With a team of assassins targeting New York and the President at a UN summit, Detective Michael Bennett must trace the source of the threat and neutralize it before it ignites a war.

Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.

Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.

When a man falls to his death, it looks like a suicide-but Detective Michael Bennett finds evidence suggesting otherwise.
A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide, except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.
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When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method.

Investigating the baffling murder case of an absolutely ordinary and seemingly much-loved private school teacher, futuristic-New York City lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to identify who may have wanted the death of an innocent man, a case that is complicated by the machinations of Eve's husband's former lover.

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Lincoln Rhyme faces "an Orwellian nightmare" (The New York Times) as a twisted techno-genius destroys lives with impunity by stealing personal information from behind the impenetrable walls of cyberspace.
Rhyme's cousin Arthur has been arrested on murder charges, and the evidence against the estranged relative...

Forced to let a murderer escape so that she can save the life of an accident victim, Amelia Sachs, assisted by forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, discovers that the accident was the first in a series of attacks by a killer who turns everyday utilities into weapons.

When a formidable killer she brought down years earlier escapes, New York homicide cop Eve Dallas begins a race against time to prevent him from resuming his attacks on child victims and exacting revenge on Eve herself.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas delves into the world of virtual reality gaming to stop a sadistic killer in this In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common—and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas finds...