This early Chinese detective story follows the celebrated Judge Dee as he tries to solve three baffling cases. His work takes him up and down the great silk routes and into ancient graveyards, where he consults the spirits of the dead.

Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team capt...

In this classic police procedural, the ever-dyspeptic Martin Beck has nothing to be amused about, even though it's Christmastime. Ã…ke Stenstrom, a young detective in Beck's squad, has just been killed in an unprecedented mass murd...

Ellfive colony won its independence in the One-Day Revolution, but while much may be forgiven, its debts haven't been. The orbital nation needs a serious supply of minerals and ore to realize its manufacturing potentials, and in this ...

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is...

While scouting locations for a film documentary in Arizona, private investigator Lena Jones discovers the mutilated body of a young girl. As the death toll mounts, Lena is tempted to implement some frontier justice of her own.

The first homicide that Canadian Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, acting chief of the Port Dundas police, has had to investigate in almost three years is that of cancer patient Delia Chandler, a woman who once had an affair with Ha...

Unlike the other books in this vein, this historical thriller takes place entirely in the past--specifically, during the late 15th century. The actions of a religious fanatic calling himself the Soothsayer leads the Vatican to assign ...

A chilling corporate scandal comes to life when the aftershocks lead to a boy's mysterious disappearance and the wife of a corporate businessman turned fugitive assumes that her husband is accountable, only to learn that the consequen...

When Casey Maldonado and Death hitch a desperate ride away from one disaster, they throw themselves right into the middle of another one.  The semi in which they are traveling crashes, and before the Grim Reaper takes Evan the Trucke...

When a young woman plunges from a Las Vegas tour helicopter, landing in the Pirate's lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle the 8:30 Pirate Show, almost everyone wrote her off as another Vegas victim. But Lucky O'...

Jane Bunker is a marine investigator who has just moved back to a sleepy Maine community. She's a lover of all things Scottish and so thrifty that she never throws anything away. When the town drunk falls to his death off the town doc...

A unique collection of mystery stories featuring women detectives presented together in one volume by some of the world's best female writers. Tracing the evolution of the female sleuth, the detectives in these stories are shrewd, s...

Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective is one of the most enduringly popular sleuths of all time. This six-story series has the consistency of the same team of directors, producers, dramatizers and leading actors, including Clive Me...

DIV1796: When traveling weaver and former soldier Will Rees learns that his son David has run away he immediately sets out after him. After tracking him down at a Shaker settlement near Durham, Maine, Will unexpectedly finds himself h...

Why should a routine security check drive Fennan to suicide? Why should a suicide arrange for a GPO alarm call? Le Carre's debut novel blends murder investigation with a spy story.

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best–selling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, one of contemporary crime fiction's most beloved characters. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon...

"Hypnotically readable--I absolutely couldn't put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific." – Stephen King Hannah was the kind of woman who turned heads. ...

Everybody loves a mystery, and nobody solves them like Mike Hammer. This trilogy of brand-new mysteries narrated by acclaimed actor Stacy Keach is enhanced with a full supporting cast, sound effects, and music.

In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman's bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of grueso...

Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier. Staggering under the financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, Michael struggles to ...

Resurrection Men:Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as 'resurrection men,' he joins a covert mission to g...

Chinese–American private investigator Lydia Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades. In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dati...

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grand...

Stacy Justice is just your average green-eyed, redheaded, twentysomething witch who would rather focus on her job as a reporter than practice the crazy magic her grandmother and great-aunts are into. She's perfectly content to spend h...

In the Dark is Mark Billingham's most powerful novel yet. Gritty, fierce, and moving, here is a must-listen for anyone who likes their crime fiction unflinching---and unforgettable.

[Read by Justine Eyre] The Quilliam's latest recipe is to die for. Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, now runs the Palate Restaurant, while her sister, Meg, keeps ...

Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah's quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically agrees.Whi...

Detective fans of all races and creeds will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical little Norfolk priest.

[Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Carrington MacDuffie]In the Shadow of the Glacier introduces a new traditional mystery series set in a bucolic mountain town in British Columbia and featuring young constable Molly...