The discovery of thousands of empty abalone shells and two murdered divers sends Lieutenant John Marquez's poaching investigation in a newand very riskydirection. Former DEA agent and now head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, Marquez learns he himself has been targeted as the next victim. Stalking him is Kline, a vicious drug smuggler turned abalone poacher who has a vendetta against Marquez. John Marquez

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San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau, and his ambitious new partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, catch their first case together when a young woman is found strangled in an empty building in China Basin. The victim's identity is unknown, a false confession leads nowhere, and the case spins unresolved. Meanwhile, the death of cancer-ridden homicide inspector Ted Whiteacre raises questions about an old case Whiteacre solved years before when he arrested...

"When Grale is tasked with investigating a series of coordinated bombings in LA, he's forced to leave his vulnerable niece alone in Vegas. But when she disappears, things become explosively personal." --

Two small boys and an old caretaker are all that stand between the people of their town and the hypnotic attraction of the Dark Carnival.

A comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre.