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Helen is a troubled teenager who, when asked by the police to be a stand-in for a crime scene reconstruction, is given the chance to confront the ghosts of her own past.

A thriller about smart drugs whose heroine is a former policewoman. When her drug-designer husband goes missing and becomes a suspect in the murder of another drug designer, Kate Baker opens her own probe, getting a hacker to break into his computer where she learns things she would rather not know. By the author of Bone by Bone.

California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. Oddly, the missing 14 million are all Hispanic.

Describes the author's effort to connect with her long-estranged septuagenarian father, a homesteader, classical guitarist, and war veteran whose views on freedom prompted a life of solitude.

Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or amy not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.

The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? This collaboration between President Bill Clinton and James Patterson is full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office: the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities,...

Fleeing the creditors who own his plane, Frank Bama heads for Cuba, where he meets up with an heiress to a hemorrhoid-ointment fortune and investigates the disappearance of her rock-star brother.

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps...

When a hurricane hits Florida, some people waste no time in exploiting it. The novel follows a few of them, including a woman who abandons a scheme to sleep with a Kennedy for a more lucrative insurance rip-off, and a former governor who turns avenger to protect the community from just such people.