An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist, and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed, and murder.

In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family's killer, aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy past.

The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire's hangmen's guild. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, suspicions...

Dr. Sheridan Doyle is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney₂s office. But beneath his cool facade, he₂s still Danny Doyle, the awkward boy haunted by the tragic death of his sister. Returning to his hometown, Danny finds a dead body at the infamous Lost Creek gallows where a band of miners was executed. Strangely, the body is connected to the wealthy family responsible for the miners' deaths. Danny comes too close to startling...

The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing...

"With Florida orange trees dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, fishing guide and part-time investigator Hannah Smith searches the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida for samples of the original root stock planted five hundred years ago by Spanish conquistadors in hopes of saving the industry, but others have more sinister motives"--

"Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason to worry about her longtime publisher, Lane Barfield, who also happens to be a trusted friend. When mounting evidence of financial malfeasance leads to an FBI investigation...