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145th Street: Short Stories

MYERS, W

Wrenchingly honest of short stories capturing the heartbeat of one memorable block in Harlem.

23 Shades Of Black

WISHNIA, K

NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela has pretty much seen it all in her five years on the force. But after she recognizes the victim of a fatal toxic leak, which occurred outside her jurisdiction, her instincts tell her that something is not what it seems to be.

Abduction

COOK, R

Perry Bergman is conducting research in a remote region of the Atlantic. Perry is invited to dive to the seamount with several others in a submersible craft. Suddenly the small ship seems to lose power and is lured into the underwater world of Saranta, inhabited by the Interterreans.

Absolute Power

BALDACCI, D

Can the President of the United States get away with murder? A suspenseful thriller about ambition, greed and murder.

Alibi

BROWN, S

Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney - without sacrificing his integrity. However, while Hammond anticipates success, someone near him is plotting his downfall.

All Around The Town

CLARK, M

Professor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his New Jersey home. All the evidence points to 21-year-old Laurie Kenyon when she awakens in her dormitory, covered with Grant's blood and clutching the knife that killed him.

All The Lucky Ones Are Dead*

HAYWOOD, G

L.A private investigator Aaron Gunner works two cases concurrently. In one, he investigates the apparent suicide of a successful rap artist. In the other, he watches over a threatened conservative talk-show host.

All-Night Party*

STINE, R

Planning an all-night birthday party for Cindy on Fear Island, Gretchen Davies anticipates dancing, love and non-stop fun, until Cindy is murdered, and Gretchen realizes that one of her friends is the killer.

Andromedia Strain

CRICHTON, M

The U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program in an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for, and has to call in the help of Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone.

Ani’s Ghost

ONDAATJE, M

After 15 years abroad, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, returns to her homeland on a fact-finding mission for the UN. She uncovers a legacy of murder and deception where everybody, from the government to the rebels, is complicit.

Ashes To Ashes

HOAG, T

"The Cremator" is a serial killer who does kills his victims and then sets the corpses on fire when he's done with them. When a homeless juvenile delinquent witnesses one of the flaming felonies, Kate Conlan and crack homicide profiler John Quinn take the case.

Assassin

HAGBERG, D

Kirk McGarvey, a former CIA agent, now lives in Paris. Yevgenni Tarankov is close to coming to power in Russia; his goal is to return the nation to communism and rule as a despot. A decision is made to have Tarankov assassinated, and McGarvey reluctantly accepts the assignment.

At All Costs

GILSTRAP, J

Jake and Carolyn have spent thirteen years on the FBI Most Wanted List for murders they did not commit. Now they are caught and are fighting for their freedom and their lives.

Badlands

PORTER, M

Adam, a New York lawyer, comes to the Badlands to help the magnetic, complex Henry Blackfoot protect the threatened burial sites of his Sioux ancestors.

Before I Say Goodbye

CLARK, M

Nell MacDermott's husband, Adam, died when his boat exploded. She discovers that Adam's death was not an accident, turns to a spiritual medium, and uncovers a dark secret about Adam.

Berlin Game

DEIGHTON, L

British agent Bernard Samson must help an undercover agent known as "Brahms Four" to escape from East Berlin. Unfortunately, a security leak high in the British organization threatens the continued success of the Brahms Four network.

Billy Straight

KELLERMAN, J

Billy Straight, a bright and resourceful runaway kid, tries to make a life for himself in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. Then one day he witnesses the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman, an act that reinforces his belief in the essentially savage nature of the world around him.

Black Friday

PATTERSON, J

A militia group known as "Green Band" detonates explosives in several key buildings in New York's financial district. They have no apparent motive or demand, and their link to an unseen international terrorist is ambiguous. It is up to Federal Agent Archer Carroll to unravel the plot before it unravels the Western world.

Black Notice

CORNWELL, P

When a half-decomposed body is discovered on a cargo ship arriving from Belgium, and the autopsy uncovers nothing, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is right back in the mix. Now she's off to Europe, and will soon be faced with her most career-threatening - not to mention life-threatening - case yet.

Body Of Christopher Creed

PLUM-UCCI, C

When class freak and whipping boy Christopher Creed vanishes without a trace, speculation as to what happened runs rampant in town, causing accusations that changes several lives forever.

Brethren

GRISHAM, J

At a minimum-security federal prison three former judges meet every day in the law library working on briefs and cases, and practice law without a license. Their reign is about to end.

Bumblebee Flies Away

CORMIER, R

Barney Snow finds himself a control subject at an experimental clinic where all the other patients are ill.

