Lone Cone Library

A hard-edged former Los Angeles cop becomes police chief in a small New England town where a domestic abuse investigation leads to a bank manager laundering money.

During the darkest time of the year in Lapland, Finland, a beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead and mutilated in a snowfield, and as Inspector Kari Vaara looks into the killing, he tries to keep the case out of the headlines; the investigation puts a strain on his marriage to his young American wife as he tracks down the prime suspect, who may be the wealthy man his ex-wife left him for years earlier.

Amy Garrett survived a brutal childhood attack in which the assailant was never found. Now she wants her story written in a novel. Kariss interviews Amy and conducts her own research, stepping unaware into a viper's pit of danger. Tigo is working on solving a car bombing and bringing the killer to justice. As Kariss's new story attracts an onslaught of danger that she never expected, can Tigo save the woman he loves and find who wants her dead for...

Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do-test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. Shes at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryans marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head. Hazel "Lucky" Strike-a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases-comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and...

"As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites...

"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything, Pip has no choice to investigate. After all, Jamie Reynolds disappeared on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary...

"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. 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...

"Defense Attorney Ian Wells is struggling to build a law practice while caring for his sick mother. When a new client offers a huge sum to take on a simple trust fund case, he can't afford to say no. But when the investigation leads to a decades-old mystery linking the trust to dangerous criminals, he realizes this case could cost him his career"--

Twenty years ago four individuals pulled a heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. By daybreak one was in the hospital; one was in jail; one was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, a daughter of the man who disappeared, has never reconciled with her father's abandonment of her and her sister. Returning to her family home near Caddo Lake, she finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Unfortunately two...

Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families-and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls...