Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.

In the aftermath of a teenager's drowning in a Cheshire countryside canal, Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate strange connections between the victim and two past murder cases.

"In western Nebraska, what starts as a group of teens filming their drug-fueled party ends explosively, leaving victims apparently electrocuted with odd scorch marks. As Special Agent Maggie O'Dell sorts reality from hallucination in their stories, she realizes that the survivors are being eliminated. On the East Coast, her partner R. J. Tully and Army colonel Ben Platt investigate a deadly pathogen outbreak - a case that will soon collide with hers"--P....

"A young woman is found brutally murdered in Washington, D.C. as her killers conduct a spree of perfect crimes in the Northeast. With nothing to link the crimes to each other, Agent Bowers faces his most difficult case yet, even as his personal life begins to crumble."--P. [2] of jacket.

LAPD Homicide Lieutenant L. A. "Frank" Franco is working on an unsolved case of a double homicide of two children previously investigated six years ago by her partner Detective Noah Jantzen. However, personal grief is interfering with her work and her romantic relationship with the county's Chief Coroner.

Minke Van Aisma journeys across three continents, moving from a life of opulence in Amsterdam to the immigrant experience in nineteenth-century New York, in her efforts to find her kidnapped son and take revenge on those responsible for his abduction.

Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway--minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out--and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells...

"Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away. But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay itself, and her family has...

"Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings....