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A former client of Marc Kadella has returned. Along with three other men Marc's client was released from prison after it came to light that a doctored DNA test was used to convict them. One of them is wreaking grisly retribution upon the judges...

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself - and stay alive - is to commit an endless series of violent crimes....

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...

Working in London, Billy Mack's assistant is brutally murdered and a witness identifies Billy as the killer. When the brutal crime scene photos make the headlines, the case captivates the public and the hunt for Billy is on. On he lam to clear his...

Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated PressWhen Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body...

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...

In James Patterson's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder.Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law enforcement skills...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Mary Roberts RinehartISBN-10: 1546513124ISBN-13: 9781546513124Publisher: Createspace Independent...

"Fly fishing, exotic cocktails, drug lords, damsels, swordfights, murder and redemption -- Linsenbigler provides them all and more in an entertaining, picaresque romp of a read about a witty bon vivant who becomes a reluctant and endearing action hero. Here's a toast to the...

Detective Alex Mills turns to psychic Gus Parker to help him solve a series of baffling murders perpetrated by a deranged killer who leaves his victims' bodies and taunting clues in the cemeteries of Phoenix, AZ. A killer is on the loose, leaving fresh...

Their only child was kidnapped and never found. Six years later, the only remaining portion of Jim Markman's life, remaining relatively unscathed, was his status as assistant district attorney for Davidson County, Tennessee. His marriage had fallen apart, his desire to interact with any...

Television, politics, and the Russian mob: Live to Air is a riveting crime thriller, jam-packed with intrigue and unforgettable characters. Ethan Benson is a charming and principled-if sometimes difficult-television producer in New York City who detests doing crime stories. But that's of no significance...

First time visitors to the American West, Delia Hager Duval and her French husband, Jean-Paul, accept an offer of an old Santa Fe adobe house for the Christmas holidays. But something is terribly wrong. Previous tenants have fled and their house is said to...

Staggering from a bar into a dark, deserted alley, a man is stalked and attacked. Forty years later, December 2007, a letter reaches a Berkeley physics professor from her friend Cy Fapp, head of a Charleston private detective agency. As the story unfolds, these...

The story opens with a deranged man standing in the middle of a field hovering over one of his victims he had just brutally mutilated. The man, who calls himself Mister Zero, is convinced his victim was a demon disguised as a teenage girl....

Kidnapped separately, terrified and alone, Deputy Sheriff Sharon Toro and her husband, Floyd Marshall, are each forced to make brutally hard life and death decisions to protect innocent life and for their own survival. They only have their faith and wits to guide them....

When Probation probation Officer officer Cate Austin is given her new assignment, she faces the highest-profile case of her career. Alice Mariani is charged with assisted suicide, and Cate must recommend a sentence. Alice insists her story is one of misinterpreted love, forcing those...

The Dark Pool: Black Gold, High Finance, and Love in the Scottish Highlands is set mainly in the remote Highlands of Scotland. In 1997, a body surfaces in Blairhyle's notorious dark pool, supposedly a peat bog, but shady businessman Dalhousie learns its secret. Historian...

"The Nappers is a saga about an East Harlem, New York, gangster who comes up with a lucrative, if dangerous idea of kidnapping his fellow gangsters. It is also the story about the collapse of the mob, which turns out to have been caused...

A heart-stopping thriller by ED GORMAN WRITING AS DANIEL RANSOM author of The Serpent's Kiss A PLACE TO DIE FOR... Dr. Richard Candlemas's academy had been the place where Meredith Sawyer grew up-a place she had spent her adult life trying to forget. The...

Bill Brown is a savvy, mostly honest L. A. cop who flees to Dallas after an investigation into corruption targets some of his off-duty organized crime gambling buddies. When his life is threatened to keep him quiet, Bill buys a bus ticket, and stumbles...

It's 2020. The race is on to find the cure for a deadly disease targeting women of color. But a hidden side-effect might kill us all. Time to call in the twenty-first-century Robin Hoods to locate, assemble, and decode The Pandora Block.Author: John HegenbergerISBN-10:...

The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart Phones? Who you kiddin'? We're talkin' 1956.Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time Magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leave his Louisiana home and hops a bus to Defiance, Oklahoma--a town...

