Under the leafy cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster moves undetected, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta senses the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer a "Mr. Nobody" whose signatures offer precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she must call on the latest advances in forensic research to have a chance at unmasking the maniac. But this investigation...

Finch More and her brother Latimer are importers of rare artifacts, and when Latimer is abducted after the acquisition of a unique Indian box, Finch turns to Ross, Viscount Kilrood, and the ghost of the former owner of the building to help in her search.

Psychic Cassie Neil flees to a small North Carolina town seeking refuge from the work she's done for the Los Angeles Police Department, but when Cassie predicts a murder it is up to her and Ben Ryan, the town's prosecuting attorney to find the killer.

When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Though Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow's marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, the two have remained friends. While discovering that Dow is being investigated for Medicare fraud, Kinsey finds a new office to rent and becomes romantically involved with one of her landlords. Unfortunately, Mr. Right and...

The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior. He seems to care more about his gold-digging fiancé than he does about his own son and daughters. Even worse, Dad put their spunky grandmother -- head of the family candy company -- in a nursing home against her will. Setting out to spring Granny Cisco, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam soon prove that trouble comes in threes. Apparently, so does love. As the triplets get their...

When Hank Coulter discovers that Carly Adams is carrying his child and that the pregnancy threatens her eyesight which has recently been restored by an operation, Hank tries to convince Carly that one moment of risk can bring about a lifetime of joy.

Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 -- when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere -- the police turn up at Easy Rawlins' doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help.

"She thought it would be so easy...The ultimate moneymaking plan--buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination. Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. And then girls start dying...Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall--a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow familiar to Toni--the bodies...

"The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas knows, is pushed by brain chemistry, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair. The second body is found a week later, in a farmhouse six miles south. Same condition, same display - except this time it is a man. Nothing to link the two murders, nothing to indicate that the killings...

Anne Perry has dazzled readers for decades with her gripping Victorian novels and has won new fans with her acclaimed World War I series. Perry’s thrilling Christmas novels, recent additions to her unique repertoire, are set in the most joyous season of the year.
In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full...