The brutal killings of a young couple--the troubled Gavin Quick and an unidentified female victim--draws LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware into a search for a cold-blooded killer.

"The plot of an Alafair Burke thriller doesn't just rip from the headlines. She's one step ahead of them. 212 scares you and keeps you turning the pages into the wee hours."
—Harlan Coben

"Burke has created a strong female protagonist in the tradition of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski and Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone.... Utterly authentic."
—Boston Globe

212 is acclaimed author—and former deputy district

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When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...

When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, PI Sunny Randall has a chance to return a favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over, and finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she...

October, 1900. London. As an archaeologist, Dr. Margaret Murray is used to examining ancient remains, but she's never before had to investigate the circumstances surrounding a newly-dead corpse. When the body of one of her students is discovered, Margaret rejects the official verdict of suicide and determines to find out how the girl really died.

Former pop star Heather Wells is now the assistant dorm director at New York College. On the first day of the semester a student is found decapitated. Now she must deal with hysterical students, her ex-con father, and her ex love who is about to be married and bombarding her with phone calls. With the help of her landlord, a gorgeous P.I. she tries to solve the murder.