A specialist in finding missing persons, ex-cop Jack Carpenter is stunned when he is hired by convicted serial killer Abb Smith to find Smith's grandson, only to discover that the case involves Heather Rinker, a childhood friend of Jack's own daughter.

Reluctantly assisting in the investigation into the murder of a young student, former forensic pathologist Edward Jenner realizes that a serial killer is at work and incites the wrath of his former boss and nemesis in order to pursue his suspicions.

LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.

When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that catches the attention of the real killer.

Moving to Innocence, Mississippi, to escape the public eye following her much publicized break-up with her composer lover, celebrated concert violinist Caroline Waverly discovers that Innocence provides no haven from a killer at large.

Special Agent Patrick Bowers had only met one man who made him truly afraid. Until now. When he's called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, he finds himself in a deadly game. Cunning and lethal, the killer is always one step ahead of the law, and he's about to strike again. It will take all of Bowers's instincts and training to stop this man who calls himself the Illusionist. And just when the pieces start to come together,...

"During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life. As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs,...

"Mountie Lucas Donovan chases a ruthless serial killer whose victims include Lucas' twin brother. Taking an administrative leave and accompanied by his malamute sled dog, Lucas crosses the border into the U.S. and faces a struggle for survival in the unfamiliar, unfriendly country. But a greater struggle is between his code of honor and his desire for revenge"--

Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of customers, the "Manners Killer" makes sure that the next thing either sees is the beginning of his own grisly end. When he starts mailing letters to the Southeast London police squad, he'll soon find out...

Profiles the owner of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, who was accused of murdering two husbands and sixty-six sickly "inmates" between 1911 and her arrest 1916.