Newly married, Lindsay Boxer barely has time for a honeymoon before a newborn baby vanishes and a terrified teenager stands accused. As Lindsay races to find the missing child, Yuki prosecutes a brutal assault case and Lindsay's own marriage is tested by the relentless pull of the job.
Severed heads are unearthed in the garden of a San Francisco mansion, and a vigilante is executing the city's drug dealers with a gun stolen from the police evidence locker. Newly pregnant and stretched thin, Lindsay Boxer must solve two cases that both seem to point uncomfortably close to home.
Lindsay Boxer gives birth just as three cases collide: a professor who dreams murders before they happen, a corpse that vanishes from the morgue, and a star athlete accused of a brutal killing. New motherhood and the relentless job pull Lindsay in every direction at once.
Brutal crimes are being committed by people in San Francisco police uniforms, and the evidence points inside Lindsay Boxer's own department. As the corruption spreads and trust collapses, Lindsay must investigate the colleagues she works beside every day — and decide who, if anyone, she can still believe.
Healthy men are dropping dead of sudden heart attacks that prove to be murders, the work of a killer with an intimate, deadly method. As Lindsay Boxer hunts the cause, she also faces the trial of a man accused of a devastating bombing — and the wreckage of her own marriage after Joe's betrayal.
A young mother and her baby daughter vanish, and all eyes turn to the husband — a man whose calm is unnerving and whose story doesn't add up. As Lindsay Boxer races to find the missing pair, the case twists toward something darker and stranger than a simple domestic tragedy.
Guns are flowing north across the border and San Francisco cops are turning up dead, the two facts tangled in a conspiracy bigger than anything Lindsay Boxer has faced. As the body count rises and the danger reaches her own circle, Lindsay races to expose a network that wants her silenced.
The Cowardly Lion — here called Brrr — tells his life story to the oracle Yackle, revealing a history of cowardice, survival, and self-deception that reframes the familiar character as a study in moral failure and its long consequences.
New York is reeling from a series of escalating, high-tech terror attacks, and no one can predict where the next blow will fall. As the city teeters on the edge of panic, Michael Bennett races against a sophisticated enemy who seems always one step ahead — and whose endgame could be catastrophic.
Alex Cross is hunting multiple killers at once — a meticulous murderer of beautiful women, a savage 'beating' killer, and a vengeful plastic surgeon Cross once arrested. As the cases multiply, Cross finds himself the target, framed and pursued, with his name and freedom suddenly on the line.
A tip leads to a trap, and a detective dies in Michael Bennett's place. Someone has marked Bennett for death, and as the attempts on his life escalate and reach toward his children, he must find the enemy hunting his family before the next ambush succeeds.
Two old friends — a composer and a newspaper editor — make a mutual euthanasia pact at the funeral of their shared former lover. When each betrays his professional principles in ways the other finds unconscionable, dark comedy escalates toward catastrophic irony.
The new director of the Southern Reach — the agency that monitors Area X — inherits a dysfunctional organisation, a returned Biologist who cannot remember her expedition, and the dawning realisation that the border between Area X and the outside world may not be where anyone thought.
The mayor of New York makes Michael Bennett an offer he can't refuse: find the mayor's missing daughter, and the city will go easy on Bennett's own son, who is in serious trouble of his own. But the search pulls Bennett into a dangerous web of cybercrime and foreign intrigue with stakes far beyond one missing girl.
An assassin is in New York with the most audacious target imaginable: the President of the United States, in the city for a high-stakes summit. As world leaders gather and tensions with Russia simmer, Michael Bennett has only days to find a killer before an assassination triggers global catastrophe.
Scientist Henry Pierce gets a new phone number and starts receiving calls for a woman named Lilly — an escort who seems to have vanished. Unable to let it go, Pierce begins investigating her disappearance, and his obsessive curiosity drags him out of his ordered world and into a dangerous one that does not want to be examined.
The fourth book in the Ender saga, picking up immediately from Xenocide. As a fleet approaches to destroy Lusitania and the AI Jane faces deletion, Ender, his family, and the worlds' three sentient species race to prevent catastrophe — and to save Jane's life.
After Alex Cross watches a killer he helped convict go to his execution, a new murder appears bearing the dead man's signature — and a taunting note signed simply 'M.' As the killings mount and grow personal, Cross must wonder whether he sent an innocent man to die, or whether something far more cunning is at work.
Alex Cross is gravely wounded and out of action, leaving John Sampson to carry the weight. As a coordinated wave of attacks threatens the capital and the people Cross loves, Sampson must protect his oldest friend, hold the line, and stop a conspiracy — all without the partner who has always had his back.
A glamorous Washington socialite and a private-school headmaster are found shot dead in a car outside a gala, their secret connection a mystery. Alex Cross knew the dead woman — and as he investigates her hidden life, the case pulls him into a web of power, money, and old secrets that someone will kill to protect.
The fifth Shatter Me novel. Reeling from the events of Restore Me, Juliette — now Ella — confronts shattering revelations about her past, her family, and the Reestablishment, as the perspective widens and the series barrels toward its climax.
In witness protection on the California coast, Michael Bennett thought distance would keep his family safe from crime lord Manuel Perrine. He was wrong. Perrine's reign of terror reaches across the country, and Bennett must hunt the man who has sworn to destroy everything he loves.
Jack Reacher wakes up injured, handcuffed to a rail, with no memory of how he got there or who is holding him. With nothing to go on but his own instincts, he must work out who took him, why, and how to turn the tables — before his captors decide he is more trouble alive than dead.
When a single mother turns up dead in a small English town's river — a place with a dark history of women's deaths — her sister arrives to investigate and care for the dead woman's teenage daughter, uncovering secrets that implicate almost everyone.
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