Books

A HARD-DRINKING, TWO-FISTED PROTAGONIST IN THE MIDST OF A PARADE OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS—GRITTY REALISM AT ITS FINEST. After years of tracking down pedophile priests, Vatican investigator—and former cop—Father Michael Barrett snaps and beats one to near-death. Spared a trial by church intervention, he is transferred to a backwater parish in Fulton, British Columbia and told to behave himself. On one drunken night, Barrett crosses paths with the Paladins—who coerce him into accepting five thousand dollars to conduct a secret funeral...

A Masterpiece Destroyed. A Culprit Unknown. The Answer Unprecedented. In the glittering world of international art, a high-stakes investigation will challenge the limits of technology and human ingenuity. A contentious art auction reduces a priceless masterpiece to ashes, prompting the call for retired INTERPOL director Nick Stirling to lead a covert task force tasked with uncovering the truth. But as Nick and his team dig deeper into the mystery, they soon realize that there's more to the case than meets...

A chilling psychological thriller by the million-copy bestselling author of Silent Child. After a family tragedy leaves Leah destitute, she’s forced to accept a job she doesn’t want at a place that fills her with dread. Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire moors stands Crowmont Hospital, a secure psychiatric unit housing hundreds of convicted criminals. On Leah’s first day there, she meets her new patient, Isabel Fielding, a teen murderess. Isabel spends her days sketching birds to hang on...

He’s hot. He’s deadly. And he’s hunting me. Rath K’zar is an alien bounty hunter. The best in the universe. I’m his admin assistant. I send him his bounties, and I process his payments. I know him better than anybody. He doesn’t know I exist. I have dreamed about him every night for months. You could call it a crush, or a fixation, or maybe an obsession. Whatever. I never thought it would amount to anything. Then there was a…...

In a high-stakes game of deception, CIA operative June Cohen enlists reluctant DEA informant Robaire Assaly in a dangerous mission to avert war in Iraq. But as Robaire realizes he's been played, he becomes a fugitive pursued by the FBI and his own handler. Can he evade capture and expose June's betrayal before it's too late?

The veil is thin, the darkness bleeds. And we're the only ones between it and our city. My wife, Emilie, and I are more than detectives. We’re more than druids. We're the last wall against the rising tide of chaos. Magic, once accessible only to a few, now bleeds like a gushing wound, spewing creatures of myth and nightmare into our world. These monsters aren't here to play. They leave a trail of bodies, hunting for one specific target: the...

Joshua Oates is back! It is 1921 and private investigator Joshua Oates moves his operations from Boston to New York City. He receives a mysterious note with an envelope full of cash from a new client to meet at the Brooklyn Bridge. The client never shows up. When he returns to his new office, Oates finds it ransacked. Shortly afterward, a young woman hires him to find who murdered her husband, a newspaper reporter with a sordid past. The hard...

Ally’s perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim’s mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years ago, a member of the family was the prime suspect in a young woman’s disappearance from the same island. Now, history is repeating itself. Another woman has vanished without a trace. Ally digs into all the dark secrets of the Hawthorne family’s past, but...

Randolph approaches a woman at a supermarket, only to watch it explode minutes later with her trapped inside. The old him would have gone home to his adulterous wife. The new him tracks down the woman and drives her cross-country, away from her troubled past. As the truth behind the explosion is revealed, he begins to question, well, everything.

am Nemein. I am not a murderer. I am emotionally detached from my killings. I am, therefore, an instrument of Nemesis, a punisher. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders. However, he describes the killings with such gloating relish that he reveals himself to be a cold-blooded, narcissistic psychopath. Sheehan and his team...