Fiction - Crime

"Merriment, mayhem and a plot that really keeps you guessing" from the Grand Master of Mystery and author of the John Dortmunder novels (Kirkus Reviews). The corpse isn't anybody special--a low-level drug courier--but it has been so long since the organization's last grand funeral...

"Action adventure icon" Mack Bolan, aka the Executioner, is back--and this time he's got backup (Los Angeles Times). After Mafia pressure destroyed his family, ace sniper Mack Bolan left the jungles of Southeast Asia to declare a new war on the home front. A...

In this depression-era noir series debut, a politician's murder leads a Chicago crime reporter to a conspiracy involving the Cubs' race for the pennant.Chicago, 1938. A new mayoral candidate runs on a promise to stomp out organized crime. When he's gunned down, it seems...

The Grand Master of Mystery delivers "nerve-end-entertainment" when two of New York's finest set out to become two of New York's richest (Kirkus Reviews). Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple longer than they can...

Hawker throws himself into a cutthroat gang war in Los Angeles In a pawnshop alleyway, James Hawker finds a body mutilated beyond recognition. She was beautiful once, he knows, but life in this hardened Los Angeles neighborhood took its toll. Starnsdale was once a...

The Skeleton Detective puzzles over the theft of an ancient bit of bone--and a student's murder--in this novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of Switcheroo. Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English...

A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid). With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a...

A doctor retreats to the Scottish coast for a fresh start--but finds herself in harm's way--in this compelling murder mystery. Physician Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder while struggling with a painkiller habit. The little village of...

In this gritty crime thriller, a disturbing double murder in Upstate New York leads a detective through a maze of secrets, lies, and buried trauma.When a young mother and her son are found dead on a church altar, investigator Valentina Knight is called to...

An engineer is caught in a lethal trap after he follows a beautiful woman home in this thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. Matthew Brady was just out for a good time. After a long dry spell working in...

To save New York City, Hawker must burn down the Village Outside the cabana, an assassin waits for James Hawker, the country's most dangerous vigilante. Hawker's nationwide crusade against organized crime has led him to the Fister Corporation--one of the most corrupt businesses on...

A forensics pathologist discovers evidence of murder--and worse--inside an abandoned hospital in this crime thriller: "A superbly strong read" (The Times, London). Once a busy hospital, St. Jude's now stands derelict, awaiting demolition. When a partially mummified corpse is found in the building's cavernous...

A forensic pathologist must once again confront a twisted serial killer in the international bestselling author's "bone-chillingly bleak" crime thriller (Financial Times). When Det. Insp. Terry Connor turns up on David Hunter's doorstep, it's an unwelcome reminder of the past in more ways than...

A brutal murder in an affluent suburb of Dublin and the unexplained death of an Irish diplomat in Manhattan... Garda Sergeant Stefan Gillespie is sent to America to bring a killer to justice, but his mission soon becomes part of an increasingly personal struggle....

The "shocking" and "suspense-packed" bestseller about one teacher's stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film (The New York Times Book Review). After serving his country in World War II, Richard Dadier decides to become an English teacher--and for the...

Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disaster Marybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won...

This Southwest-set tale about a hunt for a precious relic offers a "nice mix of comedy and mystery" from an award-winning author (Booklist). A dealer in traditional Native American pottery, Hubie Schuze scours New Mexico in search of ancient treasures. The Bureau of Land...

It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the...

A Chicago crime reporter is out to stop a local hate group from assassinating President Truman in this historical crime thriller.Chicago, 1948. As President Harry Truman prepares to visit Chicago in the final tense days of his reelection campaign, police reporter Steve "Snap" Malek...

Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old daughter, the last person he wants to see is local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik. Luckily, Frank isn't interested in the lifeless body in Jim's car. Frank has a proposition: he'll make...

As a hard-boiled Hollywood PI enlists Al Capone's help to save the Marx Brothers, Kaminsky "makes the totally wacky possible" (The Washington Post). It's 1941 and the Marx Brothers' first movie for MGM, Go West, has the country in stitches. But now Chico Marx...

Yorkshire's detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an "undeniably lively" mystery of murder and illusion (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det.Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the...

From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time -- comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool."What I can say is that...

The Executioner, a lone-wolf vigilante "who would make Jack Reacher think twice," takes his war on the mob to a new level (Empireonline.com). Once a Vietnam military hero, crack sniper Mack Bolan is now a vigilante, driven by the death of his Massachusetts family...

To save an innocent family, Hawker goes hunting in the Rockies If they hadn't come to the cabin, Lomela and her children would be dead by now. Evil men want something from Lomela's father, and they'll hurt his family to get it, so the...

Hawker launches an all-out assault on the world's most powerful arms dealer For Con Ye Cwong, the Vietnam War will never be over. Head of the North Vietnamese secret police during the brutal conflict, he has built himself an empire selling cocaine and heroin...

