"Our first priority is that our child never commits a crime, not even unintentionally. PureGene's motto 'Perfecting Orython One Child At A Time' demonstrates the Stockard Party's commitment to not only completely eradicating crime, but also to designing superior people."Rafa and Pandaros Hatton have finally received permission from the Department of Propagation to requisition their first bio-child. Surrounded by family and guests, and using PureGene's Infant Requisition App, they design th...

She got away at the end of The Mighty T, slipping through a dragnet of cops from four counties, not to mention the FBI and Homeland Security, and disappeared into a foggy Seattle night.She is who she is so it was just a matter of time before bodies started showing up in dumpsters, with her signature kill wounds.Modesto detectives Grant Starr, Amber Whitehall, and Ralph Bensen are in Seattle, Washington, where Grant is giving a brief talk on the case of the terrorist Samuel ...

In the dusty little Central California city of Stevinson, a matador enters a bullfight arena to face twelve hundred pounds of muscle and fury. He engages the bull and leads it through his cape with grace and flair until his legs and arms go numb: he's been drugged. When his paralyzed arms drop the cape, the bull rams a horn into his liver and that's it for the matador.The killer didn't mean for the man to die, but oh well. He wasn't about to go to jail for it, though, so he tracks ...

The King of Round Valley begins where Sunset Hill ended, at the Pacific Point winery on the scenic California North Coast.Reeling from the tragedy in Sunset Hill, Detective Grant Starr buys a $2 million winery, thinking he's through with police work. After a year, his life has become routine, and the past finally begins to fade away.Then a body shows up on a picnic table behind his winery. When the badly beaten corpse doesn't garner much attention from the local sheriff's o...

Reviews:A man stands on a rooftop and, using a high-powered rifle, guns down nine innocent people. That's how this eco-terror thriller begins, with high intensity action that will keep you on the edge of your reading chair until the last page is turned. Detective Grant Starr catches the case; he and his team desperately chase after the ring leader of a group of eco-terrorist mercenaries, a man named John Lightfoot. Lightfoot, who has adopted a Native American persona, complete with...

Reviews:Daniel Lawless is a bachelor detective who prefers shoes over people. What he once thought of as a gift to help him escape the constant torment of school bullies becomes a nightmare when he starts seeing visions of dead bodies, and the visions are real. Along with a local cop, the beautiful and young Sandra Jensen, they set out to try to stop an unstoppable monster from eating it's way through the population of Modesto, California.Everett Powers, you have written a ...

Newly appointed police chief Cash Grier makes it his personal mission to keep law and order in the streets of Jacobsville. As a true renegade, Cash has learned never to take anything at face value-especially not his gorgeous sworn enemy, "Georgia Firefly" Tippy Moore. But Tippy is no longer a spoiled Hollywood starlet, just an unassuming beauty who has almost as many skeletons in her closet as Cash.The hard-edged Texan finds himself powerless to resist their explosive chemistry. Ju...

“In the elite company of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell.”—Flint Journal*Injustice For All—*riveting crime fiction from J.A. Jance featuring Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont—offers fans of Jance’s Sheriff Joanna Brady books a golden opportunity to enjoy a different side to the perennial New York Times bestselling author. Here a dead body on the beach and a screaming woman ensnare Beau in a case that gets darker and darker the deeper he i...

Jefferson Bass’s Cut to the Bone, the long-awaited prequel to his New York Times bestselling mystery series, turns the clock back to reveal the Body Farm's creation—and Dr. Bill Brockton's deadly duel with a serial killer.In the summer of 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. In the sweltering hills of Knoxville at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, amb...

**The second novel from the "hottest science fiction writer in America" and New York Times–bestselling author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon ( Details).Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places....

Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he's left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his time doing favors large and small for friends. So when an old Marine buddy of his father's calls with a request Mac takes the time to help him out. And it is one of the stranger favors he's ever been asked: the elderly Mr. Mosley, a beekeeper, wants Mac to find out why his bees are suddenly dying in droves.Mac does some digging and before long turns up a hornet's nest of trouble in t...

Collecting the first three books of Borrowing Abby Grace, THE SHADOW TRILOGY follows the adventures of Abby Grace, a seventeen-year-old with a talent for getting out of trouble. Sent to repair the lives and loves of teenagers on the edge of disaster, Abby is the perfect girl for the job. She has everything going for her… except one thing: a body.Critical Acclaim for Borrowing Abby GraceAs you fall deeply into Borrowing Abby Grace, you'll f...