san francisco (calif.)

Due to the Great Recession, Clay Jannon is looking for work anywhere he can find it, and his luck and ability to climb a ladder as well as a monkey have landed him the night-shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. After only a short while on the job, Clay realizes there is more to this store than meets the eye--even though what meets the eye is pretty incredible in itself. Several customers come in only to "check out" incredibly obscure books, as if it were a library. Thus Clay embarks on a sleuthing scheme to find out what is really going on.

"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women's Murder Club has ever encountered. In this pulse-racing, emotionally charged novel by James Patterson, the Women's Murder Club must find a killer--before she finds them first" --.

Hardened survivor Aiden Lynch's luck continues to serve him when he wins a ship in a high-stakes poker game. The ship is well-fitted and ready for trade, and so Aiden becomes a trader between California and Peru. However, nothing in his past prepared Aiden for the cruelty and savagery he sees in Peru, particularly in the mines--and when Aiden meets a Chinese miner who claims to be a captured nobleman, his loyalties come into question.

Gracelin O'Malley immigrates to America in order to escape the devastating famine in Ireland, and travels to San Francisco to meet the sea captain whose marriage proposal she accepted, but when he is not there to meet her, Gracelin is forced to accept a job with a prominent doctor and finds herself reunited with a lost love from her past.

In 1908, Kate and Ellen set up shop and begin to sell handmade Irish linens to a select San Francisco clientele.

John Walker, a young data analyst at McClaren Life and Casualty is drawn into a deadly conspiracy when he agrees to help security consultant Max Stillman locate Walker's former lover and colleague who disappeared after paying a large death benefit to an impostor.

Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.

When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client's innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend.

Eighteen-year-old housekeeper Sierra O'Nielle and Joseph Harlan, the handsome son of a wealthy cattle rancher, are contemplating a totally unsuitable romance when they are literally thrown together by the devastating 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.