Mystery & Detective

The Bad Always Die Twice

by Cheryl Crane

In the first of a wildly entertaining mystery series set amid the bright lights, big egos, and Botoxed brows of Hollywood, Cheryl Crane--daughter of legendary movie star Lana Turner--introduces a smart, hilarious,...

Oracle

by J.C. Martin

With London gearing up to host the Olympics, the city doesn't need a serial killer stalking the streets, but they've got one anyway. Leaving a trail of brutal and bizarre murders, the police force is no closer...

Skin: A Mike Hammer Story

by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

A beautiful reporter. A secret ritual in a graveyard. A disembodied hand on the side of the road. Mike Hammer returns in one of the most shocking cases of his storied career. Private Investigator Mike Hammer...

Murder in Mumbai: A Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery

by K. D. Calamur

From NPR editor Krishnadev Calamur comes an engrossing murder mystery set in the heart of the new India.

Mumbai, India: a city of beauty and squalor, old and new, wealth and poverty, honest work and deep corruption…...

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine: An eShort

by Peter Straub

Peter Straub masterfully weaves  horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.

Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by...

Salton Killings

by Sally Spencer

When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to investigate. An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned...

Brought to Book

by Anthea Fraser

Mystery and intrigue with a decidedly literary bent, from the bestselling crime writer - When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life-story of a bestselling author, recently deceased, she...

Jigsaw

by Anthea Fraser

The return of Rona Parish - Rona Parish is ready to embark on a new assignment. She is to write a series of articles for the 600th anniversary of the local market town of Buckford, looking at its churches, schools...

Wages of Sin

Inspector Peach #7

by J.M. Gregson

A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex, unpleasant case on his hands. He begins to interview local prostitutes and their customers, including a divorced policeman and...

Mortal Taste

Lambert & Hook #16

by J.M. Gregson

Head teacher Peter Logan is a strange case of Jekyll and Hyde. He's effected impressive improvements at his Cheltenham school, but his private life is in no way exemplary. So when he's shot in the head one September...

Murder at Swann's Lake

by Sally Spencer

When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate. Why was...

The Contents of the Coffin

by J.S. Fletcher

J. S. Fletcher (b. 1863, d. 1935) was a prolific British author and journalist. He wrote over 230 titles, both fiction and non fiction. He was one of foremost writers of detective fiction during the Golden Age...

The Wonderful City

by J.S. Fletcher

J. S. Fletcher (b. 1863, d. 1935) was a prolific British author and journalist. He wrote over 230 titles, both fiction and non fiction. He was one of foremost writers of detective fiction during the Golden Age...

Goldilocks

by Andrew Coburn

Goldilocks is vintage Coburn, the Coburn of Sweetheart, The Babysitter, and Love Nest. This is a story of a New England town where all the deals have been quietly cut, the cops have traded their souls to crime...

Love Nest

by Andrew Coburn

The New York Times said of Andrew Coburn, "Natural storytellers are not too common, but Mr. Coburn is one." And Publishers Weekly praised his previous novel Sweetheart as "so good that it is almost criminal."...

Sweetheart

by Andrew Coburn

Andrew Coburn's The Babysitter was a bestseller; his previous book, Off Duty, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "a flawlessly plotted, stylishly written account The rewards are many and exceptional."...

Voices in the Dark

by Andrew Coburn

Bensington, Mass., the Boston bedroom suburb that was the scene of Andrew Coburn's acclaimed thriller No Way Home, is the setting of this new novel of thumbscrew suspense, explosive sex, and shattering revelation....

No Way Home

by Andrew Coburn

The first murder seemed senseless. The second death a tragic accident. And the killer...a total mystery to Chief of Police James Morgan. Chief Morgan's job had been, up to now, a cinch—his principal occupation...

Shack Road

by Hallam Whitney

A sharecropper's women... what a life they led a man!

Callie May, his wife, just couldn't help being friendly to strangers...a warm friendliness that was forever attracting strangers to her...

May Ellen, his...

The Wild Seed

by Hallam Whitney

The men couldn't stay away from Rosamae. At sixteen she was already a woman, brimming over with unfulfilled desires, eager to answer the call of love. But Cal Aiken was the only man who could stir her—and he...