2010: #16 – Ivory Tower Cop (George Kirkham & Leonard Territo)

This fast-paced psychiatric thriller is based on police efforts to capture a brutal serial rapist who held a city’s professional women in the grip of fear for months, and on the senior author’s improbable metamorphosis from a Berkeley-educated university professor to a… »

2010: #15 – Heat Wave (Richard Castle)

A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another… »

2010: #1 – The First Rule (Robert Crais)

The Watchman put Joe Pike, Elvis Cole’s strong, taciturn partner, front and center, and not only won Robert Crais new audiences but remarkable reviews. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel said “Robert Crais elevates crime fiction” and now with The First Rule he does it again.

The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound… »