"Mackie dreaded the mail." From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest Dreams. The suspense will grab you and not let go, the surprises will shock you, but in the end it will be the wonderful characters who remain in your mind.

When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage a troubled business deal and gives Scott expert advice on his tennis game. Only eleven-year-old Ruby--funny, curious, devoted to Sherlock Holmes--has doubts about the stranger in their midst who has so quickly become like a member of the family. But even the observant Ruby is far from understanding Julian's true designs on the Gardners.

Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven-year-old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly it all starts to unravel. He is losing control of his life.

It was more than a white lie. It was deception on a grand scale. But the motive was admirable--to save the bright future of a deserving young man. And the victim, too, was deserving--an arrogant billionaire who would hardly notice his loss, crumbs from a vast fortune. All the plotters needed was a believable story, desperate and frightening, but false. Nothing bad was supposed to happen. They were only crying wolf. But what if the wolf were real?

An unfaithful wife. A cheating lover. A loyal friend. A jealous husband. In this stunning thriller, four lives hang in precarious balance--as a cunning killer prepares their roles in A Perfect Crime.

Adapted into the 1996 film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. Overcome by an obsession with baseball and his favorite team, broken-down knife salesman Gil Renard becomes dangerously involved when star player Bobby Rayburn suffers a slump.

What determines your identity? Is it the clothes you wear? The way other people treat you? The stories, anecdotes and experiences you have stored in your memory? When Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room, his clothes are two sizes too big. Everyone treats him like a victim. And he can't remember how he got there in the first place.

Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by enigmatic codes of honor, ceaseless aggression and absolutely savage violence.

The monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville.
It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder.

1995 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel. After spending fifteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed, Eddie Nye is released and suddenly finds himself adjusting to the strange world outside prison, confronting his past, and coping with complex relationships with those around him.

Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an antiwar protest claimed a small boy's life--and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish.

When Jessie begins a search for her child, who has been abducted by her ex-husband, she becomes involved in a world of danger and violence. The story spans two decades, beginning at the Woodstock Festival of 1968.

A gripping thriller about a woman caught up in a conspiracy spawned at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and by calling the mistake to the attention of the surprised obit writer, Roy has inadvertently sealed an innocent man's doom.

When high profile executive Nina Kitchener's baby boy - conceived by artificial insemination - is kidnapped from the hospital where he is born, she embarks upon a trail of murder and mystery.

The CIA concludes that the disappearance of math genius Teddy Wu is an obvious defection to Red China, but his lover, Beth Hunter, investigates further and discovers an international political conspiracy of terrifying proportions.

In order to take revenge for the destruction of Israel in a war, Isaac Rehv raises a boy to impersonate an Islamic prophet and betray the Arab world.

Rachel Monette journeys through France, Israel, and Africa attempting to ascertain who murdered her husband, becoming ensnarled in an Israeli politician's ambitions, and learning that her husband's book was responsible for his death.

A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller.

A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East.

A thrilling adventure set in the world of underwater diving.

In this riveting new novel, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new perils beyond the combat zone. Now available to pre-order.

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge is bestselling author Spencer Quinn's first novel in a new series since the meteoric launch of Chet and Bernie--introducing the irresistible and unforgettable Mrs. Plansky, in a story perfect for book clubs and commercial fiction readers.