Bakery owner Hannah Swensen finds herself the prime suspect when a popular television cook is found murdered in Hannah's pantry.

Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifices of the abandoned steel mills, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to...

Dublin detective Bob Ryan has never been able to recall what happened when as a child in 1984 he and two friends went into the woods and only he returned, but he sees a chance to solve the mystery of the past through his investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl whose body has been found in the same woods.

Research scientist Jeannie Ferrami discovers a chilling conspiracy when her study of the genetic components of aggression reveals a plot by the government, a biotech company, and her own university to reshape society through genetic manipulation.

Guy Brouard is one of the main benefactors of Guernsey, an isolated island in the English Channel, and his latest project, a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II, has earned him many enemies, including one who wants him dead.

Kendall Stark, a detective with the sheriff's department in Kitsap County, Washington, is helping plan her fifteenth class reunion when the husband of fellow student Tori O'Neal Connelly is murdered in his home, and Tori's twin sister Lainie, also on the planning committee, rushes off to help, not realizing she is walking into a trap.

Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair. He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.

In the quiet suburb of Promise Falls, a family is shot to death in their own home, a crime that leads their neighbors, Jim and Ellen Cutter, to question how well they really knew their neighbors--who attended local barbecues--and their own safety.

After his wife Sheila is killed in a car accident that the police claim she caused, contractor Glen Garber resorts to desperate measures to protect his eight-year-old daughter and avenge his wife.

Commander Will Coburn and his NCIS team, investigating a cold case murder, follow clues that lead them to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C., while problems in medical examiner Nita Tomlinson's personal life threaten to derail her career.