The zany Spellmans are back. Now that her parents are older, Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, age 32, has agreed to head up Spellman Investigations. She is also dating boyfriend number 12, an Irish bartender. Even so, Mother Olivia, determined that Izzy marry a professional, blackmails her into dating men of Olivia's choice (preferably lawyers) every other week. Youngest daughter Rae, a genius teen who's supposed to be studying for the SATs, is wrapped up...

With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight. As Lindsay...

Could the Mark Twain books hidden through Book Scavenger contain clues about the string of recent arson fires plaguing the city? And will Emily and James uncover the mystery before the arsonist comes after them?

After an assailant guns down a mother and her infant at a mall and a cat burglar kills the wife of an A-list actor, Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich must pick up the pieces, but not before one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her life on the line.

A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside Lindsay in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical...

The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Her aunt wanders about in...

Joe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life's work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf's bloodline becomes SFPD's lifeline. Detective Ben Cantor trails the "pack of wolves" as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets. All four have the means and the motive to commit murder,...

Former police detective Adrian Monk suffers from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. With the aid of his nurse Sharona Fleming, Monk works as a freelance consultant, hoping to convince his former boss to allow him to return to the force.

When Tien Fu Wu, a young Chinese girl, is sold into slavery by her gambler father, she is rescued by the women of the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, where she befriends missionary Dolly Cameron.

Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.