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The fourth novel in the ground-breaking series that shattered the boundaries of mystery fictionThings are finally going well for PI Delilah West. She's got a new place to live and her own, thriving detective agency. Her latest case: she's hired to go undercover in the county supervisor's office to uncover a suspected embezzler. She finds the guilty party...but is it a dirty politics set-up? Delilah's determination to learn the truth makes her ...

Now for the first time ever in a single volume... the daring short stories and the two bold novels that introduced the world to Delilah West, the female PI who shattered the boundaries of crime fiction. BAD NEWS & TROUBLEDEATH IS FOREVERRUN FROM NIGHTMAREFrom Maxine O'Callaghan, Shamus Award nominee and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. "Nothing daunts Delilah West and nothing short of a bulle...

THE THIRD BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER IN THE KRUG & KELLOG SERIES...WHICH BECAME THE HIT TV SHOW "THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO" It's the socially turbulent 1970s. A controversial therapist secretly records his sessions...until he's brutally murdered. Homicide detectives Al Krug and Casey Kellog discover that key tapes have been erased...recordings that could tie the therapist to the mysterious disappearance of one of his former patients, a psychotic ...

The second blockbuster thriller in the Krug & Kellog series...which became the hit TV show "The Streets of San Francisco"It's the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. University-educated ex-surfer Casey Kellog is the youngest homicide detective on the force. He's teamed up with Al Krug, an older, tougher, street-wise cop resistant to change. Their latest case involves a vicious hit-and-run death: a driver in a Mercedes chases a motorcyc...

Eight months ago, knockout PR exec Reece Germaine spent a wild weekend in Las Vegas with football superstar Raygene Price. It was fun, but now Reece is pregnant with Raygene's baby and his mother is playing hardball with Reece over a fair and equitable childcare settlement.Fortunately, Reece has a Plan B: the $25, 000 Raygene gave her in Vegas to bet on the 50-1 underdog Arizona Cardinals to win the Super Bowl. The very same Super Bowl the Car...

Barbara Neely's skill is a force to be reckoned with!" Essence MagazineThe third, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning Author Barbara NeelyBlanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a right-wing, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Alistair Brindle when someone tries to blackmail him. It's an ugly mess that Brindle's polit...

Alexander L'Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is...THE OWLHaunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate. The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure.SCARLET SERENADEIt's the mean-streets of L.A. in the mid-1980s. When The Owl rescues a young punk-rock starlet from being kidnapped, he considered it just a minor good deed with ...

Dennis "Doom" Lewis is a small-time conman who paid a big-price: a five-year prison sentence for forging a novel by Eleanor Roosevelt that became an international bestseller. He gets an early release to attend his crooked father's funeral...and discovers that he's inherited a sailboat and a Florida town that's sinking into the sea.But the town is on prime real estate that two warring developers want badly enough to have already killed his fath...

Mark Smith's Literary Masterpiece of Crime Fiction. A National Book Award Finalist The blockbuster New York Times bestseller. "Remarkable for both its ambition and its accomplishment, it reads as though it were written by a resurrected Charles Dickens, one chilled by a hundred years of graveyard brooding...every page is a pleasure to read, " New York Times A killer calling himself The Deathmaker is on the loose, pursued by Arnold Magnuson, a g...

A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide has seen her future... death at the hands of a serial killer... and turns to Bragg to save her life again. As one corpse after another is unearthed in the woods of Jack London State Park, Bragg teams up with a Sheriff's detective in a race against time, and perhaps fate, to hunt down a killer stalking the nightmare landscape of the psychic's visions and the dark, deadly streets of San Francisco.

The seventh novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg seriesSomeone is trying to scare Benny Bartlett, a freelance writer in Seattle into leaving the Jet City...and he has no clue why. It starts with threatening phone calls but escalates into gunfire. The police won't help, despite clear evidence of attempted murder, so Benny calls his old friend Bragg, who returns to his hometown to get answers. But he soon has to face his ...

The sixth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series that placed Jack Lynch among the masters of detective fiction. Bragg runs into Jo Sommers, a woman he longed for many years ago...and who is now unhappily married. Hour's later, she's accused of murdering her husband. Bragg agrees to help prove that Jo is innocent, discovering a tangled web of blackmail, extortion, and murder, stretching forty years into the past...t...

THE MISSING AND THE DEAD The Edgar Award nominated second thriller in the Bragg series of novels puts Jack Lynch in the same league as Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald. "Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty." San Francisco Examiner Private eye Peter Bragg's relentless search for a missing insurance investigator unearths shocking secrets involving embezzled money, the disappearance of a cop, ...

PIECES OF DEATHThe Shamus Award-nominated, action-packed third thriller in the Bragg series of private eye novels that propelled author Jack Lynch into the league of detective fiction legends alongside Sue Grafton, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald."Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty." San Francisco ExaminerPeter Bragg goes to San Francisco International Airport to protect a man arriving with a valuable...

The third Streeter mystery once again breathes life into the streets of Denver. Clever plotting, dark humor, quick action, " Library JournalTOKEN OF REMORSENobody is Tougher than StreeterBounty hunter Streeter is a string of ex's... ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and a four-time ex-husband ... who excels at exacting justice... with explosive results."Mike Hammer & Phillip Marlowe with a soupcon of Spenser for good measure" Milwaukee...

Tough, authentic, and right on the money." - Robert B. ParkerTHE LOW END OF NOWHERETHE DENVER STREETS BELONG TO STREETER.Bounty hunter Streeter is a string of exes... ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and four-time ex-husband ... who excels at exacting his own brand of justice... with explosive results."Michael Stone works the hard-boiled genre conventions with the insouciance of an old pro. Streeter is an eye-catcher" - New York Times...

Her prose flows like molten silver." Cleveland Plain Dealer"An ambitious, compelling thriller." San Francisco ChronicleBestselling true crime writer Garner Quinn is drawn into a murder investigation when enigmatic artist Dane Blackmoor, a man with whom she shares a complicated past, is accused of dismembering women and hiding their body parts in his unsettlingly lifelike sculptures. Is Blackmoor a depraved killer or is he being framed? To find...

THE PREACHERTHE UNFORGETABLE HERO WHO ONCE SAVED SOULS...AND NOW DEALS DEATHA mysterious, one-eyed stranger wanders into Farewell, New Mexico, a dusty border town rife with corruption. He's known only as The Preacher, an ex-Priest, ex-Special Forces commando, and now a professional gambler who has given up on his own salvation ... but is determined to find justice for a murdered Vietnam vet... even if it means taking on the entire, God forsake...

A shrewd, darkly-funny, wildly unpredictable crime novel that marks the dazzling debut of Jack Bunker, a bold new voice in crime fiction."A breezy page-turner that's fun-filled and loaded with laughs from the jump. Donald Westlake fans will love this one." Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of "The Blue Knight, " "The New Centurions, " and "The Onion Field." A bankrupt lawyer and a greedy insurance adjuster concoct a personal i...

Robin Burcell has worked as a cop, hostage negotiator, and as an FBI-trained, forensic artist . She's also the author of award-winning thrillers. Now she uses that unparalleled experience to continue Carolyn Weston's groundbreaking series of books, which were the basis for the hit TV show "The Streets of San Francisco." Sgt. Al Krug and his younger, college-educated partner Casey Kellog are investigating a string of strangulation killings when...