Mystery & Detective / Short Stories

Killer Year

by Lee Child

Killer Year is a group of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books will be published in 2007. The graduating class includes such rising stars as Robert Gregory Browne, Toni McGee Causey, Marcus Sakey,...

Murder in Vegas

by Michael Connelly

Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows for sure...

A Good Hanging

by Ian Rankin

Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures,...

The Ghost Quartet

by Orson Scott Card, Marvin Kaye, Brian Lumley & Tanith Lee

Do you believe in ghosts?

You will after reading these original short novels from four of today’s best writers of the fantastic.

Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope series,...

Dead Heat

by Robert Leslie Bellem

The cash customers paid plenty to watch her emote on the screen. They looked upon her as brunette angel, but there were a lot of substantial citizens in Hollywood, who knew Linda for a rat!

Cooked

by Robert Leslie Bellem

An ounce of murder prevention is worth a pound of chasing a killer. So Dan tries to help the girl--- only to find that a very fast one is being pulled on him...

The Color of Murder

by Robert Leslie Bellem

When a man goes on a bender and tries to kill the woman who has made a success of him, an ounce of prevention is called, Dan figures, or a pound of murder will be roosting on his doorstep.

Shriek in the Night

by Sewell Peaslee Wright

A woman's cry for "Help!"-an eerie wail over the telephone, "like some monster screaming in agony"-and young Dellert rushes into the night on a wild and dangerous chase.

Broken Melody

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Nothing scalds Dan Turner so much as a threatening note. When there's money in a case, and when there's a little songbird like Chiquita in the picture, nobody's going to tell Dan to layoff, and get away with...

Escape Artist

by Mark Sullivan

"A compelling, page-turning blend of spy and caper fiction: it's Robin Hood for the twenty-first century.” –Jeff Abbott 

Mark Sullivan, the co-author of James Patterson’s Private Games, has, in Robin...

The Art of Rendition

by Mark Sullivan

"With Robin Monarch, Mark Sullivan has created a Jason Bourne for the new millennium" —James Rollins

Mark Sullivan, the co-author of James Patterson’s Private Games, has, in Robin Monarch, created a compelling...

The Nightgown

by Brad Parks

Shamus and Nero award-winning author Brad Parks takes readers back to the beginning of investigative reporter Carter Ross’s career with this intriguing prequel short story. Only 24 years old and still a wide-eyed...

Brotherhood

by Mark Sullivan

"Diabolical! Filled with twists, turns, crosses and double-crosses, Sullivan delivers a harrowing international thriller" —Lisa Gardner

Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated, secret past and a very...

An East End Murder

by Charles Finch

From the acclaimed author of the Charles Lenox series of mysteries, including the Agatha-nominated novel A Beautiful Blue Death, comes a riveting short story of death and detection on the East End.

It’s the...

Beneath the Book Tower

by Steve Hamilton

Before the tragic event that made him seek refuge in a remote corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight was a Detroit police officer.  It’s a warm summer night, and Alex is out riding the night...

Calories (A Diana Andrews Mystery)

by Albert Tucher

Can't a working girl make a few dollars on Thanksgiving without tripping over a murder victim and taking heat from the cops? Prostitute Diana Andrews should know by now--the answer is always no! A holiday short...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012

by Otto Penzler & Robert Crais

A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2011 culled from a variety of sources.

A toast to the river Kura

by Fausto Rampazzo

Based on a true story. A seamy individual goes in search of Antonio Russo, a freelance journalist in the Georgian capital. Troubled meetings, shootings and violence will mark its inexorable descent into hell....

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5

by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg

Editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg have scoured the world to present the biggest and most consistently entertaining collection of crime and suspense stories from across the globe. Their first-rate picks...

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 2

by Ed Gorman

It’s not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection rises to that challenge,...