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The news is full of it: escalating tensions from illegal immigration, headless bodies hanging off bridges and bounties placed on lawmen on both sides of the border. New Austin, Ohio, is a town grappling with waves of undocumented workers who exert tremendous pressure on schools, police and city services. In the midst of the turmoil, three very different kinds of cops scramble to maintain control and impose order.But the rape-murder of a Mexica...

The final novel in the Civil War at Sea trilogy featuring confederate raider Raphael Semmes, Lincoln's Public Enemy #1.

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In this "irresistible mash-up of noir and gothic horror" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), a man fights to clear his name from a crime he hasn't committed yet.Private investigator Martin Valpolicella receives a tip that he will soon be framed for a future murder of his former lover, set to take place in the catacombs buried beneath the city of Bath, England. But can he save the girl, and himself? Catacombs of Terror! is a drug-fueled escapa...

In the tradition of Olive Kitteridge and The Woman Upstairs, this "deeply human and morally saturated novel" (Library Journal, starred review) explores how a terrible crime changed one woman's life forever.Lida Stearl prides herself on always do the right thing—it has served her well throughout her life as she built a career as an orthodontist, maintained a happy marriage, and raised her young niece after the murder of her sister by her brothe...

In the spirit of the New York Times bestselling A Man Called Ove, this is the heartwarming story of a man who decides to end his life before he's too old—but then begins to reconsider when he faces complications from the world around him.In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation that comes with old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter decides to kill himself by the end of the day—but first he has to tie up some loose ends. These include a tê...

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Murder She Wrote meets Fargo in the eighteenth installment of Victoria Houston's "engaging" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) and critically acclaimed mystery series set in the northwoods of Wisconsin."My wife and Gordon Maxwell tried to kill me this morning." Doc Osborne is startled by the unexpected words tumbling out of the mouth of his friend and fellow AA member Chuck Pelletier, the recently remarried lead accountant for a planned lux...

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Murder, She Wrote meets Fargo in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the nineteenth "gripping, atmospheric, and smart" (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author) installment of the Loon Lake series. When the bodies of a wealthy Chicago industrialist and his wife are discovered in their summer home at the same time that a local lawyer disappears, life becomes complicated for Loon Lake Chief of Police Lew Ferris. Relying on the forensic...

It's 1967 and Moe is wandering aimlessly through his college career and his life. All that changes when his girlfriend Mindy is viciously beaten into a coma and left to die on the snow-covered streets of Brooklyn. Moe will risk everything to find the answers. But no matter how far he goes or how fast he gets there, all roads lead to Onion Street.

Once a literary wunderkind, author Kip Weiler now teaches creative writing at Brixton County Community College-a third-rate school in a rural mining town. But when he saves his class from a potential bloodbath, he is initiated by two of his students into a cult-like group that worships the essential nature of handguns, and rekindles his long-absent creative spark. But as Weiler's involvement with the cult deepens and the end of his novel is in...

A tour of the 1950s and 1960s recounts the author's coming-of-age experiences in a period torn between idealism and despair, chronicling his journey between Baltimore and Haight-Ashbury and his witness to the historical events of the time.This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards. Illuminated by the author's personal experiences, this authe...

Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them.The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doo...

Anesthesiologist Dr. Cross' job is to alleviate pain but someone is now accusing him of murder.

A fictional memoir about the writer's grandmother, a Civil Rights activist in Baltimore.

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When Kurt Wicklow disappears was it a case of an investment advisor absconding with his client's money or was foul play involved? And when the wife of Foxport's former chief of police and a "good friend" of Wicklow's turns up dead, things begin to add up. And Quint finds himself trying to prove the innocence of a man who has just moved in with Elaine, Quint's former lover.

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