homicide

Kirt Reid, having been charged with murder and larcency, decides to escape to China where he is recruited by a White Russian who is working against Chinese intelligence services and ends up being blackmailed into assassinating a Japanese spy.

Sixteen-year-old Lassair, a healer, is sent to care for her cousin Morcar after he is violently attacked, and she determines to learn the truth when it becomes clear that the would-be assassins did not want Morcar to reveal that he had seen a white-haired youth being dragged into St. Ely monastery, apparently against the boy's will.

Assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace enthusiastically pursues a case against Gregg Aldrich, the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Broadway actress Natalie Raines, in spite of his unwavering profession of innocence, not realizing she is in danger herself from a killer who is posing as a friend.

The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's hoping to escape a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets--and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realize is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.--From publisher's description.

Skyler is part of a top secret experiment who finds one of the other test subjects dead with his heart removed and decides to escape.

Collects chapters 1-6 of the comic-book mystery series "Ruse, " in which detective Simon Archard and his assistant, Emma Bishop, begin to suspect that Partington's newest resident, a mysterious baroness, may be responsible for a rash of serial killings.

Nineteen-year-old Odd Thomas is able to see the lingering spirits of the dead, and when the sad spirit of a frightened child asks Odd for help, Odd finds himself facing a deadly stalker determined to kill again.

The lives of upper-class professional Johannesburg couple Harald and Claudia Lindgard are shattered when their twenty-seven-year-old son Duncan shoots and kills one of his friends.

A young F.B.I. trainee interviews a brilliant psychiatrist and killer in the hopes of tracking down a serial killer with the grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill--who is stalking particular women.