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"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North...

Why would a Houston DA prosecute a famous physician for using her own experimental drug to try and save the life of her dying mother; that is the question that baffles investigative reporter Kate Townsend.When Townsend discovered the on-line notice about the murder conviction and imprisonment of renowned Texas Medical Center Cardiologist, Dr. Lindsey McCall, she was aware that criminal prosecution of doctors for medical decisions undertaken to treat...

The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange. Maggie is married now, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But violent death dogs her footsteps even in apparently tranquil Middleburn. It's perhaps not that much of a surprise when widely disliked local bigwig James Holland (who also happens to be Maggie's landlord) is shot, but Maggie suspects that someone is also trying to poison the infant who is his...

An invitation to a funeral that turns deadly. A series of curious kidnappings in New York. Cryptic messages from beyond the grave. A hidden stash of diamonds in a secret safe. A serial killer as cold as ice. What do these elements all have in common? Your favorite psychotherapist, Dr. Crystal Knight-Davenport, is back as the seductive siren that no man can resist. Fueled by a passion to avenge her sisters death, Crystal finds herself dodging a sex-crazed...

Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium. It seems like an easy way to make a living to Helen; that is, until the body of an environmental activist turns up. Book 2 in the Helen Keremos mysteries, d

Personal tragedy cut short Kate Power's accelerated-promotion career in the Met. She's lucky, though – Birmingham CID give her a job, and chance to make a new start in the house her great-aunt has given her. Soon Kate discovers that she's trying to fix up the house from hell, with garden to match. Domestic equals professional pressure: though most of her new colleagues are helpful and supportive, some just think she's fresh female meat to harass.Some...

Crimson Blood or Murder at the Law School is a mystery set at Harvard Law School. Harvard law professor Alex Hershkowitz gets hit. In front of witnesses. First-year law student Julie Amoroso, a former New York cop with enough troubles already, pursues the hitman or is it a hitwoman? And the chase is on.

You're being watched. Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she takes an evening job monitoring a chat room called Babel for an employer she knows only as "Chatgod." Between shutting down an online bookie and patrolling for porn, Randy begins to suspect a connection between a Texas woman having an online affair through Babel,...

In peaceful, picture-perfect Burlington, Vermont, young, talented, and gentle interior designer, Leslie Turner, co-owns an up-and-coming design studio with her best friend, the vibrant, bold, go-getter Amy. It is their dream come true. But, trouble never takes a vacation turning this quaint studio filled with the girls' dreams, hopes, and laughter into a tragic scene of a brutal murder.

Perched above Spirit Falls in the lush Wisconsin woodland, Robin Bentley's cabin is remote enough for her and her book club friends to shed the restraints of city living, hike in the woods, take moonlight walks and go skinny-dipping under the waterfall. But when a body washes up below the falls, the No Ordinary Women find themselves up to their bifocals in a real mystery. And one of them could be the next victim.