D.C. Connie Childs investigates a fire and finds three bodies -- but the fourth body, the one they can't find holds the key to the mystery. Her determination to unmask the murderer may cost her more than her health -- she may be jeopardizing her career.

When a housing project protester is killed, Faith Fairchild launches an investigation in the middle of the town's Patriot's Day celebration and becomes a murderous stalker's next target.

"The Thea Sisters travel to New York to cheer for Nicky as she runs the Big Apple Marathon. While there, they visit Pamela's family and have a delicious dinner at the family's pizzeria. But when someone threatens to burn the restaurant down, can the Thea Sisters catch the troublemaker and solve the mystery?"--P. [4] of cover.

"Russell Avery, laid-off reporter turned private investigator, is almost out of clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work, Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting mysteries: the...

It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. When Bernie tries to confront Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war, he finds that somebody else has gotten to him...

After a tumultuous year, attorney Nina Reilly heads home to put her life in order and move in with her long-time, part-time love, Paul van Wagoner. Carmel Valley, however, is not quite the sleepy town Nina remembers. In a place where the locals clash with the rich newcomers, conflicts have always been an inevitable part of life, but lately, the hostilities have turned ugly: someone has been setting seemingly random forest fires. Just as Nina is re-establishing...

Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.