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Professor Anne Waverly teaches religious studies at a respected university. Occasionally, she works for the FBI. As Ana Wakefield, an eager seeker of higher truths, she infiltrates cults.

Vietnam verteran Allen Carmichael has lived on the fringe of society since the war, rescuing abused children from hostile environments and placing them with foster families.

A specialist in geo-spatial intelligence and crime-mapping techniques, Patrick Bowers is trailing a ritualistic killer who patterns his gory handiwork after a medieval manuscript.

Billie is in her forties, running a little jewelery shop in Bradford, watching over her godson Natty, trying to live a quiet life, trying to forget her past.

Benni's talent for finding trouble surfaces in an unlikely place--her own church.

The shooting of a man at a historic government peace accord prompts negotiator Maggie Costello to investigate a series of deaths at West Bank Jewish settlements and Palestinian refugee camps.

Presents a horrifying and compelling glimpse into the mind of a psychotic genius.

Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money.

In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, a young American soldier, is brutally tortured by Nazi officers and left for dead.

One day in 1952, the strangled body of 10-year-old Cathy Lake is discovered in a public park. A homeless suspect, Albert Jay Smalls, is arrested and held for interrogation.

Roy Valois has been given four months to live.

Radio personality Kevin Brace, the "Voice of Canada," confesses to murder--but the case is far from closed.

Anna is lodged in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel when four employees disappear.

Psychic Mira Morales and her daughter Annie are preparing their skiff for a return journey from the deserted beach where they've enjoyed a relaxig day in the sun.

Criminal defense attorney Erin D'Angelo, Cliff's bookstore partner, needs a favor. Her first true love, Robert Marshall, has been murdered, and his wife Laura has confessed.