“IT MAKES SILENCE OF THE LAMBS LOOK LIKE MARY HAD A LITTLE ONE – IT NEVER LETS UP.” – Adrienne Dines, Author of The Jigsaw Maker Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. She never knew how tough until she returns to the desert military base for her high school […]
When Evan Delaneys father disappears, the cops think hes fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure hes been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence. As Evan hunts for clues, shes attacked by an armed man. The attacker ends up dead??and turns out to be a federal […]
In some of Laurell Hamiltons excellent supernatural thrillers about Anita Blake, the Vampire Executioner, we forget that Anita raises the dead for a living, and that her involvements with the undead, the temporarily furry and the St Louis Police Department are only a sideline. InBloody Bones, she is hired to raise the victims of some […]
Readers havent seen anything yet-new in the “fabulously imagined series” (Publishers Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden […]
There are lots of reasons to raise the dead – some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my […]
When she chose master vampire Jean- Claude over her ex-fianc??, alpha werewolf Richard Zeeman, Anita learned that sometimes love is not enough. But though she and Richard won??t be walking down any aisles, she can??t turn her back on him when he??s arrested on a rape charge in Tennessee. Anita knows firsthand that Richard has […]
“You cant trust anyone who sleeps with monsters”. Thats what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only “The Executioner” could save […]
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is now herself a hunted woman. Who put the $500,000 price on her head–a man or a monster? Its not just her own skin she needs to save; the rivalry between her werewolf boyfriend, Richard, and Marcus, the other alpha werewolf in his pack, has come to full boil. And theres […]
Detective Harry Bosch reopens one of his own unsolved cases and comes face to face with a psychotic killer he has been seeking for 11 years. When Bosch realizes he and his partner missed a clue that could have prevented nine additional murders, his whole being as a cop begins to crack. In 1993, Marie […]
An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent “suicides” suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia — a […]
The sleepy town of Heartsdale is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, pediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, horribly murdered in the local diner. Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver then finds a second victim crucified and recognises the work of a serial killer.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouilles genius is such […]
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders… and hes tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britains elite SAS. Now hes an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as […]
Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from “North of the Border” to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but cant, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks […]
What begins as a case of typical British indiscretion, when a prominent member of Parliament is caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, turns into a nasty murder investigation when his party-happy wife is soon found beaten to death. Its up to Inspector Rebus to learn whether the MP is self-destructing, or the […]
Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburghs old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard. In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butchers hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in […]