A tragic auto accident? No The accident was staged, and young Doctor Ward murdered. But why? And by whom? The only witness, a DUI motorist, flees the scene. In the aftermath of Ward's death, and the media fascination, his widow, socialite Kingsley Ward, flees...

John Riley, installed as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle to bring order and discipline to the Church there, is murdered while saying mass in the cathedral in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, there as a guest of the powerful and ultra conservative Opus Dei....

New York Times bestselling authors and rising stars come together in this collection that proves Music City is a deadly place to be when your song gets called.Author: Clay StaffordISBN-10: 1626818789ISBN-13: 9781626818781Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2015Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview...

"A shaggy, satisfying valentine to Chicago's seedy uptown." -KIRKUS The body of a small-time drug dealer washes up in Belmont Harbor among the yachts of Chicago's wealthy. Convinced that this murder connects to her husband's suicide two years prior, wealthy widow Janice Fairs hires...

A street magician needs more than sleight-of-hand to survive getting embroiled in a murder case in this blistering novel of suspense, perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and George Pelecanos. After years of chasing fame and hedonistic excess in the bright lights of Las...

Small-time operator Bobby Carnes took a shot at a big score, setting up a major drug sale with some high rollers in Marina del Ray. He went in with a few bags of crank-methamphetamine and a .44 and walked out a stone-cold killer: a...

From bestselling crime novelist (and deputy district attorney) William P. Wood . . . A killer so savage (and so sly) that the brutal frenzy of his crimes makes an unassailable insanity defense-such is the opponent facing Tony Fraser, a young district attorney willing...

In a tale of suspense that travels from Southcentral Pennsylvania to Africa to the iconic Woodstock Festival of 1969, Dead of Summer embroils Alexa Williams in the dangerous world of sex trafficking.With help from friends, family, and her yoga practice, Alexa Williams is finally...

Alexa Williams is a successful lawyer, volunteers weekly at a women's clinic, and has a sexy weekend boyfriend--not to mention an endearing best friend in her giant English mastiff, Scout. But one autumn day, when Scout takes off into the Pennsylvania woods, Alexa discovers...

Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.It is set almost exclusively in California (as opposed to Chan's native Hawaii), and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a...

New York Times Bestseller Cara Black's fashionable Parisian P.I. Aim e Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant. June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of...

Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but...

Two classic mystery thrillers are reprinted in this volume.You'll Be Sorry : A brief message, written in blood-red script, bluntly warned pretty college co-ed Kate Archer not to accept her old school friend June Gladstone's invitation to visit with June and her wealthy and...

Death Brings a Storke: In not at the birth but not long after the death is Dr. Archibald "Archie" Storke, when during a pleasant breakfast one morning with his wife Janey he receives a urgent call from the housekeeper at Whiteleaves, home of Andrew...

The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a "cold, damp six" as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon rising and looking out the window, Ken finds to his horror that the eerie...

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to...

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to...

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to...

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to...

"A sensational hard-boiled thriller as tough and uncompromising as its main character, Rainy Cain. Don't miss this."--Lee Child, bestselling author of The Midnight Line Meet Rainy Cain, a tough, smart seventeen-year-old whose primary instinct is survival. That instinct is tested when her life is...

WITH JUSTICE LONG SERVED, REVENGE COMES CALLING IN THIS CHILLING TALE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL... Brilliantly written as a distant sequel to Holdup Number Six (An FBI Novel Based On Actual Events), this story spins off into a surreal course of fatal events set...

One of Frank Herbert's lost, never-before-published novels written before Dune. Angels' Fall is a gripping thriller set in the South American jungles. After a plane crash deep in the Amazon, freelance pilot Jeb Logan has to keep himself and his passengers alive in a...

"In Edwardian-era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues that...

Praise for the Ariel Kafka series: "Ariel Kafka wins the award for most intriguing name for a fictional detective, and it suits this impressively labyrinthine mystery series." --Time Out"The clever combination of classic Jewish themes with the traditions of Nordic crime makes for a...

"Nair writes big, brave descriptions of one brutal murder after the next, relentlessly describing each death even as sub-inspector Santosh loses his breakfast over them."--Time OutIt's the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari, and...

It's a searing hot day in the middle of a Namibian summer, and a white man is watering the garden of his luxurious villa while his daughter plays nearby. The peaceful scene is shattered by the single shot that kills Van Zyl and sets...