"Shape of the Sky tells the story of Resolute, Vermont - population 613 - a town trying to raise much-needed money by hosting a rock festival. Days before the music is due to begin, a fan is found dead in the woods. State trooper Chris Kozlowski's world turns upside down as the case returns him to dark memories of a sister who disappeared when he was a boy. An account of one community's experience with fifteen minutes of fame, Shape of the Sky...

From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations...

Tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city, focusing on three detectives, each driven in his own way to find out how and why the bodies fall.

Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing...

With an Updated Epilogue by the Author When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real-estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling...

"Cherry blossom season is Washington, D.C.'s most beautiful time of the year. But as tourists flock to the city, this year's festivities are marred by the discovery of the naked body of a young woman floating in the Tidal Basin. Veteran homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh is assigned to the case. He's shocked when he learns the victim is connected to another homicide which makes the investigation very personal for him. Brick's efforts to solve...

A homicide investigation unit probes violent crimes in the city of Baltimore.

A homicide investigation unit probes violent crimes in the city of Baltimore.