When a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.

"A literary mystery, following a man who works at a Northern Californian university as he investigates the death of his father"-- N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father-- unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. After a chance...

"In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb, what looks like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger-and more terrifying-motives behind it"-- "The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman...

"Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case a twisted as the streets of Tangier's medina. 1946. Tangier, Morocco. After Mason busted up a powerful crime ring in occupied Germany, a shadowy organization has put a contract out on his life. He thought he'd eluded the assassins, but in a plaza in Marseille, France, three trained killers now have him in their sights. Just as they close...