"Murder is visceral and viscous...like dye to cloth...it changes you...it sticks to you. It won't let you go."Private investigator Neil Ames knows that better than anyone. Twenty years after the murder of his fiancée, Emily Granger—and the war that left him fractured—he survives on routine: he sketches to quiet the noise, quotes Sherlock Holmes to impose order on chaos, and dismantles corporate corruption in the rain-soaked Pacific Northwest.When investigat...

A Father Revealed. Avant-Garde Jazz. And Nanobot Murder Suspects.Private investigator Neil Ames returns to the smoke-infused Pacific Northwest from a hazardous investigation in Kazakhstan only to find his trusted confidante, Octavia Clarke, shattered. Her mother has died. But just as she braces herself for the funeral in New Orleans, a shocking email drops a bombshell—Octavia's biological father is none other than Bastien Beaulieu, a legendary jazz composer and nan...

"Belief's a luxury. Proof keeps you alive."When the faces in a stranger's manga match the ones in his nightmares, private investigator Neil Ames knows the past hasn't stayed buried—it's been drawn in ink.Emily Granger was murdered twenty years ago. Or so the official story says.Now, a decorated homicide detective is dead. His final message is addressed to Neil.A second autopsy. A forged death certificate.A case once thought ...

THE DEEPEST DESCENT IS INTO THE PAST.Killers, conspiracies, the darkest corners of the human heart. Private investigator Neil Ames has faced them all. But one thing he has never confronted: the town he escaped.Thirty years ago, Neil escaped Torment, Idaho and never looked back. Then his ageing mother calls. His father has been arrested for murder. The father whose four cruel words still stalk him..."THE WRONG SON DIED."His m...

Brian Hough was robbed at gun point. Well, not really at gun point, and not really robbed, but attempted robbery by a bandit who could not hear and from a store that didn't have any money.

In James Patterson's dazzling thriller, two secret agents hunt down a serial killer targeting honeymoon couples in Rome.A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite-and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the case, ...

From Julia Quinn, the New York Times bestselling author of steamy historical romances, comes the third seductive installment of the Smythe-Smith Quartet, The Sum of All Kisses.Sarah Pleinsworth can’t forgive Hugh Prentice for the duel he fought three years ago that nearly destroyed her family, sent her cousin fleeing, and left Hugh himself with a badly injured leg. That’s fine with Hugh, who can’t tolerate Sarah’s dramatic ways. But when the two are forced to spen...

“Brilliantly conceived and plotted … Read this book. You’ll thank me later.” -- David BaldacciThe first in the international bestselling series!Who is Orphan X?The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend.“Excellent…A sm...

Nick Cain was suddenly finding himself homeless and living in his van. He parked the van in the local tent city with all the other homeless persons. He meets and developes a bond with a woman who lived there. Unfortunatly her life was slowy being terrorized by killers and she was even almost kidnapped but Nick saved her. What was the mystery of why she was the target for attempts on her life. Nick eventually discovers the answer and they are on a schedule to solve why. This is a novella, s...

For one journalist, the story of a lifetime is hitting too close to homeSarah Denning is a military journalist with the Army in the Middle East when she is taken hostage. When former Army Ranger Gavin Black is asked by his old unit commander--Sarah's imposing father--to plan an extremely risky rescue, he reluctantly agrees and successfully executes it.Back in the US, Sarah is livid when she's discharged on a false psychiatric evaluation and vows to return t...

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwells glittering Marrying the Duke series continues-Twice he has been close to the altar and still no duchess.Will the third time be the charm? A duke cant marry just anyone. His wife must be of good family, be fertile, be young. Struggling playwright Sarah Pettijohn is absolutely the last woman Gavin Whitridge, Duke of Baynton, would ever fall in love with.She is an actress, born on the wrong side of the blanket, and always chal...

*** A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller *“Read the Orphan X series. You’ll thank me later." —David BaldacciThe New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire...**Evan Smoak lives by his own code.Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assass...