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Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House - a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder - is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.

It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on! The result: Eleven stories that are twisty, scary, surprising and bursting with imagination. An egg worth more than its weight in gold. A mysterious operative known only as Owl. An eagle-watcher who sees more than she should. Even a story that somehow places the Maltese Falcon in a nursing home.

Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill—an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.

Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle’s Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims’ families and redeem the Seattle PD’s reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco.

Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family’s failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family’s reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career.

When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?

Da en kvindes lig bliver opdaget i en krabbetejne, der er blevet nedsænket i det kølige vand i Puget Sund, står kriminalbetjent Tracy Crosswhite over for en kompliceret mordsag. Før de kan identificere morderen, må Tracy og hendes kolleger fra Seattles Politis Voldssektion først finde ud af, hvem offeret er. Obduktionen afslører dog, at hun muligvis er gået meget langt for at skjule sin identitet.

Da hun efterforsker et trafikdrab, der kostede en ung dreng livet, opdager kriminalbetjent Tracy Crosswhite noget foruroligende: Den formodede gerningsmand er i aktiv tjeneste på en lokal flådebase i Seattle. Da et vigtigt stykke bevismateriale bliver væk, bliver han frikendt for alle anklager af en militærdomstol. Men Tracy ved, at hun ikke bare kan vende et blindt øje til en sådan uretfærdighed.

Kriminalassistent Tracy Crosswhite har et talent – og en svaghed – når det kommer til at kaste sig over uopklarede forbrydelser. Efter at have mistet sin egen søster, der blev myrdet i en ung alder, har Tracy dedikeret sin karriere til at sikre retfærdighed for familier og venner til ofre for forbrydelser. Så da Jenny, som Tracy har kendt og taget sig godt af siden politiskolen, beder hende om hjælp til at løse en uopklaret sag, der involverer en indfødt gymnasiepiges mistænkelige selvmord for 40 år siden, indvilliger Tracy.

Tracy Crosswhite har brugt tyve år på at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved hendes søster Sarahs forsvinden og mordsagen, der fulgte. Hun tror ikke på, at Edmund House – en dømt voldtægtsmand og manden fældet for drabet på Sarah – er den skyldige. Motiveret af muligheden for at opnå ægte retfærdighed blev Tracy drabsefterforsker hos Seattles Politi og dedikerede sit liv til at fange mordere. Da Sarahs rester endelig bliver fundet nær deres hjemby i de nordlige Cascade Bjerge i staten Washington, er Tracy fast besluttet på at få de svar, hun længe har søgt.

Drabsefterforsker Tracy Crosswhite er tilbage på arbejde efter den sensationelle genoptagelse af sin søsters morders retssag. Selvom hun stadig har ar på sjælen efter affæren, bliver Tracy involveret i en efterforskning, der truer med at gøre en ende på hendes karriere, hvis ikke på hendes liv. En seriemorder kendt som Cowboyen dræber unge kvinder på billige moteller i det nordlige Seattle. Selv efter en stalker efterlader en uhyggelig gave til Crosswhite, der antyder, at morderen – eller en kopimorder – er efter hende, bliver hun pålagt at stille gerningsmanden for retten.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.

Bodily Harm opens with a big win for Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a medical malpractice case centered on the death of a child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character – toy designer Kyle Horgan – comes forward to tell Sloane that he’s gotten it all wrong. Horgan’s the one who’s truly responsible for the little boy’s death and others – not the pediatrician Sloane has just proven guilty.

Returning from an extended leave, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD’s cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl’s disappearance, Tracy is brought into an active investigation with former partner Kinsington Rowe. A young woman has vanished on an isolated jogging trail in North Seattle.

Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital.

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life. A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle.

The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister's killer put behind bars. Now she's returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town's revitalization.

Varför begår presidentens förtrogne självmord? Varför mörkar Vita Huset polisens misstanke om mord? Det är inledningen till en politisk thriller där stjärnadvokaten Solane blir engagerad i att avslöja en 30 är gammal konspiration som har förgreningar till den sittande presidenten och till hans eget speciella trauma. Sloane får ett paket från presidentens rådgivare strax innan denne hittas skjulten. Mord säger polisen, självmord säger Vita huset.

Betrayed by his own country, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. The retired family man is through with spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it’s Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can’t leave her behind. But there’s no guarantee it’s her. Or proof Paulina is still alive. To find out, Jenkins must return to Russia and blackmail Viktor Federov, a former Russian officer with his own ax to grind, into helping him infiltrate Lefortovo.

Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy’s suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isn’t Tracy’s only challenge. The detective is keeping a secret of her own: she’s pregnant.