UNDER CURRENTS

Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's Homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer – but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something? With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt pieces together the complex puzzle – and the reader is taken along on a journey into the mind of a killer, and into the day-by-day nuts and bolts of police work, that is among the best in modern crime fiction.

THE ANGEL MAKER

At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and rebuild lives. Being a cop, Daphne thinks she's seen it all. But, as best-selling author Ridley Pearson's edge-of-the-seat thriller opens, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could. Daphne turns for help to the best cop she knows, a man with creative instincts and an appreciation for forensic lab techniques – Lou Boldt. Boldt isn't a cop anymore; he's playing jazz piano in a downtown club and doing his best to forget the past. When Daphne puts her evidence on the table, Boldt is hooked. By all appearances someone is illegally harvesting human organs for transplant. Soon the two cops – and former lovers – are drawn into the dark vortex of a high-tech, highly profitable underground industry – and into the mind of its founder, a doctor gone very, very bad...a man who began by trying to save patients unable to get donor organs through legitimate channels...a healer who let ambition, or something more sinister, turn him into a killer. The case gets personal when Daphne's friend and fellow Shelter volunteer Sharon Shaffer is abducted, and evidence left behind indicates she's about to become the killer's next organ donor. Daphne and Boldt have only days, hours, minutes to save Sharon from a killer about to make one final, unforgettable contribution to humankind. Meanwhile a woman caught in a nightmare of captivity rattles the bars of a secret makeshift prison, too far from civilization for anyone to hear her scream.

NO WITNESSES

Seattle police detective Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews return to confront the most challenging case of their careers. People are dying throughout Seattle - victims of a madman who is placing poisoned food in neighborhood supermarkets. But the criminal is intelligent: he writes the police chilling extortion letters - faxed directly from a laptop computer over public telephone lines - and retrieves his ransom electronically, through automatic teller machines in hundreds of locations around the city. And while he is a murderer, his crimes take place miles and often days away from his innocent victims' demise.

BEYOND RECOGNITION

There is a homicidal arsonist loose in Seattle. Single mothers are being killed in fires that burn hotter than experts have ever seen. The children are spared. Why? For Seattle Police Sergeant Lou Boldt and the department's psychologist, Daphne Matthews, the High Temperature Accelerant fires challenge their every resource. The fuel used in these deadly fires is as much a mystery as the identity of the arsonist who sets them. A Seattle fire marshal reveals to Boldt the ominous quotations sent to him before each of the fires. A twelve-year-old boy, caught in an ugly battle at home, unintentionally witnesses a drug deal that may not involve drugs at all, but ingredients far more volatile and lethal. Did the boy, in fact, see the arsonist's face? Can police rely on a twelve-year-old as a witness? Or is the fire marshal, his past suddenly in question, more involved than anyone wants to believe?

THE PIED PIPER

The press is calling him the Pied Piper because infants have disappeared from San Diego to Seattle with only a penny flute left in the crib. With all signs pointing to a black market adoption agency, Boldt and Matthews must break the brilliantly conceived network of abductions that has shattered lives and terrorized communities. With few leads and no witnesses, Boldt and Matthews must battle not only the overwhelming odds, but the involvement of federal law enforcement driven by a news-hungry press and nervous politicians. The more deeply they probe the more elusive the truth seems - evidence is being stalled, paperwork misplaced, witnesses overlooked. Why, when so much is at stake?

THE FIRST VICTIM

Lou Boldt is back and entering dark new territory. A shipping container washed ashore leads Seattle television news anchor Stevie McNeal and her reporter friend, Melissa, on the trail of a scam involving the importation of illegal aliens. A career stepping-stone for McNeal, the investigation puts her at cross-purposes with the Seattle Police Department's Lou Boldt and Sergeant John LaMoia. When Melissa disappears, perhaps at the hands of the Chinese Triad, McNeal turns from foe to ally and teams up with the detectives on an investigation that takes them from Seattle's docklands to the offices of the immigration and Naturalization Service.

