Answering a desperate call for "officer needs assistance," Carl Houseman, Deputy Sheriff of Nation County, Iowa, walks into the middle of a war zone in an isolated region of his territory, where he finds himself alone, with ...

The national bestselling author of Wound Up in Murder spins a deadly yarn of knitting bees, butterflies, and beauty queens.   Every October, thousands of monarch butterflies flock to California's Monterey Peninsula to spend the winte...

They Found Him Dead The day after his sixtieth birthday celebration, an event marked by dissension among his family and houseguests, Silas Kane's body is found at the foot of a cliff. The coroner's verdict of misadventure becomes susp...

The Best American Mystery Stories is consistently a great success--we have out 30,000 copies of the 2006 paperback edition after just one month on the shelves. Little wonder, given the power of the BEST AMERICAN brand, the talents of ...

Three old men shuffle off their mortal coil on the same chilly night. There seems at first to be nothing to connect their deaths to each other, much less to the sulferous whiffs of police corruption that are riding on the Yorkshire br...

Inspector Erlunder has spent his career evading the phantoms of his past, and now he finds himself twice haunted—first, at a seance attended by the victim of a suspicious suicide, and again by the puzzle of two young people who went...

The New York Times bestselling author ofthe Cat in the Stacks Mysteriesand Digging Up the Dirt returns with the latest Southern Ladies Mystery...It's autumn down south, and An'gel and Dickce Ducote are in Natchez, Mississippi, at the ...

When Charlie Harris decides to go back to school, he and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, find themselves entangled in a deadly lovers quarrel on campus in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. In addition to ...

Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the...

A spellbinding story of life and death, rage and murder in the silent Arizona night from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance In the desert, a Native American woman is dead—an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husb...

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying novel of suspense as a young man’s investigation into his sister’s death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.He went searching for the truth...

A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant—a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon—and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that hau...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they murdered a younger child. While Troy died violently behind bars, the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-...

　HE'S ONE OF AMERICA'S BRIGHTEST STARS.So maybe it goes without saying that IRS Special Agent Tara Holloway is star-struck? In Death, Taxes, and Silver Spurs, she's head over heels…in trouble.Easy's getting harder every day for Ta...

A compelling tale of mystery, romance, and the irrepressible Walsh family from the internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes  Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear-it's just something men invented to get all the money-and yet she...

For centuries, the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king.Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess.So when the Crown Jewels go on display in Mumbai, ...

Pisces: Ruled by Neptune, with death ascendantThe murder and scalping of the Temecu reservation casino manager has made California headlines. So has the arrest of his killer, a once-prominent physician who lost everything to a gamblin...

Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from Labrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. Jack Foley is serving a thirty-yea...

p Josie, Perri, and Kat have been best friends since third grade—the athlete, the drama queen, and the popular beauty. Growing up in an affluent suburb of Baltimore, they enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final ...

The plot thickens for American gothic writer Penelope Parish when a murder near her quaint British bookshop reveals a novel\'s worth of killer characters.\r\n\r\nPenelope Parish has hit a streak of bad luck, including a severe case of...

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." — Stephen King When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can't help it: He has to meddle. Especially w...

Cited as one of the top ten crime novels of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews), No Trace is the finest novel yet by one of best crime novelists of our time. In a London neighborhood known for its artists and bohemian style, six year old Tracey Rud...

"There are certain things you want in a village mystery: a pretty setting, a tasteful murder, an appealing sleuth . . . Malliet delivers all that." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times  G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lo...

When a Greenwich Village dancer is brutally murdered in front of an audience of horrified children, Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD must sort through the backstage passions to discover who wanted Emmy Mion dead and why. Complicating her inves...

Bookholder Nicholas Bracewell, fresh from his triumph holding together his volatile players' company during a treasonous plot against Queen Elizabeth, is set to make the galleries of The Queen's Head ring with laughter with a new co...

In separate locations in Leek, Staffordshire, three separate tableaux are being performed. DI Joanna Piercy is writing to her lover Matthew to try and explain recent events; her sikekick Mike Korpanski is filling in his insurance form...

When Ellie, New York City's most enterprising dog walker, goes to see one of her clients perform in a show, the screams aren't just for the fantastic dance numbers... A murder happens backstage, and the only witness is a dog named Bi...

Now available in paperback, the fourth "and best in a series that was never less than professional and is now approaching distinguished" (Kirkus Reviews) featuring seasoned Santa Fe cop Ken Kerney.When Kevin Kerney, deputy c...

The instant USA Today bestseller!The first in a gripping new series by Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones is full of complex twists, introducing a wonderful new voice for mystery readers and dog lovers. Grief and guilt are the ghosts ...

Former Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are back in Blind Search, the sequel to the page-turning, critically acclaimed A Borrowing of Bones\r\n\r\nIt’s October, hunting season in the Green Mountains...