Cardinal Of The Kremlin

CLANCY, T

The US and the USSR are negotiating a treaty while their secret espionage armies are locked in a struggle. What the Cardinal, a CIA agent working in the Kremlin knows could change the course of history. Jack Ryan's mission is to bring the Cardinal out alive!

Cat And Mouse

PATTERSON, J

Homicide detective Alex Cross is besieged by not one, but two deadly killers. To make matters worse, Cross has fallen deeply in love with Christine Johnson, a relationship that leaves him and his family all the more vulnerable to the deadly game his murderous opponents have devised.

Chamber

GRISHAM, J

Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.

Clear And Present Danger

CLANCY, T

Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October, is in the middle of America's war on drugs. Colombian drug lords have assassinated three top American officials. America's response is unprecedented and shocking!

Dark Justice

BERNHARDT, W

When Ben Kincaid successfully defended George Zakin in a controversial murder trial six years earlier, the attorney never thought he'd be seeing this client again. Now Zakin has been charged with the vicious, premeditated murder of a lumberjack, and Kincaid's career - and life - is bolted to the hot seat.

Dark Lady

PATTERSON, J

Two prominent men are found dead within days of each other - one appears to be accidental, the other person is apparently the victim of a ritual murder. But in each case the character of the dead man seems contradicted by the particulars of his death. Coincidence or connection?

Dark Paradise

HOAG, T

Ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings wants to decipher the puzzle of her best friend's death, but someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. As Mari digs deeper beneath New Eden's picture-perfect exterior, finding the truth is suddenly no longer a matter of justice - it's her only hope of staying alive.

Death In Holy Orders

JAMES, P

When the body of the one of the students of an Anglican theological college is found on the shore, smothered by a fall of sand, Commander Dalgliesh finds himself embroiled in one of the most horrific and puzzling cases of his career.

Death Of Jim Loney

WELCH, J

An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart.

Deathwatch

WHITE, R

Madec was not the kind of man Ben would ordinarily have chosen as a companion for a quiet hunting trip. He was a cold man who was dangerous with a gun.

Debt Of Honor

CLANCY, T

Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to help prepare the president to meet the challenges of a new world order.

Degree Of Guilt

PATTERSON, R

TV journalist Mary Carelli shoots and kills famous writer Mark Ransomin his hotel room, claiming that Ransom tried to rape her. The man she asks to defend her is Christopher Paget, with whom she has had a complicated relationship.

Disclosure

CRICHTON, M

When Tom Sanders' new boss turns out to be a woman, Sanders is determined to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment, and it's her word against his.

Don't Look Behind You*

DUNCAN, L

17-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

Don't Scream*

NIXON, J

When two new guys arrive at Jess's high school, she thinks the year is really looking up. What she can't know is that there is a connection between them. One has been given a new identity by the government. The other is seeking revenge. Jess doesn't know whom she can trust. Will she be the next victim?

Down A Dark Hall

DUNCAN, L

A psychological thriller in which Kit is chosen as one of first (and last) students to attend an exclusive girls' school.

Dragon Tears

KOONTZ, D

In a shootout, police detective Harry Lyon kills a man on a murderous rampage. Suddenly, Harry is being stalked by someone, or something, with a twisted lust for revenge.

Eagle Has Landed

HIGGINS, J

Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill - or kill him.

Eleventh Plague

MARR, J & BALDWIN, J

Noted virologist Jack Bryne sets out to track down the brilliant and diabolical serial killer that is reenacting the biblical plagues in a vindictive wave of bio-terrorism.

Elixer

BRAVER, G

When Chris Bacon, a dedicated medicinal chemist, journeys to Papua, New Guinea, in search of "miracle drugs that grow on trees", he discovers tabukari, the "forbidden flower of the long day" - a blossom with the power to prolong life.

Emerald

WHITNEY, P

Carol Hamilton, a journalist, seeks refuge at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, Monica Arlen, a once-celebrated movie. She decides to write a book about Monica, not realizing that digging into the past will break open old and terrible secrets that set the stage for murder.

Evil Encounter*

LEVETIN, S

Michelle begins attending group sessions to help her deal with her parents' divorce, but her increasingly intense involvement with the group's charismatic leader leads to even bigger problems for both her and her mother.

Extreme Justice

BERNHARDT, W

Ben Kincaid decides to abandon his law practice for a less-stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. Compared to litigation, the musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes through the ceiling on the night of the club's swanky anniversary gala.

Falsely Accused

TANENBAUM, R

Butch litigates for a New York law firm, defending Murray Selig, who was recently fired as chief medical examiner. The circumstances surrounding Selig's dismissal are questionable, and very soon a veritable hot pot of political wrongdoing is exposed.

