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Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client--a prostitute he thought he had straightened out--he knows he is on the hook.

Largely confined to his home by disability, Daniel spends the hours he's not online by observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he's almost sure he sees her being kidnapped.

FBI Agent Corrie Swanson takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse. Out of her depth, she soon realizes she needs the help of her foe-turned-ally, archaeologist Nora Kelly.

The disappearance of three strangers brings the FBI's Special Crimes Unit to Salem, and when Grayson Sheridan arrives to find his partner has vanished, he knows that whatever's hiding in the town is deadly.

Special Agents Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest team up to investigate a ritualistic murder. Even with Hunter's insider knowledge of cults, the mystery is more dangerous than either could have predicted.

A dead body is one mess she can't clean up on her own. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job.

Welcome to Torte?a friendly, small-town family bakery where the pastries are delicious...and, now, suspicious. It's almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare and the annual Chocolate Festival. Business is cookin' at Torte, and the store is expanding as Jules' team whips up crèpes filled with mascarpone cheese and dark chocolate. Torte stands a chance of being this year's confectionery belle of the ball! Life couldn't be sweeter?unless murder taints the batter.

Stormy Weather was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 2001. In it, Macavity Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Paula L. Woods crafts a masterful mystery featuring Charlotte Justice, a scrupulous detective in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. During the tense aftermath of the Rodney King riots, pioneering African American filmmaker and social activist Maynard Duncan dies of natural causes-or so it seems. But Charlotte uncovers a possible connection to a nurse recently convicted of killing several elderly black men.

"Unputdownable....This novel is anything but predictable. The female characters are forces of nature, and the plot twists are deliciously demented, a la Gone Girl and Big Little Lies ." - People You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to kill them... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets... "My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below.

Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring woman sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean "Will" Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime.