Patrick G. Lawlor

"Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. Private Eye.... He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined to never grow up. When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable--her husband and her young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower, Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's...

The winds of change are raging in 1960s California. For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present-and it comes crashing back full force when the corpse of Janelle Vonn is discovered. The Becker and Vonn clans were high school enemies. Now one Becker is a cop, one is a minister and one is a reporter. All three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own way, tries to find Janelle's killer.

"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...

Everybody has something to hide. At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...

"Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan's boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance. Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can "hear" colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering...

The shocking suicide of Beth Daniel's father has thrown the FBI agent into a tailspin. She'll need not only the emotional support of her boyfriend, retired detective Jon Lancaster, she'll need his gut instinct for solving a mystery. There's a pair of Russian agents watching their every move. There's the final, cryptic phone call Beth's dad made to his granddaughter. There's more than $1 million missing from his bank account. And his cell phone has...