Patterson introduces Alex Cross in Along Came a Spider. The DC police after a private school teacher holding two prominent children hostage.
A publishing princess heads to a remote island in search of a potential blockbuster. She's actually being deceived by the reclusive author and her own husband in Envy.
Ridley Pearson wrote this fictional diary as a tie-in to Stephen King's "Rose Red" miniseries. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is creepy and disturbing, even as fiction.
The residents of a small Chinese village must come to grips with progress at the expense of tradition in The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill.