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Lucas Davenport returns in one of the most startling Prey novels yet from the number-one-bestselling author...

The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family—one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema—achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young...

In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and...

Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding "The Trial of the Century," Another City, Not My Own illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence, of justice served and justice denied, and of the price of celebrity in today's America.

“Today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.” —Entertainment Weekly “In the genre of culinary mystery writers, Davidson is a Julia Child among Betty Crockers, and there is no question that Double Shot is her best book.” —Denver Post New York Times bestseller Diane Mott...

Someone is brutally killing the women in Stone Barrington's life -- his date, his secretary and his neighbor are murdered within 24 hours of each other. Stone, the New York lawyer-turned-investigator and his best friend, Dino, being their dangerous search for the killer. Stone falls suspect to...

Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the...

Rochelle Baxter was an artist recently arrived from Washington State, cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career. Now all that remains of her lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue, and Sheriff Joanna Brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert...

Julian Rhind-Tutt is Magnus Pym in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of John le Carré’s superb spy novel Winner of AudioFile Earphones...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box, Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government document before it reaches the German Ambassador. In...

A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there’s abundant evidence to put the suspect behind...

Clara Rinker is twenty-eight, beautiful, charmingly southern—and the best hit woman in the business. She just goes about her business, collects her money, and goes home. Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara...

In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenport, because one of Davenport's own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a...

As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, saddled with a green new partner younger than pieces of Sam's wardrobe.

A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse...

Sie ist die perfekte Freundin. Sie würde alles für dich tun... Du kannst ihr nicht entkommen. Juliette Price weiß genau, was sie will und wen sie will. Um ihrem Freund Nate nahe zu sein, wird sie Flugbegleiterin bei der Airline, für die er als Pilot arbeitet. Sie sind füreinander bestimmt, da ist Juliette sich absolut sicher. Dass Nate vor ein paar Monaten mit ihr Schluss gemacht hat, bedeutet nichts. Denn Juliette hat einen Plan, wie sie ihn zurückgewinnen wird. Sie ist die perfekte Freundin, und sie wird ihm zeigen, wie sehr er sie in seinem tiefsten Inneren noch liebt.

Das Mädchen Amy ist gerade einmal sechs Jahre alt, als es von zwei FBI-Agenten entführt und auf ein geheimes medizinisches Versuchsgelände verschleppt wird...

Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives - and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

Delia Jamison is a gorgeous woman of a certain age and at the pinnacle of her career as anchor of a network news show in Los Angeles. But she is being blackmailed by someone she is certain is one of her former lovers. Terrified to go to the police for fear the story will leak and cause a scandal...

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific...