Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky’s life is a mess. He is staggering to come to terms with the recent death of his wife and the financial burden she left behind. Then his psychologist persuades him to enter a virtual world called Second...
Jordan Rivera is an ordinary kid with an ordinary family, until a vicious killer takes it all away, sparing her, but leaving her broken. The murders of her father, mother, and brother destroy something inside Jordan, who spends ten long, mute years...
When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive.
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When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency.
In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times.
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Nothing can stop an avenging vigilante from channeling her rage — or pursuing her prey. Not the relentless cops in her rearview. Not the cunning and elusive sociopath she’s closing in on.
A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and...
For some people the night is a cloak, helping them to hide; for others, it’s a bright light, exposing things best left unseen. For some people, the darkness is comforting, giving them time to think and plan; for others, it’s where nightmares...
A Little Treachery is enacted in a quaint-looking rural cottage in idyllic surroundings. Idyllic at least they seem to Clem and Catherine Hare, two elderly spinsters who have just obtained it ‘for a song’ through the offices of a friend of a...
You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block’s new novel is not for everyone. It’s recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman.
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When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He’ll soon find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and...
A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...