Frank Carlson Library

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources-and ruthlessness-to stop them.

"Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Kathy Mallory. The astonishing new Mallory novel from the New York Times-bestselling author. The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect-except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special...

"An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years" -- provided by publisher.

Famed criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, are recruited to help the FBI and the INS track down a notorious human smuggler before he can track down and kill two families of illegal immigrants that have escaped from his cargo ship.

Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City, and it's up to the Red team to find them.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now, she must step into the...

Ellery Queen takes refuge from a wildfire at a remote mountain house -- and arrives just before the owner is murdered...

Collects three of J.D. Robb's "In death" novels as Lieutenant Eve Dallas searches for a killer promising immortality, a ritualistic murderer, and a woman missing from aboard a New York City ferry.

New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere. A sniper dubbed "The Long Shot Killer" is taking out impossible targets in New York City. As the unknown shooter's hit list mounts, Detective Michael Bennett calls for reinforcements. Officer Rob Trilling doesn't like to talk about himself. But he has an impressive resume as a former Army Ranger who's won a Bronze Star and recognition...