Epicenter: 84 books

Jean Aspen, daughter of arctic explorer and author Constance Helmericks, began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades, the natural world has remained central to her. What began as a series of letters to her son, Lucas, when she and her husband Tom set out to search for a different future,...

When Ric Stokes, a close friend of ex-Navy JAG Steve Stilwell, is arrested in Vietnam for selling heroin, Steve travels to Saigon to clear his name. He and his new assistant Casey soon find their lives in danger. The people who framed Ric and killed his traveling companion Ryan have eyes everywhere, and they will stop at nothing to protect the secret of Sapphire Pavilion.

Psychologist Gil Moss is abducted by Doyle Wentworth, an elderly client who played John Muir in a satirical, anti-environmental miniseries. The two men journey westward from Indiana via freight train, private jet, and stolen automobile, aided and pursued by colorful figures from Gil’s and Doyle’s pasts. Destination: Muir Woods and the auditions for the revival of Yosemite Yahoos.

A priest is found brutally strangled before the altar of Detroit’s St. Cosmas Greek Orthodox Church. The captain of the Detroit Police assigns her star detective Christopher Worthy to the case, knowing that the interim priest is Worthy’s close friend Father Fortis. Worthy’s new partner Henderson...

Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men—the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she’s just seen, but with no time to second guess it’s...

A collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile criminal investigations of the past half-century. Step by step, journalist Tom Brennan walks readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from the confidential files of Alaska police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.

Ritu Roy, a constable with an all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit in Darfur, Sudan, has been shot dead. Her superiors call it a random shooting. Her best friend thinks otherwise. She’s found a bullet casing from a sniper’s rifle, an uncommon weapon in the refugee camp. The case remains...

After Johnnie and her black friend are attacked by a boy inflamed by a liberal bumper sticker, Johnnie recounts the incident in her newspaper column, prompting a reader to reach out with stories from Portion’s untold history of racial strife. More tears and triumphs follow, as Johnnie fears for her son in Afghanistan but learns the power of love and forgiveness at home.

Amateur sleuth Baxley Powell is on vacation at Stony Creek Lake in the north Georgia mountains. Her parents, best friend, and ten-year-old daughter are camping with her. Almost immediately, a young man’s body is found beside the lake. Strangely, there’s no apparent cause of death. The local police...

Allyson Worthy, daughter of the renowned homicide detective Christopher Worthy always dreamt of living in Venice. Now, as a college student, she’s landed a dream internship with the Venice police. She assumes she will be investigating minor crimes perpetrated on gullible American and English tourists....

When Ed and his friend Danny join the crew of the Angie Piper for a season of crab fishing in Alaska, they believe they know the risks. Still, their experienced mates and the boat’s proven reliability make them discount the danger inherent in the trade. And not everyone is glad to have a simple soul like Danny aboard, especially when Mother Nature bears down on them with her full arsenal.

With a murderer on her heels, Tory takes refuge in a rental cottage to care for her brother’s noisy Alaskan malamutes. Cole, a multi-millionaire residing next door, storms over to read her the riot act. At the sight of the dogs’ delectable caretaker, his fury quickly evaporates, replaced by lust....

The scenic campus of the Washington state capitol is outwardly calm, but the Legislature is in session and no one better understands the turmoil that swirls beneath the surface than professional lobbyist Sandy Dalton. In the middle of a busy day, a powerful senator is found dead in his office with...

As eldest son, Eoin O’Brien is expected to take over the management of his family pub, the Lion O’Brien in the Bronx. Despite his da’s disapproval, he has achieved his dream of becoming a police detective. He also longs to have a family, but his wife Vivian left him three years ago to pursue...