Gene Engene

Stephen Crane's classic Civil War story of Private Henry Fleming who goes off to war with ideas of glory but instead finds a reality that makes him question his own motives.

Investigating a long-unsolved murder when a witness uncovers blocked memories, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J.P. Beaumont infiltrates a band of powerful conspirators who will go to any lengths to hide the truth.

Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 1996.

Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont tracks a killer whose determination is fueled by a decades-old murder.

The murder of a spouse-abusing dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain has detective J.P. Beaumont looking not for a motive, but for the one person who was finally pushed past the point of endurance.

Joining the Last Chance Club to review unsolved crimes, former sheriff Brandon Walker unexpectedly confronts one of his own botched cases and a serial murderer who is responsible for the heinous deaths of numerous orphan girls in colonial Mexico.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker is still smarting from a run-in with the FBI that almost got him killed when he reluctantly teams up with them again on a case involving a stolen Stinger missile.

Dodge Mercer has lead the life of a gunslinger. Hungry for the quiet life, he drifts west looking for a chance to build a spread of his own. He decides on the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country of Arizona, and is welcomed to stay and work with the Lilley clan. Nan Lilley is the most beautiful woman Dodge has ever seen. In his quest for her love, he runs up against tough, two-fisted Buck Hathaway, who claims Nan for his own. When Nan chooses

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Believing they have killed a revenue agent, Russ and Howie leave Arkansas and run to Oklahoma to Russ's uncle Tyge. He offers them $1,000 each to join a land rush and file on two homesteads for him. When they learn that money won't be paid until they prove up on the land for three years, they take off. They fail at robbing a stage, then get a job driving one which also ends in disaster. They get a job with a Wild West Show and last one hilarious...

During the frontier days, North Dakota was considered the land of opportunity by hardy pioneers eager to settle on 160 free acres offered by the government. All they had to do was prove up on the land for three years and it was theirs. The Morgan family found proving up was no simple task. The prairie they experienced was a killer--hot and dry in the summer, numbing cold in the winter, torrential rains that turned their sod house into a dripping muddy...