It is game over for the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his...  more

It is game over for the criminals pursued by NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can't wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company's latest top-secret project, Fantastical. The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body.  It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game.... NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock was murdered as who did the murdering.  The victim's girlfriend seems sincerely grief-stricken, and his quirky-but-brilliant partners at U-Play appear equally shocked.  No one seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire.  Of course, success can attract jealousy, and gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks -- as Eve's husband, Roarke, one of U-Play's competitors, knows well.  But Minnock was not naive, and quite capable of fighting back in the real world as well as the virtual one. Eve and her team are about to enter the next level of police work, in a world where fantasy is the ultimate seduction -- and the price of defeat is death.... J. D. Robb is a pen-name of Nora Roberts.

The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free.  Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children.  The prosecution argued that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with...  more

The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free.  Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children.  The prosecution argued that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. Now Blondell's son, Niall, has recanted his testimony and demolished the case in the process.  Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the true story, and not just for professional reasons.  Blondell's murdered daughter, Amity, was Nikki's childhood friend.  The night she died, Amity begged Nikki to meet with her, insisting she had a secret to tell, but Nikki didn't go.  Her guilt is compounded by other complications -- Nikki's favorite uncle, Alexander, was the attorney who helped save Blondell from execution.  And rumors swirl that he was one of her many lovers. Nikki's fiancé, Detective Pierce Reed, is concerned she may be compromising the case.  As she digs for answers during one of the most sweltering summers in Savannah's history, he also worries for her safety.  Everyone involved seems to have secrets, from Blondell's old boyfriend and his fundamentalist, snake-handling in-laws to the cop who led the original investigation.  And somehow, the events of that tragic night connect to Nikki's own fractured family. But now the killing has begun again.  Is Amity's murderer still at large, or is this a new, darker danger?  Soon Nikki will discover what really happened twenty years ago, but the answers may come too late to save her life....  

With this new thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere: Don't turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From the gritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves of prestige and power to the ruthless...  more

With this new thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere: Don't turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From the gritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves of prestige and power to the ruthless glamour of Hollywood, a killer stalks his prey. A killer so merciless no one in his way is safe -- not even the innocent. At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But en route to delivering a package for one of L.A.'s sleaziest defense attorneys, he's nearly run down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot at. Only the instincts acquired while growing up on the streets of L.A. allow him to escape with his life -- and with the package someone wants badly enough to kill for. Jace returns to Lenny Lowell's office only to find the cops there, the lawyer dead, and Jace himself considered the prime suspect in the savage murder. Suddenly he's on the run from both the cops and a killer, and the key to saving himself and his ten-year-old brother is the envelope he still has -- which holds a message no one wants delivered: the truth. In a city fueled by money, celebrity, and sensationalism, the murder of a bottom-feeding mouthpiece like Lenny Lowell won't make the headlines. So when detectives from the LAPD's elite robbery/homicide division show up, homicide detective Kev Parker wants to know why. Parker is on the downhill slide of a once-promising career, and he doesn't want to be reminded that he used to be one of the hotshots, working cases that made instant celebrities of everyone involved. Like the case of fading retty-boy actor Rob Cole, accused of the brutal murder of his wife, Tricia Crowne-Cole, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the city, L.A.'s latest "crime of the century." Robbery/Homicide has no reason to be looking at a dead small-time scumbag lawyer or chasing a bike messenger...unless there's something in it for them. Maybe Lenny Lowell had a connection to something big enough to be killed for. Parker begins a search for answers that will lead him to a killer -- or the end of his career. Because if there's one lesson he's learned over the years, it's that in a town built on fantasy and fame, delivering the truth can be deadly.

PRIOR BAD ACTS It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in...  more

PRIOR BAD ACTS It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry -- and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, two of Minneapolis's top cops are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control. The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped-snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts.

From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, moving story of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love.Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from an injury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergency room physician.  Drifting between sleep...  more

From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, moving story of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love.Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from an injury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergency room physician.  Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn't trust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedside in her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tucked demurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from the past century.  Sarah Troyer had been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne,  but nothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to her core when she gazed at him.  Though her life was bound by the simple Amish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside.  Her job at the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, and falling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her family and the only life she knew.  Yet something sparked within her with every touch of his hand, each glance from his dark eyes.Sarah was willing to allow herself a brief, secret adventure in the arms of a forbidden man.  But she hadn't counted on Matt's passionate love--a love that would not let go, a love that could cost them both everything they knew....

CRY WOLF In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing, only to turn up on the banks of the Bayou, strangled and cast aside. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced for ever. Attorney Laurel...  more

CRY WOLF In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing, only to turn up on the banks of the Bayou, strangled and cast aside. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced for ever. Attorney Laurel Chandler's fight against a monstrous evil has failed once before. Who will listen now? LUCKY'S LADY Serena Sheridan's beloved grandfather vanishes into the vast and infamous swamps of Louisiana and she is compelled to go and find him. With her guide, the mysterious Lucky Doucet, Serena sets off on a journey into the Bayou that will irrevocably change her life. MAGIC Rachel Linquist is strong, independent and doesn't believe in ghosts; so she is skeptical when her mother Addie hires Bryan, a parapsychologist, to investigate strange happenings in her Californian house. But soon Rachel realizes that they must unravel a mystery which may be rooted in a chilling reality more sinister than anything she had anticipated...  

Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbours and crime is something that happens on the evening news. But the illusion of safety is shattered when eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears. All the police find is his duffel bag with a note stuffed inside, "Ignorance...  more

Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbours and crime is something that happens on the evening news. But the illusion of safety is shattered when eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears. All the police find is his duffel bag with a note stuffed inside, "Ignorance is not innocence but SIN". With each passing hour the search for Josh takes on a more ominous intensity. For Megan O'Malley, the new regional officer of the state criminal investigative unit, it is a test of whether she can cut it in the all-male world of local cops. And for police chief Mitch Holt, it is a frightening reminder of the big city crime that devastated his life before he fled to Deer Lake...