Every great American detective carries a badge and a grudge in roughly equal measure. A New Year's Eve dive in an icy Virginia river ends in death, while a Washington killer performs for an online audience. Two words on Facebook send a rock star running, and down in the Louisiana bayou a truce between crime families hides something stranger. Pour something strong and settle in!
Patricia Cornwell, 'Cause of Death' - On New Year's Eve, a diver and reporter is found dead thirty feet down in Virginia's icy Elizabeth River. Kay Scarpetta wants to know who telephoned her before the police had even heard.
James Patterson, 'Double Cross' - A killer who stages his murders for an online audience is loose in Washington, just as Kyle Craig breaks out of prison with Alex Cross at the top of his list.
Harlan Coben, 'Live Wire' - Two words on Facebook cast doubt on who fathered a pregnant tennis star's baby. Her rock-star husband vanishes, and Myron Bolitar's search drags his own estranged family into the open.
James Lee Burke, 'A Private Cathedral' - Two Louisiana crime families appear to have made peace, and when Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel ask what that peace cost, something far stranger than a hired gun comes after them.