Fatal Gift

FRASE, H

After witnessing the murder of a Nashville socialite, spunky protagonist Kasey Riteman devises a means of avenging the victim without revealing her own identity. But her plan backfires, putting her directly in the path of a hired killer.

Final Flight

COONTS, S

Navy jet pilot Jake Grafton is a commander of a carrier that is harboring a deadly female terrorist.

Final Judgment

PATTERSON, R

Carolyn Masters, a San Francisco lawyer, is drawn back to her New England home when her young niece Brett is accused of brutally murdering the boy she loves.

Firm

GRISHAM, J

A young lawyer works undercover for the FBI to reveal his firm's Mafia connections.

Foreign Bodies

TAN, H

Three rootless friends in their twenties, living in Singapore, are each looking for a place where life holds meaning.

Fourth Protocol

FORSYTH, F

It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain, and behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence.

Free Fall*

SWEENEY, J

Four high school boys, lost in an underground cave, must band together in this race-against-time thriller.

Fugitive Nights

WAMBAUGH, J

Private Investigator Breda Burrows proves her mettle as she follows a fugitive from remote desert canyons to the golden boulevards of Palm Springs, from funeral parlors to swank hotels, from celebrity golf tournaments to high-speed chases.

Funhouse

KOONTZ, D

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and produced a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers - neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town.

Ghost Canoe*

HOBBS, W

History, nature and suspense combine as Nathan MacAllister and Native American fisherman Lighthouse George explore the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest to unlock the mystery of a shipwreck.

Ghost Train

MOWRY, J

On Remi DuMont's first night in his new home, a train thunders past his window and he watches a murder being committed. He soon realizes that the late-night train is a ghost train, and the murder reenacted on it nightly actually happened more than 50 years ago.

Godfather

PUZO, M

A searing novel of the Mafia underworld.

Gorky Park

SMITH, M

Chief Police Inspector Arkady Renko was a man too just for Russia and too cynical for anywhere else. When he found three frozen corpses in Gorky Park, their fingerprints obliterated and their faces skinned, he was immediately propelled into an international intrigue.

Green Flash, And Other Tales Of Horror, Suspense And Fantasy

AIKEN, J

 

James Wing, a reporter, warns his best friend's widow that the beautiful bay she and her neighbors had struggled to save was going to be sold to developers. Now the developers have set their sights on Kat Hubble, and they'll do anything, use anyone, to stop her from interfering in their plans.

Guilty As Sin

HOAG, T

As prosecutor Ellen North prepares her case against a kidnapper, she faces a sensation-driven press corps, political maneuvering, and her ex-lover as attorney for the defense.

Harmful Intent

COOK, R

Anesthesiologist Jeffrey Rhodes loses a patient in what should have been a routine childbirth. Found guilty of malpractice, harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life, Rhodes flees the authorities in an effort to clear his name and sort out what really happened that fateful day.

Heartbreaker

GARWOOD, J

Father Tom Madden hears a confession from a killer seeking absolution for a gruesome crime he has yet to commit. Worse yet, the madman, who calls himself the Heartbreaker, confesses that his intended victim is Laurant Madden, Tom's sister.

Hunt For Red October

CLANCY, T

Gripping military thriller about the chase of for a top-secret Russian missile sub.

I Know What You Did Last Summer*

DUNCAN, L

Four teenagers conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident and are pursued by a mysterious avenger.

Iceberg

CUSSLER, C

Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice - the charred remains of a long-missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous. The only clues to the ships priceless - and missing - cargo: nine ornately carved rings and the horribly burned bodies of its crew.

If Winter Comes

HALL, L

As an escalating world crisis makes the threat of nuclear warfare imminent, teenage Meredith and her boyfriend Barry draw closer to each other and to other people important to them during what could be the last weekend of their lives.

Into The Darkness

MICHAELS, B

Meg Venturi unexpectedly inherits an antique jewelry business. There is one catch to her sudden windfall - she must share the wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an entire town stirring up rumors about murderous secrets and a dark legacy.

Invasion Of Privacy

O’SHAUGHNESSY, P

Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly intended to stop practicing criminal law after being shot during a court case. So how does she become involved in a murder case after agreeing to represent filmmaker Terry London in a simple invasion of privacy suit?

Joshua’s Hammer

HAGBERG, D

McGarvey, now the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations, is up against Saudi zillionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden and his fanatic followers, eager to die on the way to paradise.

