Fiction - Crime

A dead girl, dressed in a tattered mermaid costume and a harpoon jutting from her chest, washes ashore on a world-renowned beach in Florida, bringing with it a nightmare of evil the City of Sarasota has never known. Chief Homicide Detective Miranda Morales, recently...

Based on actual events, this story is set in a newspaper office in Eastern Montana in 1926. A time when the American public was obsessed with newspaper horror stories of what most today would consider ordinary murders or other man-made catastrophes. Anything that could...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

When his rabbi calls him after Yom Kippur, private eye Benjamin Gold thinks it's just to yell at him for skipping services--but it's even worse than that.It turns out that Benny missed more than some prayers and a sermon: While everyone else was atoning...

Set in Vancouver and northwest BC in the late 1970s, the beautiful city's dark underbelly is revealed. Davis, the financial mastermind behind a Vancouver east-end gang wants out, sick of the life he's led and who he's become. When a bank calls the loan...

The Yukon, 1907. North America's last untamed frontier. Dawson City has reached its tipping point. The citizens, and the people they count on to protect them, now live under the brutal control of Eric Morgan, a violent gang leader. Morgan's power has only grown...

"A bitingly funny whodunit." -- Maclean's Arthur P. Besterman, criminal lawyer and reformed alcoholic, was the first to go. Counsel to Vancouver's assorted shifters and grifters, Besterman almost always lost his cases. But a recent victory defending a low-life client might be a clue...

This darkly humorous crime novel set in a Canadian ski town is a "fast-paced thrill ride." (Publishers Weekly) "The dialogue is some of the sharpest and funniest I've seen in any book this year." -- National Post Grey Stevens took over the family business...

The Crying Minds is a psychological crime thriller series set over time in London, UK, Europe and China. Roze, a young woman with extreme emotional intelligence and mind-reading skills due to an illegal human AI experiment, becomes a new age MI5 agent caught in...

O.G PAYBACC has been leaving death and destruction in his wake ever since he touched down in the streets in his quest to avenge his homeboy. He's one step closer to getting the trigger man, but a revelation from his past sets him down...

A casualty on the frontlines brings the emergence of one of the most feared gangsters to have ever picked up a flag and gun, O.G PAYBACC. The Original Gangsta Killa wants blood to answer for the murder of his comrade, and he'll stop at...

Six heavily armed, elderly women, what could possibly go wrong? Swindled of their life savings by their retirement home manager, the ladies of the 4 o'clock poker club are destitute and off the grid. Violet, Marybeth, Mini, Doris, Ruby, and Bernice retire to an...

It's 1971, and the Naval Investigate Service, or "NIS" as it's better known, is nothing like the NCIS of present-day television. There are no cell phones, desktop computers, DNA, or the Internet. All the Navy and civilian personnel working for this specialized unit have...

John Dickerson, a recent graduate of the studies for Mortuary Sciences, settles in the Harford Community. John's motives are questionable and Chief Julia Lillus becomes skeptical. John pairs with an ex-convict in sinister activities. John's newly wedded wife discovers something that pushes her beyond...

Awaken begins where Something Like a Dream left off, but this time, Brent is left wondering who he can trust.Skylar's life is in danger and Brent Foster may be the only one that can save her.Brent can't believe Skylar Shaw is complicit in a...

After spending nearly twenty-five years on death row in the Richmond State Penitentiary, Tommy Cleaves is finally executed for the murder of Kathleen Spencer.Mitch Armstrong, a private investigator and former police detective, is one of the witnesses to the execution. For most of his...

"Relentlessly entertaining." -- New York Daily NewsA Jetliner Crashes in the Everglades.A Billion-Dollar Lawsuit: Negligence or Terrorism?The Defense: Kill Anyone, Even a Supreme Court Justice, to Win the Case.Supreme Court Justice Sam Truitt takes the bench with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage....

A polar vortex grabs New York City by the throat and leaves it almost motionless with its deep freeze. In its wake, a young woman's body is discovered near the East River, frozen solid. With no ID, no Missing Person's report matching her description,...

Everyone you meet here is exactly who they pretend they are.... Welcome to New Orleans in 1995, a great town for an escaped lunatic with a knack for saying whatever you need to hear. No one spots the holes in his alibi as he...

Anyone is capable of murder...It started with a seemingly innocent goodnight kiss... Innocent, until one person's desire ignited a firestorm of passions leading to a disastrous chain of events for three families.How far do they go to hide their darkest secrets from their loved...

Boondocking in Pennsylvania in her truck camper, artist Kate Corliss is forced to stop at an RV campground because her generator stops working. Waiting for the repair, she makes friends with other RVers and enjoys the outdoors-kayaking in Loyalhanna Creek, hiking, and filling sketchbooks...

Mitchell Hosowich is pleased as a puppy with two tails that the great American rust-out has rendered parts of Detroit rural again, wild. For him, the "Green Ghetto," as the bureaucrats have come to call it, is a safe place to grow some fairly...