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (review)

The "blue flu" has struck the Seattle Police Force and the majority of the officers are on an unofficial strike. Overworked and understaffed, Detective Lou Boldt is committed to remaining on the job no matter what. But when a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop descend on the city, the pressure of being a nearly one-man operation threatens Boldt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of police psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make slow progress cracking the case and their work leads them to a Denver convict and his brother, a hardened criminal with a record. As things spin out of control, his worst fears are confirmed when he refuses to drop the investigation, and it's clear his life is in danger because of it. Boldt and Daphne come to realize that the robberies, assaults, and strike are somehow connected--and that his life is now in very real danger.

NEVER LOOK BACK

The cardinal rule of espionage: never look back. KGB agent "Dragonfly" knows it. A master of disguise, he's the ultimate terrorist, leaving headlines in his bloody path. Andrew Clayton forgot it. For eighteen inactive months, the hardnosed Security Intelligence agent has blamed himself for his brother's death at Dragonfly's hands. But now Dragonfly has surfaced in Canada, and Clayton knows he's got one last shot at revenge. What Clayton doesn't know is that Dragonfly is armed with the supreme biological weapon, set to release its toxic devastation should his mission be compromised. Stopping Dragonfly without triggering a major disaster will be deadly - if not impossible. But for Andrew Clayton, it's something that must be done.

BLOOD OF THE ALBATROSS

Seattle sailing instructor by day, rock musician by night, Jay Becker leads a life others only dream about, until he meets his new sailing student. A German beauty named Marlene, she soon sparks trouble beyond Joy's darkest imagining, beyond the lies about her "employer"--a shadowy figure known only as Albatross, beyond the brutal deaths surfacing in her wake. Soon Becker will be drowning in a sea of stolen U.S. defense secrets and high treason, trapped by a cold savagery that will test--or break--his last mortal fiber.

HIDDEN CHARGES (Previously called THE SEIZING OF YANKEE GREEN MALL)

A shopper's paradise becomes a city under siege -- held hostage by a madman armed with the skills and the weapons of a trained soldier, and possessed by an uncontrollable lust for vengeance, destruction...and death.

PROBABLE CAUSE

The setting is Carmel, California – a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where James Dewitt is the police force's only detective. His usual caseload is stolen bicycles and an occasional burglary. But things change with frightening speed when a series of apparent suicides, which soon prove to be murders, shocks the community. Dewitt, a former forensic scientist, struggles with the minutest of clues in his quest for the killer, while departmental turf wars and local politics increase the pressures on his investigation. But his steps are dogged by renegade ex-cop Howard Lumbrowski, the man Dewitt blames for his wife's death. How is Lumbrowski connected to the killings? And why does he have information from Dewitt's confidential files? Dewitt finds himself playing a dangerous game, breaking his own rules in his desperate search for answers. And as the case takes another murderous twist, the past comes back to haunt Dewitt. He will have to fight to save his reputation – and his life.

HARD FALL

First there was Lockerbie. Then Eurotour's Flight 1023. Now the bomber is ready to strike again! The bombing of Eurotours flight 1023 was big news. To FBI agent Cam Daggett it was more than that. It was personal. His parents and son were on that plane. And for two years he's been after the killer who did it. All he has is a name: Anthony Kort . . .and the knowledge that Kort is in the United States with a detonator no airport security can detect. Cam's colleagues at the Bureau and his girlfriend tell him to get behind a desk, to leave the investigation to other agents. But Cam has painstakingly built a portrait of the terrorist, and he alone has a snowball's chance in hell of predicting Kort's next target. Except hell is a much kinder, gentler place than where Cam's headed -- into Kort's depraved world of madness and revenge.

