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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a compelling trilogy about three brothers bound by fate, blood, and a timeless enemy.

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it’s called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys—Caleb, Fox, and Gage—went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone...
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"Will the dam hold? Julie Wallace has always wanted to write. Trying to escape the Great Depression, Julie's father buys the Alderton Sentinel, a small-town newspaper in flood-prone Alderton, Pennsylvania, and moves his family there. As flash floods ominously increase, Julie's investigative reporting uncovers secrets that could engdanger the entire community." -- from back cover.

"A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid...

"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady...

"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates -- against the warnings of the police and his own editor -- and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...

Elle Jameson, top investigative journalist, thinks reporting on corruption on a German military base will be an ordinary assignment, until she stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy. Nolan, one of the guardians assigned to safeguard others, fights to buy Elle time to complete her investigation, in a race to prevent a global catastrophe.

Investigative reporter, Samantha Bell, has a new secret admirer and is secretly being watched. When her big about-to-be-published story is mysteriously leaked to the man whose crimes she's going to expose, she suddenly finds herself staring between the crosshairs. When a ruthless computer hacker who goes only by the name Loxley begins targeting the rich and famous, Samantha is quickly drawn into the investigation. With murders made to look like accidents,...

"My husband is missing!" Maddy sobbed, begging for Jenny's help. Going to her friend's aid, Jenny never suspected she would soon be caught up in a plot of blackmail, brainwashing and political intrigue as a powerful man attempted to coerce others to do his bidding. Taking a job with his organization, Jenny hopes that by joining him, she can protect her friends. Instead, she finds herself immersed in a scheme to influence local, statewide and national...

One girl is missing. Another's found alive. And the killer is watching them both. Investigative reporter, Samantha Bell, might be the only person who wants to find missing sixteen-year-old Megan Hines. Gone without a trace for nearly a month, public interest has dried up along with the leads, until eighteen-year-old Eva Martin escapes her kidnapper's grip. Detective Alex King has never seen a homicide as brutal as this. Fearing a connection to the...