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Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling.

Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.

It’s Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Someone is bumping off rock’s wrinkled royalty.

In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close  to home when Erica Donato’s teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home.

Seven years ago, Bethany Friend was found drowned in mere inches of water in the lonely Serpent Pool in England’s Lake District. Was it suicide or murder?

The Top End of Australia is teeming with crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and curious Aboriginal myths.

On a bleak Christmas morning, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation.

Venice, 1734: Castrato soprano Tito Amato has let fame go to his head.

Reporter Theda Krakow is caught up in investigating the rise of a dangerous new designer drug that threatens the musicians and fans who make up the club scene she considers her second home.

Stella Crown works hard and loves her life.

Nearly a year after Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi helped unravel a baffling murder, he finds himself drawn into another case.

Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life.

When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family’s funeral home.

Russell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Rusty quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C.