This year, 2006, is a very exciting one for me. I’m bringing out new hardbacks and paperbacks in each of my series, as well as two new stand-alone novels, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.

The latest Women’s Murder Club novel is THE 5th HORSEMAN, where the girls tackle a series of hospital deaths that seems more than just an appalling coincidence.

The second in my new series for teen readers, MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER, is a pulse-raising flight from danger for the six bird-kids. I am seriously biased, but I believe the Maximum Ride series is my best work.

JUDGE AND JURY is about a big-name mafia trial where an attack on the jurors leaves one woman determined to fight for justice, no matter what it takes.

In BEACH ROAD, three teenage boys are shot dead in the Hamptons, and there is no witness to help defend the poor kid accused of murder. Lawyers Tom and Kate, who have their own complicated past, must try to find a way to prove his innocence. As I said earlier, I’m biased, but I believe BEACH ROAD is the best thriller I’ve ever written, with the biggest, most satisfying twist of them all.

Then, in the Autumn, comes CROSS, the twelfth in the series and the novel I know Alex Cross addicts have been waiting for: Alex will finally learn the truth about his beloved wife’s murder.