Jurassic Park

CRICHTON, M

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park, and the world can visit them for a price - until something goes wrong.

Key To Midnight

KOONTZ, D

An American owner of a Japanese nightclub meets a fellow expatriate who helps her uncover the terrible truth about her real identity.

Killing Grounds

STABENOW, D

While deck handing on a fishing boat, Kate Shugak hauls in the dead body of the most disliked fisherman around. Kate's search for the killer isn't making her too popular in town - especially since he's being hailed as the catch of the day.

Killing Mr. Griffin

DUNCAN, L

The pranks of a group of high school students misfire and result in the death of their teacher.

Killing Time

BERGER, T

In this psychological novel about crime, the hero, Joseph Detweiler, is the world's most courteous, sensitive, sincere and likable killer. He is even innocent of the fact that a crime has been committed.

Killshot

LEONARD, E

After a couple witnesses a shakedown scam, they discover that the Federal Witness Protection Program is a thin cover against ruthless killers.

King Solomon’s Mines

HAGGARD, H

Three men set out on a journey into the heart of Africa to search for a lost friend. They stumble upon an unknown country, cut off from civilization, and learn of a diamond mine, from which no one has returned.

Knife To Remember

CHURCHILL, J

Popular detective Jane Jeffrey's quiet domesticity is shattered when Hollywood comes to suburbia and a film crew becomes intent on using her backyard as a primary location. When the set manager is stabbed to death, Jane must solve the crime before the killer strikes again.

Lasko Tangent

PATTERSON, R

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire who has an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the president, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants the corrupt, untouchable Lasko brought down - and U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget is tapped to take on the job.

Laws Of Our Fathers

TUROW, S

The mother of a probation officer is shot near a gang-infested housing project, provoking charges that her son orchestrated the killing. The ensuing trial reunites a group of affluent Sixties activists who knew each other in their student days.

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

CLARK, M

Attorney Kerry McGrath's chance encounter with a creepy plastic surgeon sends her on a mission to right a past injustice - finding out who really killed Suzanne Reardon ten years earlier.

Letter Of The Law

GREEN, T

Casey Jordan, former law student of the renowned Professor Eric Lipton, is hired when the professor, accused of murder, is dissatisfied with his attorney of choice. Jordan believes the professor to be innocent - yet why was the victim's underwear found in his luggage at the airport?

Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul

ADAMS, D

When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently?

Long Walk

KING, S

In the near future, a young boy is selected to take the "Long Walk" - a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each step can be the last.

Look For Me By Moonlight

HAHN, M

While visiting the remote inn run by her father and stepmother in Maine, Cynda feels isolated from her father's new family, but finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest. At first she is blind to the subtle signs that Vincent is not what he seems. Can Cynda free herself - and her family - from Vincent's power before it's too late?

Lords Of Discipline

CONROY, P

Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal code of honor, is battling into manhood the hard way. Immersed in a poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as "The Ten".

Lost World

CRICHTON, M

Six years have passed since the disastrous ending of Jurassic Park, but rumors persist that something has survived.

Loves Music, Loves To Dance

CLARK, M

New York's trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his victims. And if the killer has his way, decorator Darcy Scott will be his next "date".

Lucifer Light

SALAZAR, M

Whether on a call to rescue or a call to arms, the US Special Forces elite para-rescue teams are first on the scene, first to put their lives on the line. Along with his unit of ten, Air Force Master Sergeant Jason Johnson is licensed to kill, but prefers to use his powers for good - until murder on the job makes it personal.

Man Of The Hour

BLAUNER, P

After David Fitzgerald, a high school English teacher, heroically risks his life to save a student from a bomb-gutted school bus, Americans everywhere herald his name. But when suspicions rise that Fitzgerald may be the one to blame, his few minutes of fame turn into a potential lifetime of hell.

Mask

KOONTZ, D

A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A teenager with no past, no family - no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all.

Matter Of Honor

ARCHER, J

Adam Scott attends the reading of his disgraced father's will. Part of his inheritance is a letter detailing the events of Goering's suicide and two unopened letters from the Nazi general giving him access to a Swiss bank vault and the valuable Russian icon it contains. However, a state secret is concealed in the painting, and the KGB and the CIA both want it before the expiration of a crucial deadline.

Midnight

KOONTZ, D

Four citizens of Moonlight Cove are left, still untouched by the inhuman experiment of computer genius Thomas Shaddock. They must escape Moonlight Cove and expose the evil - before they face a fate more tortuous than death, and as inevitable as midnight.

Midnight Club

PIKE, C

Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club - a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave.

