An emergency room surgeon must defend himself against a teenage girl's shocking allegation "in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller" ( Kirkus).Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl he'd saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble.Accused of raping the young woman, t...

The acclaimed author of Knife Music delivers "a thriller set in California's Silicon Valley that has it all . . . [an] exceptionally satisfying murder puzzle" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Richie Forman made his name and his fortune in dot-com marketing . . . but that was before he went to prison for a crime he swears he didn't commit. Now that he's been released, Richie wants to rebuild his life in the Bay Area. By day, he works at a law fi...

A missing person and an attempted murder lead investigators to a shady scientific institute in this "dark and twisted thriller" ( The Oklahoman).It's been twenty years since Stacey Walker disappeared, and the case has gone cold. But Menlo Park Police Detective Hank Madden has just been hired to heat it up again by a Silicon Valley executive who wants her body—and her missing husband—found.Four months later, on the opposite coast, author Candace Epste...

Dreams and deception collide in David Carnoy’s page-turning tale of murder, manipulation, and mistaken identity.After Knife Music, his “gripping thriller debut” (Kirkus Reviews) and The Big Exit, called a “page-turner” (Examiner.com), David Carnoy’s Detective Hank Madden returns in this bicoastal caper that pits dreams against reality, where nothing can be taken at face value.Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker’s disappe...

A known paedophile is tortured and murdered, another has disappeared within days of his prison release for abducting a 6 y/o girl. Joseph Lidahl is called out of suspension & set to find the missing man, with no clues and only half the story. Is treally missing and the murderer, or is he another victim, and if so who is the killer. The father of the child is convinced she's still alive. Is she?

The Donation is a medical thriller that dramatizes the shortage of organs available for transplantation. It asks what if organ donation became a choice as a means of means of execution for prisoners on death row? How would it affect the donor pool? Would prisoners realize one last chance for redemption, to give something back to society? And what about the physicians who find themselves cast in the role of executioners as they convert executions into surgical procedures, against t...

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEEIn the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.**A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach.All they have in common is the presence of one of America’s most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions. Not the poli...

"Another winner from a top-tier thriller writer." —Kirkus ReviewsDaniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community-organizer wife and do the work he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he's about to start a private practice. But just before his last day on the job, Daniel finds an envelope in his department mailbox—one intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Ins...

The explosive fifth book in the Keller series from the master of classic American crime.Keller thought he was done killing people for money. He has a new name, a new wife, a new career, and a baby on the way. But old habits die hard.Business is bad and a phone call is all it takes to draw him back into the old game. This time, his work takes him to Dallas, to settle a domestic dispute; to Florida, where he joins a government witness on a cruise; to Wyoming,...

From a writer who “rivals Elmore Leonard at his best” (Publishers Weekly) comes the third novel in the Virgil Cain series—a riveting story that opens with the discovery of the body of a movie star near the Hudson River.In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the horses in a film to be shot in the area. Virgil, in need of cash, reluctantl...

Ex-Wall Street trader, ex-con, and devoted father to an autistic son, Jason Stafford first appeared in Black Fridays, “one of the year’s finest crime debuts” (Booklist). Now, in Mortal Bonds, he goes to work for the wealthy family of a financial criminal…William von Becker’s multibillion-dollar fund was limited to only the luckiest investors. Or so they thought.After the house of cards collapses and the disgraced von Becker commit...

This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job.Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns. Old guns. Modified guns. Arranged in rows and spirals on the floor and walls. Hundreds of them.Each weapon is tied to a single unsolved murder. Which means Tallow has uncovered two decades' worth of homicides that no one knew to connect and a killer unlike anything that came before...