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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader dies, Captain Francis Crozier attempts to lead his men south across the ice. But as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men fear there is no escape.

A new building site in Manhattan uncovers thirty-six bodies buried since the late 1800s. The developer and the mayor are trying to overrule any attempts to delay construction on the old crime scene. But FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast notices something important: all the victims were killed by removing their spines. This exactly matches the M.O. of a serial killer the FBI are currently pursuing. What is the connection between the two cases, 130 years apart?

Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. When someone close to him is murdered, Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with pure evil.

When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, defense attorney Mickey Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.

When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse--either way, no one is safe.

Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. He is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside, his body temperature is grotesquely high, the smell of brimstone is everywhere, and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered, their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death, the world begins to wonder if the devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.

Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie McDonald, members of the elite task force known as NYPD Red, arrive at a crime scene in Central park to find the fourth victim in a string of brutal murders. Zach and Kylie must find out what's behind the murderer's rampage before he strikes again.

Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother, Laura. But all that changes when an afternoon trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea sees a totally different side of her.

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself--the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again--and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized--Charlie is plunged into a nightmare.