A CIA agent is found murdered in a Bangkok brothel, his body covered in religious tattoos. Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates — navigating between the American intelligence community, the Thai sex industry, the Buddhist spirit world, and his mother's complex position as a mamasan. The second Sonchai novel deepens the portrait of Bangkok as a city where Western and Thai moral frameworks operate in permanent collision.
Medway is drawn into the toxic world of Nigerian oil money and the corruption that surrounds it — a missing girl, a lethal cargo, and the specific violence of Lagos. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The third and finest Medway novel.
Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb is recovering from a heart transplant when a woman asks him to investigate a murder: her sister's. The victim was McCaleb's heart donor. Bound by an unpayable debt to the dead, McCaleb takes the case — and uncovers a connection between the murder and his own second chance at life that is more sinister than he could imagine.
Bobby Callahan barely survived the car crash that left him broken and partly amnesiac, but he's certain it wasn't an accident — someone tried to kill him, and he can't remember why. He hires Kinsey Millhone to find out. Then Bobby dies, and a case of attempted murder becomes a case of murder.
Five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts are stolen from Princeton's rare books vault. A young novelist struggling with her career is recruited by an insurance company to befriend a Florida bookseller suspected of brokering their sale. Grisham's most bookish novel — more literary caper than legal thriller.
Now a private psychologist, Alex Cross is pulled back into the field when his old partner asks for help with a sadistic rapist. The case reopens the oldest wound of Cross's life — the unsolved murder of his wife Maria — and sets him on the trail of the mob enforcer who may have pulled the trigger.
Working the late show — the LAPD's lonely overnight shift — Detective Renée Ballard finds a stranger going through old files at her station. He is Harry Bosch, chasing the long-cold murder of a teenage runaway no one else cares about. Two relentless detectives, a generation apart, join forces over a girl the system forgot.
An Andean village where three people have disappeared. A corporal and his assistant investigate: the suspects are Shining Path guerrillas, but the mystery deepens into something older and stranger—the Andean world of pishtacos (fat-extracting demons) and ancient violence. Vargas Llosa's novel about Peru's civil conflict as seen from the highlands.
On an afternoon flight from Paris to London, a moneylender is found dead in her seat, apparently killed by a poisoned dart from a blowpipe. The cabin was sealed, the passengers few — and one of them is Hercule Poirot, who slept through the perfect murder.
Renée Ballard, now running the LAPD's revived cold-case unit, recruits a retired Harry Bosch with an irresistible lure: the chance to finally solve the case that has haunted him for years — the slaughter of an entire family, buried in the desert. As they chase two cold cases, Bosch confronts his white whale.
Brady Hartsfield should be a vegetable in a hospital bed — but something has awakened in him, a power to reach into minds and drive the vulnerable to suicide. Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney face their oldest enemy one last time in the trilogy's chilling finale.
Kinsey Millhone is hired to find an elderly woman lost in the Mojave Desert — and learns, at the same time, that a man she once helped put away has placed a contract on her life. With a hit man closing in, Kinsey hires bodyguard Robert Dietz, and two cases collide as she races to stay alive.
When Letty, Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, gets a desperate call from a young drifter she once helped, Lucas is drawn into the hunt for a roving cult led by a charismatic monster called Pilate — a band of killers preying on the 'travelers' who drift along the margins of America.
Now a U.S. Marshal with a roving national brief, Lucas Davenport takes on his first big case: hunting a vicious robber who stole millions from a drug cartel and left a trail of bodies. But Lucas isn't the only one chasing the money — the cartel has sent two of its most ruthless killers to find the thief first.
Seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter is living freely in Florence under an assumed identity, pursued simultaneously by a vengeful Mason Verger — the only surviving victim — and by Clarice Starling, now an embattled FBI agent.
Harlem, 1960s: Ray Carney sells furniture by day and fences stolen goods on the side, telling himself he's only "slightly bent." Whitehead's crime novel is a departure from his recent literary fiction — a Harlem panorama that celebrates a world and an era while examining the costs of respectability.
Private investigator Holly Gibney takes the case of a missing young woman and follows a trail to a pair of genteel, elderly academics hiding monstrous appetites in their basement. Stephen King gives his most beloved recurring heroine a chilling, twisty case of her own.
Wendell Jaffe drowned himself five years ago, leaving behind a collapsed investment fraud and a paid-out life insurance policy. So why has someone just seen him alive in Mexico? Kinsey Millhone is hired to find out — a case that will lead her south of the border and, unexpectedly, to the discovery that she has a living family she never knew.
A grieving mother asks Kinsey Millhone to investigate her daughter's death, ruled undetermined but never explained. As Kinsey digs into Lorna Kepler's hidden life and works the small hours when the city's darker business is done, she's drawn into a nocturnal world — and toward a choice that tests her own moral code.
Edinburgh detective John Rebus investigates a series of murders of young girls while receiving taunting messages from a person who seems to know his past. The first Inspector Rebus novel — shorter and darker than the later series, more psychological thriller than police procedural.
At a remote archaeological dig in Iraq, the famous archaeologist's beautiful, fearful wife is found bludgeoned in her room — a room no stranger could have entered unseen. A nurse narrates the strange events, and Hercule Poirot happens to be passing through the desert.
What begins as a routine hunt for a bail-jumping debt collector turns horrifying when Lucas Davenport discovers the fugitive is a murderer — and worse, a cannibal who has buried his victims across the desert. The chase runs from Louisiana to Las Vegas to Los Angeles, with marshals Bob and Rae at Lucas's side.
Reacher finally reaches Virginia to meet the woman whose voice intrigued him, only to find himself arrested, framed, and told he may have a daughter. Lee Child's eighteenth Reacher thriller is a personal, fugitive-on-the-run story with unusually high emotional stakes.
A meticulous predator stalks the Twin Cities, killing women and keeping grisly trophies, his crimes spanning years without ever drawing notice. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a fierce, terminally ill investigator determined to catch the killer before her own time runs out — a hunt that becomes as personal as it is urgent.
