Deciphering an ancient alchemy book is more difficult than Zoe Faust bargained for. She'd much rather be gardening and exploring her new home of Portland, Oregon—but time is running out for living gargoyle Dorian Robert-Houdin. If Z...

Fate in plain sight. Major Crimes Detective Samantha Reilly prefers to work alone—she's seen as a maverick, and she still struggles privately with the death of her partner. The only person who ever sees her softer side is Michael T...

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most ...

Winner of the Sue Grafton Memorial Award!A Boston Globe Best Book of 2018!Acclaimed detective V. I. Warshawski tackles a pair of perplexing cases involving those closest to her in this compelling and timely adventure that centers on s...

The latest: an anniversary anthology of 25 short stories by today's best women mystery writers: Sara Paretsky Sue Henry Sue Dunlap P.M. Carlson Rochelle Krich Linda Grant Carolyn Hart Libby Fischer Hellman Nancy Pickard Kate Grilley ...

A collection of stories of crime victims, homeless women, and housewives whose lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist brings together the best in women's crime fiction, by such authors as Nevada Barr, Amanda Cross, Ruth Rendell, A...

Assuming his new post as provisional governor of Eshigo, a remote province in the far north of eleventh-century Japan, Sugawara Aktada finds himself overwhelmed as he deals with a local uprising, a series of brutal murders, and a dang...

A good cop, a young man of conscience, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived the fall. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s H...

From the author of the award-winning Faces of the Gone, another thrilling and thoroughly entertaining mystery!Carter Ross, investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is reporting on the latest tragedy to befall Newark, New ...

Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examine...

Her carefully crafted life is about to be demolished. After a difficult childhood, Samantha Williams craves simplicity: jigsaw puzzles, lectures at the library, and the students she adores in her role as an elementary school art ...

With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed...

Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian...

In Eliot Pattison's Soul of the Fire, Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security; he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. ...

"[A] superlative series set in ethereal, enigmatic, long enduring Tibet."—Booklist, starred review"Eye-opening . . . stellar."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe Chinese minister of tourism has been assassina...

In the vicious battle for custody of a four-year-old boy, the stakes are much too high. When a string of coldly casual murders ups the ante still further, Lieutenant Marian Larch steps in. Then the killer starts coming after her and e...

Raised by a country doctor, Alexandra Gladstone thought she couldn't be shocked-until she saw the dead body of a respected admiral dressed in women's undergarments. Even more shocking, though, is the truth behind his murder.

You can't cure murder… When the old country doctor of Newton-Upon-Sea passed away, he left his only daughter, Alexandra, with the secrets of his trade. Now, the village depends on its lady-doctor Gladstone for its births, deaths, an...

Praise for Rebecca Pawel:'Pawel anchors a tense and exciting story with a terrific and complex plot.'-Detroit Free Press'[Pawel] turns the clock back to 1939 and Madrid's tumultuous past. . . . An intriguing juxtaposition of the polit...

With Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace completes his Yorkshire Ripper Quartet, an astonishing noir epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ, th...

In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage.

Like the kind of cars they don't make anymore and the kind of songs they don't sing, the novels of George Pelecanos have the style, rhythm and muscle of classics. SHOEDOG is vintage Pelecanos: a tale that throbs with soul and pulsates...

"THE DOUBLE is as good as it gets. The writing is taut, the violence is graphic, and the characters are so well-drawn that they step off the page and into yourlife." - Associated PressEvery man has his dark side. Spero Lucas...

Bodies & Bows is the third in the charming cozy Iris Buckley mystery series set in an apron shop in Maine—Elizabeth Penney will have you on pins and needles… Iris Buckley is hoping for a bit of rest and relaxation now t...

Tragedy strikesin Thread and Dead, the second book in Elizabeth Penney\'s cozy mystery series—and now everyone in Blueberry Cove, Maine, is on pins and needles. . .\r\n\r\nIris Buckley is busier than ever this July, with the town...

Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every home library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers. With c...

When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime\n\nPlague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman’s assistant Lo...

In S. C. Perkins's Lineage Most Lethal, the captivating second mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster grapples with a mystery rooted in World War II and espionage. It's the week before New Year's...

On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of this thrilling new mystery series by bestselling author Anne Perry travels to Mussolini’s Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her. Britain’s...

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us t...