A gang of pornographers turns kidnapped women into sex slaves--and only Hawker can save them Brenda Paulie is fresh out of law school, newly married, and recently pregnant. She's also marked to die. In an affluent neighborhood of Detroit, three masked men burst into...

Hawker partners with a madam to save a world-class Vegas brothel James Hawker finds her in the Yellow Pages, listed under "P"--for prostitution. This is Las Vegas, after all, where the world's oldest profession is just another business. Vegas has been a wide-open town...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of the Doc Ford series: Hawker wages a vigilante war on traffickers preying on illegal Mexican immigrants. Disenchanted former Chicago cop James Hawker prefers justice his way: quick. He has the muscle, the experience, and the street smarts....

A vigilante ex-cop avenges the murder of a friend in this fast-paced thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of the Doc Ford series. When the police department told him to hold his fire, Hawker pulled the trigger anyway--and killed a dangerous terrorist. Since...

When a pregnant judge is abducted, a PI follows her trail into the Florida Everglades in this novel by "the master of the high-stakes thriller" (Michael Connelly). US district judge Diane Manchester has looked across the courtroom into the eyes of evil before. But...

An ex-cop from Philly investigates the deaths of elderly women in a poor Florida community in this "gritty, vivid, and suspenseful" thriller (Harlan Coben).When five elderly women are murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Max Freeman is determined to get to the bottom of it. His...

A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber The classic Jack Higgins thriller. In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost--some claimed to spot him in New York, others...

A PI's vacation in the Everglades is disrupted by a deadly hurricane--and dangerous criminals--in this riveting read by an Edgar Award-winning author. The peace and quiet of Max Freeman and Sherry Richards's vacation ends abruptly when Hurricane Simone slams into the Sunshine State. Sherry...

A forensic pathologist discovers a vicious killer loose on a remote Scottish isle in this British thriller by "one of the country's best crime writers" (Sunday Express).Dr. David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favor...

"I was so engrossed in this and read it in a day . . . kept me gripped!" --Goodreads reviewer, five stars Is it grief--or guilt? A doctor investigates a colleague in mourning in this addictive mystery by the author of Deadly Diagnosis. When...

A forensic pathologist gets mired in the deadly secrets of an English backwater village in this "tense, gripping" crime thriller (The Sunday Times).Top forensics expert Dr. David Hunter is facing an uncertain future. His career hangs in the balance and his personal life has...

BOOK ONE, Origin's Edge, of The Book of Men seriesA fate-changing manuscript is at the center of a battle that could forever alter the course of humanity. Against the backdrop of the idyllic Great Plains of Colorado and the 1970s New York blackouts, a...

Las Vegas, 1982. Brady Wilks, a teenage transplant from the Midwest, navigates a paradoxical existence in the dusty suburban outskirts of an aberrant 24-hour town built by the Mob. Isolated within his blended family and outcast as a newcomer, Brady eventually forges a brotherly...

In this "marvelously entertaining" mystery, a hard-boiled Hollywood private eye investigates a murdered Munchkin on the set of The Wizard of Oz (Newsday). A year after The Wizard of Oz's smash success, the yellow brick road is crumbling. The famous sets have been left...

A detective is drawn to a newly widowed woman in this "darkly funny" British murder mystery in the Gold Dagger Award-winning series (Kirkus Reviews). With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation...

A nanny will go to any length to save a kidnapped Mafia prince in this madcap mobster farce by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series. Her name is Nanny, and she's the most cutthroat woman in New York. Prim, slender, and dangerously...

From the jungles of Belize to the streets of Atlanta, Hawker's war rages on The CIA wants James Hawker dead. For years, his one-man campaign against organized crime has struck fear into America's most corrupt politicians, and now they're striking back. Hawker escaped the...

Vera Caspary, the famed author of Laura, gives us another gripping crime drama, told through shifting points of view. John Ansell, young and idealistic editor of Truth and Crime magazine, wants to breathe new life into the stale and formulaic publication. Instead of rehashing...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: From the creator of Luther comes a gripping tale of the deep bonds between father and son Always the Sun finds one man pushed past his limit, walking a wobbly line between safeguarding and carnage. While mourning the...

This "fast-paced" thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author pits iron-willed Miami attorney Gail Connor against the man she loves (Publishers Weekly). After splitting up with her fiancé, Anthony Quintana, Gail is just trying to get her life back in some sort of order....

Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings back the beguiling character Major General Ransom Jarvis in this third Mrs. Norris Mystery, a prequel, which immerses the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper in a murder investigation in the nation's capitalWith a new president in...

The classic Jack Higgins thrillerOne man must fight to the death to save his sister from the Mafia's wrath Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside...

Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown's finest It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private...

Book three of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max seeks to uncover the twisted truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicideIn the 1920s, three of Mark Mayes's ancestors left to help build the first road through the Everglades--backbreaking labor from which they never returned....