Cold Case 369

by David Osborn

When two women detectives in the CID division of a large city police force, one a forty-year veteran, the other a rookie, are forcibly teamed together in an unfriendly partnership, the rookie follows the many-years-old cold case of a painting found in a stolen deposit box. As she traces its path from obscurity to potential world fame at auction, the older detective, disdaining the efforts of her younger partner, investigates the more recent and seemingly unrelated violent homicide of an important city councilman. The paths of both widely different investigations merge, however, united by evidence in the cold case, and the two detectives become as one to successfully hunt down those guilty of the homicide.

Selected praise:

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“The tale is spun tightly and the main characters are engaging.”

—Chicago Sun Times

The Newsroom

by David Osborn

When a young scholarly student of pre-Homeric ancient Greek poetry gets a job researching neo-Nazi hate groups with a local weekly newspaper, she escapes the hail of death from a bump-stocked AR-15 that that kills six of the paper’s staff, but not the following chain of events that threatens her own life in turn.

Selected praise:

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark”

—Clive Cussler

Eventide

by David Osborn

Abandoning a life she herself terms “thrown away,” Ana Masaryk, a Purple Heart Army vet of the Iraq war, begins anew in a small northern New England town, where she finds refuge with the gay illustrator of children’s books in an abandoned church he has transformed. A necessary job covering local social functions and writing obits for The Chronicle, the town’s newspaper, leads Ana into an impassioned whole new life of consuming work as the paper’s publisher and editor, and to her defiant defense of it, at the risk of losing everything, when the paper’s independence is threatened by a big-city news chain owned by a politically ambitious billionaire, who always gets whatever he wants through lies, distortions, and sowing dissension.

Selected praise:

“Breathless introduction to the inner workings of big business …”

—The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing Osborn’s The Glass Tower

“Before settling down to read this book, take the phone off the hook, make sure all the doors and windows are locked, set a large medicinal brandy within easy reach, and prepare to let David Osborn scare your pants off. Highly recommended.”

—The Bloodhound, reviewing Osborn’s Murder on Martha’s Vineyard

“An exciting, highly plausible Washington thriller …”

—Gore Vidal, reviewing Osborn’s The French Decision

The Cape Cod Blue

by David Osborn

Chase Morse and his brother, Haydn, heirs to an auction-house empire, split their time between Manhattan and The Moorings, the idyllic family estate on Nantucket. Gabrielle, a French journalist sent to write features on the glittering New York art world, becomes entangled with the family, but when a body turns up at The Moorings and a priceless painting goes missing from inside the vault at the auction house amid tight security, family secrets get harder to keep. The police start digging, and the stakes are high—eighty million dollars, pilfered and then lost in risky Russian investments. Can an entitled one-percenter with expansive resources, enlisting the help of a wily art forger, outsmart the art cops and the old guard within the company?

The glittering, exalted world of art auctioning hides love, hate, and murder in a wealthy and socially prominent family when the forgery of an anonymous Cape Cod painting threatens to destroy them all.

Selected praise:

“Breathless introduction to the inner workings of big business …”

—The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing David Osborn’s The Glass Tower

“This well-plotted thriller makes compulsive holiday reading.”

—Salisbury Journal, reviewing David Osborn’s Murder on Martha’s Vineyard

“As commercial and exciting a novel as can be found today.… It is shocking, savage, and graphic, a cruel book that spares little in detail. There is unbearable suspense, headlong action, and ends with a final ironic twist that will leave the reader gasping. Osborn is a master storyteller and his remorseless style matches his remorseless narrative.…”

—Abilene Reporter News, reviewing David Osborn’s Open Season

“An exciting, highly plausible Washington thriller …”

—Gore Vidal, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark.”

