Mystery & Detective

The Evil Friendship

by Vin Packer

The moment of truth . . . Mary Drew knelt down on the rug. She leaned forward, her mouth within an inch of Martha's. "l love you," she said. "I've loved you from the very moment we met. But I won't kiss you....

3 Day Terror

by Vin Packer

She was hurrying past the field on her way home when the man stepped out from behind a tree and stood spraddle-legged in her path. Ginny Lee was uncommonly pretty, a small girl with unusually long legs for someone...

The Thrill Kids

by Vin Packer

The Lesson - According to Kicks . . .

Heine pointed the knife at her. ''O.K., Lady Godiva, take off the blouse.''

She stood motionless, unable to answer or move.

''Go ahead,'' Heine said. ''Take that piece-of-nothing...

The Gallows in My Garden

by Richard Deming

''The gallows in my garden, people say,

Is new and neat and adequately tall.

I tie the noose on in a knowing way

As one that knots his necktie for a ball;

But just as all the neighbors . . . on the wail . . .

Are...

The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer

by Talmage Powell

Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword. All three victims were Japanese. The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima. Nick had spent fifteen...

The Killer is Mine

by Talmage Powell

The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the chair.

Wally Tulman, Florida socialite, had been convicted of molesting and murdering a young girl.

Tulman's lovely...

The Smasher

by Talmage Powell

A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He's trying to run me down with a car. He's trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen...

Leave Her to Hell

by Fletcher Flora

''Buy me a drink,'' she said.

''I'm too poor,'' I said.

''I'll buy you one.''

''I'm too proud,'' I said.

''In my apartment,'' she said, ''there's Scotch, rye, bourbon - anything you want!''

''Anything?''

''Anything!''...

The Quaking Widow

by Robert Colby

Her fortune was the price on her head

Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor, but he wasn't getting very far - until the day she escaped from a strange roadside...

The Star Trap

by Robert Colby

She put her head on my shoulder. Her hand slid off my thigh and into my lap, paused. She kissed my ear, lingered there. ''And what are you afraid of?'' she whispered.

''Afraid you'll stop,'' I said against the...

In a Vanishing Room

by Robert Colby

''You asked my business,'' remarked Dasher, ''and I told you that I'm a trouble-shooter. I shoot trouble - with this.'' He waved the .45. ''And you're trouble. My client asked that you both be removed, and I'm...

Mystic River with A Bonus Excerpt

by Dennis Lehane

For a limited time, read New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River for a reduced price, and receive the first two chapters of his last bestseller, Moonlight Mile.

In Mystic River, when...

Ghouls Night Out: From Weddings from Hell

by Terri Garey

Previously published in the print anthology Weddings From Hell, with New York Times bestsellers Jeaniene Frost, Maggie Shayne, and Kathryn Smith.

Nicki Styx sees dead people. Worse, she's a replacement bridesmaid...

Murder Runs in the Family

Southern Sisters #3

by Anne George

Mary Alice has spared nothing for her only daughter's wedding -- from seventy-five yards of bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think...

Sky Birds Dare!

by L. Ron Hubbard

Step back in time with this riveting tale of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen. Ace glider pilot Breeze Callaghan is trying to demonstrate to the Navy the value of gliders and gliding techniques in war. There...

Hurricane

by L. Ron Hubbard

In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run. But when it comes to toughness, McQueen is following in the footsteps of Captain Spar. Wrongfully accused, Spar has been condemned...

Fell Back

by M.E. Kerr

When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder.

Fell

by M.E. Kerr

John Fell loves his family and gourmet cooking, and feels appropriately tormented by Keats, his rich girlfriend from the right side of the tracks. A normal life - normal, that is, until he meets Woodrow Pingree...

Girl on the Best Seller List

by Vin Packer

The book that damned an entire town

FERN FULTON: ''I'm the only friend Gloria Wealdon has in this town. How could she write those dreadful things about me and my husband and our daughter?''

VIRGINIA FULTON, age...

Come Destroy Me

by Vin Packer

He was sixteen the summer he killed the girl - a brown-haired boy painfully aware of beauty and in search of it.

The trouble was, he had a kind of adoration for Jill Latham's cool beauty and her mysticism. So...