Bill Pronzini

The Bughouse Affair

by Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

In The Bughouse Affair, this first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent...

Mourners

Nameless Detective #31

by Bill Pronzini

“Nameless” had seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn’t know, was more than he could take. And he had a non-professional...

Nightcrawlers

Nameless Detective #30

by Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author proves, once...

Hellbox

Nameless Detective #37

by Bill Pronzini

Bill, the "Nameless Detective," and his wife Kerry were in the Sierra foothills, just outside of Six Pines, falling in love with a cabin. It was all perfect, until Kerry went missing.

They’d seen Balfour at...

Camouflage

Nameless Detective #36

by Bill Pronzini

Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife—and they know where she is.  Deliver some papers to her and it’s all done.  But  she refuses the papers, sends a message...

Savages

Nameless Detective #32

by Bill Pronzini

The police said it was an accident, the dead woman's sister said it was murder... and that she knew who did it.  Nameless isn't certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias's life, the more inclined...

Schemers

Nameless Detective #34

by Bill Pronzini

A new Nameless Detective story from the 2008 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master...

A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for...

Fever

Nameless Detective #33

by Bill Pronzini

Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he’d do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She’d run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken...

Betrayers

Nameless Detective #35

by Bill Pronzini

We’re told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal.  For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal—personal, against a child, against the elderly—becomes...

The Hidden

by Bill Pronzini

A series of seemingly random murders along a fifty-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast, committed by an unknown dubbed by the media the Coastline Killer. A young couple with marital problems,...

The Other Side of Silence

by Bill Pronzini

"When Geena left him and filed for divorce, the first two things Fallon did were to put the Encino house up for sale and then take a six weeks' leave of absence from Unidyne. Then he loaded the Jeep Cherokee...

Step to the Graveyard Easy

by Bill Pronzini

There is a price to pay for redemption. Grabbing the reader with the opening line of Step to the Graveyard Easy, Bill Pronzini shows again why he is considered one of America's leading masters of suspense. As...

The Crimes of Jordan Wise

by Bill Pronzini

Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco engineering firm in the late 1970s. By his own admission, the first thirty-four years of his life were dull, empty. But that all changes when...