Former FBI Agent E.L. Pender's vacation in a tropical paradise is cut short when mutilated bodies begin to surface. Could these killings be connected to faith-driven fanaticism, or is this the work of a madman who is using the island's cultural folklore for his own deadly aims?

On his last day with the FBI, special agent E.L. Pender is drawn into the case of phobia disorder patient Dorie Bell, whose fellow attendees at a Las Vegas phobia convention have died in manners inconsistent with their fears.

A work of gripping originality, "The Girls he Adored" brilliantly portrays two equally intense characters--a deviant killer and the expert who can unlock his darkest secrets--and introduces one of the most likable sleuths in recent fiction. FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender is convinced he has found his man, but before he can prove it, the suspect stages a cunning jailbreak and abducts his court-appointed psychiatrist to a house of horrors on a secluded ridge in Oregon.

Not since Anne Rice's "Interview With the Vampire" has the vampire myth been so boldly reimagined! This stylish, mesmerizing tale of eroticism and suspense portrays the dark side of human obsession as never seen before, as members of a shadowy subculture struggle against themselves and their hopeless, irresistible desire for the ultimate drug.

The man in the prison cells calls himself Max. He admits to killing the cop who found him sitting in a car beside the still-warm body of a disembowelled young woman, but he claims to be suffering from DID, the multiple-personality disorder that is a common alibi for the worst criminals. Assigned to assess the truth of Max's defence is strawberry blonde psychiatrist Irene Cogan. When Max masterminds his bloody escape from prison and kidnaps Irene, he agrees to undergo a course of therapy, during which Irene is introduced to a succession of his alters - his alternative personalities. To her alarm, it seems that one of them has a distinctly unhealthy penchant for strawberry blondes. And it looks like it will be up to FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender, who has been on Max's trail for over a decade, to find them before Irene discovers exactly what that penchant entails...

Lily deVries suffers from dissociative identity disorder, which means that her mind has fragmented into different personalities. One of those personalities is Lilith, the violent psychopath. When Lilith meets Max, a fellow sufferer, it's up to ex-FBI Agent Pender to track them down and prevent a carnage beyond imagining.

International vampire Aldo Striescu, a former Romanian secret policeman, is hired to kill James Whistler, another vampire. So Whitler enrolls the help of Selene, a witch who loves him. Vampire versus witch in a battle on two continents.

After years of moving from one cult to another, fourteen-year-old Caro and her idealistic mother find a sense of community with a group of homeless people trying to survive on the streets of San Francisco.

Charmingly disheveled FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender returns in this thriller by the acclaimed author of "The Girls He Adored." On his last day on the job, Pender encounters a barbarous villain who literally scares his victims to death.