An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer B...

First time in U.S. paperback, the third in Bill James’s "standout,' 'witty,' 'well above the ordinary' series (starred reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist). When Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur places young pol...

Five teenage girls have been raped and murdered, and the criminal is still at large. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, assigned to the case, is a tough hunter, but so is 'the Lolita man,' watching the schoolyards. Now it lo...

An illicit agreement between the local authorities and the corrupt owners of a city club erupts into violence when a small-time criminal and his daughter are killed in a firebombing attack, a situation that escalates into increasingly...

Undercover cop Naomi Anstruther becomes the pawn in a deadly explosion of violence. Pursued from the shadows, Simon Pilgrim fled in terror from the floating restaurant Eton Boating Song. In the bar on the Eton, he had discreetly sold ...

When two criminals involved in the drug trade turn up dead, ACC Desmond Iles is suspected in the killings, which may have been in retaliation for another cop's murder, and Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur finds himself caug...

When Naomi Anstruther's blown undercover operation results in the death of her lover, she is urged by a young woman named Esme to personally avenge his death and to take on the violent London drug ring that is responsible. Reprint.

Good detective work allowed the pair to arrest and charge a fellow policeman, who murdered an undercover officer in an attempt to keep a crook–police racket secret. But their work is not yet done. Who ordered the execution? Why? Jus...

The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has vo...

Megan Harpur, the wife of Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, is found stabbed to death at the local train station. Unbeknownst to Superintendent Harpur, his wife had been visiting her lover--a crooked London police officer--...

His mutual agreements with local mobsters compromised by the arrival of a new chief of police, Harpur and Iles witness growing animosity between local drug lords and send in a female undercover agent to infiltrate a particularly threa...

With an unruly informant—whose reckless behavior serves to aid an angry mob—on their hands, Harpur and Iles find themselves faced with their toughest assignment to date.A large, carefully plotted 'cash-in-transit' raid goes ...

This is Bill James' first mystery: a dark, menacing novel that introduced Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur to readers in England and the United States.Harpur's domain is a small seaport city south of London. IIt's not unusu...