Misery

KING, S

After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. She is his nurse-and his captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work just for her, and she has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get really nasty.

Missing Since Monday

MARTIN, A

First Maggie’s little stepsister disappears. Then Maggie gets threatening phone calls, and fears that she will be the next one missing.

Missing*

STINE, R

What would happen if one day your parents did not come home? What if they disappeared without a trace, and what if something terrible had happened to them? This is what happens to Mark and Cara on one frightful night when they take a wrong turn down the fateful block called Fear Street.

Mistaken Identity

SCOTTOLINE, L

Alice Connolly, accused of brutally murdering her lover, a highly decorated police detective claims the police framed her. A defendant protesting her innocence is not unusual for lawyer Bennie Rosato, but what astounds her is that Connelly bears an uncanny physical resemblance to her.

Moonlight Becomes You

CLARK, M

Fashion photographer Maggie Holloway's camera uncovers a plot that has already claimed the lives of two elderly women and now threatens to make Maggie herself a killer's target.

Mortal Fear

COOK, R

At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age, and the ultimate experiment in terror begins.

Mutation

COOK, R

Dr. Victor Frank genetically altered an embryo to create a perfect child. But the result is far from perfect. Instead of creating the child of his dreams, he has invented a living nightmare!

My Gal Sunday

CLARK, M

Henry Parker Britland IV, a former president, and his new wife, Sunday, make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society.

Needful Things

KING, S

A little shop called Needful Things opens in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever is the heart’s most secret desire is for sale - but at a terrible price.

New Boy*

STINE, R

When handsome Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High, Janie, Eve and Faith gamble on which one of them he will date first, but soon regret their feelings for him when the murders begin.

New Year's Party*

STINE, R

Indirectly causing the death of PJ, who had a bad heart, the attendants at Reenie's Christmas party all agree to hide the body and the truth until someone begins to hunt down and kill each in turn.

Night Games*

STINE, R

Sneaking out every night to join her friends in a series of pranks, Diane becomes alarmed when her boyfriend, Lenny, plays a joke on a hated teacher that proves fatal, and she realizes that her and her friends have gone too far.

Night Terrors

DUNCAN, L (ed.)

Spellbinding short stories set in the shadow world that appears when the sun goes down, where experiences more terrifying than nightmares can happen.

Night Terrors. Stories Of Shadow And Substance*

DUNCAN, L (ed.)

Nighttime: a time of enveloping dark, eerie shadows and strange noises. Eleven award-winning young adult authors share their views of the dark in this spellbinding collection of original short stories, each one distinct from the next.

Night Whispers

MCNAUGHT, J

Policewoman Sloan Reynolds discovers more about the shadows surrounding her estranged father's past - and the love that holds the key to her future.

No Safe Place

PATTERSON, R

When Senator Kerry Kilcannon decides to run for president, he's faced with a maniacal pro-life assassin who's out for his blood.

Oasis

MAGUIRE, G

Hand Gunther finds his father dead on the floor of the rundown Massachusetts motel they own. Abandoned by his mother three years earlier, the boy resents her fiercely when she moves back from the West Coast to take charge of the family and the motel.

Odessa File

FORSYTH, F

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called "Odessa"; of a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger and, ultimately, of a brilliant, ruthless plot to re-establish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers, and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution".

On The Edge. Stories At The Brink*

DUNCAN, L

What does it mean to be "on the edge"? On the edge of a cliff, on the edge of freedom, on the edge of heartbreak, on the edge of.... Twelve stellar authors explore the possibilities of being on the edge in this collection of original stories.

Paper Doll

PARKER, R

Olivia Nelson appears to be the perfect wife and mother. So why was the socialite bludgeoned to death with a hammer? The truth turns out to be as elusive as needles in a haystack. It's a case where nothing is what it seems - not even the victim.

Partner

GRISHAM, J

When Patrick Lanigan, a bright young partner of a prominent law firm stages his own death, he believes he has everyone fooled. Weeks later, a fortune is stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account, and Patrick can not completely cover his tracks.

Party Summer*

STINE, R

Cari Taylor and her three friends look forward to a "party summer", working at The Howling Wolf Inn, an old hotel on a tiny island off Cape Cod. But to their dismay, the hotel id completely deserted, and someone warns them to leave immediately.

Patriot Games

CLANCY, T

A CIA analyst and his family are targets in the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. In an explosive wave of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA hunts one man for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt.

Pelican Brief

GRISHAM, J

An unforgettable and chilling story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices.

Perfect Spy

LE CARRE, J

Magnus Pym, Britain's premier spy, has vanished, sending intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt. As the search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacing in Washington, Vienna, Prague, London and Berlin.

