Life isn't getting any easier for Rain Arnold. The ghettos of Washington D.C. are a constant reminder that she must struggle to hold on to her dreams. She has already fought hard to do well at school and to be a good daughter. But when tragedy strikes, everything Rain has ever known - the family she has loved and the place she has called home - is left behind, and Rain is sent to live with total strangers. With nowhere to turn, Rain finds an escape in the theatre, inside the walls of an exclusive private school. But will it be enough to fulfil her hopes and ambitions - and give her a place to call home?

Inspector Anders of the Rome police force became a national hero when he closed down an anarchist cell ten years ago. But in the action he lost a leg - and his nerve. Since then he has made his moral compromises with the corruption of the Italian state. Now he has been given one last job before early retirement: to close an inquiry into the murder of a judge in the south. But things become more complicated when he meets the judge's widow, who offers him the chance to redeem his life...

Legendary FBI profiling pioneer John Douglas's theory is that once you figure out the motivating force driving a perpetrator, you've got a good chance of cracking the case

In The Anatomy of Motive Douglas uses cases from his own career to illustrate his argument. He takes us further than ever before into the dark corners of the minds of arsonists, hijackers, serial and spree killers and mass murderers.
For the first time, Douglas identifies the common building blocks contributing to the violently antisocial personality. He profiles notorious assassins, examining that particular personality and how it applies to other types of crimes. Drawing on cases from today's headlines, he looks at the motivations of mass killers, how the crimes escalate, and the common elements that link them together. Through riveting profiles and a narrative that reads like the best mystery fiction, The Anatomy of Motive analyses such diverse killers as Lee Harvey Oswald, Theodore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh, and helps us learn how to anticipate potential violent behaviour before it's too late.

State Trooper Nathan Active has been posted to the Alaskan village of Chukchi. Surrendered for adoption at birth by his Inuit mother, he knows little of the indigenous culture, and less about the series of suicides plaguing the village. Can a shaman's curse really be at work?

A breathtaking new thriller about a religious sect bent on global destruction, from the author of The Infiltrator

'In two weeks the Horror begins...
Were those the crazed words of a ranting millennial fundamentalist? Or a very real warning that the world governments have seen too late?
In the standard uniform of blue denim shirt and jeans, young journalist Kirstan Cooper succumbs to the charms of cult leader David Norton. Her shining face and blank adoring eyes tell watchers all they need to know about her adoption into the Fellowship. For nine years Norton and his sect have been dedicated to preparing the world for Christ's Second Coming. Yet to the authorities they pose no security risk whatsoever.
However, alerted by Kirstan's disappearance, researcher Jane Carlucci begins to piece together some disturbing facts about the Fellowship. And in her wilder moments she can't help interpreting some recent world disasters - outbreaks of botulism, lethally contaminated baby milk, random bomb attacks - as possible signs of the Eighth Scroll, a controversial document foretelling Christ's return, and seen by many as a fake.
Endangered by her own investigations, with the aid of journalist Sam Ferryman Jane goes into hiding - her only safe sanctuary the Fellowship itself. And now, in a move that threatens the safety of millions, the countdown to the moment Norton has been waiting for has begun...

Gotham City - a twisted reflection of urban America, a breeding ground for the criminally insane, and the object of one man's obsession. Dedicating his life to protecting the city from its many predators, Bruce Wayne is the masked vigilante known as the Batman. But now, levelled by a massive earthquake that has left thousands dead and millions more wounded, Gotham City has been cut off from the outside world and transformed into a lawless battleground. And in these darkest of hours, Batman is missing.