A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories—never before published in book form—depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In "Rumpole and Father Christmas," the English barrister encounters a fam...

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks uses his razor-sharp intelligence to uphold the law and pursue the truth, no matter how dangerous the road to justice becomes. When Banks dedicates himself to identifying a decomposing body, he ope...

In this cutting and dark thriller series, Burke returns to save the life of his "father," while searching for the abducted child of an oil sheik.The Detroit Free Press has said "There's no way to put a [Vachss book] dow...

In the newest addition to the bestselling series, Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise where very little is as it seems. Teddy Fay, a rogue agent last seen escaping an imploding bu...

P"Laura Lippman's stories aren't just mysteries; they are deeply moving explorations of the human heart. She is quite simply one of the best crime novelists writing today."BR—Tess Gerritsen, author of EMThe Mephisto Club/P...

A serial killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett’s wedding.\r\n Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in the city with a string of grisly m...

It's true what they say: Money changes everything. And in Linda Howard's red-hot novel Burn, the changes come fast, furious, and filled with the kind of sexy suspense, heart-stopping romance, beautiful people, and risky business guara...

Life always seems to be more complicated than it should be for Charlie Mortdecai: degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and confirmed coward. Something Nasty in the Woodshed finds C...

When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is r...

Raymond Chandler's gritty detective, performed by Elliott Gould who played the role himself, comes upon another Los Angeles mystery in this newly done audiobook version of The Little Sister. The consummate gumshoe is on the case agai...

From the gritty streets of nineteenth century London, the loyal and courageous Dr. Watson offers a tale unearthed after generations of lore: the harrowing story of Sherlock Holmes's attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper.As England's gr...

Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot ...

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers . . . (The New ...

A skeletal hand is unearthed in the vault under the Pump Room in Bath, England, near the site where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Then a skull is excavated. The bones came from different corpses, and one is modern. Detective Superi...

DIVA tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller—with more than 2.5 million copies in print!BRBROn a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a my...

Carol O'Connell's last novel, Dead Famous, made multiple best-of-year lists and won critical acclaim nationwide. 'O'Connell brings a hard edge of greatness to the crime thriller,' wrote the San Jose Mercury News. 'A tough and brillian...

A different world then, a different world now'California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, and strange new ideas in the air about war, music,...

Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mystery stories that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. His fast-paced style has become the hallmark of ...

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio dramatization of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world–weary, wise–cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean st...

Presidential candidate — and force of nature — Huey Long, the "Kingfish," is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye...

It's 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli a...

Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot news magazine, Current Events-and she's got...

Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel, Massacre Pond, features Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murderOn an unseasonably hot October morn...

Leo Waterman was born and bred in Seattle, Washington, and his father had contacts that ranged from the highest offices to the lowest dives. Those contacts are useful in Leo's pursuit of a profession as a private investigator. Of cour...

Based on author Martha Grimes’s own childhood memories, BELLE RUIN is the third in a series starring 12-year-old Emma Graham, waitress at her mother’s rundown hotel and part-time investigative reporter/amateur sleuth. This...

Ben Garvald is out of prison. After nine years in lock-up, he's coming back to the old neighborhood. Back to his re-married ex-wife. Back for revenge. That's what the cops think.But Detective Sergeant Nick Miller isn't worried. His hi...

Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation...

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delight...

This collection brings together some of the greatest short fiction in the crime genre from the past 100 years. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving back through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Gre...

Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line' by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a s...