This is the 29th mystery concerning the Detective without a Name (well, actually he has a first name now--it's Bill) and his San Francisco agency, now staffed with two partners, Jake Runyon and Tamara Corbin. Staking out a deadbeat da...

A murdered oil rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed "Johnny Bible." And a reopened investigation that doesn't bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus's Scotland, along with his ...

"Superbly performed by Susan Ericksen, Vendetta in Death is mesmerizing to the very end, and a "must" especially for connoisseurs of the genre...Highly recommended." ― Midwest Book ReviewThe predator becomes the ...

After delving into a forbidden love affair, the beautiful Caroline is brutally stabbed to death just three days before Christmas. And although Chief Inspector Alan Banks is eager to absolve the innocent, that will have to wait until t...

In this chilling masterwork, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks holds little hope for a seven-year-old kidnapping victim, particularly when no ransom demand is made. When the body of a young man is discovered in an abandoned mine, t...

Sax Rohmer's popular detective Gaston Max makes his first appearance in this tale of murder, international intrigue, and a Chinese criminal mastermind.

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. There, Master Stevyns s wife is having an affair with the groom, while a local widow acts more like the lady of the m...

LIARS, CHEATERS & THIEVES What does a man drugged and slashed to death by an unknown assailant have to do with a woman felled by a fatal heart attack after learning her bank account had been plundered? The cases seem as different as t...

When a man's headless body is discovered in Paris' Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip - or s...

In the penultimate installment of this masterful crime-fiction series, Martin Beck, now head of the National Murder Squad, is called in to a sleepy part of the countryside to investigate a woman's disappearance. What Beck doesn't know...

Finished just a few weeks before Per Wahloo's death, The Terrorists is the last Martin Beck mystery, a marvelous summing up of the series. The series finale finds Beck attempting to save an American diplomat from the bloody hands of a...

[MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case][*Read by Stacy Keach] This is Mickey Spillane's lost, never-before-published 1940s Mike Hammer novel, written between I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick. Completed by Spillane's friend and literary ...

The toughest private eye in fiction takes on the Swinging Sixties. Originally begun and outlined by Spillane in the mid-sixties, and expertly completed by his longtime collaborator Max Allan Collins, The Big Bang is vintage Mike Hamme...

Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path...

A mushroom hunting foray turns gruesome when Kate Shugak stumbles across a burnt, decaying corpse amid a grove of morels. Was the deceased the hapless victim of last year's forest fire? Why has no one reported him missing? And why was...

Twelve years have passed since the events of A Handful of Stars. Star continues to silently mourn Caleb's death, World Builders, Inc. is completing its first asteroid-based Bernal sphere, and the Svensdotter twins are of a restless ag...

Three relatively-quiet months have passed since Trooper Liam Campbell was assigned to the remote post of Newenham. But it all changes when a local fishing boat is discovered scuttled and adrift — its crew of seven dead in circumstan...

Just as a murderer dumps his corpse into the lake across Valley View in Lily Dale, Bella Jordan happens to be at her window, not quite realizing what she's seeing. Unbeknownst to her, the killer spots her silhouette and prowls straigh...

Every writer knows what it's like to be plagued by a bad case of writer's block. But what happens when writer's block shows up in person and starts terrorizing a bestselling author? Zachary Gold, struggling to write his second novel a...

When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the community rises up in anger and demands to have the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But there's something more than a call for justice...

Robert Rivers is an honorable thief who has made a living conducting well planned heists on the various businesses that dot the idyllic environs of southern California. But during a routine robbery of a local steakhouse, Rivers comes ...

Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored―ever since they solved the Monkeewrench case, the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell, as people no longer seem interested in killing one another. But when e...

Storm Kayama has come to Kahului to help a friend set up her new dive shop. A bombing and a suicide-murder lead her to discover a deadly Japanese organized-crime group that has ensnared local businesses and politics.

Eddie starts stealing cars long before he's old enough to get a license, driven by a force so compelling that he never questions, just obeys. After a series of false starts, interrupted by stays in juvenile institutions, he connects w...

Angela Richman, Chouteau County death investigator, finds herself deep in the Missouri woods on a perfect spring day. But there is nothing idyllic about her grim walk—a body has been discovered in a muddy creek, and Detective Jac...

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement...

In the second installment of Charlie Williams's violent and darkly comedic Mangel series, Royston Blake's gig as head doorman at Hoppers finds him yet again mired belly-deep in trouble. Blake has noticed a change in the behavior of Ho...

Released after a three-year stretch in a mental institution, Royston Blake finds that the world has moved on, even Mangel. Gone are most of his old haunts, including Hoppers, where he spent years working the door. In its place: a huge...

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Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, Alan discovers that the girl's young stepsister lies near death in another hospital with a heart disease. Denied an experimental new treatment that...