Police Procedurals

When a dentist is killed, Detective Beaumont discovers that the victim was a despicable character that society is well off without. And Beaumont soon begins to wonder about real justice as he unearths an unlikely bunch of vigilantes.Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pa... More

"The Last Kashmiri Rose In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the... More

Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney launches his own investigation into a murder that is being pinned on him. In the process, he stumbles across a 30-year-old mystery that may clear him if he solves it.Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney travels to a California ranch looking to buy some prime quarter ... More

Medical examiner Sara Linton and her former husband, police chief Jeffery Tolliver, investigate a series of bizarre deaths in a small Georgia college town in this "New York Times" bestselling thriller by the "new face in crime" ("Book" magazine).An apparent student suicide has brought medical examin... More

When the apparent drowning death of the son-in-law of two influential celebrities turns out to be murder, detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James follow a trail of lies to a shocking nest of dark family secrets.When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and ... More

TO CATCH THIS KILLER, SHE MUST BREAK EVERY RULE AND CROSS EVERY LINE.A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation. Is the terror just beginn... More

Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon does not accept a supernatural explanation for recent events. Moon's aunt, Ute shaman Daisy Perika, says a legendary giant spider monster is responsible for an abduction and a bizarre decapitation. But the tribal policeman feels in his gut that the ex... More

"TERRIFIC . . . EXPLOSIVE . . . [A] HIGH POWERED THRILL RIDE."-"The Wall Street Journal "CRAIS IS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME, and "Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It's "Silence of the Lambs meets "Speed as down-on-her-luck former bomb-squad ace Carol Starkey plays cat-and-mouse w... More

Summoned to investigate the murder of a high school prom queen, LAPD detective Sergeant Peter Decker is immersed in a rootless world where young lives are punctuated by mindless sex, illicit drugs, and tenuous links to reality. When a prime suspect is identified, Decker has the feeling that the case... More

A WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND -- AND MOST LETHAL WEAPONNew York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers a riveting thriller that introduces an exciting addition to the pantheon of fictional sleuths.Forced into early retirement at thirty-seven, smart, attractive, and fiercely independent Major Holly B... More

"New York Times" bestselling author Barton delivers a sizzling new novel of romantic suspense about a small-town sheriff on a desperate hunt for a twisted serial killer that takes her to the edge of danger and desire. Original.He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters, an... More

It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal dea... More

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville Wes... More

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Have... More

Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly n... More

When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine's longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $25,000 at his blackjack tables. But the job is full... More

"Against the backdrop of a totalitarian ""North Korea,"" one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process.""""Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south," Simple orders ... More

Coming to the rescue of a beautiful blonde, Beaumont finds a corpse at her feet, an ex-member of the State Parole Board. When a politician gets involved in the case and Beau is framed for the murder, Beau must find the killer quickly--before it is too late.A gripping tale of bloodlust and terror fro... More

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. It's up to Inspector Rebus to learn whether the MP is self... More

When the corpse of a teenage girl is found on New Year's Eve in Aurora, Minnesota, former sheriff Cork O'Connor fights an uphill battle to clear her boyfriend, Solemn Winter Moon. After Solemn claims to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork antici... More