Death and secrets haunt a once-prosperous merchant family in contemporary India. Dr. Temperance Brennan hunts a serial killer in Montreal. A discharged Los Angeles cop finds unexpected challenges as police chief in a small New England town. A businesswoman on the trail of her favorite brother, who has vanished along with a fortune in stolen jewelry. A detective probes the murder of a Long Island couple who may have been involved in germ warfare research.
Romance comes to a mature couple who disliked each other in earlier encounters.
A professional cook and amateur sleuth probes the murder of her ex-husband's girlfriend. An Atlanta woman, after a bad marriage and her mother's death, seeks a new life on Martha's Vineyard. On a Caribbean holiday, Stone Barrington wrestles with a mystery involving a beautiful young woman and a local law officer. The seemingly close bonds of four old classmates are strained when a stranger suddenly enters their lives. After her husband leaves her for another woman, a college professor returns to the place where she spent her youth to seek a second chance at love.