murder

Mary DiNunzio, a lawyer who has been struggling for years to make partner in the Philadelphia law firm where she is employed, finds herself fighting a more desperate battle when the crank phone calls she has been getting turn deadly.

Reveals the secret life of teenagers living in Pasadena, California and how two of them murdered three girls at a party.

As an eyewitness to two murders, a Montana teenager relates the shocking story behind the crimes in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks.

David Loogan, an editor for a mystery magazine, is living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Detective Elizabeth Waishkey and her daughter when he receives a manuscript detailing two murders with a third one yet to happen; meanwhile, a man has targeted three men who seem to have little in common besides their involvement in a bank robbery seventeen years ago for death.

When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.

Spenser is called in to investigate when actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of raping and murdering a young woman, and as Spenser tries to uncover the truth, he forms an unusual alliance with Jumbo's bodyguard, a young Native American known as Sixkill.

Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve, is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the waters of a Navy shipyard who was following an explosive story that leads Scarpetta and the FBI into the hands of a cult fanatic.

Jenny Green, a spoiled sixteen-year-old from Long Island who is mistreated, cheated on, and lied to by boys at school, decides to make them pay the ultimate price by using her knife on them.