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After his home is attacked and his pregnant girlfriend is kidnapped, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force confront deep spiritual mysteries tracing back to the Spanish Inquisition.

Weston Graham is a master con man, bilking women of their fortunes and then "disappearing" them. His first victim was the mother of FBI Special Agent Drex Easton, and he is as determined to bring him to justice as Graham is to outfox him. Convinced recently married Jasper Ford is a conman, whom he believes murdered eight women for their fortunes, FBI agent Drex Easton insinuates himself into the couple's life, but his own attraction to Jasper's wife...

"Lara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas Ranger James Beck arrives on her doorstep with shattering news: The Strangler is back. And this time, he's in Austin"--P. [4] of cover.

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

"Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse,...

Stumbling onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint races against time to prevent additional deaths and realizes that the killer is taunting her with secrets from her past.

Struggling to remain sober, Santosh Wagh, the head of the India office of an elite PI agency, investigates a serial killer who is targeting women and leaving mysterious tokens at each crime scene.

Seven years ago, Conway helped Savannah disappear--but not before they had a sizzling, knock-down-drag-out affair. Now she's back with a shocking revelation. But when she turns up brutally murdered, Conway has no choice but to sort lies from truth.

In the wake of a double murder involving a woman who has gone missing amid rumors of an affair with a teenager, Gregor Demarkian's investigation targeting her jealous rich husband is thrown into chaos by the discovery of a stranger's body at the scene.

To help boost ratings for her cable cooking show, humble host Della Carmichael reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx - even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastry making is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally - until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter. When her dear friend's husband becomes the prime...