mystery and detective stories

Sydney is sent to Australia to discover who is funding the world's deadliest terrorists.

Sydney's new assignment takes her to new heights without a safety net.

A Union general is murdered while recruiting Irish immigrants. His confessed assassin dies "of cholera" before he can be questioned. In defiance of the local priest, a stubborn investigator opens the killer's grave--and finds the corpse of a young woman many weeks dead, whose identity lies shrouded in the struggle for Ireland's freedom.

When a rising star in San Francisco's legal firmament is found shot in a dark alley, a lethal web of political corruption, legal conspiracy and cold-blooded murder begins to unravel. In a case that will send shock waves through the city and echo in the private lives of its most prominent citizens, the hearing is just the beginning.

Chief of Police Jesse Stones returns to investigate the murder of a troubled teenager in a seemingly bucolic New England town.

When the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is found dead in the private compartment of his airplane, Air Force investigator Martin Collins finds himself thrust into the most controversial case of his career.

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

San Francisco P.D. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie's investigation into a bizarre apparent murder/suicide is threatening to careen out of control.

Two men who couldn't be more different are teamed up to keep the deadliest weapon in the world out of terrorist hands.

Dr. Sara Linton, who is both the county coroner and the local pediatrician, is running late for her weekly lunch at the local diner with her sister, Tessa. When she gets there, she goes to the washroom to freshen up and is met by a grisly sight. Sibyl Adams, a professor at the local college, is sitting in one of the stalls - stabbed and raped and barely alive.