she loves being a PI: the joy...