mystery

The third Under Suspicion novel: five years after bride-to-be Amanda Pierce vanished the night of her pre-wedding celebration at a luxury Palm Beach resort, television producer Laurie Moran reopens the cold case for her cold-case show - reuniting the wedding party, including the fiance who has since married one of Amanda's own bridesmaids, to find out whether the runaway bride ran or was made to disappear.

A week before her wedding to Butch Dixon, Sheriff Joanna Brady is hit with two cases at once - her octogenarian neighbor Clayton Rhodes is found dead in his garage, and a woman freshly paroled for killing her husband is murdered, leaving her half-Apache fifteen-year-old daughter Lucy Ridder on the run with a red-tailed hawk and the diskette her father left her.

When high school valedictorian Brianna O'Brien is found murdered in remote Skeleton Canyon, her wealthy parents blame her forbidden Hispanic boyfriend - but Sheriff Joanna Brady suspects the family racism masks darker secrets involving smugglers using their land.

When the town veterinarian who killed a woman while driving drunk is found murdered by pitchfork in his burning barn, Sheriff Joanna Brady must prove that the obvious suspect - the victim grieving widower - is innocent while juggling multiple crises including a hostage situation involving her own daughter.

The second Under Suspicion novel and the first Mary Higgins Clark / Alafair Burke collaboration: Laurie Moran, producer of a cold-case television show, reopens the twenty-year-old murder of UCLA student Susan Dempsey - found strangled in Laurel Canyon Park missing a single shoe, the 'Cinderella Murder' of the tabloids - by reuniting the suspects on camera, from Susan's grieving mother and womanizing boyfriend to the now-famous director she was auditioning for, her former roommates, a tech billionaire who was her classmate, and the computer-science professor who taught them both.

Sheriff Joanna Brady attends the Arizona Police Officers Academy for mandatory training, but when a serial killer begins targeting women on campus and a man sits in jail wrongly accused of murder, her coursework becomes a matter of life and death.

Two months into her job as the first female sheriff of Cochise County, Joanna Brady investigates when rancher Harold Patterson is found dead at the bottom of a mine pit - along with a second, older set of remains that raises disturbing questions about long-buried family secrets.

When her deputy husband is shot and killed in the Arizona desert - then accused of being a crooked cop - Joanna Brady refuses to accept the lies and launches her own investigation to clear his name and find his killer.

Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates when two women with no apparent connection fall to their deaths from a local peak, uncovering a web of dark secrets in this seventeenth installment of the beloved series.

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard works the graveyard shift, catching cases no one else wants. When two cases intersect dangerously, she must go rogue to find justice.

Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life, uses her extraordinary observational skills to hunt a brilliant serial killer in this pulse-pounding thriller.

Daniel Silva's fourteenth Gabriel Allon novel: when London art dealer Julian Isherwood finds his colleague Jack Bradshaw - a former British intelligence officer turned art trafficker - tortured and murdered at a villa on Lake Como, Allon, the Israeli spy and master art restorer, is pulled in by the Italian Art Squad to recover a Caravaggio stolen in 1969, and the hunt leads through the Geneva Freeport and a private Austrian bank to the looted billions that Syria's Bashar al-Assad has hidden across Europe.

Tana French's 2007 Edgar-winning debut and the first book of the Dublin Murder Squad series: in 1984, a twelve-year-old boy named Adam Ryan walked out of the woods outside Knocknaree, near Dublin, with the blood of his two missing friends in his shoes and no memory of what had happened to them; twenty years later, the man he has become - Detective Rob Ryan, the same boy under a different name and with an English boarding-school accent - is assigned, with his partner and best friend Detective Cassie Maddox, to investigate the murder of a twelve-year-old ballet student named Katy Devlin whose body has been found on the stone altar of an archaeological dig in the same woods, and the case is the long return of a memory Rob has spent two decades not having.

The sixteenth Gabriel Allon novel: when an ISIS bomb in the Marais kills the Israeli intelligence officer Gabriel Allon's longtime friend Hannah Weinberg at a Paris conference on antisemitism, Allon - already on the cusp of taking over the Office, the Israeli intelligence service he has spent his life serving in the field - is pulled into a French-and-Jordanian counterterrorism operation against a shadowy ISIS architect called Saladin, who is recruiting young European women into a network of suicide bombers, and recruits Natalie Mizrahi, a French-born physician now practicing in Israel, to take a new identity as a Palestinian refugee and infiltrate the caliphate from the inside.

Catherine Steadman's 2018 debut psychological thriller opens with London documentary filmmaker Erin Roberts digging a grave alone in the woods, then flashes back to the Bora Bora honeymoon - already trimmed from three weeks to two after her banker husband Mark lost his job - where a sealed duffle bag the couple pulls from the water turns out to contain a great deal more than they were prepared to be in possession of.

A gripping thriller about a woman who changed her identity to protect her children after her husband's murder. When her carefully constructed new life begins to unravel, Rachel Marin must confront the past she's been hiding from.

The twenty-second Inspector Rebus novel: when a car is found deep in an Edinburgh wood with the body of private investigator Stuart Bloom in its boot and his ankles bound by police-issue handcuffs, a cold case more than a decade old reopens - and retired DI John Rebus, who worked the original botched investigation, finds himself implicated alongside DI Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox as the rot in that first inquiry comes to light.

Twenty years ago, Tracy Crosswhite's younger sister Sarah vanished one summer night on a county road outside the small Cascade-mountain town of Cedar Grove, Washington; a recently paroled rapist named Edmund House was convicted on circumstantial and partly planted evidence and given a life sentence, Tracy and Sarah's grief-shattered father took his own life, and Tracy left Cedar Grove to become a Seattle homicide detective. When Sarah's remains are uncovered in the dam-flooded land outside town, Tracy comes home to reopen the case alongside her childhood friend Dan O'Leary - now a small-town lawyer - against the sheriff and prosecutor she has known her whole life.

After her sister Zoe is murdered, Echo struggles with grief and family secrets while trying to understand who her sister really was and what led to her death.

TV producer Laurie Moran - whose husband was murdered five years ago in front of their three-year-old son by a killer the boy can only describe as 'Blue Eyes' - launches a true-crime show that reopens cold cases on camera, starting with the twenty-year-old suffocation of socialite Betsy Powell after her daughter's Graduation Gala; as the four women who were under that roof reunite for filming, both unsolved murders start moving toward the same ending.

The first Detective Josie Quinn novel: a seventeen-year-old named Isabelle Coleman vanishes from the small Pennsylvania town of Denton, and the suspended detective who shouldn't be working the case finds a second girl - mute, traumatized, and able to give up only one name, Ramona - whose neon tongue piercing matches Isabelle's, pulling Josie into a cold case the department had filed away as a hoax.

A psychological thriller exploring the dark secrets of a small English town where women have been drowning for centuries. When Nel Abbott dies in the same river, her sister Jules returns to uncover the truth.

Detective Billy Harney's life is turned upside down when he's framed for a murder he didn't commit, forcing him to navigate a web of corruption within his own police department.

A psychological thriller about a woman who returns to her hometown to face dark secrets from her past that threaten to destroy everything she's built.