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Three federal agents have attempted this risky mission already. None of them have survived. Now the Justice Department wants to bring back Jesse Warden, an ex-DEA agent serving time for a crime he didn't commit, to take on a lethal assignment that no one else wants. To earn his freedom, the battered ex-cop must destroy the Aryan Universe, a deadly, reclusive cult living deep in the Idaho mountains. But are his greatest enemies the cultists--or the heads of the federal agency that sent him?

Amanda Dart is the queen of the glitzy, trashy gossip world until rivals publish an underground scandal sheet called Dirt. When Dart's and her associates' peccadilloes are faxed to news desks across the nation, the motive becomes clear: blackmail. In desperation, Dart and her publisher call Barrington for help.

The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.

Chuck Chandler, one-time international tennis star, is a racquet club instructor when he meets Clare Carras, the stunning young wife of a mysterious millionaire. She shows up at the club for a tennis lesson--and ends up in Chuck's bedroom. When Clare's husband disappears in a suspicious diving accident, Chuck becomes the prime suspect in a murderous plot that stretches from California's seedy mob headquarters to Florida's luxurious manors.

In 1965, fugitive Ray Shawnack was supposed to have died in a blaze that consumed a trading post. But many years later, Lt. Joe Leaphorn is sent a picture of a tribal rug taht was also thought to have burned in the fire. Further investigation leads to the lodge of a big-game hunter who has the rug hanging on his wall. What is the connection between the hunter and the newfound rug? And if the rug survived, could the supposedly dead Shawnack have escaped the conflagration as well?

The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.

A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone ... including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.

Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studio stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn.

The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done and unless he pays him ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.

When forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel is called in to help catch a serial arsonist who goes by the name "Lorax", he must juggle his official investigation with a personal one: the Lorax's modus operandi resembles that of a long-dormant ecoterrorist who planted the bomb that killed Cassel's fiance;. His personal investigation creates friction with the Mounties, who have jurisdiction over the latest series murders.