The cave by Anne Mc Lean Matthews

Helen Myrer, a psychologist and the top mental health administrator in New York State, loses a battle to stop deep cuts in the state health services budget. Wrought with disappointment and deserted by her family at the time of her greatest need, she arranges a getaway to a remote cabin she and her beloved deceased husband once visited. Just when she most needs to relax, she encounters a masked...

Under the knife by Francis Roe

A brilliant young surgeon finishing his residency accepts a position at a prestigious medical practice in New England. Accustomed to the long hours and quick decisions of the hospital emergency room, he thinks he is well prepared for the pressures of private practice. But when he makes a critical error his confidence is shaken--until he uncovers a deadly web of medical intrigue that is making the line between life and death seem razor thin.

The way you look tonight by Carlene Thompson

Deborah Robinson lived on a quiet street in a small town with her handsome husband and darling twins--until the day her husband vanished without a trace. Deborah has heard about the murders of several local women, and she can't shake the felling that somehow the killings are connected to Steve's disappearance. Torn by guilt, tormented by suspicion, Deborah begins to delve into the shadowy secrets of her husband's past. What she finds will chill her to the bone. Previously published by Hodder and Stoughton.

24 hours by Greg Iles

Joe Hickey has devised a simple but elegant kidnapping scheme, which he has used successfully five times to extort thousands of dollars from wealthy doctors in the Jackson, LA, area. All the children were returned to their parents unharmed; the police were never involved. But Joe's sixth attempt is special: not only has he decided that it will be his last, but little Abby Jennings is picked because Joe blames Dr. Will Jennings for his mother's death. Time is a significant factor in all of Joe's kidnappings, for each child is taken and returned within a 24-hour period in order to reduce the possibility of police involvement. The suspense deepens as Will and Karen Jennings panic over the disappearance of their daughter, who suffers from juvenile diabetes and is dependent on daily injections of insulin; they realize Abby will die unless they act to save her…

The last coyote by Michael Connelly

Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much.  And he's even had to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first Bosch, resists the LAPD shrink, but finally he recognizes that something is troubling him, a force that may have shaped his entire life.  In 1961, when Harry was eleven, his mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accused of the crime. Harry opens up the decades-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided.  It's clear that the case was fumbled. His mother was a prostitute, and even thirty years late the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to keep the investigating officers away from key suspects.  Even as he confronts his own shame about his mother, Harry relentlessly follows up the old evidence, seeking justice or at least understanding. Out of the broken pieces of the case he discerns a trail that leads upward, toward prominent people who lead public lives high in the Hollywood hills. And as he nears his answer, Harry finds that ancient passions don't die. They cause new murders even today.

The Poet by Michael Connelly

McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide. Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve. McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation.  Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.

Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a cable railway in downtown Los Angeles, there's not a detective in the city who wants to touch the case. For Elias specialized in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism, and corruption, and every LAPD cop is a possible suspect in his killing. Detective Harry Bosch is put in charge. Elias's murder occurred on the eve of a major trial: on behalf of black client, Michael Harris, Elias was to bring a civil case against the LAPD for violent interrogation tactics that had caused his client the partial loss of his hearing. Harris had been acquitted of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl, but many, including Bosch, believe him guilty.  Elias had let it be known that the trial would serve a dual purpose — to target and bring down the guilty cops and to expose the real murderer of the little girl. Post Rodney King, the 1992 riots, and the trial of O.J. Simpson, the City of Angels is living on its nerves. To discover the truth Harry must dig deep in his own backyard — except that it's a minefield of suspicion and hate that could detonate in his face. And as if he didn't have enough on his mind, his happiness with Eleanor Wish looks to be short-lived. Five cards on the felt are pulling her back to a place where Harry cannot follow, back to herself.

A Darkness More Than Night par Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back.  It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed. McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge.  As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes — his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director — begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives

The Black Echo par Michael Connelly

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch — hero, maverick, nighthawk — the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.  Now, Bosch is about to relive the horrors of Nam.  From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the tortuous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Joining with an enigmatic female FBI agent, pitted against enemies within his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.