Years before, when the teenage daughter of a U.S. Senator inexplicably disappeared on a residential street in an upscale Washington, D.C., neighborhood police pulled out all the stops to find out what happened to her. Despite a major law enforcement effort that included not only the Metropolitan Police Department, but also the FBI, there was no success. There were no witnesses, no clues.Thirteen years later a young detective, Ted Samuels, who inherited a number of unsolved cases of...

A few months ago Dan Bingham was a respected Washington, D.C., newspaper reporter. Now, he’s on the run. His life changed overnight when he was assigned to write an article on death row inmates. To his shock and surprise, one of those he’d interview - an unrepentant serial killer - would turn out to be his childhood friend, Frank Sharp.After Sharp’s execution, the prosecution’s main witness in Sharp’s murder trial is killed. At first police considered the young woman’s murder to be...

Molly Prescott has been on the run for more than six years since she disappeared from her home in Maryland. A trail of death has followed in her wake; the inexplicable demise of numerous men across the country.FBI Agent Garrison Edwards is assigned to the case when another agent, a healthy man in his 30s, mysteriously died. He soon discovered the one nexus to the many unexplained deaths is a young woman. He is unsure what her connection is to the deaths. Is she a seria...

What is the connection between an unsolved murder in 1949, and a biblical parchment that had mysteriously shown up in Washington, DC?A biblical antiquities investigator in Jerusalem must authenticate the parchment, which she knows, if proven to be legitimate, could have serious implications.While she continues her work on the ancient scroll, others are covertly watching her, and more deaths are taking place.

It was day one on the job for Detective Alexandra “Alex” Steele in D.C.’s Second District, and right off the bat she was assigned to work a cold case. A double homicide. A Washington couple had been brutally murdered 9 years before in one of the capital city’s upscale neighborhoods. All previous efforts to make headway in the case had resulted in dead ends. As Alex looked into what little had previously been uncovered by other detectives, she slowly gathered more informat...

The Attorney General of the United States has been assassinated.A turf battle between the FBI and the DC Metropolitan Police ensues as to which agency would lead the investigation into the murder. Ultimately, the decision is made that the police would take the lead since the assassination took place on a Washington, DC, street.The officer assigned to lead the investigation is a former FBI agent, who left the Bureau under questionable circumstances. While Larry Rivers attemp...

Pete Melancon, following his dismissal from the New Orleans Police Department, reluctantly took the position of chief of police in Orton in East Texas, a town of about 10,000 people. As he told friends back in the Big Easy, this would be piece of cake; no real crime, just the day-in, day-out tedium of small town law enforcement.He was dead wrong!

A quiet evening in an Oxford room turns uncanny when a distracted glance pulls a man into another reality. At first it resembles the world he knows—trees, grass, people—but everything feels unfinished, blurred, and oddly second-rate. The more closely he looks, the more unsettling the place becomes, as though it were a cheap imitation of something real.As he explores this strange land, one disturbing pattern emerges: only certain objects appear complete and sharply defined, while ev...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot ... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would fin...

**In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, Alex Cross is in a race against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, DC—and he faces down his most brilliant enemy yet.Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video show, Cross.**Homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross turns his powers of observation on the criminal known as Mastermind, whose every act is marked by a pathological need for control and ...

From the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling detective series comes an explosive investigation as Michael Bennett faces off with the Son of Sam, the Werewolf of Wisteria, and the Mad Bomber when all three killers throw New York City into chaos.When a rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, the city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children. Not only does it tear apart their ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this “deeply engrossing thriller” (The Washington Post) from the undisputed master of the legal thriller.“The Racketeer is guilty of only one thing: keeping us engaged until the very last page.”—USA TodayIn the history of the United States, only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just ...