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An ex-cop with a past. A case police couldn't solve. One chance at redemption... Ex-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for th...

Miki Radicci, a 16-year-old famous artist, leads a secluded life in New York City. Not that she wants to dodge the press and celebrity; she wants to a...

Go back to the beginning. Dive into the gritty world of Rook, the Jack Peterson Novella. Find out how it all began.

12 May 2010 A war is taking place on the streets of Bangkok as political cliques fire bullets and rockets at each other. Mysterious 'Men in Black' sni...

The year is 1977. A remorseless serial-killer is stalking Bay City. The reason for the murders is unknown, but the dismembered victims are always youn...

When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five ...

Detective Dirk Nickel couldn't care less about clowns, but his is a city without laughs where clowns are a dying breed. Then, one day Nickel is framed...

A missing girl. A reluctant hero stalked through the streets of Chicago. A country on the brink of war. It's February 2003 and private detective Glenn...

Anna Willis witnesses her mother’s death and may be the only person who saw the killer's face… Detective Chief Inspector Robert Ashworth is the fi...

It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants an easy one. Instead, he gets Alice. C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working agains...

An orphan who intended to bring them down to their knees... Everything in my life has been turned upside down. My mom died and I was shipped off to a ...

Vienna is in the grip of a crime wave and Agent Muller has been sent to tackle it; not just because of his talent at solving crimes but because his su...

A Nick Valentine short story. Disgraced Great War hero, Nick Valentine returns to France for the first time since the war on what should be a routine ...

When computers got smart enough to program themselves, Ritchie Boss left behind his dreams of being a hacker. For a paycheck he now manages sentient p...

Retired Detective Jim Nash is headed for a long-awaited vacation in the Florida Keys when he checks his messages and discovers that an old flame needs...

BOOK ONE of the California Corwin P.I. Mystery Series Contains the bonus story - Off The Leash a California Corwin Short Story "This is a real page tu...

In a war between man and machine, he must find a way to protect them all... After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the ...

A macabre poem scrawled in blood. A girl with a secret. And a ruthless killer who’ll stop at nothing to find her.  "Thrilling, emotional, and d...

Four short stories from bestselling author Stephen Leather, plus opening chapters of six of his bestselling thrillers. The short stories are: Breaking...

Who wants to kill Austin Carr? Everybody. After all, he's a stockbroker. About to be ingeniously murdered — snatched off a private fishing yacht by ...

SAM HILL was a wise-cracking hard-boiled PI from 1950. He starred in his own comic, produced at the time by Archie Comics and Close-up Inc. (toothpast...

Jeff Resnick wasn't supposed to know about the man hung up to bleed out. After insurance investigator Jeff Resnick is viciously mugged, he discovers t...

The toast of 1942 Hollywood is the newly crowned Heavyweight Champ, Lucky Lawson. He's got it all, the belt, the babe, and a baffling crime scene in a...

The first book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox scratches out a living doing personal injuries surveillance. A mothe...

Benevolent, diplomatic though often harried NYPD homicide detective Antonio Guardini has always separated his role as a police officer from that of a ...

MILO PERETTI is back in Rome to take over the running of his late uncle’s detective agency. When the body of a businessman is found at an office nea...

"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers Weekly A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when t...

PI Jackson Stone balked at responding to the flashing red light on the office phone. If he doesn't answer the phone, he could completely immerse himse...

A young boy growing up on the streets of New York City, Tyler is exposed to both the good and bad of urban life. His future is determined by his relat...

When an attempt to apprehend a fugitive drug trafficker goes horribly wrong, bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is determined not only to make things right. Un...

"Hollow World: Origins" is a collection of three prequels to the novel "Hollow World" by Nick Pobursky. This anthology features the following stories:...

It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose. The death of a beloved Chicago televa...

A gun in your hand a body at your feet and your heart pounding furiously Oh my God, what have I done? When you can't call the cops.....Call Trunk Denn...

SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Q...

(8 RED HOT MYSTERIES STORIES + 3 More MYSTERIES = 11 or 601 words over 430 pages Limited) Make way for 8 IRRESISTIBLE, Private Eye Thrillers… This 8...

