"The winter of 2008 brings more than burdensome snow. Bookstore owner Emily Conner struggles to save her business from financial ruin. Her husband Jack's loans from medical school, along with a store balloon payment are due. A large sum of money from the town fundraiser to save Lake Cottage Book Haven disappears from her car.Even more disturbing, a mysterious stranger is tracking Emily, staying one step ahead of the police. Derrick Thomas, the lead...

It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control.

"After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules."

Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues--Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy--confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.

Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the daughter of detective Peter Decker, begins a quest through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.

"As Grace recovers from tragedy, her science class is chosen by Agent Sweeney at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with research on the new 'Red Wolf Reintroduction Program'. While she's excited about helping with the conservation of the endangered wolves, Grace knows this means being outdoors in the worst winter on record, in a place she no longer feels comfortable. It also means working closely with Wyn (her ex) and his annoying girlfriend...

Emma Cotton and Kelly Grace, best friends and business partners, have been on the trail of a murderer for nearly two years. And they are down to their last suspect. Danielle Moore, now known as Mary Jones, is the last student from Rose Peterson's college class Emma and Kelly need to track down. Was Mary involved in Rose's death? If so, that would explain her taking an alias and going underground since then. Either she was the killer, or she knows...

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog - is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino's murder. Poldi has tasted blood....