policewomen

Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, she'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her own ax to grind (and a brother and uncle already on the force)--a strategy meant to isolate Kate and Maggie from the action. But the move will backfire, putting them right at the heart of it.

Anne Joy's sadistic brother Vic, now a modern-day pirate in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Keys, is obsessed with his sister, and he will do whatever it takes to drive Anne's lovers, past and present, away from her -- even murder.

Detective Romilia Chac?n must solve her hardest case yet, and face a demon from her past, when the man who killed Romilia's older sister sets off on a gruesome killing spree.

Romance novelist Nora Roberts, writing as herself and as J.D. Robb, author of futuristic romantic suspense stories, presents two connected tales, the first in which a diamond heist brings together Laine Tavish, the thief's daughter, and insurance investigator Max Gannon, and the second in which their granddaughter, having written a book about the theft in 2059, becomes the target of someone who believes she has the still missing gems.

Detective Kathy Mallory faces her most challenging case yet when the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one, leading her on a deadly chase across the nation.

Detective Inspector Gemma James is shocked when a trip with her close friend Hazel to the Scottish Highlands reveals a secret from Hazel's past.

When a killer targets food critics in the City of Light, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier, a seasoned member of the Paris Police Judiciaire, must decide whether or not to use her husband, a famous food journalist, as irresistible bait.

After the body of an acclaimed chef turns up in what looks like an apparent suicide, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier suspects that it is really a murder, as she also tries to exonerate the food critic who is seen as the cause for the death.

Widowed FBI agent June Lyons returns to her hometown in the rust belt of upstate New York to take a job with the local police department; when she discovers a body in the frozen river, the investigation unmasks a sordid maze of politics, drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang, and June finds that still waters run deep in this small town.

"'Twas the night before Christmas...and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. Reeds' out for truth, and will stop at nothing to get it -- including waging a coup against the city's most elite, including the mayor, the council chairman, the sheriff, and the superintendent of police...who just happens to be hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace's father. Cool, calm, controlled. That's Caroline's reputation. But when Reed, looking even hotter than he did years ago when seventeen-year-old Caroline tried to seduce him, becomes her next case, she's swept up by their still-sizzling tension. Nothing about tonight is what it seems, and it's up to Caroline to put the pieces together -- if she can think fast enough over the pounding of her heart. But the harder Caroline tries to do her job, the more she begins to wonder whose side she's really on.