Predator
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that […]
Storm Prey
New York Times Book Review – Marilyn Stasio …a beautiful thing to behold. The sturdy scaffolding, designed to support two interconnecting story lines, allows readers to follow both the misadventures of an incompetent gang of thieves . . . and a complicated medical procedure to separate conjoined twins. . . . But the pretty construction […]
Who Moved My Cheese
S Is For Silence
Blue Smoke
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. The past impacts the present with a vengeance as arson cop Reena Hale gradually realizes that the firebug who has been plaguing her Baltimore beat has a personal reason for his actions?her. The identity of the killer is fairly clear to the reader from the beginning, but watching the characters […]
Saving Fish From Drowning
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Tan (The Bonesetter's Daughter) delivers another highly entertaining novel, this one narrated from beyond the grave. San Francisco socialite and art-world doyenne Bibi Chen has planned the vacation of a lifetime along the notorious Burma Road for 12 of her dearest friends. Violently murdered days before takeoff, she's reduced to […]
Threshold to Tomorrow
Walk-ins are enlightened beings now secretly and anonymously among us to guide humanity through the upheavals ahead. Maybe you are a walk-in and don't know it…. The walk-ins have come to tell us: — How we can improve our health… — How we can live longer… — How we can achieve our fullest potential… — […]
Stone Cold: A Jesse Stone Novel
“In Stone Cold, Jesse Stone has a problem no officer of the law likes to face: Dead bodies keep appearing, but clues do not. A man takes his dog out for a run on the beach, only to be discovered hours later – with two holes in his chest. A woman drives her Volvo to […]
Open Season
Publishers Weekly Major’s fine first novel features Joe Gunther, a police lieutenant in Brattleboro, Vt., who is as likable and sensitive a hero as Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, but who possesses a freshly intelligent voice all his own. A wealthy young man seeking his stolen dog is killed by a frightened widow who has been […]
Polar Shift
Library Journal: A brilliant but slightly dotty Hungarian once discovered how to effect a polar shift, which has the potential to disrupt the planet (think earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, not to mention the possibility that all life will be wiped out). Now, in his sixth NUMAR outing, Kurt Austin must go after an antiglobalization group […]