"Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable -- like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging... The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there's...

Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never questioned her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming--and that fellow hotel guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their rival fine-whiskey-distilling families. And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair may not...

When Atlanta police detective Aggie Jade is wounded and her partner killed in a raid gone dangerously wrong, her identical twin, Lizzie, a high-stakes gambler and karate expert, assumes her identity to search for those responsible.

Small-town police chief Daniel Wren blew in like a tornado, sweeping city slicker Susan Donovan off her feet and back home to Hampstead, Kansas, as his bride. Ten days later, he's killed by a sniper. Determined to find his killer, Susan, formerly one of San Francisco's finest, becomes the acting police chief.

Police chief Arly Hanks tries to keep her head when the people of Maggody get UFO fever in this uproarious cozy mystery.
Life is so boring in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, the locals have resorted to reading supermarket tabloids, gobbling up every rumor of wolf men, zombies, and creatures from outer space they can get their hands on. And as the only sane woman in town, Chief of Police Arly Hanks just smiles and nods whenever her...

Sheriff Joanna Brady's attention is pulled from the turmoil of her personal life when she receives a report that an Indian woman, recently released from prison, has been found murdered at Cochise Stronghold and that the victim's daughter, fifteen-year-old Lucy Ridder, is on the run.

"The wife of the White House deputy chief of staff has been beaten to death, and their one-year-old daughter is missing. D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland is in charge of the murder investigation, but she's forced to collaborate with Special Victims Unit detectives as well as thorn-in-her-side FBI Special Agent Avery Hill. Then, a cold case of her father's resurrects old hurts--a distraction Sam cannot afford. As Sam's investigation heats up, so...

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, was murdered as who did the murdering in this mystery revolving around a fantasy game of ultimate seduction and death.

2060 New York. Some murders receive more attention than others, especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed, strangled with cords of black velvet. Thomas Anders' scandalous death is a source of speculation to the public - and humiliation to his family. But the facts don't add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn't struggle. A security breach indicates that the...

Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City. But this time he's joined by the tenacious Holly Barker'the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. She's come to Manhattan hot on the trail of a fugitive from her jurisdiction. And Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a great danger to both of them'and to their surprise, she becomes the pursued instead of the pursuer...