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The highly anticipated new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage. Opulence. Sex. Betrayal … Sometimes friendship can be deadly. Meet the women of Buckhead-a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge...

"In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity-but it was an unimaginable tragedy...

"True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's...

"Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...

In a small Mississippi town, justice and the law are two very different things. A modern noir-thriller based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Farris Smith. Two lost souls, tortured by the mistakes of their past, are bound by a secret that keeps them running.

Amidst the neon lights and long shadows, dark threats continue to lurk in Sin City. Maxine Roby leads her brilliant team of Crime Scene Investigators as they use science to solve baffling cases. Catherine Willows returns to help the CSIs face off with a dealer of death who is planning to beat the odds in Las Vegas. This combined force will deploy the latest forensic techniques in order to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.

A collector for a Midwestern criminal enterprise is caught stealing money from his boss and is given one last job to pay back his debt by participating in an elaborate heist and blackmailing a small-time Omaha Mafioso.

When his troops come under fire from Albanian human-traffickers, the French President decides to ask the UN Security Council to step in—which means Sisco gets a trip to the Big Apple. However, what promises to be an all-in vacation, complete with classy embassy women, soon turns into a nightmare as the Albanian mafia and their suspicious US “partners” turn the high-level meeting into a no-holds-barred turf war. Nothing Sisco can’t take in...

Sisco is in hot water. His last mission didn’t quite go according to plan. His punishment? Looking after the President’s teenage daughter, Julie. Seems like a cushy number—though hardly Sisco’s ideal assignment—until he discovers that gin fizz isn’t the only “cocktail” young Julie is partial to. Which is particularly bad news seeing that her father is intent on bringing in a new vice law. There’s worse. Someone seems to have the...

An average Joe falls in love with a hooker from Ecuador and, when she goes missing, pressures a local mobster into telling him where she is by kidnapping his only daughter… What could possibly go wrong? A story about second chances, with a buddy road trip and musings on art and beauty thrown in for good measure.