For almost seven years Jakub Danowicz pined after his friend and fellow criminal cohort Cheshire Bloom, until tragic circumstances brought them together. Now they're...dating? Lovers? It might take just as long for them to figure it out If their personal lives weren't challenging enough,...

They've been Misled. They've been Misunderstood. They've been Misguided. Now it's time to put the past aside and focus on new beginnings. Knox and Roxy have finally set the date for their wedding, but things won't go smoothly. There are too many people within...

Carly Tabor thought she'd buried her gift with Freddy Richards, the orphan child whose remains were discovered in her King Street home two centuries after his murder. Her ability to communicate with the dead, especially deceased children, originally presented itself when the restless spirit...

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1731704852ISBN-13: 9781731704856Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2018Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1731704844ISBN-13: 9781731704849Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2018Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.Author: John...

One dark night, Hamlet sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost? And if so, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to avenge his father...

Meg Miller discovers a dead body in Darrow House just a few hours before the annual homes tour. It could be someone she knows. Of course, she's a suspect. She's the only other person in the house. But, why would a retired librarian, community...

Curses can be Murder Sandy didn't realize that curses were real and alive on her college campus. Whatever it takes, she will find out who killed the two girls pulled out of the pond near the campus. Signs point at the Fry family, but...

This contains the first 8 of the 12 stories in the published book The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. In these 8 detective thrillers, the main protagonist is Horne Fisher. (The omitted four are individual stories with separate heroes/detectives.) Due to...

Dr. Petrie is surprised by a late night visitor, "a tall, lean ... square cut ... sun baked" man who turns out to be his good friend (Commissioner Sir Denis) Nayland Smith of Burma, formerly of Scotland Yard, who has come directly from Burma....

George Lawson is a 44 year old lonely and eccentric London banker who reaches a crossroads in his life. He commits a crime of staggering scale and complexity. Along the way he relies on an associate to access the criminal underworld but this is...

These stories are about people on the edge, struggling to survive: a hit man confessing to his son, a hijacker confronting a salmon fisherman and his teen-aged daughter in the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco weed dealers in the midst of the 1980s AIDS epidemic,...

Katrina and her stepsister Leah have been brought together by a common hatred of Alfred Kennedy, Katrina's father and Leah's stepfather. They are polar opposites with Katrina interested in finding a husband, and Leah focusing on becoming head of the Langford firm. Leah quickly...

A nameless old man sits in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, and without leaving his seat, solves baffling crimes reported to him by an admiring lady journalist. Using only methods of pure deduction, the eccentric, self-assured sleuth unravels the mysteries behind...

An eclectic miscellany of psychological horror/thriller stories, verse, and ephemera, wherein the subject matter relates to the study of serial homicide and the aesthetic portrayal of such an act. In other words, themes of death and murder abound in this horrific collection brought to...

In San Francisco's seedy red-light district, young girls are being shipped in as merchandise from the Balkans and turning up deadAuthor: Seth HarwoodISBN-10: 1717894631ISBN-13: 9781717894632Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2018Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.62d

A shady pottery collector is murdered in sunny New Mexico in this mystery in a "winning series" (Susan Wittig Albert). Maybe it was the chance to make an easy $2,500. Or maybe it was the opportunity to examine a treasure trove of Anasazi pots...

One fatal crash. Two colliding worlds. Three wrecked lives. School teacher Ben is driving on the motorway, on his usual commute to work. A day like any other.... Except for one man who, in a final despairing act, jumps in front of Ben's car,...

All of Wall Street and Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is discovered dead in his brownstone mansion, slumped over in an easy chair with a bullet in his head. The man's body is found in a room locked from...

T.D. Stash, part-time sleuth, was over his cool head 'n dirty business in the Everglades: There was an adorable little girl who claimed her loving father wanted her to be an adorable corpse... a tycoon who bred killer alligators for profit and pleasure... a...

During the Great Depression, Lewis Seagrove struggles to provide for his wife and three children; an honest man, he will still do whatever necessary to take care of them. The stunning novel River Ice is about prejudice and survival. Lewis climbs onto a moving...

A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDKeith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope...

American heroes and Mexican drug runners cross swords in the night hills and dusty streets of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.San Diego firefighters Jimmy Dodd and Marty McLennan plan an overnight excursion to the seaport town of Ensenada, Mexico, for some good times. Jimmy's delinquent cousin...

Fiction. First time in paperback. This novel, which won the Novello Literary Award in 2006, hits hard and doesn't stop hitting. Bathanti surely drew on his extensive experience teaching in prisons to create a scad of unforgettable and unforgiving characters in an equally unforgettable...

Hollywood PI, sometime actor Eddie Collins is doing a bit on a sitcom when he receives an SOS from an A-list friend. Mike Ford's Oscar has been stolen during a home invasion and Ford's girlfriend has drowned in the swimming pool. Did she surprise...

Jimmy Quinn knows about bombs. He was there at the 1920 Wall St. bombing. But he doesn't know what to think when another one goes off behind his speakeasy. It's the latest in a series of suspicious goings-on. A moderately corrupt police detective offers...