When a local councillor and an anthropologist re-investigate the controversial murder conviction of a mentally retarded 20-year-old, theyre unprepared for the disturbing facts that come to light–and the personal demons with which they must come to terms.
In this startling historical mystery, unique in the authors canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about […]
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly sets his novels of suspense against a world divided by race, politics, money, and the media. Here he thrusts Detective Harry Bosch on a harrowing journey into a high-profile murder case–and darkness… An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from […]
Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then youre […]
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil – human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.?ÿ Boston, 1830: In order to pay for […]
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon–all sharpened […]
The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, […]
When a vicious smuggler known as the Ghost scuttles a ship filled with undocumented Chinese immigrants less than a mile from New York harbor, only a handful of survivors–and the Ghost himself–manage to escape the burning vessel. Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic NYPD forensic detective first introduced in 1997s?ÿThe Bone Collector, and Amelia Sachs, his partner […]
Narcotics officer Cal Moores orders were to look into the citys latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned […]
In the dark days and biting windstorms of an Edinburgh winter, two drop-out kids dive off the towering Forth Road Bridge. A civic office is spattered by a grisly gun-blast. Two suicides and a murder that just dont add up, unless John Rebus can crunch the numbers. Following a trail that snakes through stark alleys […]
The ?ÿNew York Times?ÿbestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit,?ÿBones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones […]
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs?ÿ?ÿto him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco?ÿ?ÿtrial with hundreds of millions of dollars at?ÿ?ÿstake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off?ÿ?ÿcourse. The jury is behaving strangely, and at?ÿ?ÿleast one juroris convinced hes being watched. Soon?ÿ?ÿthey have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an?ÿ?ÿanonymousyoung woman suggests she is […]
With?ÿHeartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the?ÿNew York Times?ÿbestseller list and garnered rave reviews around the world. But the riveting story of Archie and Gretchen […]
NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful prot??g??, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer — an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman. Rhyme must rely […]
Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the?ÿLos Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poets ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level. In?ÿBlood Work, Connelly introduces […]