In an election year, Don finds himself in the unlikely role of political operative. Rumors about the Tea Party's opportunistic gubernatorial candidate, Kenyon Louderbush, paint him as an unfaithful, callous exploiter of young men...yo...

Violence interrupts quiet reflection on tragedy when Donald and Timmy visit Washington to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Unexpected stories about a disgraced, conservative congresswoman, and a gay Lothario with designs on Strachey are ...

A long-defunct gay activist group seems to be threatening radio shock jock Jay Plankton. As The J-Bird, the man's hate-filled rants offend Strachey deeply. Among the subjects Stevenson tackles in this series entry is homophobia in mod...

"The true star power comes from its compatibly mismatched leads. Joy to those who discover Mr. Thomas’s latest novel this holiday season." —The Wall Street Journal London, 1892—Cyrus Barker is brought into...

When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of the brutal murder of a young soprano, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed Smith, launch their own investigation that leads them into a race against time to stop an...

Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C. ' on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Pet...

Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Göteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy fin...

Helene Tursten's explosive new series features Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, a sharp, unforgiving woman working in a man's world. When one of her peers is murdered during a routine hunting trip, Embla must track down the killer ...

Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she's back with a gripping follow-up to Detec...

They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based o...

A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINALA hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his “perimeter” from a dangerous interloper...

In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroil...

A wedding should always be a joyous occasion. For Cindy Preston, though, the wedding of her friends Geanie and Joseph is turning into a nightmare. A series of near fatal accidents have convinced the police that someone wants to stop t...

When a priceless antique is stolen, murder unravels the peaceful seaside town of Haven Harbor, Maine. . .Angie Curtis and her fellow Mainely Needlepointers know how to enjoy their holidays. But nothing grabs their attention like tyi...

As Christmas approaches in Weatherford, Texas, Phyllis Newsom is decorating her house in preparation for the Jingle Bell Tour. The last thing she expects is that one of her ceramic gingerbread men will be used to commit murder.... Wh...

Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family.  Martin Brand always had a dark sense of humor. Surrounded by relatives he despised, he looked forward to the day when,...

Hiding in the darkness of the trees, he was waiting for the state police car to move on, but it would not. Red lights filled the road below, flashlights began to search the woods around him. But he would not go back to Doctor Chax. He...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

The third in a delicious series featuring a dinner club that tries out new recipes--while trying to catch a killerThe Culinary Capers Dinner Club is planning a fall picnic for their next meeting. What could be better than sharing deli...

In the latest mystery from the author of Toasting Up Trouble,the Culinary Capers dinner club is back in business when a charity casino event makes a real killing…  Event planner Jennifer "J.J." Tanner is planning a cruise...

It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too ...

[Read by Tony Roberts] In Swimming to Catalina, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan-attorney and investigator Stone Barrington is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who ha...

It?s sunny days for Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, even as everyone else in Canada is shivering. The magnificent Cassandra Mitchell, who has a disconcerting habit of disappearing from both the town of Sechelt and Alberg?s bed, has appear...

"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends ...

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation—a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to sh...

Life has always been sweet on Georgia's Peach Cove Island, but a case of murder has Marygene Brown down in the pits . . .  For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass an...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled 'Hillikers,' read by Stephen Hoye.On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as t...

44 Scotland Street' is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is an audiobook that provides huge entert...

The Quiche of Death - Struggling to adapt to life in a Cotswold village after a lifetime spent in Public Relations, Agatha Raisin determines to make her mark by winning the local baking competition. When the judge is poisoned by her e...

Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of h...