Frank Carlson Library

As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family,...

Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited ... prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible. The police were never in time.

Son of an ex-FBI agent, Miles Kettering, six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and taken to eastern Tennessee. The boy manages to escape. But the kidnappers do not give up. Miles Kettering joins Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich to investigate why the kidnappers want this little boy so badly - and they also soon find themselves ineluctably drawn into the investigation of the murders of three math teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.

When Gina Vitagliano, the young woman he had rescued during a terrorist hijacking, is kidnapped once again Max Bhagat races against time in a desperate gamble to save the woman he loves.

Gripping novel of unrelenting suspense.

"A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery -- and keep some...

Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him. Although...

At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.

Coulter's #1 "New York Times" bestseller finds FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich facing the most dangerous case of their careers, and it all begins when Savich is nearly killed while trying to rescue a kidnapped entertainer.

"When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray--doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail--already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help....