In a case that has police baffled, Sebastian Locke, the charming, 56-year-old patriarch of the extremely wealthy Locke family, is murdered. No one can understand why someone would want to kill the generous philanthropist, who travels the globe to give away millions to the needy, except his former wife, Vivienne Trent, who sets out to find out the truth about her ex-husband's death.

Part thriller, part paranormal romance. DEAD ROOM features Manhattan archeologist Leslie MacIntyre. A year after a deadly explosion killed her fiancé, Leslie has returned to the scene of the crime to participate in an archeological dig. Leslie is soon paid some erotic visits by the ghost of her ex-love. He encourages her to find his killer, and Leslie teams up with a private investigator, who also happens to be her fiancé's cousin. Together they try to piece together the dark and mysterious puzzle of his death, eventually arriving at some shocking answers that will change them both forever.

Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado. At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral home to determine if any of his cousins or siblings might have helped the old man to his bizarre end.

P.I. William Monk takes on a fraud case that may have connections both to the suspicious death of a powerful railway executive and to certain things in Monk's own past.