Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D.D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D.D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break the case.

Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life. When Boston detective D. D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime, a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him, she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. Is Flora a victim or a vigilante?...

This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...

He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon." The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed...

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...

Conducting a politically sensitive investigation involving the drowning death of a very wealthy student, assistant professor Wim Vermeer discovers that he has been set up to take the fall in order to protect the university's reputation.

Jane's sister is about to be married--but disaster threatens the wedding when the groom's daughter goes missing. The flower girl, nine-year-old Gracie, has disappeared, along with her stepdad, Lewis. Where's Gracie? And is the little girl in danger? Soon Jane discovers there's a limit to the bonds of familly--and learns to her peril what happens when loved ones are pushed too far. --Publisher.

Bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for two novellas featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities. In "Land of the Giants", Boston homicide detectives Michael MacCain and Doris Sylvestor investigate the mysterious death of a college basketball star. In "Still Life", the co-worker of a Santa Fe art gallery is murdered, forcing detectives Darryl Two Moons and Steve Katz to put their holiday festivities on hold...