Rosalind "Lin" Townsend, thrown out of the house at the age of seventeen when she becomes pregnant, and rejected by the baby's father, Nick Pemberton, manages to raise her son on her own and is about to send him off to college at New York University nineteen years later when she crosses paths with Nick, now a millionaire, and decides to get revenge by enacting a plan to disrupt his life and his finances.

Jack Sawyer, a drifter whose easygoing nature hides a troubled past, returns to his hometown in Blewer County, Texas in an attempt to protect widow Anna Corbett and her young son from revenge-minded escaped convict Carl Herbold.

From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York--twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories--

When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five’s guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy, no one is exempt from punishment. But one day Winona refuses to butcher a six-year-old boy. So their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae’s house, and, right there in the living room, murder her mother...

The Black Widow and Red Widow have inherited something from their shared past--a need for vengeance adgainst deceased Ivan Somodorov's network of terror.

Max Holman, just out of prison, hopes to be able to reconcile with his adult son, now a Los Angeles policeman, but his future freedom is threatened when he learns his son has been killed and he risks everything to find out what really happened.

1988: California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancae, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him

Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job hunting to renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amid the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail, declaring: People have to learn there are consequences. Why would someone send her this? Ellen has no clue. She's no angel -- a white lie here, an occasional sharp tongue there -- but she's done nothing to incur...

Amy and Dan are shocked to learn that Outcast, a violent renegade who is threatening the lives of innocent people, may be a Cahill family member who is determined to exact revenge.

" Stone Barrington clashes with a determined adversary in the latest non-stop thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington and his latest paramour are enjoying a peaceful country retreat when their idyll is broken by an unwelcome stranger. He was sent by an enemy, someone who'd be happy to silence Stone and all his collaborators for good. only it's soon clear that Stone is not an easy man to target. But with boundless...