mystery and detective stories

"The BAU team is called in to help Chicago detectives investigate a series of bizarre murders: a couple shot to death in a parked car; two women strangled in a public park; and a young man's decomposed body stuffed in a plastic barrel. Though equally violent and disturbing, the crimes seem unrelated--until profiler David Rossi makes the connection. Rossi recognizes each grisly tableau, murders modeled on the crime scenes of three of the country's most notorious serial killers: the Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Someone is taking the cult of true crime to terrifying extremes...and since there are so many killers left to emulate, Rossi wonders how he can possibly profile a killer who's hiding within the killer profiles of others."--back cover.

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long list of curanderas - Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

"Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious in a hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the murder of a scientist just inside the CIA's razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia."--front flyleaf.

Having left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a doctor whose death is linked to the theft of a dangerous radioactive substance that may be part of a terrorist plot.

In a field outside the Everglades a balloon has just set down; the lone man inside the basket is dead--an apparent suicide. A yacht riddled with bullets limps into the Port of Maimi; only a gravely wounded hijacker survives, confessing that there are drugs somewhere on board, but he can't find them. A local journalist, looking to break out of the rat race with a novel based on the people he covers on his beat, is found dead.

A ruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range...and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will soon test the skills of Gil Grissom and his team of CSIs to their limit.

Former stockcar racing champion Robert "Redball" Redding, a retired southern hero who now works for the U.S. Department of Justice, is dispatched to Mississippi to be the public relations "face" of the investigation into a bombed bridge. But that mission morphs when Redball discovers which politicians and gangsters are lining their pockets at the expense of the Dabearer Island residents.

Anna is lodged in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel when four employees disappear. Sensing evil, Anna hikes a snowy trail to the high country, only to discover a disturbing reality that may end her adventures once and for all.

Horatio and Delko examine the badly damaged body of a woman that has washed ashore. During the autopsy it is determined the evidence seems to have been faked, and then other bodies begin to turn up with similar injuries.