Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates a case involving a a man who as part of a bachelor party prank was buried alive in a coffin and whose buddies have been killed in a drunk driving accident.

"When an armed man massacres several people in central London, Claudine witnesses the whole thing. To her horror, one of the victims is her brother, Jethro. Riven by grief, Claudine retreats to the family home in the Fens, which is where the police find her. She is left reeling when they tell her Jethro orchestrated the attack. Why would a gentle, if troubled, middle-aged man cause such bloodshed - and why would he include himself in the list of victims?...

"A classic southern tale of backroom deals, tainted honor, dysfunctional family, high-stakes greed--and everyday heroism--from the New York Times-bestselling author. Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger. In fact, it reminded...

The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler-a psychologist, or “alienist”-to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them...

Attorney Gus Wheatley heads Seattle's most prominent law firm and has money, power, prestige. His world begins to crumble when his wife Beth vanishes, her disappearance coinciding with a series of brutal murders.

A New York psychiatrist holding a therapy session for rejected suitors counsels them to behave like men, not cry babies. One man takes the advice to heart and murders the woman who rejected him. Paralyzed with fear of being held responsible, the doctor watches the man take over the group, counselling them to follow his brand of manhood. A first novel.

The British Ambassador is poisoned, his valet-chauffeur disappears and high American and British officials put the brakes on a Washington captain of detectives who is getting too close. A major cover-up is in the making, so the captain and his girlfriend decide to investigate on their own.

In rural, impoverished Burgoyne County, New York, a pattern of strange deaths begins to emerge: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered, their corpses left hanging in gruesome, ritualistic fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective.Meanwhile, in the county's small town of Surrender, Trajan Jones, a psychological profiler (and the world's...

Newman began to run after Karl. He had closed the gap. He felt stronger, as if he could run on at this pace until he grew old and died. Karl stedied himself and aimed the .45 with both hands. He heard another click as Karl squeezed the trigger in a kind of blind panic. Newman laughed loudly and Karl heard him; it was an explosion of mirthless and savage sounds. "It's empty, you son of a 'b....' It's empty and I'm coming!"

Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty--and catastrophic--when the errant husband is found dead and the other woman disappears without a trace. Now Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Enter Carpenter--the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in "The Short Forever"--Who has arrived in New...