Unable to write under his own name, writer Thad Beaumont uses the pseudonym George Stark for the violent novels he has been writing. When a gruesome murder occurs and Thad's fingerprints are found at the scene, he must face the possibility that George Stark is a very real, very dangerous, and willful part of his identity.

Married for 25 years, Paris Armstrong thinks she has it all--two wonderful children, a beautiful house, and a husband she adores. However, Paris soon discovers that all is not as it seems when Peter announces that he has taken up with a younger woman and that he wants a divorce. Escaping from the past, Paris moves from Connecticut to San Francisco where she once again enters the world of dating. After a series of unsuccessful romances, and still adjusting to the fact that her daughter is marrying a man Paris's age, Paris decides that romance is not in her future. But as Paris should know by now, no one can predict the future.

Unassuming Los Angeles entertainment lawyer Harry Addison finds himself suddenly locked into a labyrinth of international intrigue when his brother, a Vatican priest, is supposedly killed by terrorists.

The first in a new series by Agatha Award winner Jeanne M. Dams features spunky Swedish-American immigrant Hilda Johansson. When Hilda discovers the body of a pious neighbor woman on the edge of the estate where she lives and works as a domestic, she fights a corrupt police force, a strict, class-conscious butler, and her own religious prejudices to catch the killer.

At the president's request, Jack Ryan returns to national service as the U.S. security adviser. But Ryan's two years as a civilian have left him woefully out-of-touch with the ever-changing world of international relations. As he struggles to learn current approaches to foreign policy, Ryan must contend with a terrorist attack orchestrated by a Japanese businessman whose family was destroyed during World War II.

For many years, Sam McCready has been the bad boy of British Intelligence. Known as a maverick, McCready, aka "The Deceiver," is in danger of losing his career for his unorthodox ways.

This compelling thriller about the horrifying consequences of an adulterous liaison inspired a 2005 movie starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. A chance encounter on a commuter train between Charles, a married ad exec, and Lucinda, an equally married stockbroker, eventually leads to a rendezvous in a hotel room. Their tryst has an unexpected and shocking ending: a man invades the hotel room and robs them both, assaults Charles, rapes Lucinda, and then proceeds to blackmail Charles. When Charles finally resolves to put a stop to the harassment, he resorts to methods that only succeed in digging him deeper and deeper into catastrophe.

A Vietnamese-American in New York City in the 1980s must decide on what his