The acclaimed author of Knife Music delivers "a thriller set in California's Silicon Valley that has it all . . . [an] exceptionally satisfying murder puzzle" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Richie Forman made his name and his fortune in dot-com marketing . . . but that was before he went to prison for a crime he swears he didn't commit. Now that he's been released, Richie wants to rebuild his life in the Bay Area. By day, he works at a law fi...

A missing person and an attempted murder lead investigators to a shady scientific institute in this "dark and twisted thriller" ( The Oklahoman).It's been twenty years since Stacey Walker disappeared, and the case has gone cold. But Menlo Park Police Detective Hank Madden has just been hired to heat it up again by a Silicon Valley executive who wants her body—and her missing husband—found.Four months later, on the opposite coast, author Candace Epste...

An emergency room surgeon must defend himself against a teenage girl's shocking allegation "in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller" ( Kirkus).Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl he'd saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble.Accused of raping the young woman, t...

Dreams and deception collide in David Carnoy’s page-turning tale of murder, manipulation, and mistaken identity.After Knife Music, his “gripping thriller debut” (Kirkus Reviews) and The Big Exit, called a “page-turner” (Examiner.com), David Carnoy’s Detective Hank Madden returns in this bicoastal caper that pits dreams against reality, where nothing can be taken at face value.Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker’s disappe...

By the acclaimed author whose remarkable first novel, Knife Music, earned him the number one spot on the Kindle legal thriller chart, The Big Exit is a suspenseful crime novel that keeps the surprises coming right up to the end.Richie Forman is freshly out of prison. By night, he makes a living impersonating Frank Sinatra in San Francisco╩╝s lounges and corporate parties. When his ex–best friend—the man who stole his fianc├®e while he was in prison—is found hacked...

Kristen Kroiter was sixteen, a high school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them?That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn't told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the s...

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEEIn the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.**A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach.All they have in common is the presence of one of America’s most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions. Not the poli...

Warren Ellis reimagines New York City as a puzzle with the most dangerous pieces of all: guns.After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stacked high with guns. When examined, each weapon leads to a different, previously unsolved murder. Someone has been killing people for twenty years or more and storing the weapons together for some inexplicable p...

Ex-Wall Street trader, ex-con, and devoted father to an autistic son, Jason Stafford first appeared in Black Fridays, “one of the year’s finest crime debuts” (Booklist). Now, in Mortal Bonds, he goes to work for the wealthy family of a financial criminal…William von Becker’s multibillion-dollar fund was limited to only the luckiest investors. Or so they thought.After the house of cards collapses and the disgraced von Becker commit...

The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently.Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps ...

The conclusion of Hit and Run found Keller living in a big old house in post-Katrina New Orleans' Lower Garden District, with a new name (Nicholas Edwards), a new wife (Julia), a new career (rehabbing houses), and a baby on the way. It certainly looked as though he was done killing people for money. But old habits die hard, and when the economic downturn knocked out the construction business, a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game. His work takes him to Dallas, to settle a ...

Keller is a regular guy, a solid citizen. He goes to the movies, watches the tube, browses the art galleries, and works diligently on his stamp collection. But every now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off to kill a total stranger. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and gets back before the body is cold.He's a real pro, cool and dispassionate and very good at what he does. Until one day when Dot breaks her own rule and books him for a hit i...