Mr. Churchill's secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge ... and the greatness that rose to meet it.

By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life...

The crime scenes are both grim and otherworldly. The bodies of two female students are found mutilated and oddly positioned in the dark labyrinth beneath the school, haunting symbols painted on the walls above them. In her decade tracking serial killers, FBI special agent Kelly Jones has seen some of the worst humanity can inflict. Yet the tragedy unfolding at her alma mater chills her to the bone. Evidence suggests that the connection between the...

"Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance ... two separate -- but vitally connected -- investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated of his entire career. In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, Maine, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers -- the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies,...

When a lost Mormon boy wanders into Absaroka County, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.

Prince of fire : On a bright, late-winter morning in Rome, a terrible explosion rips a hole in the Israeli embassy. Moments later, four gunmen cut down the survivors as they stagger from the burning building. Art restorer Gabriel Allon, working in Venice on an altarpiece, is hastily recalled to Israel and drawn back into the heart of a secret service he had hoped to leave behind. For the repercussions of the blast have led to a disturbing revelation:...