Polizieschi & Mistery

The Family Corleone

di Ed Falco

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that...

Now and on Earth

di Jim Thompson

San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time....

Cropper's Cabin

di Jim Thompson

Tommy Carver may be every inch the angry, rebellious young man his teachers and parents accuse him of being. But sometimes, there are reasons for a fury like Tommy's.

Tommy's relationship with Donna, the daughter...

The Alcoholics

di Jim Thompson

Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the...

Guilt by Degrees

Rachel Knight #2

di Marcia Clark

Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide...

Cut to the Heart

di Ava Dianne Day

Inspired by the true heroism of legendary nurse Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, award-winning author Ava Dianne Day weaves a suspenseful blend of fact and fiction in a gripping historical thriller...

Murder on K Street

Capital Crimes #23

di Margaret Truman

Nobody knows the crooked turns, slippery slopes, and dark, dangerous stretches of the Beltway better than Margaret Truman, dean of the Washington, D.C., mystery scene. And no one is better equipped to lead a...

Side by Side

di John Ramsey Miller

Winter Massey is a former U.S. marshal who has made too many enemies on both sides of the law. Lucy Dockery is a judge’s daughter who’s never had to fight for anything in her life. But now Lucy and her young...

Mirror Image: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery

di Dennis Palumbo

"MIRROR IMAGE, "a complex, erotic novel of suspense, is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Dr. Daniel Rinaldi, a psychologist who consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims...

The Killings in Boulder Valley

di Arlen Blumhagen

The beautiful, majestic Boulder Valley. Where locals can enjoy everything that the Montana wilderness has to offer. Where tourists can "get away from it all," and relax beside a rushing mountain river. The Boulder...

Down Here: A Burke Novel

Burke #15

di Andrew Vachss

For years Burke has harbored an outlaw's hard love for Wolfe, the beautiful, driven former sex-crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." So when Wolfe is arrested for the attempted...

I'm Dying Here

di Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes

R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office....

The Alpine Kindred: An Emma Lord Mystery

Emma Lord #11

di Mary Daheim

MURDER IS RELATIVE

The brutal stabbing of local philanthropist Einar Rasmussen Jr. outrages folk in the old logging town of Alpine. But, strangely, editor Emma Lord of The Alpine Advocate can scarcely pry a word...

Chosen

di Bill Kitson

When Sarah Kelly fails to return from a night out, DI Mike Nash can only speculate on her whereaboutsuntil a chance remark causes him to look deeper into other cases of girls who have vanished without a trace....

Hawke's Tor

di E. V. Thompson

The brutal murder of a promiscuous young wife and the disappearance of her baby son bring Superintendent Amos Hawke and Sergeant Tom Churchyard to a tiny moorland village in nineteenth-century Cornwall, where...

Stone of Vengeance

di Vickie Britton & Loretta Jackson

Wealthy cattle baron Charles Kingsley is fatally shot in his home, a flat granite stone placed beneath his head. On the wall above his body among Western memorabilia, Kate Jepp notices an original invitation...

Bury in Haste

di Jean Rowden

1956. Constable 'Thorny' Deepbriar is just a country bobby, but he's always longed to try his hand at detection. His chance comes when a young man is kidnapped, then turns up the next day, baffled but unharmed....

With a Narrow Blade

di Faith Martin

When an elderly woman is stabbed to death in her own home, Detective Inspector Hillary Greene is instantly puzzled. The house doesn't appear to have been robbed and Flo Jenkins herself was well-liked by her...

Slice

di David Hodges

To most law-abiding people, a police station represents safety and security. But Detective Superintendent Jack Fulton finds Saddler Street station just the opposite when he takes on a grisly murder enquiry and...

Blood on the Cowley Road

di Peter Tickler

An art student on-the-make sets up a ""suicide"" plaque, and within hours Sarah Johnson has plunged to her death from the top of the multi-story carpark, right in front of his prying camera. Sarah turns out...