criminal investigation

After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever it leads. But no one expected he would unearth a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. Now, Titus must pull off the impossible: stay true to his instincts, prevent outright panic, and investigate a shocking crime in a small town where everyone knows everyone yet secrets flourish. All while also breaking up backroads bar fights and being forced to protect racist Confederate pride marchers. For a Black man wearing a police uniform in the American South, that's no easy feat. But Charon is Titus's home and his heart, and he won't let the darkness overtake it. Even as it threatens to consume him.

An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation; but the island itself, once the playground of a serial killer, is rumored to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. When a guest drowns in a diving incident the following day, Elin starts to suspect that there's nothing accidental about these deaths. Elin must find the killer, before the island's history starts to repeat itself.

All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don't appear to be connected; until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army's representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn't Reacher's thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who's with him, who's against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind or his own kind?.

In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving like a shadow, pushed the victim to her death; before swiftly grabbing the dead woman's purse and strolling away. Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that he is part of something much bigger and far-reaching, a secret conspiracy with many moving parts, with powerful people on the take, all involved in an undertaking that leaves no room for error. If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and quietly and permanently removed. Because when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B.

Stephanie Plum must retrieve a mysterious missing coin in order to pay the ransom for her co-worker who has been kidnapped.

Stephanie?s latest case involves tracking down two men involved in a massive jewelry heist: Duncan Dugan, who skipped bail post robbery, and Stephanie?s high-school friend, Nutsy Manley, now a professional clown and security guard, who was apparently involved in the heist. In her quest to find the pair, Stephanie encounters physical danger, has her apartment firebombed, and is threatened and nearly shot. As usual, though, she refuses to give up until she?s cracked the case and brought the baddies to justice.

A national treasure hunt with a $2 million prize has driven obsessed fortune seekers to overrun the small town of Eagle?s Nest, Oregon. The hunt?s cryptic clues and the lure of wealth have exposed the desperate side of human greed: theft, fights, trespassing; and even the motive to kill. Police chief Truman Daly craves peace in his town but has a murder on his hands instead. Now the big prize isn?t the only thing hiding in the pines. So is a killer.

Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered. Rowan was saved. Her brother was killed and buried in the forest, his remains never found. The convicted killer refuses to say where he buried the boy. Twenty-five years later, Rowan is committed to search and rescue with her faithful canine and is obsessed with finding her brother?s grave; and closure.

A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason?s fianc?e, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant, and had strong reasons to be paranoid.

When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random; Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother; have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's capital, Sampson alone must protect the Cross family, his own young daughter, and every American, including the president.