—Clive Cussler, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“This is a first-class book. It has what one admires so often in English thrillers and finds so seldom in American ones: literate, accomplished writing which makes the plot more ingenious, the characterizations more deft and engaging, and therefore the thrills more thrilling.…”

—Michael Thomas, author of Green Monday, reviewing David Osborn’s Love and Treason

The Lighthouse

by David Osborn

An historic lighthouse at the tiny coastal village of Shinnecock witnesses during one month both murder and espionage when the select Summer White House Oval Office is lodged in the neighboring private home, to which the U.S. president retreats on holiday with his entire family, and which this year sees a highly secret visit by a prince from Saudi Arabia, where two American scientists are held hostage.

Selected praise:

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark.”

—Clive Cussler

“The tale is spun tightly and the main characters are engaging.”

—Chicago Sun Times

The Saugatuck Conspiracy

by David Osborn

Kelsie Gordon leads a double life: one as a ruthless and deadly undercover agent for the Treasury Department, tracing Kremlin and Russian oligarchs’ money from Moscow to leading American businessmen who are secretly supporting neo-Nazis and white nationalism, and a second as an anxious loving mom to a younger brother, while hiding from all that she is the illegitimate daughter of the U.S. vice president.

Selected praise:

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark”

—Clive Cussler

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

The Head Hunters: A Medical Thriller

by David Osborn

Washington DC—and terror in an isolated government-sanctioned medical laboratory as the potential of medicine goes horrifyingly wrong.

When Susan, a young researcher, loses her fiancée in a terrible accident, she is seduced by Michael, a friend and the head doctor on a top-secret neurometric project backed by the White House and the famed Borg-Harrison Foundation. Joining Michael’s team, Susan is unaware of the terrible danger she faces in the high-security facility and from Katherine, the team psychologist, who will go to any lengths to protect the lab’s vital secrecy—and her own carnal desires. When Susan stumbles onto the true nature of the project, it’s to find herself in it too deep to walk away and, trapped in the worst kind of nightmare, threatened every second to becoming a ghastly medical experiment herself.

In The Head Hunters, David Osborn explores the murky boundaries between ethics and medical research, between volunteer and victim, ambition and ruthlessness, and between life and death when a team of responsible doctors plays a deadly game in which any of the players can be condemned to a purgatory more ghastly than hell.

Selected praise:

“Breathless introduction to the inner workings of big business …”

—The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing David Osborn’s The Glass Tower

“This well-plotted thriller makes compulsive holiday reading.”

—Salisbury Journal, reviewing David Osborn’s Murder on Martha’s Vineyard

“As commercial and exciting a novel as can be found today.… It is shocking, savage, and graphic, a cruel book that spares little in detail. There is unbearable suspense, headlong action, and ends with a final ironic twist that will leave the reader gasping. Osborn is a master storyteller and his remorseless style matches his remorseless narrative.…”

—Abilene Reporter News, reviewing David Osborn’s Open Season

“An exciting, highly plausible Washington thriller …”

—Gore Vidal, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark.”

—Clive Cussler, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“This is a first-class book. It has what one admires so often in English thrillers and finds so seldom in American ones: literate, accomplished writing which makes the plot more ingenious, the characterizations more deft and engaging, and therefore the thrills more thrilling.…”

—Michael Thomas, author of Green Monday, reviewing David Osborn’s Love and Treason

Delta Red

by David Osborn

Kasie Sanders, a young rising-star New Orleans police detective, is busted after a bodega shootout and is working as a wedding and children’s party photographer when she is picked for a dangerous special assignment by the FBI, investigating American ties to a sex-slave ring in Malaysia and Thailand. Going undercover as a photojournalist for Great American Families magazine, Kasie joins Louisiana’s famed Warriner family, one of whom, a prominent congressman, is suspected of pedophilia, and soon encounters, in the idyllic setting of the Warriner’s historic antebellum Lonsdale House, vicious racism as well as crimes even worse than pedophilia, and herself in far more danger than she ever experienced as a police officer.

Selected praise:

“There won’t be a better book published in America this year.… brilliantly plotted … infinite complications … as audacious as it is original …”

—Alastair Maclean, reviewing David Osborn’s Love and Treason

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald, reviewing David Osborn’s Open Season

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark.”

