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 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...

Police Chief Mike Burdick had a problem. Two out-of-town visitors were shot dead sitting in their pickups on back to back nights. The only clue was the same passage from the Bible tucked into each dead man's pocket. When two of his detectives were shot in a downtown hotel just hours later, Burdick figured he wasn't going to get much sleep for a while. He was relieved when the FBI offered to lend a hand. Riley O'Connor and Jack Beckett showed up ready to help. Before they could make headway...

The media called him psycho killer after the third set of double homicides. It quickly grew to six sets. FBI Agent Sam Cunningham called Riley O'Connor into his office and laid it out. "You're my best agent, Riley. Get this guy."Riley put her team together. Sarah Murphy, Nora Smith, and Jack Beckett. As if to thumb his nose at the new team, the killer struck again within hours, leaving his signature mark. Bloody corpses stuffed into construction-grade black bags and dumped at the c...

FBI agent Sarah Murphy is stabbed and beaten and her brother is kidnapped. When Riley O'Connor and Jack Beckett investigate, they uncover a plot to steal $25 million in cut diamonds from a well known retailer who must move the diamonds to a new location. That was the easy part. The hard part is figuring out how the thieves plan to do it. As the clock ticks off the hours, murder and mayhem unfold as the bad guys try to avoid getting caught. Will Beckett and O'Connor stop th...

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...

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...

She confessed she was an occasional hitchhiker after Daniel picked her up on his way to Santa Barbara. Jessie did it for fun. For a quick adventure. Otherwise, she was a clinical psychologist with a good job and an ordinary life. Daniel was an architect haunted by the memory of his first love after he accidently came upon her obit. He was on his way to find her daughter and the truth about how she died. What were the odds they would fall in love? Ride along with Daniel and Jessie as they d...

Jack Beckett was having lunch with Mary Garret in San Francisco. When Mary's phone rang, she took the call. A minute later, she put the phone down, and Beckett could see the news was bad. "My daughter has been kidnapped," she said as tears welled up. Mary begged for his help. An hour later, they were leaving in Beckett's car with instructions to drive east on I-80. For two days, Beckett drove east with a man named Pippen trailing behind. The kidnappers called periodically with instructions...

She was the wife of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. On a rainy night in June, two men broke into their six-bedroom Georgetown home inside a gated community. One of the men took her to a bedroom down the hall while the other man murdered her husband. The next day she walked out of protective custody after giving a taped interview. Jack Becket and Riley O'Connor must find her and keep her alive. Once the killers realize Julia Stewart was a witness to the horrific mur...

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.