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At an unveiling of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, Ishmael Jones finds a body next to the empty sarcophagus. Ishmael rejects the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. But he can't explain the strange, shuffling footsteps in the corridors.

Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Then one more morning, Tess gets a call from the headmistress of her son, Rudy's, school: Lila Zeller, her son's girlfriend, has been found dead on the beach, not far from where Tess found Rudy just hours before. As the investigation escalates, Tess learns that this isn't the first blemish on the school's record, and realizes that not all skeletons will stay safely locked in the closet.

After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. She has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom, who is already disappointed at her less-than-feminine ways, and who would be horrified if she knew what she had become. But when a woman and her son she escorted safely to an abused women's shelter return home to dangerous consequences, Lily is forced to not only confront her family and her past but also team up with a mysterious, and very lethal, stranger to rescue them.

During a high-stakes paintball game, a hardcore supremacist gets accidentally hit by a very real bullet, but insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter knows that a man this hated seldom dies by chance.

Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist as successful as Adam Streeter would never take his own life. Suspecting treachery, he digs into Adam's last story.

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life.

Arthur Nakai must dive into the multi-billion-dollar world of the oil and gas industry, confront an old adversary, and discover who killed his childhood love's two sons, before the killer sets his sight on Arthur.

GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.

Inspector C. D. Sloan is called in when it is discovered that a large collection of artifacts that has been left to the Calleshire museum includes a 3,000-year-old mummy case containing an all-too-recent murder victim.

A letter received by an old woman's son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman's death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder.