homicide

"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small caf?. At first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then shejust seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the caf? is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late. As she dies in his arms, she utters one word, "Sammler." When the police show up they are initially suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service. This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search tofind out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way, he discovers that his old friend had secrets of her own--and some of them may have gotten her killed"--Provided by publisher.

Co-workers in a dead-end Canadian town, Moses and Jamie hit a lion on their way home from work and leave it to die, which appears to prompt a series of ominous events, such as Moses losing his mother, Jamie losing his home, and a vengeful hunt by lion's owner for its killers.

Describes how sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared from a shopping mall in Washington, D.C. in 1975, and the forty-year effort to bring their kidnapper to justice. The author covered the original story years ago, and now returns to recount its conclusion.

Finlay Donovan is a struggling single mom of two who is trying to finish her next novel. But when Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she is believed to be contract killer and approached with a job offer to get rid of a problem husband. Finlay agress, but one thing leads to another, and soon she finds her life is becoming more dangerous than the books she's written.

Four queer teens--a half-fae, an exiled ex-Fury, a fae prince, and his guardian--come together to track down a serial killer in Toronto whose disturbing murders could expose the hidden faerie courts to the human world. As they race to find the killer, war threatens to erupt between the Mortal and Immortal Realms.

"Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective he had an inspiring mentor, John Jack Thompson, who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now John Jack is dead and Harry inherits a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigative team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Dawn and a group of other teens must survive a "wilderness therapy" camp in Washington State as things quickly and dratically go wrong.

Sixteen-year-old Penny Capelli has just moved to a small town to live with her aunt Stella when Penny's dog digs up a human skeleton in the backyard that is over twenty years old. Penny, her cousin Simon, and his friends investigate the mystery and try to learn the skeleton's identity. However, they quickly learn that their efforts could provoke the killer again.

Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.

Twelve-year-old Cassie Arroyo is a student in Rome, but her life changes when a secret organization, the Hastati, shoots her father, and she learns that she is a member of an ancient bloodline that enables her to use the Spear of Destiny, a legendary object that can alter the future.