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...

[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 ...

[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...

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...

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...

[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...

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b Levi Vogue, chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dance...

NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory - computer genius, street fighter, provocative waif, peerless investigator, manipulative beauty - is the gorgeous, near-sociopathic heroine of this knife-edged suspense novel. Along with old pals, Ricke...

Chicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New Y...

Sara Paretsky returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career. For the first time, Sara Paretsky takes her legendary hero—Victoria Iphigenia by birth, V. I. by profession, and Vic to her friends—on her ver...

T. Jefferson Parker brings together sixteen original short stories by bestselling mystery writers about their favorite pastime---fishing.

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that night reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to ...

These classic crime stories, written in the 1840s and setting the pattern for the great detective novels of the 20th century, feature the character of Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, a young Parisian of independent means working outside o...

The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of...

Twelve-year-old Ren doesn't know who his parents were. He doesn't know who left him at St. Anthony's orphanage, or how he lost his left hand when still an infant. He is resigned to life without a family to call his own and terrified o...

In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursu...

Twain's last novel took twelve years to finish and is unlike anything else he wrote. This dark story, set in medieval Austria, hinges on unearthly, and hidden mental powers. It also gives an insight to the Author's psyche, during his ...

Ho is an ancient sensei who began training as a child, until war changed him forever. When his dismissive arrogance causes the death of a student he called "daughter," Ho renounces not only his possessions but also his role ...

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris returns to her Aurora Teagarden mystery series with a fabulous new book featuring the small-town Southern librarian.In the latest installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Charlaine...

Jessica Fletcher’s sunny beach vacation with her nephew’s family takes a dark turn.

A beautiful Jane Doe with no memory of who she is or how she got to the bottom of a treacherous ravine; and a psychiatrist who joins her on her search for her identity.Dr. Phyl Forster was intrigued by the lovely woman who had been re...

China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon ...

It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers, just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break comes when there's a serious foul-up in Darling's t...

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman.\n\nAt first Campion...