In a city full of superheroes there is only one man trying to balance the scales of justice. Private Detective Jack Story. A former superhero wants Ja...

Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is...

Plenty of blood, but no bodies. Detective Senior Sergeant Stanley Morris and his team have to piece the puzzle together and try to prevent a murder an...

Murder On Gold Street Murder Mystery Short Stories Wealthy and successful financial planner James Firth from the wealthy suburb of Carlton turns up mu...

The short story companion book to the bestselling psychological thriller, The Admirer's Secret. A husband in love with his wife. A wife willing to do ...

It’s said things come in threes, a run of good luck at cards, a run of bad luck in love. But the penny doesn’t always drop until the third time ar...

Collection of three samples by #1 bestselling author, J.R. Rain, including: MOON DANCE (Vampire for Hire #1) Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon...

Private Detective Randall Stone tackles a case in which a young man allegedly attacked his girlfriend and is suspect in her murder. An angry mob is se...

NO HERO is a short story about the crime that led to an underachieving actor becoming an undercover cop. A struggling actor, Myles Morgan, gets a part...

Garrett and Tiffanie Bate had it all—youth, money, and a perfect marriage. Until Tiffanie is killed in a suspicious accident. Neither the police nor...

Former Navy SEAL and NCIS agent, Jim Slade is now living the good life in the Florida Keys as a private detective. His small firm of two employs himse...

During the mid-1950’s, Chief Detective Harvey Halloway was assigned to a murder investigation involving the murder of a man dressed in an expensive ...

Jake Legato was a cop. And now he stalks and kills strippers. At least, that's what the police think. Fired for putting a drug dealer's confiscated ca...

Attorney David Winter kicks back on the Florida beach soaking in the sunshine and watching the ladies stroll by. When his old Army buddy, Sean asks hi...

Ruthless hitman confronts his destiny in a startling tale of redemption.

Charlie Schmidt, a retired assassin, is returning home after completing a flight from Paris. In under forty-eight hours all hell will break loose for ...

When Death Row inmate Norman Howell drops a tidbit about how he and his father once helped the current Texas Governor get rid of competing Vietnamese ...

It’s been two years since private eye Will “Lucky” Marks’ first case.  That was the one that ended a promising police career.  It wa...

A hidden scheme. Suspiciously pat answers. Can one untested leader navigate the thin line between professional and personal justice? Essen, Germany. C...

It’s 1958 and the little county seat of Rouen is a long way from the gritty Los Angeles beat newspaper reporter Roy Cutter was working before he was...

Do You Love Thrillers? Are you curious how a bestselling author creates a hero? Do you long to know how they develop their stories? Wonder how much is...

This homage to the era of classic "Detective Noir" stories is a fun and exciting journey through the streets of L.A. in 1945. Will Marks has just retu...

Charlie Eastman, whom everyone repeatedly mistakes for a Texas Ranger, is the protagonist in this fast-paced, contemporary authentic Texas mystery. Se...

Answering a call-to-serve from the American President, detective Johnny O’Brien finds himself embroiled in more mystery, intrigue, and strangeness o...

Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold and Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell are like fish out of water. Mo is Jewish and sardonic; Birdie's black, thoughtful and gargantuan. ...

A dead body is dumped early one morning on Highway 13 by two men. The deceased, Dave Lomas, was murdered by members of a motorcycle gang The Skul...

“I’d had a bad run. Everyone has one. Mine had started a year ago and somehow got out of hand. I borrowed money, used credit, knowing my luck was ...

A missing girl. A PI out of his depth. An international criminal network that won't hesitate to kill them both. Adam Park is a man of contradictions: ...

Eddie Griffin, a 23-year-old ex-con, is working to put his life back together. Late one evening he witnesses a local businessman committing a murder. ...

Jake Tanner, private detective and former U.S. Marine, is tough, smart, funny and lovable. What starts out as a missing person's case quickly turns in...

For fans of Lisa Gardner, J.T. Ellison, and Erica Spindler! #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Stacy Green presents Twisted Minds! Meet great characters, ge...

