"I am the Firstborn. The firstborn of Eve. The firstborn of Sin. The firstborn of the Fallen One. His blood courses through my veins. Freely it was offered. Willingly it was accepted. I've made eleven like me before you. You will be my twelfth. My last."After ten years of political dirt-digging, Gabriel Hawthorne was accustomed to unearthing all the usual skeletons. But he digs up more than he bargained for when he's hired to investigate the newest rising star on the political land...

What if a fate worse than death offers the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime…for revenge?Roman Dvanaesti, one of the world's oldest vampires, will use anyone, including his children, to shape the world and control the mass of humanity his kind refers to as the herd. Yet hubris breeds carelessness, and Roman's missteps have not gone unnoticed by either his allies or his enemies.When the Illuminati, a secretive human cabal who've been waiting centuries for t...

Sometimes, a good deed is motivated by a simple thought of kindness. And sometimes, the motivation is just a little darker.When his wife dies in a gas explosion, Eric Messer no longer wants to live in this world without her. So he devises a plan.One, leave his nieces financially secure. Two, enjoy one last holiday with them. Three, take his life.What isn't part of Eric's plan is Paul Drake – a multi-millionaire desperate for a friend who's set his s...

A long-lost heavenly message and men willing to do anything to destroy it!Beneath layers of glamourous country music stars and professional athletes, heaven and hell clash in a vicious battle for possession of an ancient, never seen before document as deceit, brutality and murder stalk the city sidewalks of Nashville, Tennessee, Music City USA.On a steamy day in August, a young man dies from the Ebola virus on a downtown sidewalk. Close to midnight on the s...

Darkness returns to a city with a vengeance --- A vengeance written in deceit and brutality.On a frigid winter's night, a young girl's scream for help echoes uselessly in the icy silence residing between the tombstones within a large city cemetery. Her lifeless body is left for the police to retrieve and her parents to mourn over. Nashville again is full of violent threats from an ancient organization lusting after the only two things that will satisfy its...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!The master of the psychological thriller makes all the right moves in this novel of spellbinding suspense.**Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read bet...

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire:“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchAfter her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke retu...

The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to find a missing clean...

"Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes." --The Midwest Book ReviewUSA Today bestseller Connie Shelton puts her own real-life experience as a balloonist to work in this, the ninth Charlie Parker mystery.Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She has received threatening notes, which she believes came from her father, a convicte...

A rabbi raises a terrifying ancient creature -- the golem -- to protect his congregation, but the results are far bloodier than he could ever have imagined. Now, Jaz and Vayl, the CIA's top assassins, must hunt down the golem and end its reign of terror. The events of this short story take place between Biting the Bullet and Bitten to Death, books 3 and 4 of the Jaz Parks series.

From USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton a light, charming Christmas mystery novella, complete with lots of special Southwestern holiday traditions. Bonus: two of the recipes featured in the story.It's a New Mexico Christmas. The lights are strung, the luminarias are set along the sidewalks. Treats are abundant and Charlie Parker is getting ready for her mother-in-law's holiday visit. But there is trouble in the neighborhood and when death shows up--right next door...

A gargoyle imprisoned.Captured, starved and blinded, Tas hates humans. For eighty agonizing years, he's plotted all the gruesome ways to exact his vengeance. Then one day his captors make a fatal mistake. When the door to his cage opens, he's ready to destroy the human on the other side.But a different instinct takes over when he scents the female. His mouth waters and his fangs ache, demanding he make the fearless female his.A single mom, desperate to save her kid....