The amusingly snarky Fifi Cutter takes a job as Mean Girl Friday to Reginald Wong, legendary Chinatown trial attorney. Wong is bringing a $60 million wrongful death case against Skyblu Charter Jet Services whose deranged ex-employee hijacked and crashed a private plane, killing all four people on board, and one on the ground--an unfortunate retiree crushed by the flaming remains of the fuselage...

The body of young Froggy Quale lies, covered by a blue tarp, in the pasture behind Castle Dunlaggan in the Scottish Highlands.  Froggy was the on-site pollen and spore expert at the nearby archaeological dig and a graduate student who doesn’t seem to have had an enemy in the world. 

Dotsy Lamb, ancient and medieval history teacher from Virginia, and her friend, Lettie, are boarding at the castle while Dotsy works at the dig and Lettie researches her Scottish ancestors.  They and the other guests are cared for in the ancient castle by its owners, William and Maisie Sinclair. William’s archaeologist brother, Dr. John Sinclair, directs the dig.

Suspicion for Froggy’s murder falls on his roommate, Van Nguyen, a graduate student from America and the dig’s media man...

In a North Carolina winter, new vistas appear through the bare trees. For Elizabeth Goodweather of Full Circle farm, still a newcomer after more than twenty years, one terrible glimpse ignites a mystery that reaches back years into these hills, drawing together dozens of seemingly unconnected lives. When Elizabeth catches sight of a frail old woman perched precariously on a high porch where naked dolls hang and twist in the bitter wind, she is startled and alarmed...

Billionaire Denton Wright is kayaking in the wilderness when his father’s mutilated body washes up on the Spanish coast. Denton’s father and another man were slaughtered in a drug cartel’s signature way: The Columbian Necktie. The father-son relationship had figured large in Denton's wilderness trek.  Now he burns with a passion: payback against whoever butchered the father he never really knew. It would not be easy. There was:
 
Beautiful but calculating Jenna Rogers in California, whose father was murdered alongside Denton's, and she had plans of her own
 
Carlos La Jolla, Jenna’s companion, a hot-blooded Latin with a sculpted body and black belt training, whose eyes give away nothing except a challenge to fight
 
Joe Corsano, in business with Denton's father, working some devious gambit of his own...

Someone at Richard Rexford's Silicon Valley software company is selling cyber-secrets to foreign agents. Is it Richard himself? Fledgling spy Ani Sharif's first undercover assignment is to find out, no matter what it takes. Previously limited to low-level jobs for the super-secret United States Security Agency, she's poised to advance her budding career to the next level if she can locate and break into Richard's private laptop. Posing as a broke, out-of-work programmer, she lands a job in his company where she has access to some of his files and to the man himself.
 
When Richard hires the young programmer, he doesn't want to get involved with her. That quickly changes once he uncovers Ani's hidden passion. Sex between them is explosive, drawing them closer. Bondage games tie their hearts together even more tightly...