She was young, she was blond, and she was beautiful--and she was dead. Crumpled in a pool of her own blood and gore, her stunning looks were gone. She...

Private detective Cid Steiner takes on a case to find a missing woman before finding himself embroiled in events far darker than Steiner could have in...

Allie manages to talk Jim into a vacation in the Keys, where trouble finds them once again when they cross paths with a woman and her little girl bein...

She goes where the law won’t. Does what the law can’t. She is Judge, Jury, and Executioner. > “Fast-paced and action-packed, it takes you on ...

Second book in the Gary Maddox Series: Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox is asked to find a missing accountant. He doesn't expect any trouble. A...

The job looked like the same old story. Husband thinks wife is cheating, husband hires private investigator...  Until someone ends up dead. As a ...

A vulnerable woman being followed. A PI determined to protect her. Former lovers embroiled in an intense mystery thriller fraught with intrigue and da...

A 16 year old girl has disappeared. The police believe she is a runaway. Her parents believe she has been taken and is being held against her will. Wh...

A man with an ugly past is asked to do one last task to clear an old blood debt. But you can´t wash away blood with more blood; you can't bury the pa...

Third book in the Gary Maddox Series. When Sydney private investigator, Gary Maddox, is hired to recover a stolen painting, he plunges deep into the a...

The Handbag's Tale is a highly-stylized murder mystery. Readers will enjoy a rich vein of dark and sardonic humour. Nana the Snake Dancer, poets, pain...

It was just another day for mob boss Giovanni Luciana until he took his car for a drive . On a calm summer evening, Giovanni takes his young son Luca ...

Who is Q? Not the dead girl. She's just another Gene Genie taken by her addiction – by a plague tearing the world apart. Who is Q? Not Sasha. He's a...

Blood is thicker than oil—until murder is involved. Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practi...

It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder? A femme fatale. Her missing husband. A dead private detective. And a dangerous game of...

When an old Spokane serial killer cold case becomes red-hot again in the small town of Bellevue, Washington--Chief of Police Howard J. Carter is force...

A 12 y/o boy is kidnapped - but the ransom price is left to his parents! Before he is returned (safely) another boy is taken. Then another. Rookie det...

John Webster has seen the terrible things human beings can do. He's an experienced investigative journalist, recently returned from the war in Afghani...

When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Rand...

Scar Tissue is the first novel in a projected series of detective/mysteries in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker. Robert “Lucky”...

Jigsaw John was a real life homicide detective in the LAPD. This story is a homage to him as the goal of every officer with a gold shield is to emulat...

Volume One of the Ransom, P.I. series Paris, 1945. Foreigner and struggling Private Investigator Daniel Ransom takes a missing persons case that seems...

Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond. from USA Today bestselling author V. J. Chambers Ever since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police forc...

Jim and Allie end up investigating a double homicide while vacationing on an island resort paradise owned by a venture capitalist Jim once cleared of ...

Slow Fall is a mystery in The Wekiwa County series. Set in the pre-Disney torpor of rural central Florida, it tells the story of an ex-Miami-cop who r...

"Hardboiled, but hot as a door knob after a nuclear blast. Tim Bryant's work is blessed not only with originality, but with a kind of madness that mak...

Stealing women's power is easy ... restoring it is deadly. Detective Chief Inspector AJ Colt lives his life in the limelight. The charismatic star of ...

Being a private eye means helping the little guy and that is what Benny Cahill does for a living. The problem is: this kind of work can be bad for you...

Retired detective Jim Nash is headed for a much-needed vacation with the two favorite women in his life. When he pulls off the highway into a rest sto...

A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to he...

John Oxman, a crusty ex merchant seaman, comes to the aid of a beautiful woman who has been drugged, violated and on the run after having bio engineer...

Colored Waters, the first Michael Chamber's crime/mystery novel. Calloused and hardened as he has become, Michael has a difficult time watching the vi...

From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this gritty South American noir... Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horac...

As Private Investigator Hank Bumgardner searches for a missing woman, hoping to find her before she is murdered, he encounters several unique characte...

***Hélène Joy ( Durham County, Murdoch Mysteries ) to star as Detective Madison Knight in the series adaptation currently being developed by Muse En...

