Diane Mayfield, a correspondent for the television news magazine "Hourglass," reluctantly travels to Ocean Grove on the New Jersey shore to interview Leslie Patterson, a troubled young woman who is widely believed to have faked her own kidnapping, but the story gets interesting when a second victim disappears, only to be found dead days later.

Jessi Arnold has vowed to build a new home for herself and her sled dogs on the charred ashes of her old one, but her progress is halted when she unearths a skeleton entombed in her basement wall and finds herself involved in a murder mystery that is more than twenty years old.

New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....

After Cat Delaney's heart transplant, she moves to San Antonio where her life changes. Then she discovers someone is killing heart transplant recipients.

Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta tries to solve the mysterious killings of four young couples. Bones and fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.

When the corpse of a beautiful women is found on a popular Sussex beach, Inspector Peter Diamond is called in to find out who the victim was and who murdered her.

Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.

Aspiring crime writer Kristi Bentz, having already survived two run-ins with serial killers, enrolls at All Saints College in New Orleans to investigate the disappearances of four girls, all of whom had been enrolled in a popular class on vampirism, and finds she has once again been targeted by a killer and has completely underestimated her enemy.