Mysteries Robots

In a city cracking under pressure between humans and synthetics, Detective Nick Schneider doesn’t wear skin—or play by anyone’s rules. When a senator’s daughter turns up dead with black-market limbs, Schneider and his grudge-bearing partner must navigate a maze of corruption, tech, and identity politics. What they uncover could start a war—or get them both killed.

Henry and Jessie have signed up to be in a robotics competition with a team from school. But someone from another team isn’t playing by the rules. Can the Aldens use their sleuthing skills and what they’ve learned about technology to find the culprit and save the day?

In this thrilling entry in the renowned Robot series, interplanetary detective Elijah Baley embarks on a mind-stretching journey after the universe’s most advanced robot is found murdered. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The...

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

When Max's friend Emmie thinks mobsters calling themselves the Stiralshiki might be after her, Tiffany and Rosie find themselves investigating Emmie's new workplace, a startup designing a robot chef. But when Emmie's former boss shows up murdered, apparently at the hands of the robot, Tiffany and Rosie are hired to investigate... Could they have stumbled upon a Stiralshiki secret, or are the Stiralshiki watching them from a distance? Could the robot actually be the killer? Tiffany and Rosie must uncover the truth before it's too late... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being...

The bestselling Robot series continues in this sequel to The Caves of Steel, with detective Elijah Baley taking on the dangerous role of double agent when he’s sent to Solaria to solve a brutal murder—and uncover a weakness in Earth’s most powerful neighbor. On the beautiful Outer World...

SOME SECRETS ARE BEST LEFT UNDISTURBED ... Mercury – closest planet to the Sun. In the permanent darkness of Chao Meng-fu crater lie vast fields of ice that that have never seen the Sun, and the ruins of Erebus Mine, abandoned and forgotten after a devastating explosion that claimed the lives of 257 people. After an eight-year legal battle, the relatives of the victims have finally succeeded in forcing the Space Accidents Investigation Board to reopen its investigation. The mission team is led by Clare Foster, a pilot in the U.S. Astronautics Corps, who has taken on the mission in the ...

No sooner has Sally May finished planting her vegetable garden when some kind of unearthly being decides to burrow in the neatly planted rows of tomatoes and peppers. It looks like a job for the Head of Ranch Security, so Hank sets straight to work trying to dig the space monster robot out of its hole.

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she...

They are everywhere. Your workplace, your house, your street. And now they are coming for you... Logan Asher and his elite squad are sent to the Red Sea to put an end to a terrorist cell. It's meant to be a simple in and out mission. His rangers have the edge. Better training. Better firepower. Better gear. Plus a slew of support bots. But then all of their tech turns on them. Their smart goggles go dark. Their weapons jam. The machines that once fought at their sides now shoot at them. Cut off from HQ, Logan and his men fight for their lives to get home. No matter where they turn, the ...

In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.

ELEVEN ELEMENTS - Book One: HEALING WATERS Five centuries from now, Earth is a paradise: war, poverty, and hunger are erased; freedom is not an illusion. But a ripple in time threatens to undo it all. Commander Maxilon Renner and his team of time travelers arrive in the 21st century with one mission: find Joshua DeWine, the author whose words shaped their reality. To the FBI, he’s a threat. To foreign operatives, a target. To his psychologist, a prophet decoding hidden energy in our DNA. But now, DeWine has vanished, his unpublished work scattered; their link to the future has gone dark; ...

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William—this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up...

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...

With the invention of humanoids one may wonder…what does the future hold? Even today many of those lifelike creatures resemble flesh and blood humans. They speak, react, and perform many duties much like we do. What is a little scary is that they are able to learn and, in fact, their brainpower often exceeds our wildest dreams. Some are fascinated by artificial intelligence while others fear it. Will humanoids become more intelligent that real people? Worse yet, will they become so developed that we won’t be able to tell them apart from normal people? Let’s look ahead and see where ...

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted...

Martin Hart is eighty-three years old. He has the memories to prove it—forty years of teaching, a marriage, a mortgage, a cat called Humphrey, and a firm opinion about the correct way to make tea. He's been alive for six months. When a minor kitchen accident reveals circuitry where there should be blood, Martin's quiet retirement takes a sharp left turn. Every memory he has—the classrooms, the wedding, the funeral, Humphrey—was installed. He is, technically, a newborn with arthritic knees and strong feelings about cardigans. Before he can fully process this (or even begin to), a ...

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...

They conquered time. They just can't survive fifth grade. Three scientists. One test flight. One catastrophic coordinate glitch — and suddenly Benjamin, Ethan, and Oliver are stranded in 1970s Maine, four centuries from everything they know. To survive the temporal jump, Ethan and Oliver take Rezulix, an experimental age-reversal drug. It works perfectly. Now they're ten. Brilliant, furious, humiliated ten-year-olds while their adult minds rage behind children's eyes. Benjamin — the only one still thirty — gets to play dad. Broke after a desperate gambling loss, hunted by a suspicious...

ECHOES OF THE PAST – BOOK 4 The lines between past and future have shattered. Neo, Ethan, and Oliver thought they understood the rules of time. But what if time itself is no longer time at all? As the boys struggle to protect their found family in 1970s Maine, Ben and Emily face the most critical moment of their lives—and a future that refuses to stay buried. A violent attack on their home puts everyone they love at risk, pushing them to their physical and emotional limits. Meanwhile, in the frozen wilderness of Kodiak Island, something awakens. It is not entirely new—yet it is new ...