In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels ins...

Round and round she goes, blonde pigtails flying, her high-pitched giggle catching on the wind. But as the ride slows to a stop, her seat is suddenly ...

It’s the case that has tormented him for years… Detective Cage Foster’s past has come back to haunt him. It’s been seven years since two girls...

Perfect for fans of T.M. Logan's The Catch and The Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas. 'This taut, elegant thriller thrums with dark menace and dread. ...

An e-original novella from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, featuring a sneak peek of the next J. P. Beaum...

"An acknowledged literary landmark."  --NY Times Book Review. "Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but a...

An idyllic family. A detective with a past. And the sadistic kidnapper hell-bent on destroying them all.  "Chilling, suspenseful, and impossible ...

In this heart-stopping thriller, Detective Alex Cross and his beloved fiancé find themselves tangled in a complex murder investigation, threatening n...

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen ...

The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired ...

He can't breathe. The choker is tight around his neck and attached to a short chain, and he can't stand forever. As his legs begin to buckle, he calls...

With the right motive, anyone can be a killer. Caring for Ironwood Plantation is a dream come true for Cage Foster. The dream doesn't last long when a...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Empty Copper Sea is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives...

New York Times bestselling mystery series.  Grace Ashby wakes to the sound of a horrifying scream .  She races down the hallway, finding her...

Stuart Woods returns with the sequel to The Prince of Beverly Hills —a page-turning novel of murder, political intrigue, and betrayal set in 1940s H...

Private security specialists Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are back in this nerve-shredding thriller – and this time it's personal. When college bas...

Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, of...

Three families. Two murders. One blind PI. Has he finally met his match? Blind PI Steve Smiley's former homicide partner is in trouble. If Leo can't s...

“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer A bitter divorce is only the beginning. ...

“Wonderful…razor-sharp.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.” —Berg...

John D. MacDonald Travis McGee Series collection 7 Book set 1:  - John D. McDonald - Travis McGee 01 - The Deep Blue Good-by. - John D. McDonald ...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who live...

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisi...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, A Purple Place for Dying is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who l...

In The Killer Inside Me , America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse int...

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cockta...

In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid th...

"It's takes a great crime writer to fool a mystery buff, and Cheryl Bradshaw is that writer." Charlotte Halliwell has been keeping a deadly secret. Be...

Thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time. The ferocity and apparent randomness of the crime prompt ...

WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARD One night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar’s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train...

When a serial killer sweeps through the streets of Cambria, California, Georgiana Germaine gets swept up into a disturbing case of deception and ...

Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Niel...

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocra...

The house looked right. And the neighborhood was perfect. And everything else was wrong. So Spenser took the parents' money and went after a runaway g...

The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mat...

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to the only friend he can ...

*Don’t forget to preorder After the Party – the brand-new 2022 thriller from Georgina Lees* ‘Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. ...

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art...

Pretty blonde girls are disappearing across Maryland. C.T. Ferguson is on the case, but even he might be in over his head. Ashleigh vanished from her ...

With his acclaimed bestsellers, Hostage  and Demolition Angel , Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and c...

Book 10 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee Scott Charles and Mimi at it again. On the trail of another...

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the m...

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels – most recently  ...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Scarlet Ruse is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on ...

It starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive-naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Nightmare in Pink is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on...

'The plot twists kept me guessing right until the end' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A gripping new psychological thriller that will keep you up all ...

“Hard-boiled computer hacker Kidd and his sometime girlfriend LuEllen make for a refreshingly roguish couple” (Entertainment Weekly). Now they’r...

The frozen body of a man is discovered in a used car yard on the hottest day of the year, his face contorted by fear and pain. Detective Kay Hunter an...

In this hard-boiled mystery series opener, a former nurse becomes a coroner who winds up investigating her cheating ex-husband for murder. When Mattie...

The bombing of an American Embassy in Africa pulls Special Agent Jack Randall out of his current doghouse status with the FBI and sends him on the tra...

CHEATED BY DEATH Jeff Resnick faces a new dilemma: someone is stalking his sister-in-law, Brenda. There’s violence and vandalism near her workplace,...

