A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE"Riveting...impossible to turn away from." —THE BOSTON GLOBE"Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character." —THE WASHINGTON POST"[E]ngrossing and, to its credit, offers no pat answers to complicated issues." —PUBLISHER'S WEEKLYThree-year-old Isaiah has two mothers: and they both want him.Margaret Lewin adopted Isaiah a...

A long-lost manuscript may reveal the past—or destroy the future—in "a wildly imaginative thriller that fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love" (Phillip Margolin, New York Times–bestselling author).Lee Nicholson is ready to take the academic world by storm, having discovered a sonnet she believes was written by William Shakespeare. But when she reads the poem on the air, the words put her life in peril and trigger a violent chase—wit...

A cop goes undercover to investigate the murder of a woman on New York's Fire Island: "A good yarn populated with well-drawn characters" ( Booklist).Alison, a young, single Manhattan retail buyer, first met Linda seven years ago, when both answered the same classified ad for a Fire Island share. Since then, they've been returning to Seaside Harbor every summer weekend.But one night, after leaving Crane's, a famed singles bar, Linda is found murdere...

"Fans of Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen will revel" in this tale of New York real estate and its outrageous fortunes ( Booklist).When Peggy Gimmel decides to sell the apartment she bought decades ago for a few thousand dollars, she's thrilled to discover it's worth almost two million. But her sudden windfall triggers a cascade of unexpected events, and plunges her into the orbit of Lucinda Wells—one of Manhattan's most successful, and ruthless, real-estate...

A man wants to fake his own death—and then things get real—in this PI mystery from the national bestselling author of False Faces.When retail tycoon George Samson appears in Det. Joe DiGregorio's Manhattan office asking for help in faking his own death, the wary private eye, a former Long Island cop, knows enough to refuse.But Samson's proposition isn't easy to forget. So when Samson is found murdered soon afterward, the struggling PI is convinced ...

A shadowy billionaire pulls the strings behind a presidential election in this political thriller by a national bestselling author.In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. Each has a closet where his skeletons are locked away—and one man holds every key.Julian Mellow has spent his life amassing a fortune out of low-risk, high-reward investments. But the one time in his life he go...

A woman fleeing an abusive relationship is entangled in a shocking crime in this thriller by the bestselling author of Perfect Angel and President's Day.Gwen Amiel had only wanted a job, a haven, a fresh start—and the nanny position seemed to offer exactly that. But inside a wealthy family's elegant home, a crime is committed that is so shocking—so seemingly random—that a tiny upstate New York town will never be the same.Gradually, evidenc...

A party game among a group of old friends unearths a terrifying truth in this "breathtaking psychological thriller" ( Library Journal).Back at college in the 1970s, they called themselves "The Madison Seven"—a close circle of inseparable friends. Years later, they have gathered at Julia Mallet's Manhattan apartment for her thirty-fifth birthday, where they decide to play a game involving Julia's talent for hypnosis.Julia, an advertising executive, ...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE"Riveting...impossible to turn away from." —THE BOSTON GLOBE"Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character." —THE WASHINGTON POST"[E]ngrossing and, to its credit, offers no pat answers to complicated issues." —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLYThree-year-old Isaiah has two mothers: and they both want him.

**A sleuth searching for a lost map uncovers historical controversy in this thriller "as smart and well written as it is inventive, original, and surprising" (M. J. Rose, New York Times–bestselling author of The Reincarnationist).Mara Coyne has a reputation as an art sleuth after successfully reuniting stolen art with its rightful owners. But when her latest client hires her to recover a centuries-old map that has gone missing from an archaeological dig i...

Book 1 - Imperial SunsetHumanity’s thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward catastrophic collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastat...

A dead child. A missing student. A darkness at the heart of Jericho College.When the body of a baby is found wrapped in a swan's wing deep in the woods, archaeology professor and expert consultant Carla James is brought in to assist on the case. The unusual burial must signify something, but what exactly is unclear.Meanwhile, a student from Jericho College has gone missing. Police say she left of her own accord, but this doesn't seem right to Carla. The young woman didn't...