Chicago cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has chased and caught dozens of dangerous criminals over the course of her career. But she's about to meet her match. When Jack wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, she kno...

Purgatory Ridge finds Cork O'Connor at a dangerous crossroads when his wife and son are kidnapped.

One of the Best Books of the Year NPR * USA Today * O, The Oprah Magazine * Esquire  A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. ...

Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is back, pursuing justice the Ranger way. She takes on the case of a Mexican girl on the run from white slavers. For Caitlin, the case evokes memories of her legendary grandfather's run wit...

Cupid's arrow is making its way to Tallulah Falls, Oregon, bringing lots of business to Marcy Singer's embroidery specialty shop-like the bride who wants her mother's dress embellished with jewels. But someone wants to squash all the ...

Donna Leon's multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, Brunetti's career is under threat...

Jack Foley and Cundo Rey are road dogs: trusted jailhouse comrades watching each other's back. They're so tight, Cundo's using his own money and his shark lady lawyer to get Foley's sentence reduced from thirty years to three months....

This tale of murder and murderously bad prose picks up a character from Peter Lovesey’s Peter Diamond series, Chief Inspector Henrietta "Hen" Mallin. When a vanity-press publisher is killed in a suspicious fire, the me...

With this follow-up to COLD GRANITE, deemed an “impressive debut” by Publishers Weekly, Stuart MacBride proves himself to be a rising star of crime fiction—and this time, the action is more explosive than ever…...

In the 20th and second to last novel featuring Travis McGee the intrepid detective helps out his buddy, Meyer. Meyer lent his boat to his niece, Norma, and her husband, only to have the boat explode with the couple on it in the middle...

Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of writing.''-Detroit News

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings.Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage ...

Lt. Sigrid Harald-prickly, difficult, brilliant at solving baffling cases-returns for the eighth and final book in this series. Losing a fellow officer in a shoot-out is enough to rattle her cool, controlled demeanor, but she is also ...

A hard, four-hour drive north of San Francisco leads to sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns steeped in gold-mining history. One of those towns is Cyanide Wells, now...

Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now, The Mind's Eye, the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English.The ease of the convict...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.  “The quartet of aging amateur sleuths&hellip...

"A Better Man, with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre."--Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal Enchanting... one ...

"A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction."--Chicago Sun-TimesIn his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity;...

"Gripping and intense...Her characters are authentically and appealingly drawn, and her plot is sinister."BOOKLISTWhen a distinguished judge dies of opium poisoning, the crucifixion five years before of Kingsley Blaine is br...

A female serial killer serves as the focus of this gripping, constantly surprising thriller. Charlene Buckner used to simply drain her wealthy boyfriends of money, and then move on. But now she’s turned to murder for the first t...

Detective John Rebus's city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. As the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feveris...

The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus' reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere ne...

Chief Inspector Wexford returns in a gripping new mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a pr...

The snow is deep in Maine's Busman's Harbor and the mighty rivers are covered in ice. Snowden Family Clambake Company proprietor Julia Snowden and her mother, Jacqueline, are hunkered down for the winter when a mysterious package arri...

One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristoc...

Torchlight flickers on the elegant marble walls.  The sound of a mob echoes in the street.  The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius is about to be carried through the teaming streets of Rome.  Clodius, a rich man ...

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Knitting Mysteries, Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters may be able to save the helpless animals in danger from a raging Colorado wildfire, but not the unexpected ...

It's a crisp, snowless October in The Park. The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there's a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of...

Amateur sleuth Sister Fidelma of Cashel, the sister of the King of Muman, investigates murder and mayhem in a second collection of fifteen short mystery tales, set in seventh-century Ireland. By the author of Hemlock at Vespers. Origi...

divJudge Dee and his four helpers solve the murders of an honored merchant, a kindly boxing master, and a paper merchant's wife, whose corpse has no head. They succeed in spite of strong pressure on Judge Dee from higher-ups to bring ...