Polizieschi & Mistery

Reckoning for the Dead

di Jordan Dane

The official story is that Garrett Wheeler,the Sentinels’ chief, is dead—killed in a covert op gone horribly wrong.But Alexa Marlowe—his ex-loverand most trusted agent—isn’t buying it.Overnight, a...

Cat to the Dogs

Joe Grey, Feline Detective #5

di Shirley Rousseau Murphy

A recent earthquake was only the beginning of the big trouble that plagues Molena Point, California. Joe Grey may be merely a cat, but he's already solved more murders than your average human detective, and...

The Color of Blood

di Declan Hughes

A reputable dentist from a venerable medical family, Shane Howard wants Loy to find his lost daughter after receiving a set of photographs featuring nineteen-year-old Emily in provocative poses. But a simple...

To the Tower Born

di Robin Maxwell

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the...

Death in Lovers' Lane

di Carolyn Hart

A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone...

By Blood Written

di Steven Womack

At first, it was only research . . .

Author Michael Schiftmann has received resounding critical acclaim for his novels that few people buy or read. The sad truth is that readers aren't interested in great literature—they...

Witch

di Barbara Michaels

For Ellen March, the secluded old house nestled in the pine woods is more than the dream home she's long been searching for. It's an escape, a chance to start over, to forget the pain of her failed marriage...

The Body in the Moonlight

Faith Fairchild #11

di Katherine Hall Page

Minister's wife Faith Fairchild is excited about catering her church's restoration campaign kickoff at historic Ballou House. But when a beautiful young woman dies moments after finishing dessert, Faith is suddenly...

The Shaman's Bones

Charlie Moon #3

di James D. Doss

A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely -- and ritually -- murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon....

Tanner's Twelve Swingers

di Lawrence Block

Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel...

Resort to Murder

di Carolyn Hart

Ex-reporter Henrietta "Henrie 0" O'Dwyer Collins joins a wedding party in glorious Bermuda -- only to discover that death is an uninvited guest.

Warm turquoise waters and balmy ocean breezes do little to ease...

Big City, Bad Blood

Ray Dudgeon #1

Shamus Best First P.I. Novel 2008

di Sean Chercover

A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most...

Mr. Timothy

di Louis Bayard

Welcome to the world of a grown-up Timothy Cratchit, as created by the astonishing imagination of author Louis Bayard.

Mr. Timothy Cratchit has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as...

Death of an Irish Tinker: A Peter Mcgarr Mystery

Chief Inspector Peter McGarr #13

di Bartholomew Gill

A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder...

Homemade Sin

Callahan Garrity #3

di Kathy Hogan Trocheck

With a nose for crime and grime, Callahan Garrity has handled dirty killers on the streets as an Atlanta cop and on the job as a house cleaner. But she's always been able to keep her private life neatly separated...

Last Rituals

Thóra Gudmundsdóttir #1

di Yrsa Sigurdardottir

At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family...

The Love Talker

di Elizabeth Peters

Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood....

Into the Volcano

di Forrest Devoe Jr.

The year is 1962. John Glenn is in orbit, Audrey Hepburn is breakfasting outside Tiffany's, Elvis is recording "Bossa Nova Baby," and in Istanbul, a middle-aged Dutch spy has just met a fiery death. Enter Jack...

The Burglar in the Rye

di Lawrence Block

Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New...

Supreme Justice: A Novel Of Suspense

di Gary Hardwick

Young U.S. attorney Marshall Jackson is handed the biggest case of his career when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Farrel Douglas is gunned down during his commencement speech at a Detroit law school. Conservative...