From an author who is “writing in P.D. James territory” (Associated Press) comes a compelling Scotland Yard detective novel in the entertaining Du...

Joe Tyler has a picture. After years of looking for his missing daughter, Elizabeth, and coming up empty, he finally has something. A picture of her s...

Things turn personal when hard-boiled PI Mike Hammer discovers his ex-lover has high-tailed it to Miami—and landed in the arms of a notorious g...

The thrilling followup novel in the new unputdownable crime thriller series from Best Selling Author Diane Capri! A desperate mother implores Michael ...

When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. ...

<b>Wealthy heiress Kerenza Trezise was about to marry the man she loved…until she committed suicide in front of the entire wedding party.</...

In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” ...

"He’s gone…"   When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for...

The first novel in the new unputdownable crime thriller series from Best Selling Author Diane Capri! Michael Flint promises he can find anyone, anytim...

Watching her friend dragged away in handcuffs, Josie couldn't believe for one second that Gretchen had killed that poor boy. Confession or not, someon...

Susan's letter came from California: Hand was in jail, and she was on the run. Twenty-four hours later, Hawk is free, because Spenser has sprung him l...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Feed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. FBI agent Will ...

Nick Travers is back where it all began. Years after The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed Crossroad Blues “an impressive debut by a promising new ta...

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána—the Guards, Ireland's police force—and staring at the world through the smo...

Josie works until her arms ache, until the paramedics arrive and pull her gently away from the woman’s cold, fragile body. Noah’s voice cracks bes...

“Powerful and raw, harrowing, and unsentimental.” —Washington Post Book World “Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story...

Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bes...

The Vacation… Troy and Eva Winters strap on their backpacks and start their one-week vacation on a wilderness trail in the rugged mountains of the C...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Bright Orange for the Shroud is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective w...

“J.A. Jance does not disappoint.” —Washington Times The Chattanooga Times calls New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, “One of the best...

"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times ì[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.î --The New Yorker ìChandler seems to have...

Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compa...

***Hélène Joy (Durham County, Murdoch Mysteries) to star as Detective Madison Knight in the series adaptation currently being developed by Muse Ente...

Skinner's world is shaken to the core... Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a...

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train from London to the French Riviera -- ingredients for the perfect romance or the perfec...

“Wicked and irresistible….Elmore Leonard is a literary genius.” —New York Times Book Review Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifyi...

Dressed in pajamas covered with stars, the little girl’s body is perfectly still, her arms folded neatly over her chest. The wildflowers decorating ...

Savage Season is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thril...

"Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight...

A past case comes back to haunt Twin Cities P.I. McKenzie as a stolen sum of money threatens to resurface in From the Grave , the next mystery in Davi...

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" ( Los Angeles Times ).   In...

The iconic Boston P.I. stars in six classic crime novels in “one of the great series in the history of the American detective story" ( New York Time...

New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard has written over forty books, including four about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the captivating h...

“In the elite company of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell.” —Flint Journal  Injustice For All—riveting crime fiction from J.A. Jance fea...

This is the COMPLETE VERSION of "Four Nines Fine (Book 7 of the Jay Leicester Mysteries Series)" by critically acclaimed southern author JC Simmons: O...

'The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it's the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred so...

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”— The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. ...

A beautiful woman vanishes while on vacation in Miami, and it’s up to Mike Shayne to find her When Ellen Harris leaves New York for her 2-week trip ...

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One...

The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the...

“Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.” —New York Times Book Review The revered New York ...

“Any story by Jance is a joy.” —Chattanooga Times Now fans of the enormously popular Sheriff Joanna Brady suspense series by J.A. Jance can disc...

To protect his future, PI C.T. Ferguson must confront his past. A young woman hires C.T. to find her long-missing father. Unraveling his disappearance...

Iconic tough-guy Mike Hammer is back—and this time, he’s knee deep in the glitz, gossip, and gore of Hollywood’s dark side—in this “taut, un...

Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, ...

This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old...

Josie presses her hands into the center of the drowned girl’s chest and pumps, counting off compressions. She takes in the girl’s beautiful face, ...