When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.

Investigating an apparent occult murder during the Easter season in St. Denis, beloved chief of police Bruno discovers links to a troubling real estate proposal, a suspicious accident, and the sudden reappearance of a controversial elderly countess.

When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first 4 chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Decades later, Robert B. Parker, the creator of the Spenser novels, completed Poodle Springs; in this tale Marlowe is a live and well, living in California. He is married to a wealthy heiress, but the lap of luxury hasn't changed his cynicism or his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he is on the trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and...

Brain-eating zombies, headless corpses, and a wayward 50-lb boa constrictor named Ethel. Yeah, it's been a pretty routine week for Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. [From publisher's description]

"When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. Because of the possibility of police corruption, he is assigned an officer from Professional Standards, Inspector Joanna Passero, to work closely with him, and he soon finds himself and his methods under scrutiny. It emerges that Reid's...

Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, and she is also the sole witness and number 1 suspect in the murder of her boyfriend. Her father will do anything to save her, and hires Isaiah Quintabe for the job. Christiana poses multiple challenges as Isaiah's new client, chief among them that she has multiple personalities, 5 to be exact. Isaiah's dilemma is that no single personality saw the entire incident, so to discover...

The idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna is best known for the medieval church of St. Ethelred and its bells, which are the pride and glory of the whole community. As the bell-ringers get ready for the visit of the dashing Bishop Peter Salver-Hinkley, the village is thrown into a frenzy. Agatha convinces one of the bell-ringers, the charming lawyer Julian Brody, to hire her to investigate the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, a local heiress...

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands--the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. But after...

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...

"In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...