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When her best hope of saving her storm-damaged library is found murdered, senior librarian Cleo Watkins hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.

A collection of stories that explores dark conspiracies and desperate human acts hiding in plain sight.

It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. Thirty years ago, the Greens' next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. Isla's father Joe was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he's under suspicion of murder. Could her father be capable of doing something terrible?

When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force. Caught between two complicated and determined women, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets, and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.

When Mimi Lee opened her pet grooming shop in Los Angeles, she never imagined that the first cat she said hello to would talk back, or help clear her name as the main suspect in a murder case.

The lives of five very different women are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not all of them know that yet. The careful existence they have built for themselves starts to crumble when two murders rock their neighborhood.

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy makes a shocking discovery that connects a crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.

Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.

Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer ready to retire, is pulled back to the courtroom when an old friend faces criminal charges. But his belief in the power of the judicial system will face a final, terrible test.