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From Margaret Moseley, the Edgar Award-nominated author of the bestselling Bonita Faye, comes a wickedly funny, delightfully unusual mystery novel featuring a very unlikely detective.Millicent Le Sueur is an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive bag lady in a rural Southern town who witnesses the hit-and-run killing of a teenage girl. Or so she claims. Some townsfolk believe she killed the girl and made up the story to cover her crime. Battling her ...

First there was Max Allan Collins' legendary graphic novel...then came the Academy Award winning movie and his bestselling screenplay novelization. Now Collins presents an epic new novel, combining and expanding upon all that came before, to create the ultimate version of his unforgettable story.Depression-era Chicago is awash in liquor and blood, ruled by guns, graft, and gangsters like John Looney. His most feared enforcer is Michael O'Sulli...

The Third Wyatt Storme Thriller A young co-ed is raped by a country music legend in Branson, the "NashVegas" of Missouri. Ignored by the police, she turns to TV newswoman Sandy Collingsworth for help. Sandy's investigation stirs up a hornet's nest of corruption and crime, putting her in the mob's crosshairs ...something her boyfriend Wyatt Storme, a freelance troubleshooter, won't abide. Storme rolls into Branson like a hurricane with his budd...

BRAGG V1The first three, powerhouse novels in Jack Lynch's Edgar Award-nominated and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series. Private investigator Peter Bragg learns that The Dead Never Forget when he's hired by a retired mobster to find out who is threatening his eleven-year-old daughter. Bragg's relentless search for The Missing and the Dead pits him against a brilliant serial killer obsessed with the expressions of death on his victim'...

Al Krug, veteran homicide detective, has a new partner: university-educated surfer Casey Kellog, the youngest detective on the force, and together they have to solve the bizzare murder of a young woman. This is the blockbuster police procedural that became the hit TV series "The Streets of San Francisco.

Endlessly Entertaining!" Publishers WeeklyBLANCHE AND THE TALENTED TENTHThe second, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning Author Barbara NeelyWhen Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and ...

Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg.SPEAK FOR THE DEADThe Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch's Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels.An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core convicts retreat to a corner of the prison with their hostages, including two civilian women. It's a deadly stand-off...a bloody powder-keg ready to explode...

FLAWLESS. That's how women describe Michael Woodrow. He's an irresistibly handsome corporate hatchet man, trimming costs by axing employees. He also likes to kill women.FLAWLESS. That's how he balances his professional and homicidal lives until he falls in love with his next-door neighbor... and his father is released from prison after serving 18 years for murdering Michael's mother.FLAWLESS. That's a standard that becomes increasingly difficu...

The Fourth Book in Michael Stone's Streeter SeriesPizzeria owner Alphonse Lucci is a pussycat who likes to pretend that he's as tough and deadly as the mobsters he romanticizes. But Streeter really is. So when a greedy, ruthless bad-ass tries to strong-arm Alphonse into selling his restaurant to nail down the last piece in a crooked land deal, Streeter steps in to protect the likeable old man...and gets sucked into a deadly scheme that could l...

From Maxine O'Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Before Kinsey Millhone, Sharon McCone and V.I. Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the sensitive, gutsy and resourceful private eye who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction...starting with the ground-breaking short stories in this collection. "One of the first of the modern women PIs and 
also one of th...

Treasure Coast is the wild new thriller from Tom Kakonis, the acclaimed author of Criss Cross and Michigan Roll.A compulsive gambler goes to his sister's funeral on Florida's Treasure Coast and gets saddled with her loser-son, who is deep in debt to a vicious loan shark who sends a pair of sociopathic thugs to collect on the loan. But things go horribly awry...and soon the gambler finds himself in the center of an outrageous kidnapping plot in...

Simply tremendous! Tom Kakonis's writing is on a level with Elmore Leonard."Chicago TribuneCRISS CROSSIt's a bone-chilling winter in Grand Rapids. Ex-cop Mitch Morse is stuck in a dreary, dead-end job at a discount store so he can't resist when a smoldering, sexy cashier Starla Hudek asks him to join a gang of down-to-their-last-chance killers and criminals ready to do whatever it takes to pull off the score of a lifetime on Christmas Eve."Sty...

Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land -- rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers on the streets of New York City.It's the 1920s, the glittering jazz age, and the beginning of the blood-soaked prohibition-era. The wild west and the gunfight at the OK Corral are fading memories, even for aging lawman Wyatt Earp, who is toiling in Los Angeles as a private eye and ...

Margaret Moseley's colorful and unforgettable Edgar Award-finalist that captures Fannie Flagg's homespun charm and Janet Evanovich's laugh out loud humor.When small town girl Bonita Faye's abusive husband, car salesman and fishing guide Billy Roy is killed, she begins an adventurous new life that takes her from Poteau, Oklahoma to Paris and back again in a story of murder and redemption...and more murder... stretching over three decades. "Boni...

A richly imagined and terrifically realized novel...it rings as true as the winter light across the southern desert." James CrumleyCircling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent Dolph Martinez to the corpse of a man executed in the desert...a murder that shatters the fragile calm in a dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against the Mexican Army, the DEA, big-money Houston real estate interests, a Catholic nun who practices voodoo, a...

NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARDTerry Traven is an L. A. private eye who modeled himself after Philip Marlowe and thrived in the 1960s, becoming a minor celebrity for his hardboiled style and his skill at tracking down runaways. But now it's the 1980s, his minor fame has completely faded, and he's barely making a living. So he jumps at the opportunity to find a wealthy, born-again industrialist's missing son who has been dabbling in drugs and pun...

The gripping new thriller by Michael Genelin, "a master storyteller" (Library Journal), featuring the unforgettable Commander Jana Matinova, "one of the more intriguing characters in fictional thrillerdom" (Kirkus Reviews)A woman's body is pulled from the frozen Danube in Bratislava. Police Commander Jana Matinova recognizes the killer's calling card. She had him in her grasp once before ...and he slipped away. But not this time. Determined to...

In 1980, the mysterious A.W. Mykel came out of nowhere with this brilliantly inventive espionage thriller. It became an overnight, international bestseller...astonishing readers with its daringly imaginative plot, larger-than-life characters, and outstanding action...becoming one of the most entertaining and beloved spy novels of the century.American has a secret: our espionage operations are run by Sentinel, an intelligent super computer that...

The outrageously inventive, exhilarating, sexually-charged thriller from Emmy Award-winning writer Phoef Sutton. Carl moved into his childhood home after his parents died. It's a house filled with fond memories...like when he was a teenager and his girlfriend Jesse would throw pebbles at his window at night to lure him outside for frantic sex. So he thinks he's dreaming when late one night, he hears those pebbles hitting his window again...and...

Der Thriller-Bestseller, auf dem die Erfolgsserie DIE STRASSEN VON SAN FRANCISCO basiert Die turbulenten 1970er - eine Zeit des gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs. Al Krug, ein erfahrener Detective der Mordkommission, empfindet den Generationenkonflikt seit der Zuteilung seines neuen Partners noch größer und bedrohlicher als je zuvor. Casey Kellog ist ehemaliger Surfer, seines Zeichens Uniabsolvent und jüngster Detective der Abteilung. Als eine Fraue...