For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he r...

The dearest friend of Lupe Solana's beloved 'Papi,' Ramón Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a ...

When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What...

Following the premature death of his wife, Earl Garnett, a professional writer, decides to drive across America. Along the way, he discovers the country, as he never imagined it. Soon, cryptic writings appear on his laptop, often coin...

Jane Bunker is a marine investigator who has just moved back to a sleepy Maine community. She's a lover of all things Scottish and so thrifty that she never throws anything away. When the town drunk falls to his death off the town doc...

At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized...

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length scree...

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires' rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now, he is an exile. Arriv...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.][Read by Lloyd James] As spring bursts forth, so does a whole lot more, including murder by arrow, in quiet Benteen County, Kansas. Nothing ever happens here. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a...

Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a difficult case for SIFT—Special Incident Flying Taskforce—and is on a sabbatical on a far–flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have gone missing ...

The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight c...

Odelia Grey's relaxing day of errands is ruined when she finds a body folded like an origami crane in the trunk of her car. And it's not just any dead body—it's the corpse of Zak Finch, a young man who had been kidnapped eight years...

Miss James sets a generous table here: plot enough to satisfy the most Victorian taste, and enough violence and psychopathology to please an Elizabethan, or even a television viewer. There is strangulation, suicide, death by automobil...

A thrilling story of murder and betrayal filled with the scandal, wit, and intrigue characteristic of Austen's classic novelsFitzwilliam Darcy is devastated. The joy of his wedding has been cut short by the news of the sudden death of...

Los Angeles animal shelter manager Lauren Vancouver has a soft spot for animals in need-and a keen eye for crime. . .  Thanks to a savvy ad campaign featuring teacup pups sporting HotPets Bling-a new line of faux jewelry dog coll...

A funeral, a ghost, a murder . . . It's all in a day's work for emma lee raines . . .Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from "funeral trauma."   It's tr...

As summer comes to an end in her Jersey Shore town, Lucy Berberian continues to manage her family's Mediterranean restaurant. The Kebab Kitchen also has a food tent at this year's beach festival. But now a local businessman is under t...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Ray Porter] In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey is checking the stories that Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy...

Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among boxes in her late mother's attic. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig into her family's past to finally uncover the reasons why.Her inquiries lead h...

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong ...

"Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment."—New York TimesElmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable n...

Gaston Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.

They're the legal world's oddest couple—a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. Maybe the only thing keeping them from killing each other is that they're on the same side.…It starts with a 300-pound marlin st...

They're the legal world's oddest couple—a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. Maybe the only thing keeping them from killing each other is that they're on the same side.…It starts with a 300-pound marlin st...

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing/b"It's Bukowski's Pulp gone West Country."—Uncut"Takes the classic elements of noir . . . and pushes the genre to its limits."—Welsh Lite...

A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz.A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the th...

After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the republican party, elected county chairman, ...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Simon Vance]Peter May's terrifying new China thriller pits Li Yan and Margaret Camell against an unscrupulous foe who could prove to be their deadliest enemy yet. His victims are young,...

Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier. Staggering under the financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, Michael struggles to ...

Ed McBain, author of the bestselling 87th Precinct series, takes us 'Downtown' in a bold departure of a novel that will have listeners cheering for a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York City.Meet Michael Barnes, a Flor...