Homicide detective Ellen Ridley is tracking a serial killer terrorizing young women in the San Francisco Bay Area, and son she must team up with the killer's soon, Stephen Tregear, a hacker and code breaker who works for U.S. naval intelligence.
It was made of cheap, thin wood. Nothing special. I ripped the front off. It was glued onto the sides of the drawer and came away easily in my hands. Quickly I held one end of the long flat plank in my fingers, rested the other end on ...
The adventure continues in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series.
The movement of the vase, this very slight slide along the white marble, caused several of the pale pink rose petals to fall. They fell on to the floor, on to the marble and on to her hand. Violet registered that these petals had a very ...
“ Damn , ” he said and then , “ stupid thorns . ” Hopping over to the bed , he sat back down , laid the stem on top of my covers and inspected the sole of his foot . “ I suspect I'll live . ” He pulled a thorn from his skin and tossed ...
Private detective Vickie Nelson teams up with her old partner on the police force and a vampire who happens to be the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII to find the source of several vicious attacks plaguing Toronto.
Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a vampire. Just my luck. So now I'm a vampire, and it turns out I have a blood tie to the monster who sired me. The tie works like an invisible leash and I'm bound to him no matter what I do.
One Fang used spray paint to draw exaggerated phalluses on the figures in a mural of the Last Supper that graced a side wall. Someone threw a beer bottle and it shattered loudly against the wall. On the whole, they conducted themselves ...
The Turning
As their three stories unfold, along with the stories of those whose lives they touch, it becomes clear that they are bound together in ways that not even a stonecaster could foresee -- bound by their past, their future, and their blood.
“Good thinking. Go. We're right behind you.” Cody took off smoothly and flew forward with ease. Knowing she was the weakest link, Tessa started off with her long ballet jumps. By the third or fourth one, she was covering twenty or more ...