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE

Police lieutenant Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career. Three years ago, he chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a suicide case - a suicide that may have possibly been a murder - because the dead man himself a vicious woman-killer who more than deserved his fate. And the evidence that Dart ignored could have raised difficult questions about his former mentor, the brilliant forensic specialist Walter Zeller. But another suicide victim turns up - the body of a wife beater - and Zeller has disappeared off the face of the earth. With nothing to tie the deaths together except some strange blood chemistry - and clear evidence that the death was self-inflicted - the case is officially closed. Dart knows that what's best for him is to just let things lie. There's no proof; only two unrelated suicides. Cleared cases. But Dart knows in his deepest heart that Zeller is on some twisted vigilante crusade. And it's going to happen again. And only Dart can stop it.

DEAD AIM

Even rural Idaho has its mean streets... Ex-musician Chris Klick is no slouch. And no sleuth. He prefers to sit on the porch of an Idaho cabin and be one with nature, but groceries and some of life’s finer things have to be bought with cash. When a chance to earn a fee by restoring missing royalties to other musicians comes along, he levers up his six foot four frame and has at it. So what’s he to do when a beautiful woman with a mystery comes calling? When Nicole Russell invades his privacy and presents her story of a missing husband and a mislaid $50,000, Klick jumps right in with his missing person skills. He’s got to ask why, if the husband did a bunk, he took along Nicole’s Labrador retriever? Luckily, for backup Klick’s got an even taller friend, the former basketball star Lyel. Lyel, although independently wealthy, is independent as hell and still a player who loves a challenge. Ridding nearby Snow Lake of its tangle of corruption while helping Nicole recover her money seems like sport. Unfortunately, the other side is playing for high – and deadly – stakes....

AIM FOR THE HEART

Chris Klick, a guy who traces missing musicians to give himself a trace of the good life, is trying to kick back and relax over a bird-watching, fly-fishing Idaho summer. But the livin's never easy wherever you try it., especially if your job skills attract trouble. Klick's buddy Lyel, a former pro basketball player, could get by clipping coupons. But he's a sucker for a story, and Klick's a sucker for a woman in distress. Together they hear Candy McGreggor and agree to find her missing sister, Roberta. Bert has disappeared. Was it voluntary, an attempt to outrun her creditors, or has she been abducted? And if so, what's the payoff going to be? Is Roberta, who, it develops, worked at Butte Peak's county courthouse, the trigger for a string of disasters that plague Ridland? Is her disapperance tied to a recent plane wreck and a pilot dead in unusual circumstances? The entrance of yet a third damsel-luscious, lithe Alicia-shows Klick and Lyel how to follow the money in the case in a chase more exciting than Klick's usual pursuits.

CONCERTO IN DEAD FLAT

How hard can it be to give away a fortune? That’s the question for Chris Klick, legman on a team that chases down recording artists owed back royalties. The former professional musician and his partner, lawyer Bruce Warren, are not just good guys, they split the percentage they collect on delivering the money. It’s a living for a guy nearing forty. It supports his preferred lifestyle dwelling in an Idaho cabin where he can go with the rhythm "and the sports" of the seasons. Maestro Stephan Schultz is owed $190,000 that has been recovered from a team of corporate accountants who creatively acquired it in the first place. So Klick is in Paris to hunt him down. But there’s a hitch. The famous conductor has seduced a student cellist, emptied his marital bank account, and abandoned both his wife and the podium. He’s ducked into deep cover and will be hard to flush out. No pay off, no percentage. Then Klick gets a clue. There’s a rumor the maestro’s youthful lover is to study at Oxford. Crossing the Channel, Klick heads for London to rendezvous with his buddy Lyel, a former NBA star who has given up the slam-dunk for a life of clipping coupons, yet craves an occasional adrenaline rush. Lyel has a plan: Klick is to go undercover as a mystery writer on a Raymond Chandler Research Fellowship at Wadham College, there to write a novel. And since the college is missing a don, and Klick is missing a musician, maybe under the guise of doing research for his book Klick can find both and hand over the money. And maybe, just maybe, he can rewrite his romance with true love Nicole. Easy? Sure. But the plot quickly thickens, and Klick and his sidekick find themselves pursuing dastardly dons, missing bottles of port, a lost Mozart masterpiece, and, of course, the miscreant maestro....