A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one's talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada. Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the light with deadly consequences. International jurisdiction is a complicated thing, and Gunther will have to collaborate...

Gail Zigman, town selectwoman and Joe Gunther's companion of many years, is raped, and the detective finds himself caught between the media, local politicians, and a network of well-meaning victims' rights advocates as he tries to put his own feelings aside and follow the trail of evidence. Every lead seems to point to a single, obvious suspect, but is the evidence too perfect? Risking his friendship with Gail, the respect of his peers, and his own...

A frightened old woman kills a man at her door in the middle of the night and Detective Joe Gunther discovers they were co-jurors on a sensational murder trial three years earlier. Several more vicious assaults make Joe suspect that all of the jurors from that trial are now in danger.

When lieutenant Joe Gunther responds to an apparently minor case he uncovers a drug trafficking network, police corruption, murder, and a missing criminal.

A hand is found sticking out of the dirt at a construction site, and Joe Gunther's detective squad begins research into who the victim was, how he was killed, who might have done it, and why. But before they know it, several more people are dead, including one of the town's biggest drug dealers, and others are implicated in a variety of illegal activities, from members of the ruling elite to one of the police department's very own. Hampered by the...

<p>It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn&rsquo;t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman&rsquo;s last word, his only tangible clue, was &ldquo;foreign.&rdquo; If publicized, it could be the match that would inflame Sweden&rsquo;s...

When a Swedish housewife becomes the victim of an execution-style killing, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the crime and uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.

Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state when in the course of a week a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the granddaughter of political bigwigs dies of an overdose.

Hiding the rookie inexperience that rendered a homicide case from the beginning of his career unsolvable, Joe Gunther discovers the case's murder weapon and begins tracking a killer who possesses a nature more brutal than anticipated.

""Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too, wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding...