Narrowly escaping a sniper attack that leaves a key informant dead, covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson resolves to capture the nuclear arms dealer behind the killing and defies orders by involving a fellow officer with whom she is romantically linked.
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of The Shining with the story of a middle-aged Dan Torrance. Now an itinerant alcoholic himself, Dan uses his remnant powers to help a 12-year-old girl who is being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
After a brutal attack on his mother, 13-year-old Joe Coutts pursues the truth — and a sense of justice, separate from law enforcement. In this National Book Award-winning novel, Louise Erdrich unspools a mystery that has upturned both a North Dakota reservation and the family that Coutts hopes to save.
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, PA, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
Nightmare Range is a collection of Martin Limón's award-winning short stories, featuring the heroes of his critically acclaimed crime novels. It includes pieces that have been published throughout the past 20 years in such magazines as Alfred Hitchcock.
This account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Charles Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the '60s. What is revealed is a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.
When the body of a young woman is found on the grounds of a Louisiana plantation named Belle Vie, manager Caren Gray launches her own investigation into the estate's history. A century-spanning story of two murders unfolds as Gray delves deeper into a mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters — and her own past. In this historical thriller, novelist Attica Locke examines the troubled racial past of a United States that, according to her, remains in its "adolescent phase."
Returning to South Africa after living in England for 10 years following her policeman father's murder, P.I. Jade de Jong agrees to help her father's former partner. Together they investigate a series of carjacking cases and she discovers a pattern that may have a link to her father's death.
When Jade de Jong's romantic relationship with police superintendent David Patel ends while on vacation in St. Lucia, she hardly has time to rebound before a local is found dead, and the two must put aside their differences to find the killer.
Jade de Jong gets sucked down into the dark world of human trafficking when she finds a connection between the attempted killings of a wealthy couple and the kidnapping of the son of her lover, police superintendent David Patel.
When the partner of a base jumper who fell to her death insists that the fatal fall was not accidental, Jade de Jong, despairing of her relationship with police superintendent David Patel, learns that a sustainable farming community linked to the victim has suffered a suspicious outbreak of dangerous illnesses.
Mustachioed Vish Puri, a respectable family man who styles himself as India's forefront private investigator, runs background checks for prospective brides and grooms until more sensational cases take him into India's increasingly divergent communities.
Indian detective Vish Puri sends an undercover operative to the sacred town of Haridwar when a notorious debunker is found dead and a high-profile Hindu ascetic is implicated.