Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis.

After twenty years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads i...

When Neil Bledsoe, publishing's most despised critic and a guest at a party for the late Agatha Christie's birthday, announces his intentions to pen a scurrilous bio of Christie, Annie Darling is soon working overtime to prevent...

A KILLER WAS FULLY COMMITTEDTwin Cities businessman Ken Loy is the first to die; shot between the eyes during a sunset bike ride. Half an hour later, Bob Fabian, the rich and handsome owner of the Minneapolis Times Register, meets a s...

Former high-school football hero Jack Burdette returns to his hometown eight years after he had left, but his onetime pranks and high-spirited high jinks have turned into crimes--with terrifying consequences for the people of Holt Cou...

When Philadelphia assistant district attorney Sydney Cooper gets an urgent late-night call from her best friend asking to meet her, she can't help but wonder what kind of trouble investigative journalist Lily Gilmore has gotten hersel...

Kristen Heitzmann's characters leap from the page with a balance of strength and fragility as they face anguish from the past. Jill and Morgan, once high school sweethearts, had loved and lost--each other and the baby whom Jill gave u...

Recently divorced and frustrated by her life, out-of-shape Florida real-estate agent Barbara Chessner appeals to heaven for help and wakes up the next morning in the perfect body, with hilarious and diabolical results.

Stacey Reiser fled Cleveland and her whiny, overbearing mother in favor of Los Angeles, hoping to start a career in the movies. So far, she's not doing very well: her only real film part earned her devastating reviews, and she's worki...

Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is perceived of as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanan seeks to change that perception with her latest scheme—a charity golf tournament. This presents a bit of a cha...

A bobby on his night rounds discovers a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. Inspector Hannasyde is called in, but sorting out the suspects proves a challenge. Anyone in the eccentric, exceedingly uncoope...

In fourteenth-century England, young Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II, is delighted with her marriage to Hugh le Despenser and her appointment to Queen IsabellaÂ's household as a lady-in-waiting. It soon becomes app...

A sizzlingly sexy urban fantasy sure to feed the hunger of ravenous, vampire-loving fans. Kismet Knight, a brainy Denver-based psychologist with a stalled career and a nonexistent love life, is about to have her world rocked. Not onl...

Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made-to-order chocolates from plus-sized, plus-mouthed chocolatier Bessie Winthrop. But when Bessie is found dead in her kitchen, on...

They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human…. Boston's zombies...

After her mother dies, Aurora Norquest finds herself suffering from nightmares, agoraphobia, contemplating suicide, and wondering about the father she has never met, until she meets Philip, who helps her take control of her life and r...

White House chef Olivia Paras and her arch nemesis, White House Sensitivity Director Peter Everett Sargeant, must work together to solve the double murder of one of the First Lady's assistants and the Chief of Staff-before they become...

'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre...

A breathtaking story of senseless, brutal death in a desolate terrain from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance What kind of monster would savagely murder a 71-year-old and leave her battered corpse to rot in the Arizona de...

Isabel Walker, a Berkeley film-school dropout, travels to Paris to assist her pregnant stepsister, Roxy, whose husband has left her. In her tight circle of expatriates, Isabel learns--not always painlessly--about the relations between...

It was common gossip that there wasn't a woman alive safe from the seductive skills of Alec Munro, Earl of Dalgliesh. Except for Zelda MacKenzie, a magnificent, flame-haired Scottish beauty who makes it clear she has no interest in li...

A hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love. Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she ...

A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Ce...

Sally Montgomery anticipated a romantic weekend getaway. What she got instead was a nightmare of unrelenting terror. The murder of her companion and the torching of their cabin sends Sally into hiding—from the police, who belie...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon finally delivers what her fans have been craving: A complete collection of novellas from the world of the Dark-Hunters.Sherrilyn Kenyon takes readers from the Dark-Hunters to the d...

In this rivetingly creepy suspense novel by Jack Kerley, detectives Nautilus and Ryder are on the case when a young news reporter is brutally murdered in her car. The going gets weird when a string of wildly different crimes turn out ...

Secret agent Nola O'Grady is back and ready to save San Francisco from all evildoers, alien and otherwise. With the aid of her bodyguard and lover Ari Nathan, Nola's new mission is to track down and apprehend the mysterious "Brot...

Although King writes in the familiar nature-drenched idiom of other Florida writers and sounds the same environmentalist themes, he takes us far deeper into the Everglades and much closer to the hard-core survivalists who live a rough...

Nick and her cousin Helena grew up in a world of sun bleached boat docks, tennis whites, and midnight gin parties at Tiger House, the family home on Martha's Vineyard. In the wake of the Second World War, the two women are on the cusp...

Belle Patricelli has been running her resort, Belle on the Bend, for a long time––longer than most people realize. With Belle's guidance, six people are reawakened to their passions and are given the chance to connect with...