Brunetti is asked for two favors. The first request is from Count Orazio Falier, Paola's father. The next comes from Maggiore Guarino, a government investigator from the mainland, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage and hazardous waste from the industrial north and other countries.

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops-the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son.

A small prison cell in India holds an 18-year-old penniless waiter from a Mumbai slum. But Ram Mohammad Thomas isn't a criminal. He is under arrest for correctly answering 12 tricky trivia questions on the show Who Will Win a Billion?

For Marcus Didius Falco, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse and the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls.

Kira Rubinoff and Zack Damon had never met--but when their paths finally crossed, the Tamrovian princess and the powerful industrialist sensed they were not strangers.

Behold the next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten!

After Jason Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission-to find out who is trying to assassinate him.

It wasn't often that women resisted star quarterback J.J. Hennessy, but he was ready to trade all the cover girls he'd dated for the adorable lady next door.

Five international vacationers, strangers to each other, misfits running from their daily lives, are brought together at the same small seaside Hotel of Dreams, by a rental scam, an international art heist, passion, murder and a haunting.

When thirty-five-year-old litigator Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the rat race, he takes the advice of his brother and goes to Montana. There he joins the elite Smoke Jumpers, marines of the firefighting world, who parachute out of C-5 airplanes to contain the worst forest fires of the remote west. But escape from the ugly side of human nature is hardly what he finds when word reaches him of a small town's little secret.

Preston Seaholm made a wickedly sexy hero as he rescued Molly Cassidy from tumbling off the roof! Once he convinced her to play along at pretending they were engaged, would he discover the pleasures of surrendering to her temptation?

Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. When Lauren comes to, her husband has vanished without a trace. She calls the only person who can help: her husband's estranged brother, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C.

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin.

Three years after her parents' devorce, Ronnie Miller remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him.

Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and his athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr-a professor at Caldwell, the local college-Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still-youthful protege for a life-altering favor.

Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a young woman flees to New York in search of a new life. Reinventing herself, she becomes a star model. But her fortunes are about to take another dramatic twist.

Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back.

Mace Perry was a detective working narcotics...until she was kidnapped, and set up by her abductors to look like a criminal herself. She lost her job, her house, and finally her liberty. After serving time, she finds a job with a reclusive scientist who wants her to help with his research and also act as his de facto bodyguard. As she learns about the true nature of his work, his need for security quickly becomes clear.

It's a freezing winter day in London, 1895, when two young girls have a chance meeting. The pair turn out to have much in common: both are poor, both are parentless. But Minnie Maude, only eight, has even worse problems: the uncle with whom she lived has just been murdered, and if that's not enough, the family's donkey has run away.

Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people.

The world is changing--the government has seized control of almost everything and kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are thrown into a secret compound. While searching for ways to escape, both begin exhibiting strange abilities. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out!

The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth's bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish's new constable, and she is a pretty little thing, with glossy brown hair and big brown eyes. The local folk think that Josie is quite a catch, but Hamish couldn't be more miserable. The wedding wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the murder of a beautiful woman in a nearby village. After the gorgeous woman receives a deadly Valentine's Day gift, Hamish and Josie take on the case. However, they soon discover that the list of the victim's admirers is endless.

A meteorite has passed straight through the Earth. Wyman Ford is called to investigate its mysterious exit hole. What he finds shatters all that is known about the universe. There is an ancient structure buried deep in Mobius Crater on one of Mars' moons. Sticking up from the structure is the unmistakable outline of a gun. It was built to monitor the solar system and destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it -- but built by whom? The end-game is at hand. Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy the alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth…in the next sixty hours.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell, the consummate politician.

Dr. Nick Garrity spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic for the homeless. Psych nurse Gillian Coates does not believe that her sister Belle, an ICU nurse, took her own life. Belle has left Gillian a subtle clue that connects her with Nick Garrity. Together, Nick and Gillian determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room during a fatally botched case is dying.

Children of New York's elite are being abducted and held hostage. But the criminal doesn't crave money -- he only wants to ask these privileged kids if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. A wrong answer has fatal consequences. The killer has insanely grand ambition -- and is about to bring the entire city to its knees. Detective Michael Bennett sets out to capture this mastermind.