Personal Injuries

TUROW, S

Robbie Feaver, a successful personal injury lawyer with a burgeoning practice, has been paying off judges and squirreling away part of the riches he earns as a highly successful trial lawyer. When the IRS happens upon the money trail, and a top prosecutor leans on him to turn state's evidence and finger some of the corrupt justices, Robbie calls on George Mason, veteran Kindle County lawyer, to represent him and win the best deal he can.

Pet Sematary

KING, S

When Dr. Louis Creed is first taken to the pet cemetery in the woods behind his house, he thinks it is just an eccentric, if morbid, local site. However, after he learns that the Micmac Indian burial grounds beyond it have the power to bring his daughter's dead cat back from death, albeit slightly altered, he discovers that he has been touched by a power beyond anything imaginable.

Phone Calls*

STINE, R

After being humiliated by her best friend Diane in front of a cute boy, Julie decides to get even and plays a telephone prank, launching an all-out telephone war.

Pilot’s Wife

SCHREVE, A

When Kathryn Lyon’s husband, Jack, a pilot, is killed in a plane crash, she must deal with her grief while simultaneously discovering that her husband was not the loyal man she thought.

Point Of Impact

HUNTER, S

He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam, but all Bob Lee Swagger wants twenty years later is to be left alone. However, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to perfection, but then Swagger comes out of the operation alive and becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt.

Pop Goes The Weasel

PATTERSON, J

Detective Alex Cross faces a series of chilling murders in Washington D.C. Cross's ingenious pursuit of the killer produces a suspect - a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer, but proving that Shafer is the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task.

Presumed Innocent

TUROW, S

A courtroom novel about a prosecuting attorney who is charged with the murder of a female colleague with whom he once had an affair.

Prime Witness

MARTINI, S

When a series of bizarre double murders rocks the small college town of Davenport, California, Paul Madriani is called in as a special prosecutor. But soon Madriani fears there may be more than one killer on the loose.

Private Screening

PATTERSON, R

After a presidential hopeful is shot dead in front of his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant, fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord takes on the defense of the accused. A mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves, the wife of a newspaper mogul and Stacy's manager, his hostages. He mounts a televised trial in which Stacy and Tony are helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors, and - unless his chilling demands are met - Phoenix is the unstoppable executioner.

Red Storm Rising

CLANCY, T

Facing an oil shortage that would leave their country open to economic and political disasters, Russian leaders decide to seize the oil in the Persian Gulf. They instigate a ground war that surprises NATO and the U.S. and threatens to eliminate them as political and military forces in Europe.

Rich Girl*

STINE, R

When Emma Taylor and her best friend Sydney Shue find a duffel bag stuffed with money, they swear to never tell anyone. But Sydney tells her boyfriend, Jason. Now Emma thinks Jason will do anything to get the money for himself - even kill.

Roses Are Red

PATTERSON, J

Detective Alex Cross' nemesis is the Mastermind, a cunning bank robber who recruits teams of criminals to do his dirty work while he orchestrates the crimes from the shadows. What makes the Mastermind especially frightening is that he takes the bank executives' families hostage in order to ensure compliance, and he kills in cold blood, seemingly at random.

Runaway Jury

GRISHAM, J

Legal thriller about a landmark tobacco case in Biloxi, Mississippi with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

Runaway*

STINE, R

Runaway Felicia settled on Shadyside because nobody there would know about her dark powers, and for once, she could be a normal girl. However, someone found out about the awful things her powers made her do. Felicia doesn't want to run away again, but if she stays, she might lose control, and then people would die.

Self-Defense

KELLERMAN, J

Child psychologist Alex Delaware is treating Lucy Lowell for a recurring nightmare, suspecting a repressed childhood memory. After putting his patient through hypnotic regression, he is convinced that she witnessed a murder and he sets out to prove it.

Servants Of Twilight

KOONTZ, D

A strange old woman descends upon Christine and her 6-year-old son in an ordinary southern California parking lot and makes violent threats. Suddenly Christine's only son is targeted by a group of religious fanatics. They want to kill him, and they are everywhere!

Silent Witness

PATTERSON, R

Lawyer Tony Lord returns to his childhood town because his boyhood friend, now a school teacher, is accused of murdering a pregnant student. Lord must not only face a heated courtroom struggle and an enraged community but also his traumatic past:

Simple Truth

BALDACCI, D

25 years ago, Rufus Harms was convicted of a murder he doesn't remember committing. Then a letter from the army jogs his memory, and he has a shocking realization: he never intended to kill anyone - he was coerced. From prison, Rufus files an appeal with the Supreme Court, unaware that the real killers are on to him.

Sing Me A Death Song

BENNETT, J

Jason is desperate to prove that his mother is not guilty of murder and embarks on a nightmarish trail that leads him from New York to a small town in Florida where his own life is in danger.

Snow Falling On Cedars

GUTERSON, D

In 1954 on the isolated beaches of San Pedro Island in Puget Sound, a local fisherman mysteriously drowns. When a Japanese American is charged with his murder, it becomes clear over the course of the ensuing trial that much more is at stake than one man's guilt.

Starstruck*

CUSICK, R

A thriller featuring an aspiring actress whose greatest role may be keeping herself alive during a glamorous photo shoot at a famous actor's luxurious - and deadly - mansion.

Still Waters

HOAG, T

When divorcee Elizabeth Stuart settles in the small town of Still Creek and starts a controversial newspaper, she is implicated in a murder - and very attracted to the arrogant sheriff on the case.

Sum Of All Fears

CLANCY, T

As Deputy Director of the CIA, Jack Ryan faces the challenge of his career when his proposal for a Middle East peace plan is thwarted by terrorists who intend to destroy Israel - after detonating an atomic bomb on American soil.

Sunburn*

STINE, R

Claudia Walker accepts her friend Marla's invitation to spend the weekend at her cliffside beach house. Little did she know that horrible accidents - fatal accidents - would occur on the beach and in the house. However, they're not "accidents" - someone's out to get them!

Survival Of The Fittest

KELLERMAN, J

When a young, mentally disabled Israeli girl is found brutally murdered with the letters DVLL inscribed on her pocket, Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis jump on the case. This is not an isolated incident, as Delaware and Sturgis are soon to discover, but an elaborate and psychotic scheme by a maniacal group to "cleanse" the human race.

Talking God*

HILLERMAN, T

A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. As the layers of each case are peeled away, it becomes clear that they are connected.

Tenderness*

CORMIER, R

The lives of two troubled teens dramatically intersect in this psychological thriller as teenage serial killer Eric Poole and runaway Lori Cranston embark on a journey that will either save of destroy them.

Termination Node

GRESH, L & WEINBERG, R

When notorious hackers begin dying under suspicious circumstances, Judy Carmody, one of the best computer-security specialists money can buy, becomes a fugitive, a player in a desperate race to root out an unseen enemy before her life is permanently unplugged.

Terrorist

COONEY, C

16-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.

The 13th Warrior

CRICHTON, M

The bestselling author of Jurassic Park retells the outrageous adventure of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who accompanies a party of Viking warriors to the barbaric north and witnesses their cold-blooded human sacrifices.

They Never Came Home

DUNCAN, L

Joan's boyfriend and her brother are missing, and everybody assumes that they are dead. Then she receives a mysterious call from a man who says her brother owes him a lot of money. Can Joan find Dan and Larry, or are the two destined never to return?

Thief Of Time*

HILLERMAN, T

When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.

Thin Dark Line

HOAG, T

Deputy Annie Broussard is drawn into a dangerous, deadly game when she pursues the investigation of a killer whose case has been dismissed on a technicality.

Thinner

KING, S

The fantasy of becoming trimmer - and happier - turns into a nightmare of unrelenting terror for Billy Halleck who is 50 pounds overweight, sideswipes an old gypsy woman, and receives the sentence to get "thinner." What will he do when he can't stop losing weight?

Third Eye

DUNCAN, L

High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children.

Tick Tock

KOONTZ, D

When Vietnamese-American detective/novelist Tommy Phan finds a strange rag doll on his doorstep, he has no idea of its terrifying nature. Soon, Tommy finds himself being hunted in his own house after the doll grows into a monster determined to kill him.

Timeline

CRICHTON, M

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the 21st century in a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in 14th century feudal France.

Tommyknockers*

KING, S

Something is happening to the residents of Haven, Maine. Something that gives everyone in the small town powers no human should have, turning Haven into a death trap for outsiders - and plunging the town into the depths of madness.

Torchlight

STEVENSON, R

Two divers attempt to recover a billion dollars in gold in the sunken remains of a WWI American cruiser while several nations scheme to gain the treasure for themselves.

Total Control

BALDACCI, D

Sidney Archer thinks her life is perfect until her husband is killed in a fiery plane crash. Or was he? The FBI thinks he caused the crash and escaped unharmed. Now Sidney - and the rest of the country - is on the hunt for Jason Archer.

Tricksters

MAHY, M

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.

