287 stories
The Proving Ground
An AI company's chatbot encouraged a 16-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation? To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy; a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be. Together they soon uncover a whistleblower in hiding. As the tech titans try to buy or bully their way out, the scale of their courtroom battle before them becomes clear. Because billions are at stake in an all or nothing case, which could change everything.
The Secrets We Hide
When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead. Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town. And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth.
False Witness
Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, & even her divorce is relatively civilised. Then a case lands on her desk, defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given. But when she meets the accused, she realises that it's no coincidence that he's chosen her as his attorney. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows what happened 20 years ago, & why Leigh has spent two decades running. If she can't get him acquitted, she'll lose much more than the case. The only person who can help her is her younger, estranged sister Calli, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help.
A Voice in the Dark
When a family is murdered in their home & their teenage twins vanish, the case draws the attention of FBI profilers Helen Belle & Benedict Hoffman. It triggers more than professional alarm. It mirrors a horrific case they investigated 5 years ago, when a boy slaughtered his family & went mute after speaking a handful of haunting words. Among them: Midnight Man. They now fear the Midnight Man is back. Helen & Benedict must hunt the darkest corners of the internet to find him before someone else falls prey to an insidious evil.
Edge of Honor
After 6 months abroad, Scot Harvavth returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, & a power struggle; the likes of which the United States has never experienced. Drawn into a web of deceit & deadly politics, Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control & if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees.
The Iron Storm
President Woodrow Wilson asks Van Dorn Investigator Isaac Bell to be an official observer during World War 1, before Wilson makes his decision on whether the U.S. will join the allies in the war. After battling in the trenches, he finds himself flying beside a group of Allied aviators, unwilling to let them fight alone, even when they are faced with capture. Bell & his compatriots are imprisoned in a medieval castle. Escape lies tantalizingly close, but only with the help of the latest in battlefield technology. But even in the middle of a World War, Bell finds there are forces worse than those arrayed against the allies on the battlefield. Opponents who are so evil, they are willing to set aside whatever rules of war still exist.
Nightshade
L.A. County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to low-key Catalina Island. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies & petty thefts that come with his new territory, he gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence & danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.
Exit Strategy
Reacher is at a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climates. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help. Impressed by the technique to put something in his pocket without him noticing & intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more . .
Hard Target
Gideon Davis has settled into the quiet life of an academic and is weeks away from being married when he discovers evidence of an impending terrorist attack on U.S. soil. He brings his suspicions to his ex-girlfriend, FBI Agent Nancy Clement, but her bosses are leery of the meth-head informant affiliated with a white supremacist group. Both Gideon & Nancy become increasingly convinced that a serious plot exists, & they, along with Gideon's brother Tillman, race against time to stop the attack.
Gideon's War
Gideon Davis, is called on by family friend & government bigwig, Earl Parker to chaperone a rogue agent from Southeast Asia to D.C. The agent, Tillman Davis, has promised to turn himself in, but only to his brother, Gideon. Although the 2 brothers have been estranged for years, Gideon cannot fathom how his brother could have turned into a terrorist. But when the plan for Tillman’s surrender goes awry and Earl Parker is taken hostage, Gideon has to make his way to the Obelisk—the multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art oil rig that has been seized by Tillman himself. Only with the help of oil rig manager Kate Murphy can Gideon launch a one-man rescue.
Dead of Night
Since the tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block. But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she’s here to cash in on the house’s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can’t help asking more questions. Someone in the local community doesn’t want the past dug up, though.
The Drowning Game
Nadia & Cass Brenner are heirs to an empire that builds superyachts for the rich. But the sisters’ entrée into the Asian market is cut short when Cass falls from a 40th-floor hotel window. A detective rules suicide. Nadia’s suspicious. Especially when she discovers Cass’s involvement in dangerously illicit activities. Pulled into the same web of betrayal & secrets that trapped her sister, Nadia is on the most perilous mission of her life. Because uncovering the truth behind her sister’s death could tear the Brenner family apart. Nadia must hold on to the one thing that can keep her safe. It’s the Brenner family Trust no one.
Denied Access
With CIA’s Moscow Station now paralyzed by catastrophic intelligence failures, the CIA seek help from Mitch Rapp, a newly minted assassin in the Orion program. But Rapp has problems of his own when his Swiss girlfriend’s granddad receives a box containing the head of a former Cold War comrade along with a note promising that Greta’s head will be next. Rapp finds himself in a war between the American & Russian intelligence services. To protect the woman he loves & save the CIA from destruction, Rapp must be willing to risk everything.
We Are All Guilty Here
Welcome to North Falls; a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When 2 teenage girls vanish. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help; & now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them?
In Too Deep
Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a bed in a makeshift hospital room. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing he can recall is the car he had hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. The people who staged the attack assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice & patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly.
Desolation Code
When Kurt Austin & Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life, they uncover a much deeper mystery. Someone soon steals NUMAs findings, forcing a high-speed chase. A cryptic text of odd phrases & numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMAs inner workings?
The Waiting
Renée Ballard & the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a DNA connection between a recently arrested man & a serial rapist & murderer who went quiet 20 years ago. The arrested man is only 23, so the genetic link must be his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a 5-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets & legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, & ID are stolen, a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies ammunition they need to end her career. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department & that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch. Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer on the cold case unit. Bosch’s daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard.
Resurrection Walk
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up. Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client.
Shadow of Doubt
A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country.
Ghost Soldier
Cabrillo & the Oregon crew are tasked with investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer, known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor’s base, but his adversary isn’t just an arms smuggler. He’s an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game designed to test the Vendor’s cutting-edge AI arsenal. The Vendor also has high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, & if the Oregon crew can’t stop him from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the globe will erupt in conflict.
