Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line' by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a s...

Detective Steve Carella's sister is getting married but someone wants the groom dead, and Steve has just a few hours to locate the killer before his sister becomes a bride―and a widow―on the same day."Imagine your favorite La...

Forever' by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop-a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples commit suicide one right after the other, he suspects it isn't suicide, but murder. He mu...

Novellas from Transgressions by Ed McBain, Anne Perry and Donald E. Westlake“Merely Hate” by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the c...

Everyone's favorite hit man meanders across the country in 'Keller's Adjustment' by Lawrence Block; a young and beautiful artist is first flattered, then terrified, by a new modeling contract in 'The Ransome Women' by John Farris; and...

Eighty-six-year-old George Lasser was the superintendent of a building in the 87th Precinct until just recently. Unfortunately his tenure ended in the building's basement with a sharp, heavy blade of an ax in his head… There are no ...

It’s bad enough when a warehouse goes up in flames, but when it leads to multiple murders and a slum redevelopment deal that has deadly ties running through the city’s underbelly, the 87th Precinct is back to work. “The 87th Pre...

Private detective Otto Samalson sees the tail — a black Toronado he can't shake. One dark window rolls down, exposing the barrel of a gun, and the detective is dead. Otto had already known his days were numbered and said as much to ...

When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it's up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why―before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer's .45."McBain has the ability to mak...

It's Christmastime and Detective Carella gets assigned three murders―including a bestselling author of ghost stories―and is soon after ghosts, mediums, and a crazed killer."McBain forces us to think twice about every characte...

Murder is in season as a brutal winter grips the city, and the detectives of the 87th Precinct must fight the elements and turn up the heat to find a ruthless killer."Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast solving fresh mysteries...

When a client is murdered just before he's due to pay forty grand for a bean farm, lawyer Matthew Hope wanders into a world of shotguns, cowboys, dangerous farm beauties, and vanished cash.Praise for the Matthew Hope Mysteries:"A...

When a wealthy businessman is faced with a kidnapping, the ransom could ruin his biggest deal ever―unless Detective Steve Carella can find the culprits before the kidnapping turns to murder."McBain has the ability to make every...

When a bodyguard is hired to protect a successful businessman's wife, the detectives of the 87th Precinct are brought in to investigate why she has two near-fatal accidents on his watch. "The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great ...

The last thing Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct needs is the reappearance of the Deaf Man. He and his colleagues in the squadroom already have more than enough to cope with. Cryptic clues from his old adversary don't amuse him, but ...

Two perps―one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims―test the limits of the 87th Precinct's detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city's streets."McBain has the ability to make e...

Suspicious deaths signal the arrival of springtime for the men at the 87th Precinct as they work on solving a suspicious double-suicide…and the nuances of love."The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments o...

When a blind couple is murdered, Steve Carella's only clue is the ten-year-old dream one of the victims had, a dream that leads to a killer whose secret is worth murder."McBain has the ability to make every character believable�...

A babysitter and the child she is watching are murdered on New Year's Eve — just as a gang war over drug trafficking erupts and puts one of the detectives of the 87th Precinct in mortal danger. "McBain has the ability to make ...

A babysitter and the child she is watching are murdered on New Year's Eve―just as a gang war over drug trafficking erupts and puts one of the detectives of the 87th Precinct in mortal danger."McBain has the ability to make ever...

Her former lovers are dying one by one, and beautiful Marilyn Hollis is a top suspect. Smitten Detective Willis tries to believe in her innocence, until he begins to have his doubts. "The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great liter...

The eyes of the neighborhood are on the detectives of the 87th and the criminal who challenged them as the city simmers with escalating gang violence."The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last h...

The members of the 87th Precinct go into action to stop a con man with a bloodthirsty taste for money--and murder. Reissue.

The murder of a priest in one of the 87th Precinct's parishes sends Detectives Carella and Hawes on a troubling investigation where everyone has a secret and the truth hides within the lies."Imagine your favorite Law & Order cast...

The murder of a young mistress in a penthouse apartment has Detectives Carella and Brown investigating a family with many motives…even as an unrelated murder impacts Carella personally."McBain has the ability to make every char...