Fiction - Crime

When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't...

A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his...

NOMINATED FOR THE ANTHONY AWARD Reminds me of a young Quentin Tarantino. Pruitt is one of our best Southern fiction writers. --Bookreporter Meet Jack Jordan. He's a smooth-talking con artist with a penchant for the fast life. He's snuck into Lufkin, Texas, in the...

"A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year. --Booklist A President is murdered. A First Lady demands answers. And a young Senator will uncover a conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. When Robert Constable, President of the United States,...

Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.--emphasis on 'amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a...

Chaos? Or fate? What brought you here? Were the choices yours, or did something outside of you conspire to bring you to this place? Because out in the woods, in a box buried in the ground, there is a little girl who has no...

It's time to save Manhattan.An NYPD detective is always on duty. Erin O'Reilly is just settling down for a drink with her favorite gangster, celebrating her promotion to Detective Second Grade, when she hears the call every cop dreads: "Officer down." Soon Erin and...

Two killers are prowling Manhattan. It's double duty for Erin and Rolf.A detective doesn't always have the luxury of giving all her attention to just one case. Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 partner, Rolf, have just started to sink their teeth into their latest...

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn't prepared...

Slaughter County; the name conjures up all sorts of disturbing images. In reality, nothing noteworthy ever happens in this quiet hamlet - not if you're a homicide detective anyway.Not until that fateful autumn evening ...The midnight sky was pitch-black, save for a sliver of...

The Hound of the BaskervillesBy A. Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...

Ike Caudine would become a violent criminal, even kill, to be with Mary, but could he ever be faithful? After Mary leaves him, Ike turns to his childhood friend, Fritz Moeller, for an idea to impress her and win her back. He soon finds...

Chesterton's "The Crimes Of England" was written in 1916 and needs to be read, and perhaps forgiven, as a product of the Great War. The "crimes" in the title are essentially an ironic reference. Most of the "crimes" Chesterton relate to the preceding three...

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious...

Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler,...

They Gave Him Back His Badge, and Sent Him Down Into the Brutal Throbbing Heart of the Slums. Crooked ex-cop Corey Bradford turns out to be an ideal candidate for an underground police unit known as the Night Squad. First published 1961.Author: David GoodisISBN-10:...

Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertISBN-10: 1515426157ISBN-13: 9781515426158Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

"Several million dollars of that Russian gold is in a numbered account in the Banque du Shebab-Syrie. I know the name of the man who controls that account, as well as untold millions more in numbered accounts in Switzerland. That man is here in...

Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented Jonathan Craig.Author:...

He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, the shock of the explosion, and then the blood. He could remember the flight though the woods, and the satchel with the money, and now the gang of killers, closing...

This collection includes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster - A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning - Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller - Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer - The First Puritan...

Boston Blackie isn't afraid of stepping over onto the wrong side of the law. A former jewel thief and safe cracker, a hardened criminal having served time in a California prison, he knows a lot about crime. He's an "enemy to those who make...

Arsene Lupin, accused of murder, heads the police investigation to clear himself by finding the true killer First published in 1919, 813 is one of the very best Lupin novels.Author: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10: 151542538XISBN-13: 9781515425380Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Johnny had a passkey to all the hotel rooms. He wasn't looking for murder, but he found it-and worse On the streets of a big city people smile and the fights are bright. But there is an altey world of darkness, double-dealing and death;...

Raw, grisly and explosive Reporter Nick Mason witnesses an execution and gains a clue from the condemned man, sending Nick into a network of crime and murderAuthor: James Hadley ChaseISBN-10: 1515425312ISBN-13: 9781515425311Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Duncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend, Ronald Dayland, Sr. had been murdered. The killer...

If you're Toussaint Moore, a private investigator from New York City, and a Negro, framed in your own city for a white man's murder, you are going to find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border. But the...

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. First...

From the creator of Charlie Chan Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").Author: Earl Derr BiggersISBN-10:...

"Lupin," I said, "tell me something about yourself." "Why, what would you have me tell you? Everybody knows my life " replied Lupin, who lay drowsing on the sofa in my study. "Nobody knows it " I protested. "People know from your letters in...

"There's Low Fennel," said Major Dale. We pulled up short on the brow of the hill. Before me lay a little valley carpeted with heather, purple slopes hemming it in. A group of four tall firs guarded the house, which was couched in the...

The Party Of The Year In Virginia Turns DeadlyWhat began as rural Virginia's premier New Year celebration turns into a day of horror when the enemies of Alex Destephano's grandfather, Congressman Adam Patrick Lee, bring the war to his Virginia estate killing, maiming and...

Depressed by injuries that have sidelined his career and pretty sure he'll never find love, Heathcliffe goes to his cousin Peyton's Dude Ranch in Southern Indiana for some "alone" time. His plan is to contemplate the direction his life is taking and figure out...

It's 1961 and Omaha, Nebraska, has little to offer Larry Hanson and his friends Johnny DeBarco and Ray Agostini but bad luck and misery. Then Larry stumbles into a Mafia plot to rip off $10 million from the U.S. government and the three hatch...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth...

"A positively rewarding thriller from an author who know just when to zig and when to zag" - Kikrus Reviews.In a race against time, Doyle puts his life at stake as he hunts for the assassin after he witnesses his brother, a marketing mascot...

The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and Ingenious Methods of the Great Detective. Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collector's dream, allowing fans to delve into...

Set in the heart of Chicago's South-Side, and inspired by real events, this riveting novel follows the story of Lil' Rico, a young hood prodigy, and his Rock Island crew as they struggle to stay on top of the game and out of the...

In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?Author: James McClureISBN-10: 1569476527ISBN-13: 9781569476529Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize:...

A mystery novel in the Karen Hayes series previously published in hardcover by Bridgeworks, now in paperback.In the third book of the Karen Hayes series, an elderly nursing home resident, who was once an Olympic champion swimmer with a murky background in the German...

Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off...

Something is terribly wrong at Symphony Hall. Luigi Spadafini, the symphony's star conductor, has been murdered--and the entire orchestra has confessed to the crime. This is the mess that Detective Lieutenant Pratt walks into one Saturday morning. Overworked and tired, he's also saddled with...

If you could take just one thing back... Every Little Thing explores how lives are shaped by the butterfly effect of decisions that go desperately wrong. After a shocking family tragedy, Cohen Davies feels isolated, guilty, and numb to everything except the allure of...

#1New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy. Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new...

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Ren馥 Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Ren馥 Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a potent fusion of tantalizing suspense and romance, in a thriller about a reckless pilot caught in a race against time. Rye Mallett, a fearless freight dog pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung...

Mark Ablett's house party goes well until his brother Robert returns from Australia and joins the festivities. Shortly after his arrival, Robert is found dead, and Mark disappears. Tony Gillingham is the stranger who decides to investigate, and what follows is a witty whodunit,...