Burlington Public Library

When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home, with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides...

When her favorite teacher is murdered, true-crime obsessed teenager Natalie Temple launches her own investigation with the help of a new boy in town, but soon discovers some secrets were never meant to be told.

After CIA attorney Eve Salinas kidnaps and drugs ex-operative Mike Brown, he agrees to join her on a hunt for the cold-blooded traitor behind a fatal military operation that haunts them both.

When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.

Jeston Nash fled a New Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He'd won it from Quinton Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's promise rand in Nash's ears . . . somewhere, someday, they would meet again. Jeston catches up with Billy the Kid and they ride for New Mexico. For the Kid, freedom lies just beyond the border. For Nash, it's the chance...

Examination of the timeline and other evidence in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, including the drug traffic in Brentwood and its possible relation to the murders.

A jaded, somewhat demented, hit-man intertwines three tales of murder, mayhem, blackmail, and revenge when the assassin realizes he isn't the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

An anthology of short stories from some of the rising stars in the crime, suspense, and mystery genres, with each story introduced by such mentors as Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, and Lee Child