When a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate and she soon finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The Werewolf.

Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The subsequent guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on a fishing trawler is gunned down, Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents and sets out to find the truth.

Ten years after his wife murdered her Mafia don boyfriend, John Sutter returns to Long Island, where he takes up residence just a quarter mile away from the woman he used to love and encounters the son

Hannah Trevor, a midwife in Rufford, Maine, in 1786, discovers the raped and strangled body of a neighbor when she goes to take coal to the woman, and is horrified to learn that her own one-time lover, Daniel Josselyn, has been named as one of the victim's attackers.

Police captain Mat Joubert of Cape Town's Murder and Robbery Department, on a downward spiral since the death of his wife two years earlier, is given a last chance to redeem himself on the job when he is assigned to find a killer who is using a century-old German handgun and ancient bullets to gun down a string of seemingly unrelated victims.

Life at the prestigious Easton Academy takes a dangerous turn when Thomas Pearson, one of the most popular boys in school, is murdered and the entire campus begins to hunt for the killer.

One-time Washington power broker Joel Backman who may have acquired secrets to a sophisticated satellite surveillance system is pardoned by the outgoing President under orders from the CIA and is given a new identity in Italy; however, the CIA then reveals his whereabouts to the Israelis, Russians, Chinese, and the Saudis in hopes that someone will assassinate him.

When a young lawyer whose practice is on the verge of collapse grasps the opportunity to work with a major legal firm, he finds himself asked to send a potentially innocent man to his death.