"A brand new novel--and a stunning new heroine--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--

After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys, and Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand.

In his sexiest, scariest novel yet, James Patterson deftly confirms that he always "takes thrills to the next level" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package-and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them.
So...

Returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World in a story within a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain, who while investigating a murderous shape-shifter interviews a terrified teen who has witnessed the creature's most recent killing.

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.

Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is forced to flee, along with the daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators.

Fifteen years after she helped convict a man in the brutal attack of her cousin, Ellis Greene is dismayed to find he is out on parole, and Nate Vance, once a suspect in the attack, finds himself drawn to Ellis as the two friends try to track down the criminal.

A fateful meeting between Danny Cartwright, an East End cockney garage mechanic, and Spencer Craig, a young West End barrister, ends in Danny being arrested and convicted of murder--thanks to Spencer, who becomes the prosecution's main witness.

Rory, of B�enouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.

"Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers....