Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone. The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property...

In a fresh new Maine-set cozy from author Sherry Lynn, Kinsley Clark must root out a killer before the killer roots out her. At twenty-nine, Kinsley Clark is living the dream life she always envisioned for herself. She’s the ...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular ...

The third consecutive No.1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this ...

"As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me." — Dean Koontz Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest — real estate developer Harry Broll, ...

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer eve...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat...

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author. — Jonathan Kellerman Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past: an old flame w...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a b...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Empty Copper Sea is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never...

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author." — Jonathan Kellerman He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she's dead, and Travis McGee f...

From John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that's when h...

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee has known his share of beautiful girls, but true love always ...

"Travis McGee is back in action and he is in fine, fine form....What a treat. It is John D. MacDonald's 21st Travies McGee book and, without reservaton, his best."THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNESearching for a wealthy friend's yacht, ...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-ra...

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, streaks ...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Long Lavender Look is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, ...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Scarlet Ruse is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.  Travis McGee's getting lazy. Drinking Boodles on the Busted Flush has...

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author." — Jonathan Kellerman Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis McGee owes his friend a bi...

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns o...

He was a son who hadn't known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murder—his father's murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.  When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a ...

Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safe...

A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Anniversary Edition of The Chill by Ross Macdonald. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. In The Chilla distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But...

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and ...

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where st...

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of hi...

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him—that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine.  He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead.  Out on the sunlit street...

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, sh...

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find ...

Lucy Resnick's nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend's gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone's digg...