Renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate the sniper-killing of a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.

Alex Cross has Washington, D. C. The Women's Murder Club has San Francisco. Detective Michael Bennett has all of New York City, chaos capital of the world.
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. But this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury . . . and wrong answers are fatal.
Detective Michael Bennett heads...

The reviews called it "A Play to Die For" after a woman was found dead in the front row. It didn't seem so funny the next night, when the playwright was found with his throat slashed. When Detective Kathy Mallory takes over, no one seems to be giving straight answers. But every night, an unseen hand that chalks up line changes on a blackboard is writing Mallory into the play. "Mallory," the blackboard now reads, "tonight's the night. Nothing personal."...

When a man falls to his death, it looks like a suicide-but Detective Michael Bennett finds evidence suggesting otherwise.
A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide, except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.
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Once she was his secret. Now she is his only hope....

In a New York hospital, a powerful real estate developer lies suspended between life and death while police scramble to solve the mystery of his shooting. With Ed Vincent slipping in and out of consciousness, a detective has one clue to begin his hunt — a name that lingered on Vincent’s lips.
But who is the woman Vincent calls Zelda? Is she his killer — or lover?...

On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has...

In late 19th-century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt helps her policeman friend Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy investigate the murder of a woman at a ritual séance.

After a senator's scandalous death, police detective Ben Tolliver investigates the man's wretchedly corrupt family. Ten years after leaving the Senate, Clayton Cunningham III remains as powerful as ever. In his boardroom, he rules over a business empire that stretches across the globe. In his dining room, he controls his family with a tight fist. And in his bedroom, well - in his bedroom the senator does whatever he wants. After commanding his children...

"Detective Jeremy Fisk is out to stop an assassin let loose in New York City by a shadowy business cartel in this pulse-pounding follow up to the New York Times bestseller The Intercept, from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf"--

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,...