San Francisco has a new serial killer on the loose. He kills his victims on crowded cable cars as they approach Fisherman's Wharf. He then demands that a talk radio station broadcast his communique or he will kill again. The killer kidnaps his victims first, then kills them in plain sight a day later. When the third victim is kidnapped, the clock is ticking. Suddenly, the kidnapper wants a huge ransom and Jack Beckett smells a con in the making. He has a chance to catch the killer when the...

A bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant district in Chicago. Jack Beckett's childhood friend is killed. Is it domestic terrorism? Before the answer arrives, another bomb goes off in City Hall. The FBI has very few clues. But to catch a bomber you have to think like a bomber, and Beckett is the man for the job. Beckett desperately wants to find the people responsible for killing his friend. He sets a trap and makes himself the target. But will it be enough? Bodies fly everywhere in a bloody...

Things went wrong as soon as FBI Agent Riley O'Connor took the Peter Vox case.She came home to find a shadowy figure sitting in her bedroom. The dark figure demanded that she stop working the case or be killed.Then her boss called and pulled her off the case of the missing artist.But there was no quit in O'Connor. Jack Beckett helped her come up with a plan to keep looking for Vox, now suffering from dementia.As Beckett and O'Connor dig deep...

Jane Doe fell to her death from the Oakland Bay Bridge. No one claimed her or seemed to know her. But Jack Beckett had tried to save her.He didn't sleep well that night, and the next morning he vowed to find out why she died. He had held her hand for a few seconds until it slipped away. He saw her eyes as she fell, and he knew she didn't want to die.He found a clue, a young man who lived above a Chinese restaurant had briefly talked with her. The young man ...

Jack Beckett was arrested but not charged with murder in Casper. His crime was being tall and driving a late 60s car, which apparently the real suspect did.Deputy Janie Sherman cuffed him near Devil's Gate, but the sheriff soon cut Beckett loose. Sherman made up for it by taking Beckett to dinner that night.The town was on edge with news of back-to-back murders, and Beckett is drawn into the hunt. When Sherman's baby sister is kidnapped, things begin to loo...

Niles Bergman was a wealthy tech executive by day. At night, he was a diabolical serial killer. His victims were young women from Reno who saw ads offering help to break into the high tech world. The ads were too good to be true, but desperation blinded a few young women. Niles promised a well-paid job, a free apartment, and access to a glamorous life. The woman needed to be a certain age and a certain body size. Amazingly, a few came and then paid the price, washing up dead in the San Fra...

An FBI agent is kidnapped by a psychopath who hears voices telling him to go on a killing spree. The agent is Riley O'Connor, and the man who snatched her is going more insane by the day. O'Connor got on a flight to San Francisco and was never heard from again. The search comes up dry, but Jack Beckett will not quit until he finds his friend. Along the way, he needs help from people who don't want to play ball, including a radio station host and the owner of a white van with a dark past. B...

When someone tries to kill Riley O'Connor in the nation's capital, her good friend in California tells her to come home. But she's not a quitter; she is determined to find the truth about a friend who was murdered. The answer is hiding in the middle of a conspiracy involving a Russian oligarch and a web of shadowy figures who have worked their way into the FBI and even the White House. It comes down to the last 24 hours, and how good O'Connor and Jack Beckett are at stayin...

A 16-year-old and his mentor, a man in his late 70s, begin to search for the heir to Henry McCarty, also known as Billy-the-Kid. What they uncover leads them to believe that the Kid's girlfriend was pregnant when he died in 1881. There was no record of Paulita Maxwell giving birth…or was there? Follow along as a historian and his protégé search for the missing chapter in Billy-the-Kid's life.

Take a trip back to 1877 Lincoln, New Mexico with a retired history professor and a teenager who looks remarkably like Billy-the-Kid. The kid wonders if he's related to the legendary outlaw, and the old man wonders if his great grandfather really did once save Billy-the-Kid's life. They both get answers, but not necessarily the ones they expected.

A small resort town in northern California has a very low crime rate until Vincent Tate shows up and buys an old estate just outside town. Vincent soon recruits two locals for a daring bank robbery. One of the locals buries the $5 million in a nearby forest, then refuses to tell Vincent where he buried the cash. That begins a series of kidnappings, murders, and extortions. When a 13-year-old girl disappears, a friend contacts Jack Beckett. Beckett and O'Connor must unravel the mystery of t...

Two young girls are minutes away from being murdered by a homicidal maniac intent on killing them or bringing them back to the Rock. Only Jack Beckett can save them, but he must first defeat a corrupt police department hired to kill him and take down the man who controls The Rock, a polygamy colony on the Utah and Arizona border. The maniac is Wayne Carter, a master criminal capable of despicable evil. Will Beckett, a former boxer traveling the back roads of America, find justice along the...