For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted murder of Jo...

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give. Spenser plays...

In the 17th J. P. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney's office, must contend with a reactivated cold case and a deeply personal current one. The first concerns a nun treated with...

Do-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'...

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young d...

When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective, vanishes mysteriously, Spense joins the search for the missing woman, following a perilous trail that leads him to a sociopathic ex-lover and into a d...

Having respected and shared a sex-crimes prosecutor's hatred of predatory behavior, Burke believes his colleague to be innocent of a serial rapist's murder, and in the face of numerous questionable dealings at the district attorney's ...

On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow wat...

They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of t...

Matthew Scudder looks into the murder of a prostitute who was just about to go on the straight and narrow. Was it a john? Her pimp? Scudder's investigation puts his own life on the line as he tries to exact justice for a brave woman w...

An ingenious whodunit that's also, in Block's recent manner, a provoking meditation on mortality--with a particularly strong supporting role for the City of New York, which turns in its finest performance since Ellery Queen's `Cat of ...

James Lee Burke's fifth Dave Robicheaux novel is completely repackaged and republished, now in premium edition.

In this Latest Venice-set Mystery, a Grieving Brunetti Must Discover the Identity of a Drowned Child. When a friend of Commissario Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Br...

Asked why she is fascinated by the 'popular' (read 'trashy') novels of 19th-century writer Serena Northbury, Professor Karen Pelletier says, 'She's the only novelist I know from that era who writes about the kind of courage it takes t...

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 and a state ...

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted ...

Some cases just won't die—even after you've dumped the body  Ed London is the type of private investigator that you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears ...

Hard-living, Scottish investigative journalist Jack Parlabane stumbles upon the body of the scion of a wealthy Edinburgh medical family and embarks on a wild and dangerous probe to get to the bottom of the murder, in an entertaining a...

IIt's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide,in his lap a photo albu...

"John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." — Stephen King When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can't help it: He has to meddle. Especially w...

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Joh...

Doublecrossed, shot, and left for dead - by his wife..The thriller that introduces Parker. 'A brilliant invention'. Played by Lee Marvin in the John Boorman movie. 'The funnies call it the syndicate. The goons and hustlers call it the...

It's been years since Burke has been home, years since he's seen his "family" and worked in the underbelly of New York City. Although his appearance has changed, his reputation grown dusty, and his wallet thin, his skills an...

The Fletchers' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they bare...

Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux.James Lee Burke's new novel finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcel have retr...

When a homeless woman says she's the mother of a deceased rock idol, sometimes private eye Leo Waterman takes it upon himself to investigate the lady's claim. With the help of "the boys", a band of dissolute deputies, Leo begins a lif...

Leo's boyhood hero, Henry "Heck" Sundstrom was larger than life. Lately, however Heck's life has been spiraling out of control. First the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck's son and new daughter-in- law, Allison...

Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high–profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, a gubernatorial candidate is assassinated in b...

[Read by Jonathan Davis]As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when he hears of a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to charter a plane to Pará to check it out. Thirty-nine n...

New York Times Bestselling Author of Die a StrangerEdgar Award–winner Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction with Alex McKnight. In Ice Run, Alex finds himself in the middle of a very str...