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"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...

This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.

When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the...

In this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther trails a serial killer in 1950’s Buenos Aires... 

Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther—like the Nazis he has always despised—has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective...

Dr. Charlotte (Charlie) Stone, an expert in criminal pathology, survived a serial killer's bloodbath at the age of sixteen. Because of the information Charlie gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground. Now FBI agent Tony Bartoli suspects that after fifteen years, the Boardwalk Killer is back. For Charlie, whose good looks disguise a world of hurt, vulnerability, and potent psychic gifts, a frantic hunt for a madman soon becomes a complex...

When the body of eleven-year-old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police swiftly charge brothers Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent lawyer for the defense, is quick to find the men guilty and to sentence them both to die for their crimes. Fifteen years later, Rennell is days from his execution, and overworked pro-bono lawyer Teresa Peralta Paget, her husband Chris, and stepson...

In Los Angeles in 1988 a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound. Although a by the book investigation proved it was unlikely a suicide, no one was ever charged. Now Detective Harry Borsch is back with the LAPD with the mission to close unsolved cases. He starts with this girls case. As he begins to reopen the case it ripples resistance...and it's coming from the Police force. Old enemies are close...