Seattle lawyer Matt Riordan returns to narrate the follow-up to Huebner's Edgar nominee Judgment by Fire. Matt's lover, Lisa Thayer, receives a mysterious postcard bearing a recently painted watercolor that seems to be the work of her grandfather, Lee Thayer. However, Lee, a famous artist of the Pacific Northwest school, has been dead for years, when his car spun off a cliff on a dark, wet night. Against his better judgment, Riordan takes on the case. He is sure he is looking for a forger,...

Matt Riordan is back on the case. This time, Riordan has been asked to discreetly investigate the White Rose Mountain ski area—a Montana Pacific venture that is well under way when the head of its environmental survey team disappears. Riordan’s assignment quickly turns nasty. Sinister forces have Riordan on the wrong end of the gun one too many times. Before he solves the mystery, he too maybe missing…for good.

Matt Riordan is got up in Stephen Turner’s murder when he not only witnesses the young exec’s death, but Turner’s sister, Kate, asks Riordan to investigate her brother’s death. Riordan finds himself examining the records of a notorious group of student revolutionaries called the Northwest Nine after learning of Stephen Turner’s activist days, but he doesn’t anticipate the chain of violence that his questions sets in motions, not the terrifying threats to his life…and Kate’s.

Matt Riordan’s friend, Hugh Prokop, is a nice guy, who has run into bad luck. Prokop’s Seattle marine business has hit a rough patch and now his warehouse has burned down. Inside, the fire department finds a safe filled with a quarter of a million dollars and the crispy corpse of Prokop’s accountant. Riordan takes on the job of defending his friend on the arson charge. But as more evidence mounts, it gets tougher and tougher for Riordan to uphold Prokop’s innocence. But when the case explo...

In the fifth Matt Riordan novel, Riordan had hoped to leave law forever. But when his ex-girlfriend, attorney Elizabeth Kleinfeldt, reveals her startling conviction that Robert Polhaus, known for abusing women for his own sexual gratification and this history helps convict him of murdering two prostitutes, was unjustly convicted. To find the answer, Riordan must sink into the shadowy scene of sex for sale in order to discover a murderer whose methods are even more sinister than those of Ri...

#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 ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the legal thriller comes a “deeply engaging and enjoyable” (USA Today) novel featuring one of John Grisham’s most colorful, outrageous, and vividly drawn characters ever.ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROn the right side of the law—sort of—Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Hi...

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his “visionary brand of neo-noir” (The Irish Times) to this “riveting and chilling” (San Francisco Examiner) thriller in the Charlie Parker series about buried secrets and haunted lives.There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one of those truths: after three hours, the abduction of a child is routinely treated as a homicide.When...

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.On July 15, 1982, eighteen-year-old Wendy Coffield's body is found floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have no idea that this tragic and violent death is only the beginning of a string of murders tha...

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it seems The Wolf is the master criminal behind this terrible trade and who is bringing a new reign of terror to organized crime.Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex is impatient wit...

A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life.Al DeMeo will never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker, a fellow trader at the New York Stock Exchange, taunted him with a copy of the hot new book Murder Machine, chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeo's father...

Includes the stories THE LONG WALK, made into a major film by The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and THE RUNNING MAN, also a film starring Glenn Powell.For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense.The Long Walk: A chilling look a...