It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with...

Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore rushes to New York when she hears her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper attack in Central Park.

Society bachelor and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds, from high-society Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. Dr. Anna Schuster is fighting demons of her own when she crosses paths with Agent Benedict. The two become adversaries and lovers as they search for an Al Qaeda operative bent on revenge.

After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.

"When a sports mascot is murdered by an unseen sniper at a college football game, the event erupts into mass chaos. Worse, the dead man in the costume is not the person who was supposed to be wearing it. At first, psychologist Daniel Rinaldi is called in to treat the traumatized almost-victim who is still reeling from a near miss with the serial killer. But as As Pittsburgh is besieged by more deadly sniper attacks, and more random citizens are targeted...

"Tommy Smith, Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra wilderness guide, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call to help find him. What he learns is that his love for Dave's daughter, his old flame Sarah Cathcart, never died, but the country where he grew up is undergoing change. When Sarah confides that her husband, a smooth-talking entrepreneur,...

"FBI agent Michael Childs is tasked with tracking down a serial killer ... The only link between a series of grisly murders in New York City is that the victims were all born with twelve fingers and twelve toes. These people are known in occult circles as the Nephilim, a forsaken people, descendants of fallen angels. After a break in the case leads to supposedly killed-in-action Marine sniper Anaba Raines, Michael finds the soldier alive and well,...

"When elite members of the military are murdered on the streets of Washington, DC, FBI Special Agent Bailey Ryan and NCIS Special Agent Marco Agostini must work together to bring the perpetrator to justice. Unfortunately, all evidence points to a Navy SEAL sniper whom Bailey refuses to believe is guilty. When Bailey and Marco start to connect the dots between the victims, including a link to a powerful defense contractor, they wonder if there's a...