On a remote island off the coast of Scotland whose inhabitants believe in the occult, a young American woman investigates the murder of a woman who was thought to be a witch.

Antique print dealer Maggie Summers visits her old college friend, Amy Douglas, who has recently bought a 17th-century house on the Maine coast with her husband. Maggie arrives to find Amy consumed with the idea of having a baby, and convinced that the house is haunted. In the meantime, Amy's husband Drew seems entirely too interested in a teenage girl named Crystal, whose murdered, pregnant corpse turns up some time later. It's up to Maggie to investigate the history of the Douglas family and of the house and find the killer.

A preoccupied young corporate lawyer loses a vital and very confidential folder, and the events that follow spiral outwards until they threaten his life and even the existence of his beloved brother, who is dying of multiple sclerosis.

Private eye Malachy Foley must decide whom to protect--his ex-wife or his client--in a complicated mystery in which no one seems to be telling the whole truth.

Harriet "Happy" Mallory, a successful attorney, decides it's time to contact the son she gave up for adoption 30 years ago. When private investigator Malachy Foley locates the son--now Father Kevin Cunningham--he finds an alcoholic whose already fragile emotional and psychological state is being exacerbated by a number of vicious attacks on people close to him. When Foley is the victim of an attack himself, he begins to think that the violence is calculated and someone is trying to drive Father Cunningham over the edge. Does it have something to do with Happy Mallory? Or maybe with Father Cunningham's not-so-priestly past?

In Walker's second 'Molly Cates' novel, a school bus driver and 11 of his young charges are kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics and held underground at the group's highly fortified compound. Crime reporter Molly Cates steps in to help the authorities, and her ex-husband, negotiate with Samuel Mordecai, the cult's iron-willed leader.

Molly believes that an accused serial killer is about to be wrongly executed, while the real one may still be on the loose.

Molly believes that an accused serial killer is about to be wrongly executed, while the real one may still be on the loose.

Molly has a hard time focusing on her work as a journalist as she becomes increasingly preoccupied with proving that her father's suicide was, in fact, a murder. At the same time, though, she must move ahead on an article she is writing on gun control, an article that pulls her into a world of political extremists and homeless people, one of whom has key information on a planned terrorist attack.