Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair. He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.

Kendall Stark, a detective with the sheriff's department in Kitsap County, Washington, is helping plan her fifteenth class reunion when the husband of fellow student Tori O'Neal Connelly is murdered in his home, and Tori's twin sister Lainie, also on the planning committee, rushes off to help, not realizing she is walking into a trap.

Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.

California crime scene investigator Hannah Griffin, a happily married mother of one, is forced to confront the horror of her past when she receives a message that seems to indicate her mother--the prime suspect in a mass murder twenty years earlier--is still alive.

Gracie Hutchinson has lived here her whole life and knows there's some truth to those words. Every few years someone dies in a snowstorm, or loses their mind, or disappears without a trace. Sometimes it seems like more than just New England weather. Now, a hundred-year-storm is approaching, and while most of the locals have taken the ferry to the mainland, Gracie must stay behind. But she's intrigued to find someone else her age has stayed too--Joseph...

"Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th...

Probation officer Nile Eddgar is accused of arranging for a drive-by shooting that killed his mother and the case stirs up a lot of old, best forgotten secrets, when it is brought before Judge Sonny Klonsky who spent her turbulent college years in the company of Nile's father, a leading campus revolutionary in the 1960s.

FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast calls upon his old friend New York police lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta for help when his brother Diogenes, a man driven insane by witnessing the burning deaths of his parents, goes on a killing spree and frames Pendergast for the crimes.

"A dual-timeline psychological thriller about a sinister white patron of Harlem Renaissance artists known as "Godmother" and a contemporary young Black woman who has inherited what may be a cursed painting"--Provided by publisher.

In the quiet suburb of Promise Falls, a family is shot to death in their own home, a crime that leads their neighbors, Jim and Ellen Cutter, to question how well they really knew their neighbors--who attended local barbecues--and their own safety.