When Janet Reed takes the job as pastoral assistant for a Catholic church after the death of her son, she hopes the job will bring her peace and healing. Instead she becomes a keeper of secrets, a murder suspect and a dead man's last hope for making restitution for the sins of his past.For readers who miss Ralph McInerny, Andrew Greeley and William Kienzle, Mary Carroll Patrick is a fresh new voice in Catholic genre mystery. The Saintmaker is her debut novel.

Drowned young Asian girls start washing up onto a San Francisco beach and City District Attorney Investigator Mary Dinosa is determined to discover the truth behind their tragic deaths and bring those responsible to justice. Her ruthless investigation reveals ugly truths and sends her into the deep dark world of domestic and international sex slave trafficking and the sad epithet of literally millions of young innocent girls around the world.It also draws the attention of the ‘Justice Foundat...

A heartbreaking, sexy debut following a tumultuous year in the life of a late-twenties gay textile artist who must help his father die as his own life transformsWhen James, a Brooklyn-based textile artist in his late twenties, is home for the holidays in Silicon Valley, he discovers that the once-sharp mind of his father, a ballet dancer turned lawyer, is beginning to falter. As occasionally misplaced words give way to increasingly incoherent speech, it becomes cle...

A six-part BBC Radio 4 crime drama set in nineteenth-century LondonIt is 1830, a year after Sir Robert Peel’s creation of the Metropolitan Police, known as the 'Peelers'. As the brand new bobbies patrol the beat in their smart blue uniforms, armed only with truncheons and rattles, they form the first line of defence against crime.But as this thrilling series opens, the fledgling detective force is proving unpopular, sparking deep political unrest and public...

Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this “shocking…‘must read’”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner—one of Library Journal's Best Thrillers of the Year.Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21st...

New York Times bestselling and award winning authors Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin team up for this exciting new series featuring the unforgettable Southern California detective duo, Moreno & Hart.Trial by Fire …Three years ago LAPD Detective Scarlet Moreno and rookie cop Krista Hart were nearly killed during a botched sting operation. Now, they’re best friends and partners in the Orange County private investigation firm of Moreno & Hart. But t...

"Masterman's masterful debut, featuring 59-year-old retired FBI Agent Brigid Quinn . . . An author to watch. A thriller that must be read." —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep t...

THE MAN WHO LEFT is about the importance of fathers. It's about the men who leave, and the men who stay. It's a familiar story. Father leaves his wife and children and never looks back. Theresa Weir was five when her father left his family for a better life with a wealthy socialite. Many years passed with only occasional and grudging contact by Theresa's father. When Theresa married into a successful farm family, her father resurfaced, but she couldn't help but be suspicious of h...

As a man of action, he'd never break protocol. But he'd never been so tempted…Although he was trying to crack a global conspiracy, former soldier Jesse Cooper had an even more important mission: keep new hire and girl-next-door Evie Marsh safe. Shocked to learn Evie could be the key to bringing down this secret plot, the head of Cooper Security had to stifle his attraction to her. After all, the case was on the line–and so were their lives. But between dodging bullets and ...

I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way.Exodus 23:20 NRSV When Joan Wester Anderson wrote Where Angels Walk, millions of readers were captivated by her inspiringcollection of true stories of angelic intervention. The book remained on the New York Times Best-Seller List for over a year.In the Arms of Angels is Anderson's newest collection of mysterious and heart-stirring stories of heavenly guardians. From the harrowing account of a World Trade Center survivor t...

When one world brushes another, asking the right question can be magic..."Shall We Gather" is an original short story by Alex Bledsoe, whose Tufa novels--beginning with the acclaimed The Hum and the Shiver--chronicle the quiet, mysterious people of unknown origin living in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Columbella House, a crumbling Victorian mansion on the coast, is packed with secrets and danger. Now it all belongs to Mia St.Regis. For police chief Dylan Reese, the return of the beautiful heiress rekindles an old attraction, one he thought ended long ago. Before he can focus on their past, though, Mia's reappearance rouses a killer, someone who's made her the ultimate–and most prized–target. Dylan knows keeping Mia safe is part of the job. Yet the image of an elusive enemy getti...