Caring for her shy younger brother while her mother returns to work, thirteen-year-old Nellie encounters three strangers, including a junkyard worker, a New York City thief, and a young stripper before witnessing a shocking act of violence.

“Stunning . . . the tragic sweep of Todd’s historical mysteries grows more expansive with each novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
Called out into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge faces one of the most savage murders he’s ever encountered. He might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields where he’d lost much of his soul—and...

"Little Virginia lives in an apartment complex in Sydney with her widowed father. She must be left with a babysitter over the Christmas holiday while her father travels on business. Isobel, the sitter, is a reluctant neighbor, pressed into service at the last minute. Annoyed with her lively young charge, she locks the child in the kitchen when her boyfriend visits. Then something unforeseen occurs and the little girl's life is placed in jeopardy."--Jacket....

Child psychologist Alex Delaware examines a disturbed young girl and uncovers evidence of a brutal double murder, a child molester's grisly suicide, and a horrible forty-year old secret that continues to have an effect today.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas must solve the murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city—not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal—but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family...

The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method? The only person who might have answers is the victim's seven-year-old daughter, who was found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she's not talking. Newly promoted, out of his depth, Detective Huldar turns to Freyja and the Children's House for their expertise with traumatized young people. Freyja, who distrusts the police in general and Huldar in particular, isn't...