In order to solve the mystery of the murder of a well-connected New Yorker, Mary must unearth the machinations of the city's leading public figures, men who will go to great lengths to protect themselves, and their secrets.

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's at the center of a...

After closing a case with the Brooklyn Police Department, Mary Handley is determined to become an official detective in her own right. And when Emily Worsham shows up at Mary's new office convinced that her uncle was murdered, Mary's second assignment begins. As she investigates, Mary soon finds herself entangled in a high-stakes family scandal, political corruption, untrustworthy sources, and an unexpected romance with a central member of New York's...

The off-Broadway actress, Alice Nestleton, who moonlights as a cat sitter, is offered $2,500 to board a cat. But the owner is murdered and the cat turns out to be only a stuffed toy. Alice investigates.

When a police officer is found bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat in an uptown strip joint, NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers a private club called Purgatory in which clients are given a chance for atonement, everyone is judged, and one man's sins could spell damnation for the innocent.

Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is replaying the clues in her mind. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now he's left with two choices: hole up in fear and guilt--or start hunting again.

Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest.

"Private eye Robin Miller trudged down the ice-slick sidewalk wondering which was worse: the miserably cold New York winter, the dead-end case she couldn't seem to crack, or the fact that her lover K.T. Bellflower's entire family had just descended on them like an army of Kentucky locusts. Of course, that was before Robin's sultry ex-lover arrived on the scene--and K.T.'s 15-year-old niece disappeared in the middle of Times Square!"--Back cover.

Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt are not the only ones who have recently tied the knot. Family friend Mrs. ONeill was delighted when her daughter Una wed the seemingly wealthy and charming Randolph Pollock. She didnt wonder why such an affluent man would want to marry a poor Irish girl, no matter how pretty she was. But now Mrs. O���Neill has a problem. Pollock���s servants have found their employer bludgeoned to death...