What should have been a peaceful walk on the beach turns tragic when travel author Chloe Green tries unsuccessfully to save a ten-year-old boy from drowning.

Psychologist Natalie Marsh is a pro at keeping secrets, including the one that her best friend, Camille, thinks someone is stalking her. But when a new client seems to be concealing something frightening and Camille is killed, Natalie has to decide which secrets to protect and which to share--and whom to share them with.

Ida Mae Babbit has done her community service and is a reformed woman - no more law-breaking for her. But when Arlette's granddaughter Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae - with the perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle - checks herself into the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping files from the office. She's bound...

"It's Christmastime, and police officers Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are expecting the usual gang assaults, feuding spouses, and alcohol-related misdemeanors. Then the call comes in from the Historic District: the reported death of an art gallery owner whose bludgeoned body stretches across a bleached pine floor like a big, nasty still life." "When he was in the NYPD, Katz saw more homicides weekly than he's seen in Santa Fe in three years. Two...

Kay Scarpetta-- now a senior forensic analyst for CNN-- becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. Seventeenth Kay Scarpetta novel.

Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.

Frank Meyer had the American dream-until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.--Publisher description.

Murder becomes the name of the game when small-town librarian Kennedy Killingsworth meets Foster Scoggins, the leathery-faced resident who applied for a library card just hours before his gruesome death. To complicate matters, Kennedy's ex-husband, Deputy Cade Burrell, seems desperate to find any reason to talk to Kennedy ever since his scandalous affair.