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On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered.

Years agos, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hit-woman in the business.

Shannon paints a vivid picture of the American frontier's most successful Indian confederacy.

During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk.

When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation.

Detective Dan Reles is settling into his new life with a wife, a son, and a career in Austin's homicide division. Then his deadbeat, ex-mafia enforcer father rolls into town.

Detective Dan Reles looks at the high profile case of the murdered former child star as a way to jump start his career and his life after being dumped by the woman he loves.

Beautiful and independent Rosamund Bolton and her cousin Sir Thomas Bolton leave Friarsgate, England to visit Queen Margaret of Scotland.

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

Specter fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.

Introspective artist Ben Lonefeather is content raising the orphaned coyote pups he rescued after their mother was killed on the highway.

When his "company" friend is gruesomely slain in a sleepy Tuscan village and the dead man's family later butchered in their London home, CIA "fixer" Micah Dalton takes acti

In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

The tornado is not the only deadly phenomenon raging through the Twin cities. Preceeding each drastic change in the weather, a young woman is brutally murdered.

All her life, small-town Georgia girl Jessie Belle Holt has known how to use men. Her ticket out of Mayville is Traynor Deveraux, a trusting pastor with a brilliant career ahead.