"Felix Pink is a retired widower leading a boring life and hoping to die a boring death. He volunteers as an Exiteer--someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing theevidence to take the burden off their loved ones. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he's there to perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his...

After a popular Bath teen's murder, police detective Zoe Benedict looks beyond the usual motives to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways.

As part of his job as a fixer for a U.S. congressman, Joe DeMarco travels to North Dakota to protect young blogger Sarah Johnson, whose online campaign against a billionaire oil tycoon profiting from the local gas boom lands her in danger.

"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...

Patrick Fort, a medical student with Asperger's syndrome, begins to suspect that something strange is going on in the cadaver lab where he works.

A triple homicide in the picturesque Franschhoek wine valley and the deaths of two security guards who were interrogating a Cape Town pickpocket embroil detective Benny Griessel in an increasingly complex case.

1st. American ed.

Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney's hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real-estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building for a massive new development. When Elinore suffers a horrible accident, Mahoney and DeMarco are out for revenge. DeMarco tries to dig up dirt through the developer Sean Callahan's former mentor, and one of his ex-wives....

A powerful New York law firm finds itself faced with disaster, but there is one woman, reputed to be a high-priced fixer, who could make all of their problems go away.

"In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable....