On March 18, 1990, two men dressed as policemen broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with a dozen masterpieces worth $500 million. To date, not one painting has been recovered. Before he died, Harold Smith, one of the world's greatest art detectives, believed he was close to cracking the case. After Smith's family gave journalist Ulrich Boser access to his research, Boser explored Smith's unfinished leads.

In this dark, jagged true crime thriller, wily mob head Gregory Scarpa Sr. (alias the "Grim Reaper") secretly steals and kills under FBI protection for decades. When faced with arrest for his own crimes, he betrays his adoring son, Gregory Jr., whom he'd groomed to take his place. Taking the fall for his father out of familial respect and love, the young Scarpa endures decades of maximum security imprisonment by furnishing the feds with detailed intelligence...

When veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel discovered that his own late father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, was the killer in the infamous Black Dahlia murder, he instinctively knew that a man capable of that level of cruelty probably didn't begin or end with the Black Dahlia. Steve Hodel has devoted his life to examining the evidence of his father's mysterious life, and the shocking new revelations of the past five years are the subject of Most...

Susan Hill's third crime novel, after The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. It explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns into obsession, threats, violence and terror. Meanwhile handsome, introverted heartbreaker Simon Serrailler finds his own heart troubled by the newest recruit to the Cathedral staff: a feisty female Anglican priest with...

Dr. Jake Rosen, renowned pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and seasoned New Yorker, teams up again with his unlikely partner, crusading civil rights attorney and shopaholic Manny Manfreda, to solve a string of gruesome attacks plaguing the city. "The Vampire" stalks his victims, sedates them, and then absconds with vials of their blood. The mystery deepens when DNA analysis suggests links to the crimes and tragedies of another time and another...

Glamorous young Portland, Maine, attorney Lainie Goff thought she had it all - brains, beauty, and a fast-track to a partnership in a top-ranked firm that was going to make her rich. But then one cold winter night her naked, frozen body is found in the sub-zero temperatures at the end of the Portland Fish Pier. Now Portland homicide detective Michael McCabe must find a relentless and clever killer before another life is lost.

Quirke, a hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist is determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. Set in Dublin, circa 1950.

Week after week the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside the psyches of the fictional serial killers tracked by the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit), of the FBI. Now Katherine Ramsland reveals how reality differs from fiction and how forensic psychologists actually use their knowledge of human behavior and motivations as consultants in criminal investigations - as well as detailing the real cases that influenced some of the show's...

When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with his girlfriend, Pine County sheriff's deputy Darlene Esper. As they investigate, Gus and Darlene can't help but question if Gracie's troubled life really ended in suicide.

Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960's South Philly, Detective Pete Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals—a skill that served him well during his eighteen years in homicide. Now nearing the end of his illustrious career, the highly decorated Coletti seems to be on the top of his world. But Coletti is harboring a terrible secret. His most famous arrest was based on a lie, and soon the priest

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