Everything is going well for Danny Carter, who has a well-paying job and a long-term girlfriend, until his old friend Evan gets out of prison and comes back intent on starting up "the life" again.

The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.... A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.... A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.... An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.... An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.... The town...

When his brother is murdered, Jason Palmer finds himself protecting his eight-year-old nephew from two killers with a mysterious agenda, while his Chicago South Side neighborhood erupts in a bloodbath of gang warfare and high-level political corruption.

A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed attempts at in-vitro fertilization, have left them with neither. The emotional and financial costs are straining their marriage and endangering their dreams. So when their downstairs tenant--a recluse whose promptly delivered cashier's checks were barely keeping them afloat--dies in his sleep, the $400,000 they...

Kevin Curran reluctantly accepts to participate in his brother's plot revolving around an abandoned juvenile asylum, a task that draws him into a dangerous mafia circle and reveals shattering truths about his family heritage.

"Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place."--from NoveList.

A series of terrifying crimes threatens to paralyze Chicago. First, a gunman executes two people, apparently at random at different locations, while they ride the T, the city's elevated railway. Next, the sniper shoots at commuters on Lake Shore Drive, killing three people while missing Kelly's girlfriend, Judge Rachel Swenson. Kelly suspects the shooter has an accomplice, a theory dismissed by official law enforcement. The hard-boiled investigator,...

In Ohio, John Meyer Frey is rotting in death row for the brutal murder of his girlfriend; but when he unexpectedly dies, the wheels of justice grind to a halt. Six years later, a Swedish singer named John Schwarz viciously attacks a drunken lout, leaving him in a coma. The police arrest Schwarz, but when Detective Grens learns that the assailant has been living in Sweden under a false identity, he launches an investigation that spans from Sweden to...