—Clive Cussler, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

The Somersville Bodies

by David Osborn

When the bodies of a retired couple in a small town are discovered six months after their deaths, the local police chief, his lead detective, and the county coroner all rule the couple a shared suicide. One young woman police officer, however, suspects murder. Her dogged pursuit of the killer or killers against orders to desist eventually leads her to evidence that the deceased couple were silenced to cover up a major scandal at the state capitol and to a terrifying shoot-out when she finally runs the killers to earth.

Selected praise:

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“The tale is spun tightly and the main characters are engaging.”

—Chicago Sun Times

Bones

by David Osborn

Artist Andretta Salinger awakens one day in an old stone country house she’s bought from a family ownership of six generations to find she’s been living for two years with the bones of someone murdered and buried in the floor of her cellar. When Andretta finds herself drawn willy-nilly into the small-town police investigation of a homicide committed in 1868, it’s into the scandal-ridden lives of the great railroad barons of the day and to identifying the murderer.

Kira and Cassandra

by David Osborn

Revelation after his death by an elderly priest of a serious crime, reported in the sanctity of the confessional, leads a police officer friend to follow from birth the strangely connected fate of two girls, one from wealth, the other from poverty, whose paths through all their growing years are unknown to each other but which cross dramatically in the arrest of one for assault and deadly arson.

Selected praise:

“A good tale of mystery and murder. Its plot twists and turns in and out of an intriguing whodunit that packs a punch at the end powerful enough to floor one.”

—Western Morning News

“A sharp, taut adventure story … leads a trail through mystery and destruction that is elusive and enthralling …”

—Glasgow Herald

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark”

—Clive Cussler

A Cold Wind from the Andes

by David Osborn

Kelly Anders, financially successful writer of best-selling romantic fiction, lives a privileged but sterile existence in a Manhattan penthouse. Pushed into a book tour of Britain by her publisher, Kelly dreads a politically orchestrated meeting with Rachel Sommerset, the acclaimed Nobel Prize–winning novelist, her generation’s Tolstoy. The encounter, while leading to a surprising friendship between the two women, dredges up the ghosts of Kelly’s past—her unacknowledged youth with a different name in the impoverished inner city and her ambivalent feelings toward her husband, Gerald, now hidden away in her penthouse in a permanent coma, the fallout of an ugly kidnapping in Argentina of himself, the mining corporation head he worked for, along with the man’s consort, Teresa, and Jake, a renowned photographer. Their lives changed forever by their brutal captors, Jake and Teresa, in their struggle to right themselves, find their way together in the world, while unified with them through their shared experience and strengthened by the bond she’d built with Rachel, Kelly begins to reassess her career and her life in an ultimate quest for redemption.

Selected praise:

“An exciting, highly plausible Washington thriller …”

—Gore Vidal, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“No better example of absorbing, fast-paced intrigue. Compelling to the last punctuation mark.”

—Clive Cussler, reviewing David Osborn’s The French Decision

“Breathless introduction to the inner workings of big business …”

—The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing David Osborn’s The Glass Tower

“This well-plotted thriller makes compulsive holiday reading.”

—Salisbury Journal, reviewing David Osborn’s Murder on Martha’s Vineyard

“As commercial and exciting a novel as can be found today.… It is shocking, savage, and graphic, a cruel book that spares little in detail. There is unbearable suspense, headlong action, and ends with a final ironic twist that will leave the reader gasping. Osborn is a master storyteller and his remorseless style matches his remorseless narrative.…”

—Abilene Reporter News, reviewing David Osborn’s Open Season

“This is a first-class book. It has what one admires so often in English thrillers and finds so seldom in American ones: literate, accomplished writing which makes the plot more ingenious, the characterizations more deft and engaging, and therefore the thrills more thrilling.…”

—Michael Thomas, author of Green Monday, reviewing David Osborn’s Love and Treason