Troubled Waters

WHEAT, C

Jan, part of an ill-fated student activist group in the Sixties with lawyer Cass Jameson and her brother, Ron, is a long-time fugitive wanted for murder. When Jan surrenders to the police, Cass rushes to Ohio to defend Ron, who now faces related charges. Jan is threatening to expose the "mole" who betrayed the students to police in 1969 and framed her for murder in 1982.

Twilight Eyes

KOONTZ, D

Slim MacKenzie is both hunter and hunted. Sought by police for murder, Slim also stalks the diabolical Others, genetically engineered "demons" from a prior Earth civilization.

Twins*

COONEY, C

A shivery tale about a young girl who steps into the shoes of her dead identical twin sister and uncovers a horrifying legacy of evil.

Twisted Summer*

ROBERTS, W

Cici's dream of an idyllic vacation at her grandparent's lakeside cottage is shattered when she learns that Brody, the older brother of a boy she likes, has been convicted of murdering a local girl. Certain that Brody is innocent, Cici searches for the real killer.

Twisted Window*

DUNCAN, L

Brad tells Tracy that his little sister, Mindy, was kidnapped by his stepfather, and she helps locate the child. They find the toddler Brad is searching for, and Tracy arranges to baby-sit for Mindy, then turn her over to Brad. When Brad shows up with a gun, Tracy realizes that the story he told was far from the truth.

Undue Influence

MARTINI, S

Paul Madriani, a brilliant defense attorney, finds himself in a complex web of murder and deceit within his own family. His sister-in-law, Laurel Vega, is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with her former husband, a powerful state legislator, Jack Vega. When Jack Vega's new, younger wife is found dead in their opulent home, Laurel Vega becomes a prime suspect.

Vision

KOONTZ, D

The story of a woman haunted by visions of the man who tortured her in her childhood, vowing one day to return to her.

Watchers

KOONTZ, D

When Travis Cornell and Nora Devon meet "Einstein", they are touched by the dog's intelligence. Einstein is one of two altered life forms escaped from a top-secret lab. The other - "The Outsider" - is a deadly crossbreed. To protect themselves, Travis and Nora must learn to be deadly as well.

We All Fall Down*

CORMIER, R

They entered and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage shortly after 9 p.m. At 9:48, Karen makes the mistake of coming home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma, while the vandals slip away. But the avenger has seen it all.

Weirdo*

TAYLOR, T

They call Chip Clewt, who lives in the swamp, the "weirdo". The swamp is a National Wildlife Refuge with a hunting ban about to expire. Unexpectedly, the weirdo steps forward to take on the hunters, despite the risks of messing with hunters' rights.

We'll Meet Again

CLARK, M

When Dr. Gary Lasch, is found dead in his home, his wife, Molly, is accused of murder. Her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter charge to avoid a murder conviction. Released from prison nearly six years later, Molly convinces Fran, her friend and an investigative reporter, to research and produce a program on her husband's death. As hidden aspects of Gary Lasch's life and the affairs of Remington Health Management come to light, Fran herself becomes a target for murder.

When Nobody's Home*

GOROG, R

Fifteen terrifying short stories about baby-sitting, and the awful things that happens when nobody's home.

When The Wind Blows

PATTERSON, J

Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie, a veterinarian, throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever...

While My Pretty One Sleeps

CLARK, M

Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the death of Ethel Lambston. When Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposes, is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories of her mother's long-unsolved murder come to life. As an innocent witness in the Lambstone investigation, Neeve is drawn into a sinister labyrinth of greed and ambition.

Whisper In The Night: Tales Of Terror

AIKEN, J

A collection of 13 short stories involving horror and the supernatural.

Whisper Of Death*

PIKE, C

Returning home one day, Roxanne and Pepper find their small town - and surrounding towns - empty. Finally they find three other teens and realize that all five are each connected through the death of Betty Sue, the plain, shy girl who committed suicide only three months before. Betty Sue had written stories about them, stories of hate, revenge, and death . . . in a dead world.

White Mercedes*

PULLMAN, P

Chris is working the lighting at a party in Oxford when he meets Jenny. They meet again by chance a few days later and begin a relationship. Jenny has run away from an abusive home, and the separation of Chris's parents has forced him to grow up before he is ready. Jenny and Chris make bad decisions that lead to her death.

Wolf Rider: A Tale Of Terror*

AVI

Andi places himself in great danger when he tries to prove that the supposed crank caller, claiming to have committed murder, is telling the truth.

Yellow Wallpaper

GILMAN, C

Chilling masterpiece in which a woman descends into madness as the only escape from a suffocating marriage and a patronizing world.