In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.

Ex-narcotics detective Elena Estes wants nothing more than to live in peace training her horses, but after she finds the abused body of a young female co-worker, she launches an investigation that leads to the Russian mob and a powerful cadre of Palm Beach bad boys.

When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled...

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon comes face-to-face with the dark side of humanity when she investigates the disappearance of three young girls in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...

In the twelfth volume of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club are going to be extras in a made-for-TV Christmas movie being filmed in Stony Point, Maine. Annie pulls a small leather-bound suitcase from the attic at Grey Gables to donate as a prop. Her prop is nearly stolen in a mugging, after which her best friend is kidnapped, setting the stage for adventure and intrigue.

Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper-making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for her. And now China's half-brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved.

The corpse in private eye Kinsey Millhone's third adventure is that of Bobby Callahan, a young man she first meets while both are working out in a local gym. Bobby is convinced the car crash he'd been injured in was really an attempt on his life and, fearful of another assault, persuades Kinsey to investigate. A few days later, Bobby is indeed killed, and Kinsey stays on the case.