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Harry Posehn is the best dad and the best husband . . . or is he? Detective Teaghan Beaumont isn't sure.Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she-and you-will never see...

Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her is...

He's a good detective...with a bad habit. "One of the Year's Best Crime Novels"-The New York Times Book Review, Booklist Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye...

NYPD Red's finest detectives are about to investigate a brutal crime scene in Central Park . . . but even their training can't prepare them for the biggest case of their careers.When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as...

The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power -- passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He...

Detective Frank Behr finds himself neck deep in white collar crime and facing off with cold-blooded killers more terrifying than anything he's faced before. Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik is a hard-driving business mogul in the process of making a move into big-time Indiana politics,...

★★★★★ "Better than Bond." ★★★★★ "Sinatra is a full-blown superhero." Book two of the Sinatra series. The celebrated governor of Maryland has been compromised at the MGM Casino in National Harbor. His situation is dire, and the implications for the country are brutal.Sinatra and...

This installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college professor trudging home from...

It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther...

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bj rk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed" When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator...

One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman's affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she...

Be afraid . . . College professor Paul Davis' life is turned upside down when he spots his colleague Kenneth driving in a suspicious manner along a deserted road. Curious, Paul follows Kenneth and catches him trying to dispose of two bodies.That was eight...

An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller in which political fixer Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseasWhen a shadowy American diplomatic complex is attacked in North Africa, the White House is besieged by...

ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post - NPR - Financial Times - The Guardian - Booklist - New Statesman - Daily Telegraph - Irish Times - Dallas Morning News - Sunday Times...

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross.Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot...

"As I read Eric Rickstad's latest, The Names of Dead Girls, I felt myself constantly wanting to skip ahead -- anxious, desperate, to find out what was going to happen...You're in the hands of one of the best in the business, at the very...

NPR Best Book of 2017A polished and gripping political debut that Michael Connelly calls "an edge of your seat thriller," Shining City is set in DC amid a harrowing Supreme Court nomination fight."Amazing. . . . Pulses with momentum. . . . A debut...

Forgive me father, for I have sinned . . . Detective Mike Cancini has seen dark days as a homicide detective in Washington, D.C. But even he is shocked when a charismatic young priest is found shot through the eye on the altar of...

Perfect for fans of Making a Murderer, a novel about a man exonerated of heinous crimes returning to a town that can't let go of his bloody legacyLittle Springs was just a small college town, the kind of place where everyone knew everyone and...

Praise for the Alice Quentin series: "A fast-moving, entertaining mix of sex, suspense and serial killings." -Washington Post"Alice is a vividly realized protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline." -New York Times bestselling author Sophie HannahJude Shelley, daughter of a...

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying novel of suspense as a young man's investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.The more...

Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini.One of the most successful lawyers...

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all...

Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series.It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm--the world's...

Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona's Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.An old...

A decorated police detective inspector is murdered and compromising photographs are discovered in his room. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is well aware he must handle the highly sensitive--and potentially explosive--investigation with the utmost discretion. As Banks digs deeper in the past of the...

New York Times bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines, in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington, from the trading floors of the...

A first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital, Peyton Shields finally has the career she's always dreamed of--even though her marriage to Kevin, an up-and-coming young lawyer, is suffering from her hard work and impossibly long hours. But a late-night drive home in...

"A very clever wordsmith." --New York Times Book Review"When Emily Arsenault was growing up, a teacher told the fifth-grader she was very good at writing. Give that teacher an A." --Hartford CourantEmily Arsenault's compelling debut, Broken Teaglass, was resoundingly praised ("Quirky and inventive...meets all...

In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter war...

A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved...

"[Israel's] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans." --Publishers Weekly Author Ian Sansom "clearly loves a good laugh" (Washington Post), as his delightful mystery series featuring rumpled, fish-out-of-water, Jewish vegetarian librarian Israel Armstrong indisputably proves. The Bad...

"You want to know what deceit tastes like?It's sweet. Like honey."Over the course of his shady legal career, Victor Carl has made a host of bad decisions, but letting his ex-fianc馥, Julia, fall back into his life and into his bed might be the...

Body of evidenceAfter months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her...

It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term...

The dead woman is an enigma -- a local lass who emigrated to America some years back, now perched atop a seven-hundred-foot cliff high above the pounding Irish surf . . . with two passports, a pistol, and $27,000 U.S. dollars in her coat...

When a well known film star is murdered during the M疝aga Film Festival, the Guardia Civil turn once more to Jacaranda Dunne and her team for help.Although Jacaranda-known to everyone as JD-is still basking in the success of solving her first case for the...

In the fifth novel in Malcolm Archibald's series of 19th century detective novels, Sergeant Watters finds himself overwhelmed with three simultaneous cases.With a case of poisoning, a series of child kidnappings and somebody with a seeming dislike to clocks and watches, Watters and his...

Margaret Lennox sold her home in Washington, D.C. and moved to Marfa, Texas, hoping to escape the insanity, the crime, and the traffic of our nation's capital. Marfa was a place that welcomed artists, and Margaret hoped to find a quiet life there. But...

Author: Trace CongerISBN-10: 0996826785ISBN-13: 9780996826785Publisher: Black Mill BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2021Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.77d

Matt Graham's first novel, Hidden Behind the Robe, traverses the unexplored inner workings of the raunchy, salacious, often hilarious, happenings of the Los Angeles justice system. Graham's real-life anecdotes provide a rare Judge's view of the City of Los Angeles and the gritty world...

In the second book in Isobel Wycherley's The Dons Of Warrington Series, two novice gangsters are sent on their biggest mission yet: killing the notorious Helmut Baulsack.If they succeed, the entire world will be under attack. If they don't, the entire world will be...

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) is a mystery novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Although he is widely known as the author of a bestselling series of novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, Biggers worked for years as a struggling mystery writer with moderate...

Twenty-four-year-old Joe Creed, fresh from college in the 1970's, and raised in a conservative Catholic family, was hired as a downtown foot patrolman. After attending the police academy, his foot beat included numerous bars, adult bookstores, pool halls and businesses. Stockman's Bar, which was...

Captain Jim Cade, Lieutenant Jaime Ontiveros and Josie Du Puy of the Phoenix P.D. Homicide unit are engaged in a life and death struggle with a group of vigilante cops.The discovery of this group of killers is a task in itself, and the chase...

Caught in a web of assassins, Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're...

After stealing a famous Rembrandt painting, Terry learns that his daughter Angie has been kidnapped... and the canvas is the ransom.But Terry has his own ideas on how to get his daughter back. A master forger and thief, Terry devises a master plan to...

In the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When...

"AN EXPANSIVE COLLECTION OF WORLDS"A collection of every first release from their respective series. An omnibus designed for newcomers and collectors of the characters, stories, and worlds from Dark Titan Entertainment. From the horror and mystery of the Frightened! series, the detective tales of...

Working on multiple cases at the same time, homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales have their plates full of problems.Turner is a man with an unnerving resemblance to a 30's movie matinee idol. He has the same jet-black hair, the same wiry, sardonic...