When Janet Reed takes the job as pastoral assistant for a Catholic church after the death of her son, she hopes the job will bring her peace and healing. Instead she becomes a keeper of secrets, a murder suspect and a dead man's last hope for making restitution for the sins of his past.For readers who miss Ralph McInerny, Andrew Greeley and William Kienzle, Mary Carroll Patrick is a fresh new voice in Catholic genre mystery. The Saintmaker is her debut novel.

Drowned young Asian girls start washing up onto a San Francisco beach and City District Attorney Investigator Mary Dinosa is determined to discover the truth behind their tragic deaths and bring those responsible to justice. Her ruthless investigation reveals ugly truths and sends her into the deep dark world of domestic and international sex slave trafficking and the sad epithet of literally millions of young innocent girls around the world.It also draws the attention of the ‘Justice Foundat...

A six-part BBC Radio 4 crime drama set in nineteenth-century LondonIt is 1830, a year after Sir Robert Peel’s creation of the Metropolitan Police, known as the 'Peelers'. As the brand new bobbies patrol the beat in their smart blue uniforms, armed only with truncheons and rattles, they form the first line of defence against crime.But as this thrilling series opens, the fledgling detective force is proving unpopular, sparking deep political unrest and public...

“Chalk up another winner for [John Sandford] and his all-too-human hero” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series.After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the clues aren’t adding up—and then there’s the young Goth girl who keeps appearing and disappearing. Where does she...

When Ann infiltrates the dark corners of the Big Easy to clear her ex-husband’s name, what begins as an innocent investigation becomes a matter of life and deathAnn and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they’re good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon’s hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, “I didn’t do it.”Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order to save...

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, a supernatural thriller “that will become a classic” (Tim Lebbon).When eighteen-year-old Christopher Myers’ parents are murdered, something is written on his bedroom door, a mark in his parents’ blood that convinces the police the killer has targeted Christopher as the next victim.To keep him safe, he travels away with his estranged grandmother and uncle to the small town of Bridgton, New York. An...

"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times"We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-TelegramWhen Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately,...

Book 7 in The Father Tom Mysteries Featuring Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr.

What would you pay for a short re-wind?Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he's alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. Al...

When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself and return her home and sanctuary to its former peace. Her investigation leads down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets in the sticky, oppressive New Orleans heat, turning her against c...

Joe, Mia and their kids have gone to visit Frank to see where Joe spent his summer holidays at his grandparents cottage. Trouble is waiting for him in the person of Dep. Chief of Police, Jackson who takes his run at Joe right after a gang of terrorists take their best shot. Joe visits a local bar which leads to an unfair gunfight. Max, Jimmy and Doc find a missing little kid with Jeremy's help.

It's the fall of 1965 when 28-year-old Sister Francesca is sent from her small convent in upstate New York to a large university in the Bronx to study theology.. She expects to face demanding professors and challenging classes; she doesn't expect to become entangled in the controversies surrounding Vatican II. What she least expects is a struggle with feelings of attachment to her colleagues and involvement in the mysterious death of her new Superior, Mother Ignatius. In the process of inv...