Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell-astrophysicist and darling of the community-had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it-especially her top-brass career cop father, who is convinced it's murder. Hoolihan...

Matt and Irene Moore, anxious to leave horrific tragedies behind them, relocate to a small coastal town with their 14-year-old daughter, Casey. But rather than find peace, their world is once more turned upside-down when their lives become entangled with Billy Thurber, a drifter who arrives in Breakers with a rash of crimes following at his heels. As the town goes after Thurber with murderous intent, eager for someone to blame, the Moores find unexpected...

Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately wants to have child. This is what's at the heart of Silas House's third, masterful novel, which tells the story of Easter and Anneth, tragically left parentles as children, who must...

High school senior Michael is not thrilled about his family's move to New Hope, a small southern town. He is even more put off when he joins his new school's basketball team and butts heads with star player Lucas. Lucas believes Michael is benefiting from all that his deceased brother Chase--who committed suicide--left behind. Tension between Michael and Lucas builds further when Michael becomes fascinated with Chase's girlfriend.

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...

In 1984, following her mother's suicide, 15-year-old Maya and her Sikh father travel to New Delhi from Canada to place her mother's ashes in their final resting place. On the night of their arrival, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Maya and her father are separated when the city erupts in chaos, and Maya must rely on Sandeep, a boy she has just met, for survival.

"Some men called Martin Joliffe the Cattle King, others called him the Sheep Slayer. But Mart was just a hardworking cattleman who believed in fair play and protecting his own. That's just what he did when he chased John Robineau's sheep off his spread. The Tincup Ranch was cow country and it was going to stay that way. Joliffe didn't think he would push Robineau to take his own life--or make Robineau's daughter crazy enough to hire the territory's...