Detective Alex Cross is investigating a string of murders when his fianc?e is kidnapped, and soon he becomes obsessed with finding the homicidal maniac who is trying to ruin his life.
The investigations of Dirk Gently, a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics, and lunch than fiddling around with fingerprint powders, yield startling and unexpected results.
In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder.