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Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, a young woman named Christine Falls, as well as his brother-in-law, eminent pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse’s cause of death.

When the mutilated body of a CIA agent is discovered in District 8 and the killer appears to be a local working girl, Sonchai searches for the truth amid a cover-up orchestrated by his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn, involving Al Qaeda, bad cops, military intrigue, and a cadre of dangerous men.

After surviving a plane crash, Georgia Parish returns home to Queensland, Australia, where she discovers that the plane was deliberately sabotaged and, embarking on her own investigation, learns that nothing is what it seems as she gets dangerously close to the truth.

A rebellious survivor of North Korea’s brutal totalitarian regime, Inspector O, a state security officer, risks his life and career to solve a case that begins innocuously enough when he is asked to photograph a certain vehicle.

Assisting a long-time friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.

An eco-thriller takes readers to such far-flung locales as Paris, Iceland, Antarctica, and the Solomon Islands as it follows the desperate efforts of an intelligence agent to prevent a global environmental catastrophe.

In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch a desperate last-ditch effort to seize victory in the face of certain defeat by sending two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo, and only Dirk Pitt and his children, Summer and Dirk, stand in the way.

Enjoying a satisfying family life and career as Sweden’s youngest chief inspector, Erik Winter faces a daunting case involving a double murder and a suspect with possible links to the gothic world and the local police force.

Hired by the Mossad to perform a series of strategic assassinations in Asia, John Rain, accompanied by ex-Marine Dox, inadvertently botches the assignment and finds himself seeking assistance from alluring Israeli agent Delilah.

A missing canister containing a deadly virus forms the center of a storm that traps Stanley Oxenford, director of a medical research firm, and a violent trio of thugs in a remote house during a Christmas Eve blizzard.

When a body is discovered in her hometown, a young Swedish lawyer is called back home, only to become traped in a perilous web of betrayal, suspicion, religious fanaticism, and death, in a suspense novel set against the backdrop of northern Sweden.

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.

A mysterious woman bearing a human skull and a terrifying story draws Texas forensic artist Paul Bern into a relentless and deadly conspiracy involving a clandestine U.S. intelligence operation in Mexico City’s underworld, a dark family secret, a dangerous terrorist, and a plot in which the future of thousands of innocent people is at stake.

When five bodies are discovered hanging by their feet in Banon, a small and peaceful village in Provençe in which the local community’s principal source of income comes from the cultivation and sale of truffles, it takes all of Commissaire Laviolette’s resources to unravel crimes that were committed in a climate of superstition and secret animosity.

Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers, an endeavor marked by additional murders, dangerous secrets, and sobering truths about the African AIDS epidemic.

Investigating the unusual murder of an antiques dealer, former police officer Zed van Heerden struggles to overcome past demons and the uncertain loyalties of people affiliated with the case in order to identify the killer.

When his uncle is involved in a late-night accident while driving his taxicab, sixteen-year-old Mamoru Kusaka discovers that the victim had been involved in a cruel scam with three other young women.

When an ex-convict and then a wealthy real-estate tycoon fall victim to a violent attack by a possible ax-murderer, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to assist with the local investigation, a probe that becomes complicated by yet another murder and the disappearance of a promising female detective who may have gotten too close to the truth.

Follows the efforts of counterterrorist agents to identify and take out an Al Qaeda terrorist who has secured his release from the Guantanamo prison and who is hiding in a remote desert outpost while plotting to bomb a western city.

When their unsuccessful attempts to have a child begin to threaten their marriage, Paul and Joanna adopt a baby girl from Colombia but find their lives shattered when Joanna and the baby are kidnapped by abductors who demand millions of dollars of cocaine as ransom.

In the aftermath of the murder of an anonymous victim, assistant superintendent David Bengu begins his career on Botswana, where his convivial passions and determined methods earn him a local nickname that likens him to a hippopotamus.

An American book translator in Paris, Chloe Underwood, longing for some excitement, gets more than she bargains for when a new assignment immerses her in a deadly world of murder and illegal arms, forcing her to go into hiding with a mysterious stranger.

Two operatives and long-time friends are transformed into enemies when they receive their final mission before retiring, the assassination of each other, embarking on an international chase as they investigate why their bosses want them dead.