Ex-Nun sleuth. Feisty, slutty, trusting? Someone this canny agrees to meet her "boyfriend" for sex in car garages because he's worried about the papparazzi? Entertaining but stupid. I'd go as high as 2.5 but's it's not available. I think this whole thing should have a separate ranking system one ...
Twelve years ago Kaylie McMillan fell victim to serial killer John Cray's sick obsession -- and escaped. So did Cray.Twelve years later, the nightmare still haunts Kaylie, putting her sanity in jeopardy -- and her life at stake. Because Cray is still out there.And tonight, he's going to finish wh...
FBI agent Tess McCallum is obsessed with catching the serial killer who calls himself Mobius--the man who killed her lover. Now he's resurfaced in a new state with a new identity and a new means of killing. Mobius gets his hands on a chemical weapon that could raise his body count to thousands of...
A decade ago, artist Peter Faust murdered a woman and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Today, unrepentant and living in L.A., he's become a cult celebrity among the radical fringe. When one of his fans appears to be stalking him, he hires rogue security consultant Abby Sinclair for pro...
it lacked the raucous atmosphere it would no doubt offer after dark. The pool tables were unused, most of the chairs were unoccupied, with only a few all-day drinkers lounging in the corners. Behind the bar a large man was scowling at a wall-mounted TV set that was showing an auto race. Tess appr...
He had changed into a bathing suit and was toting a bulky carrying case loaded with two sets of snorkel tubes, face masks, and swim fins. “Don’t go with him,” she said urgently. He stopped in the middle of the loggia and set down the case. “What?” “Out to the reef. Don’t go.” “Why not?” She could...
After some reluctance her housekeeper revealed that she’d gone to “the gun place.” Further inquiries, aided by Tess’s display of her FBI creds, yielded the information that the gun place was an indoor shooting range on Beverly Boulevard. It was five fifteen and fully dark when Tess parked outside...
Casey and Draper had left on separate missions more than an hour ago. She had no one to talk to, no one to share her fears with. Fears of what Richard might be planning to do when the sun went down. Or sooner. She remembered missing Maura’s call. There were no messages on her voicemail. She tried...
Cellini shook her head slowly as she switched off her cell phone. Walsh, standing in C.J. Osborn’s kitchen, lifted a quizzical eyebrow. “The stuff in the garage,” she explained, sounding weary. “I thought for sure it would be a breakthrough. But this is one clever son of a bitch we’re up against....
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She’d lost her quarry. Gund’s van was gone. She was certain she’d seen the Chevy swing west onto a dark side road. Yet by the time she turned the same corner a minute later, the van was lost to sight. At first she’d thought Gund had pulled off into the desert. But the low, sparse scrub wouldn’t c...
His special place was less than fifteen minutes away. The road swept into the lower fringes of the Mojave Desert, where windblasted rock formations jutted up at unnatural angles amid bleak stretches of pinkish alkaline sand. In the crisp, slanting sunshine the landscape was rendered forebodingly ...