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In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.
In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One is Tommy Fielding, a senior officer of the company building a new baseball stadium, the city's...

At first glance, the crimes appear random. Arson. Theft. Fraud. Murder. But these are more than random crimes. They're moves in an increasingly deadly game. And the one element they have in common: a woman who is gorgeous, clever...and lethal. Elizabeth Avery has a winsome smile and flawless figure, but underneath is a heart of ice. She's a master at manipulating people, convincing strangers to do the unthinkable. And she orchestrates it all without...

When Kat White was fifteen, she and some friends held up a store, and a security guard was killed. No one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat (now Kate) is with the Philadelphia DA, and a single mom. She discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, a friend from that terrible night. When Mario is found dead in her apartment, and another man who knows the secret gets involved, Kate finds that her life and her son's are in danger

Assistant District Attorney Hammond Cross is delighted to be named chief prosecutor for a high-profile Charleston murder case, until he finds himself drawn to a mysterious woman, Dr. Alex Ladd, who turns out to be the prime suspect in the crime.

Attorney Lisa Grant is back home in Kentucky to care for her ill mother. The Thoroughbred farm that has been in her mother's family for generations is near bankruptcy, so Lisa takes the only job available: research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases, she comes across the file on a family disappearance thirty years earlier in which the mother and the toddler bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. Together with...

Assistant D.A. Savannah Smith, her jealous sister Susan, and society wife Megan Vandermeer are old friends, and sometimes bitter rivals. One horrifying night Megan is kidnapped. Now Savannah and Susan must move beyond the secrets and mistrust that have stood between them for years and team up to find their friend.

When a promising actress from Spanish Harlem dies from a gunshot wound in a fashionable Tribeca hotel penthouse apartment of an eccentrically famous Broadway producer, it is up to New York D.A. Roger "Butch" Karp and his hard charging, crime fighting wife, Marlene Ciampi, to champion the murdered actress's cause. Karp, outraged by defense tactics to destroy the young woman's reputation, and then left with little choice after the mysterious death

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Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into a world of wealth and secrets when a woman with an unusual book by her side is found murdered in an Upper East Side apartment

Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor