Detective Alex Cross, intending to resign from the Washington D.C. Police Force, agrees to take on one more case when his friend and partner John Sampson asks for his help in clearing an old Vietnam buddy who has been framed for the murders of three women.

While Sara Evans is researching a murder case, she finds evidence that links the murderer to the Supreme Court, and soon she finds herself trying to save the escaped convict so that she can uncover the conspiracy that is killing some of the most influential people in the United States.

"... the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and fast--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide-note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister Grace to accept the case as closed ..."--Jacket flap.

Retired attorney Penn Cage, best friends with respected doctor Drew Elliott since their days at St. Stephen's Prep in Natchez, Mississippi, where they both now sit on the school board, learns more about human nature and modern youth than he ever wanted to know when he begins to investigate the murder of popular student Kate Townsend at the request of Drew, who has become a prime suspect after revealing he had been having an affair with the girl.

Clare Cosi, a coffee shop manager, tries to help make her ex-husband's second wedding go smoothly with a bit of snooping around even though she does not like his future bride very much.

Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.

Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont uncovers a surprising link between a series of Washington murders and the hit-and-run death of the elderly caretaker of an ATV park in Arizona, and is thrown together with sheriff Joanna Brady once more, and as the couple searches for the killer, the sparks that once flew between them are reignited.

Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.

FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is able to save himself and psychologist Dr. Timothy MacLean after their plane crashes in Parlow, Kentucky, where they stumble upon Rachael Abbott, a woman with a shocking secret who is running from an unknown enemy and helps Crowne and Dr. MacLean outsmart the people who will stop at nothing to keep the doctor from revealing what he knows about a political scandal that could destroy the government.

Aspiring district attorney Hammond Cross, having just dumped his lover and rival Steffi Mundell, finds himself falling for a mysterious woman who turns out to be the prime suspect in a sensational murder--a case that could make or break Hammond's career.