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Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls.

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing she has seen before prepares her for the horror of the honeymoon murders.

Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents - to wipe out the world's most bloodthirsty aliens on The List.

Mike Bennett is having a bad day.

As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.

Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder.

Three victims, three bullets, three cities. Simultaneous murders in LA, Chicago, and San Francisco—SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's jurisdiction, and local reporter Cindy Thomas's beat.

The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal.

A double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files—Detective Alex Cross.

Since Whit and Wisty were torn from their home, soldiers of the New Order have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them.

"Have you seen my cousin ... alive?" Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted.

"I felt I was interviewing James Patterson under the highest permissible does of sodium pentothal, the truth serum, for hours--and he spilled the whole story of his truly astonishing life.&quo

In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission.