A different world then, a different world now'California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, and strange new ideas in the air about war, music,...

Mandarin's Jade, The Man Who Liked Dogs, and Try the Girl are three of Raymond Chandler's early mystery stories that set the groundwork for the creation of the Philip Marlowe character. His fast-paced style has become the hallmark of ...

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio dramatization of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world–weary, wise–cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean st...

Presidential candidate — and force of nature — Huey Long, the "Kingfish," is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye...

It's 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli a...

Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel, Massacre Pond, features Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murderOn an unseasonably hot October morn...

Leo Waterman was born and bred in Seattle, Washington, and his father had contacts that ranged from the highest offices to the lowest dives. Those contacts are useful in Leo's pursuit of a profession as a private investigator. Of cour...

Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation...

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delight...

This collection brings together some of the greatest short fiction in the crime genre from the past 100 years. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving back through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Gre...

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...

Homicide cop Tom McMichael is on the rotation when an 84-year-old city patriarch named Pete Braga is found bludgeoned to death. Not good news, especially since the Irish McMichaels and Portuguese Bragas share a violent family history ...

Did my brother kill your husband?Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum ...

In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England's ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys a...

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum ratchets up the supspense with an authentic and morally complex mystery set deep inside the New York City police department. When a black man is shot multiple times in ...

On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida Keys, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is found in a...

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement...

In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.  A murder on Cape Cod. A rape...

Seven Kinds of Death is a famous sculpture, but the name takes on new meaning when bodies start turning up at the creator's art colony. Husband-and-wife detectives Charlie and Constance are called on to investigate.

Unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Leonid McGill is back in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious- installment in Walter Mosley's latest New York Times bestselling series.

The Wizard of Evesham - Agatha is alarmed when her new wizard of a hairdresser seems keen to take on more than just her split ends. She soon discovers that everyone in his salon has a secret and that he practices a very dark magic ind...

The ninth title in Sarah Graves's bestselling Home Repair is Homicide series, Nail Biter opens with a group of self-styled 'witches' that has taken over an Eastport, Maine waterfront resort for Halloween. Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree is cal...

The Curious Curate - When the village curate is found murdered, retired PR guru Agatha Raisin vows to bring his killer to justice, particularly if the investigation also brings her closer to her handsome next-door neighbour, Colonel L...

Hot on the heels of the 'No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' comes this new series filled with the same wit and charm. In this second novel in The Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel Dalhousie's niece is invited to a wedding in Italy. This mean...

New Easy Rawlins mysteries--original short stories from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery author. As Carolyn See said in The Washington Post Book World: 'God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins...

Sonchai Jitplecheep, an honest Bangkok cop, investigates the murder of a charismatic African-American Marine sergeant, killed by a python and a swarm of cobras in a locked car, and the subsequent death of his partner, making his way t...

Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job as a bouncer at a local club, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he's got his main ...

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private inv...

Sleuth Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, return to New York from their honeymoon in Ireland and discover that their next-door neighbor has put up his apartment for sale. They decide to buy it and enlarge the loft Jack lived in as a ...

In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr. Watson. A continuous n...