Mark Darrow, having accepted the opportunity to become the head of a local college at the urging of the professor who helped him become a successful trial lawyer, returns to his alma mater where he cannot escape thoughts of a female student who he found dead on the night of his greatest success as a quarterback for the school and for which his friend was sentenced to life in prison, and, when another student is murdered, Mark believes the real killer...

"A death in the dark, a young life on the line. From the backroads of rural Georgia to the halls of Congress, this riveting novel draws on Richard North Patterson's years as a trial attorney as well as his insider knowledge of Washington DC. Intricate, compelling, and timely, it may be his best book yet." -Geraldine Brooks, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and New York Times bestselling author of Horse. "It is no overstatement to say that...

When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.

After the death and funeral of his estranged father, CIA operative Adam Blaine is left to deal with his father's complicated legal and financial arrangements to settle his estate, which send Blaine on a quest to uncover his father's killer and leads him to suspect the invovement of members of his own family.

Novice president Kerry Kilcannon becomes caught up in a dangerous power struggle when his brother-in-law goes on a killing spree, sparking Kilcannon to mount a vigorous campaign to wipe out gun violence, a quest that pits him against the powerful Sons of the Second Amendment group.