David Baldacci

Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.

"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...

Vega Jane and her friends have made it through the treacherous Quag, though not without scars--but now they find themselves in a city ruled by the old enemy, the Maladons, who use magic to keep the citizens under control, and it will take all the power that Vega, Delph, and Petra can summon to keep themselves alive and free.

A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. When Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called to join the case, they are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family. But, as...

After their father's death, two children and their invalid mother head south to the rugged mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. They flourish until the local coal-and gas company comes around conniving to seize their property.

In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent...

Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.

A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.

Amerika 1940: Ein einziger schrecklicher Moment ändert das Leben der zwölfjährigen Lou von Grund auf. Bei einem Autounfall kommt ihr Vater ums Leben, und ihre Mutter fällt ins Koma. Die einzige Verwandte, die sich um Lou und ihren kleinen Bruder Oz kümmern kann, ist ihre Urgroßmutter Louisa Mae, die auf einer Farm in Virginia wohnt. Doch das Leben in den Bergen ist hart, und die Kinder müssen schwer mitarbeiten. Nur allmählich erschließt...

Jede Familie hat dunkle Geheimnisse - doch eine muss makellos bleiben. Um jeden Preis. Was als fröhliche Geburtstagsfeier einer Zwölfjährigen beginnt, endet in einer Katastrophe: Am selben Abend wird das Mädchen entführt. Und die kleine Willa ist nicht irgendein Kind - sie ist die Nichte des Präsidenten. Als die Ermittler Sean King und Michelle Maxwell im Haus der Familie eintreffen, bietet sich ihnen ein Bild des Grauens: Die Mutter der Kleinen...