In the wake of a series of high-profile murders throughout the TV journalism world, an NYC detective struggles against and then teams up with a beautiful tabloid reporter while investigating two prime suspects. By the Emmy Award-winni...
Burn Marks (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
Sara ParetskySomeone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena t...
Poe's Detective: The Dupin Stories
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe is the undisputed "Father" of the Detective story and his Detective C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. First collection of Poe's dete...
The Naming of the Dead: An Inspector ...
Ian RankinThe leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere n...
Madeline Dare has traded in the drudgery of living in backwoods Syracuse, New York to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Behind the ornate gates of the aca...
1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge: they say Jerusalem is haunted by Mrs. Whichcote's ghost. Frank Oldershaw claims he saw her in the garden, where she drowned. Now he's under the care of a physician. Desperate to salvage her son's re...
Murder inside the Beltway (Capital Cr...
Margaret TrumanA Washington call girl is found bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. As police detectives scour the apartment, they find a digital video camera nestled high among books on a shelf. Had she used the camera to video some o...
When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from San Pedro Harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, their lives are forever changed. An unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops among the co...
A Wrongful Death: A Barbara Holloway ...
Kate WilhelmAfter finding a file with incriminating material, Elizabeth Kurtz takes her small son and flees her ex-husband and his mother. Although the wealthy family employs a detective agency to find her, she manages to elude them. Barb...
Years ago, Oliver Garland--an African-American judge--was nominated to the Supreme Court, but was unable to accept because of a shocking scandal. Now he is dead, and one of his legacies is another scandal, the details of which are enc...
After an unsuccessful investigation into the murder of psychology professor Hope Devane, author of a controversial anti-male polemic, homicide detective Milo Sturgis calls in Alex Delaware to help uncover a motive for the cold-blooded...
The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's...
There Goes the Bride: An Agatha Raisi...
M. C. BeatonJames Lacey wandered over to the window of his hotel room. His fiancee, Felicity, was asleep. He was feeling some twinges of unease. What he loved about Felicity was the way she looked at him with her large eyes, appearing to drink in...
The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Oth...
Agatha ChristieThe curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a wild man's sudden personality change are just some of the twelve stories offered in this collection. Read by Hugh ...
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
Jasper FfordeUnconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, uncover a plot involving money laundering and asylum-seeki...
Funeral in Blue (William Monk)
Anne PerryThe headlines were gruesome: two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is an obscure artist's mod...
Adelia is back in action! Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of medieval fiction in this enthralling historical novel, the second in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.
Wicked Fix (Home Repair Is Homicide M...
Sarah GravesDo-it-yourself killer fixes small-town thug...For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there'...
After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is in trouble. With more than a decade ...
An American cargo ship has been seized by terrorists, its captain kidnapped and its crew slaughtered. In Washington, a peace-loving president's refusal to punish the transgressors has enraged Congress. An ambitious young congressi...
A Question of Belief: A Commissario G...
Donna LeonWith his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Commissario Guido Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading ...
Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody ...
Elizabeth PetersIn 1922, Amelia Peabody and her family are at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings when writer Magda Petherick arrives and gives Amelia's Egyptologist husband Radcliffe Emerson a small gold statue. The statue, Magda says, ...
Dead Man's Mirror (Mystery Masters Se...
Agatha ChristiePoirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the s...
Nemesis: A Miss Marple Mystery
Agatha ChristieSo pleasant in fact, she was the Anthony Award Winner for Best Series of the Century. Here she solves a crime that not only has no body, no weapon, and no suspects, but no evidence that a crime has even been committed. All Miss Marple...
New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting groundKEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and ...
My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old.I now have synesthesia, a neu...
The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Nove...
Jasper FfordeIn Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can ge...
In the aftermath of a massive hurricane off the coast of Florida, an elderly woman seeks Doc Ford's assistance in combing the reshaped ocean bottom for evidence that would exonerate a loved one for alleged activities during World War ...
The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell
Lilian Jackson BraunJames Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who... series. Unabridged CDs - 4 CDs, 5 hours
Andrea Camilleri's novels starring Inspector Montalbano have become an international sensation in eight different languages. This funny and fast-paced Sicilian page-turner will be a delicious discovery for mystery afficionados and fic...