When an eccentric old woman is found dead in her living room, her head beaten in with a hatchet, Gabriel Du Pre feels compelled to look into the matter. Hoping to find answers at the scene of the cr... more »

Gossip columnist Rick Domino is hosting a live telecast of the Academy Awards, while at the same time his lover, actor Shane Kirk, is up for Best Actor. Of course, their relationship is a very deep ... more »

The Braswell family has everything: money, looks and power. But then their eldest son, Andy, the family's shining light, is killed in a grotesque fishing accident, yanked overboard and pulled down t... more »

The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there have become unstable. Worst of all... more »

On a cold November day in Big Oak, Wisconsin, Ann Ransom's dogs drag something bloody home. In the height of hunting season, Ann assumes it's a deer part and goes out to get rid of it. Instead, sh... more »

Nuala Anne McGrail and her adoring husband Dermot Coyne--Chicago meets Galway--are at it again in Father Greeley's supremely popular Irish mystery series. At an International Music Festival in Milan... more »

Professor Jason Larson ("Lars"), a scholar of Romantic and Victorian poetry at a prestigious Connecticut university, has an unusual way of looking at the world. He sees romance and beauty in everyda... more »

Mal Foley was a lawyer once, until he disobeyed a court order requiring him to reveal a client's role in a shootout that killed three, one a cop. Years later, Mal wants his law license reinstated. H... more »

The man who called himself Mr. Greene was purposeful, deliberate, and very, very cold. He had no difficulty getting into the newspaper's garage and putting the device into the gray Honda belonging t... more »

Loren Estleman, the Edgar Award-winning author of the Amos Walker novels, has been writing hard-boiled fiction for over twenty years. In the 1980s he created another memorable character, Peter Mackl... more »

With an unbroken string of bestsellers dating from the early '70s (beginning with 1971's The Scarlatti Inheritance) and over 200 million books sold, Robert Ludlum is an acknowledged superstar of the... more »

J.J. Donovan is a private consultant--an expert people turn to when they've run out of options. In this fast-paced sequel to Broken Machines , Donovan and his partner Boris are unwittingly dra... more »

In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is home to women who have been sold to brothels as punishment for their crimes. It is here that the shogun... more »

Nicholas Bryson was a deep cover operative for the secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission goes wrong, he's retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pen... more »

In 2000, the publication of The Prometheus Deception to glowing reviews, enthusiastic reader response, and over two months on the New York Times bestseller list proved that Robert Ludlum is the mast... more »

For thirty years, Robert Ludlum's novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, Lu... more »

The bloody murder of her mother when she was a teenager made Lydia Strong into a woman obsessed with bringing killers like her mother's to justice. Now 30, she is a reclusive bestselling true crime... more »

When Shane Schofield returned from his battles in Antartica (ICE STATION), he was placed in one of the calmest positions in the military - that of Presidential guard on a military helicopter. On a ... more »

Set in Venice, ex-partriot American Urbino Macintyre returns from a trip to Morocco and is reunited with his long time friend Barbara, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. The Contessa seems a little ner... more »

Las Vegas in the 50s is a city of extremes: wealth and poverty, beauty and cruelty, fidelity and crime. As plans are underway to construct the first all-black casino on the city's ghettoized West S... more »

Jonah Eastman, disgraced Presidential pollster, is summoned home to Atlantic City by his ailing grandfather Mickey Price--a legendary Atlantic City gangster and owner of the Golden Nugget casino. Wh... more »

Destiny Donne - Desi for short - is intent on focusing on her career. She will not be derailed from her lifelong dream of becoming a successful exotic animal vet - in fact, she's well on her way unt... more »

In the middle of the night, New York City P.I. Bill Smith gets a call from the local precinct saying that they are holding a teenager claiming to be his nephew. Long estranged from his only sibling... more »

1963. Elvis Presley has just completed filming "Kissin' Cousins," a hillbilly romantic comedy that he is instantly ashamed of. His romance with Ann-Margaret has just become public knowle... more »

A man with terminal cancer and a stack of debts hangs himself. It's an open-and-shut suicide--except for a string of numbers inscribed on the man's right arm. Minneapolis Homicide Detective Marsha... more »