Renowned criminal profiler Frank Black retires with his family to Seattle, where he joins the mysterious Millennium Group in an effort to track a serial killer whose viciously slain victims include an exotic dancer.

The discovery of human ashes in a flowerbed brings Frank Black to San Francisco, where the Millennium Group investigates a controlling cult linked to a telemarketing firm.

On a serial murder case in Portland, Oregon, Frank Black is uneasily teamed with a troubled Millennium Group candidate who proves ill-suited to handle the horrors of the case.

Dismembered remains provide Frank Black with a lead to the Judge, a vigilante who persuades aimless ex-cons to enforce a code of murderous personal justice.

A deadly explosion in a crowded Washington, D.C., pub is traced to a serial bomber who subsequently toys with Frank Black and the authorities as he plots to strike again.

A crisis of faith figures in the motive for the slayings of clerics by a grief-stricken killer tracked by Frank Black and the Millennium Group.

In her role as a clinical social worker, Catherine Black lends her expertise to a heinous case: the slayings of the recently bereaved.

Accusations of incest draw Catherine Black to the plight of a troubled woman who has kept a terrible secret for twenty-three years: she was sexually abused by her well-respected father.

A shadowy killer uses real estate open houses to commit heinous murders and terrorize a child whose traumatic experiences may prove to be the key to his capture.

A murder case takes Frank Black to Missouri, where he begins the pursuit of a killer traveling cross-country with a mysterious young woman on a desperate quest.

In a private gated community, the kidnapping and brutalization of teenage boys leads Frank Black to investigate the secret sins of their fathers.

In Colorado, Frank Black and an associate track a killer who is driven by sexual neuroses and who uses mood-altering drugs to gain control of the couples he kills.

An enigmatic character haunts Frank Black and the Millennium Group during a strange case involving planetary alignment, genetic cloning, and a man in an iron lung.

Frank Black is forced to confront his past when startling similarities in serial slayings twenty years apart indicate that the man imprisoned for the earlier crimes molded the current killer.

The abduction of his sister-in-law embroils Frank Black in an intensely personal case linked to a vicious sex offender recently released from an asylum.

In Utah, Frank Black is hired to offer expert testimony against a confessed killer in support a death sentence but soon comes to believe the accused is innocent of the crimes.

An online connection to a disturbed doctor leads Frank Black to become personally entangled in a murder case linked to an experimental drug that drastically heightens anxiety.

The grisly fate of an infamous serial murderer introduces Frank Black to Lucy Butler, an infernal figure who initiates terrifying events at the Black household.

Still reeling from a tragic loss, Frank Black is swept into a bizarre case of ritualistic slayings that involves an inscrutable lawyer and a conflict of seemingly unearthly origins.

Evidence in the malicious slayings of domesticated horses across North Dakota leads Frank Black to fear the genesis of a psychosexual killer who will soon prey upon humans.