Alex Delaware's relationship with his longterm partner is on the rocks. He is floored when Robin announces she's heading off on a three-month music tour. But he soon has other things to think about. He is sent an envelope with no return address....
Sometimes evil is not born of madness, but madness of evil.
A rogue CIA agent partners with the brother of a slain colleague to uncover a conspiracy deep in the intelligence community. But a shadow follows them: a killer bent on a...
In this “compelling, clever, and dark” (Heat magazine) thriller, a man’s shocking act of savagery stuns a local community—and the revelations that follow will keep you gripped until the very last page. This work of psychological suspense, a...
Fifty years after World War II, a fugitive SS officer is intent on retrieving Nazi war gold from a sunken U-boat in the North Sea. But his plans are interrupted by the arrival of the USS Cheyenne on routine NATO patrol — and a Russian nuclear...
Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for...
Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger — and with both business and the safety of the city at stake, he has no choice but to get involved.
When it soon...
A new collection of linked short stories from Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse books, the basis for HBO’s True Blood, and the Midnight Crossroad series, the inspiration for Midnight, Texas on...