Frank Carlson Library

Forensic pathologist Lisa O'Malley has not believed in God for a long time. He let her down as a child, and her professional training only reinforces her belief that Jesus could not have risen from the dead after three days, his body would have already started decomposing. U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond enlists Lisa's help in investigating a suspicious arson death. As they debate the case and the concept of faith, Lisa discovers the identity of the killer...

Magazine editor Lilly Martin, packing up the vacation cabin she and her ex-husband owned in Cleary, North Carolina, where he now works as chief of police, becomes trapped in a snowstorm with Ben Tierney, who she struck with her car while trying to drive down the mountain, and the situation becomes critical when she uncovers evidence that Tierney may be the serial killer who has been operating in the area for over two years.

While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.

Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building. At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem,...

Suspicion burned within Julie Carlson - the heartbreaking, infuriating suspicion that her husband, a wealthy and powerful contractor, was having an affair. Not sure who to trust, Julie turns to a handsome stranger...Private detective mac McQuarry ignores his better judgment about not mixing women and work when he's hired by Julie Carlson. Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, but Sid Carlson was a player in Mac's inglorious downfall from the Charleston...

Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers -- and a personal history -- brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness,...

The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.