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Joe DeMarco's long­time employer John Mahoney has kept an explosive secret: he has a son, and that son has just been shot dead in a bar in Manhattan. Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to his native New York to provide the prosecutor with any assistance necessary, but with five bystanders willing to testify against the accused, the case seems like a slam ­dunk--that is, until it appears someone has interfered with the witnesses.

On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself. Together, they serve as an unofficial search-and-rescue team for the island, saving tourists and locals alike from the forces of wind and sea. But, when a young boy goes missing, the mysteries start to pile up. While searching for him, they find his mother's dead body instead, and realize that something sinister is in their midst.

Romania, 1989. Three friends are enjoying comfortable lives, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group. Terror ensues as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear.

Cat Mateo, a once-stray teenager, owes her rescue to Detective Stride. But Cat holds something else to her chest: a secret, the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend. A secret that, once out of the bag, will viciously scratch at Duluth's still-healing wounds.

It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain. Five years have passed since the murder of a young local politician, and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga's own troubled past.

Willie Bledsoe is driving some smuggled guns to the Motor City with the hopes of jump-starting his dream of writing a memoir. But there at Tiger Stadium on opening day of the 1968 baseball season, Willie learns he is the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

In 1976 Colt Freeland and his partner, Snyder, like a modern-day Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, have plied a small-time marijuana trade and now want out. But their failed getaway takes them straight into a deadly narcotics war.

Colfer adds an entirely new chapter to the adventures and misadventures of Daniel McEvoy, the down-on-his-luck Irish bouncer at a seedy New Jersey bar who, with the help of a motley crew of unlikely characters, solved a bizarre string of murders--including the one of the girl he loved. But people around him continue to die mysteriously, and Daniel is called into action once again.

Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime.

In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP (an allergy to sunlight) with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she's the lone key to stopping a human monster.