Dennis Boutsikaris

"It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye, scraping by. Clay is brought a fraud case that begins with a man surprised to learn that he's been named the executor of his grandmother's estate. Her accounts are a mess, and not everything is adding up. He's at the end of his rope and needs Clay's expertise. As Clay dives deeper into a decades-old scheme targeting...

Two journalists offer the gripping inside story of the 2008 race for the White House, explaining the reasons behind the rise of Barack Obama, the breakdown of Hilary Clinton's campaign, McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for a running mate and Palin's widespread, yet polarizing, appeal

Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source

Investigating the shooting of a burglar in the home of a high-profile Savannah district judge, a police detective suspects the judge's dutiful wife's declarations of innocence, and finds the case complicated by his attraction to her and by the judge's notorious soft-on-crime tactics

Six months after LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus examine the evidence of an antisemitic hate crime at a local synagogue, the teenaged culprit and his therapist are found murdered

After being pardoned, a former Washington powerbroker is released from prison, given a new identity, and hidden in a small town in Italy, but old enemies from the past are out to destroy him

Years after escaping from a hotel fire and encountering an elusive woman whom he subsequently married and divorced, a collge teacher travels from New England to Florida by train and remembers their relationship

A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness finds a bereaved Adam Blaine struggling against his compelling attraction to Carla Pacelli against a backdrop of a court inquest that casts suspicion on those closest to him.

Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme leads his team--NYPD detective Amelia Sachs, officer Ron Pulaski, and FBI agent Fred Dellray--to find and stop a killer who uses electricity as modus operandi. Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. . . . A teenage computer prodigy is mortally strangled in Mumbai. A far-right extremist is killed in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. A wealthy businessman is murdered in Thailand. A pimp in Brooklyn is found stabbed to death and mysteriously covered by a brown shroud. What connects the victims is an ancient prophecy that leads to the end of the world, and it's...