Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone. The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property...

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author." — Jonathan Kellerman He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she's dead, and Travis McGee f...

"Travis McGee is back in action and he is in fine, fine form....What a treat. It is John D. MacDonald's 21st Travies McGee book and, without reservaton, his best."THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNESearching for a wealthy friend's yacht, ...

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, streaks ...

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author." — Jonathan Kellerman Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis McGee owes his friend a bi...

Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safe...

"A genuine whodunnit" (Kirkus Reviews)—Phillip Margolin, the master of the courtroom thriller, returns with A Matter of Life and Death, a classic mind-bending puzzle, as Attorney Robin Lockwood must face her most challe...

In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated retreat in the Oregon mountains, one with a tragic past and a legendary curse, and surrounded by many suspects and confronted with an imp...

Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin's new legal thriller, The Darkest Place.Robin Lockwood is an incre...

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Roxy Abruzzo---reluctant Mafia princess and neighborhood do-gooder---kicks off a chain reaction of mayhem when she steals a sculpture, in the first book in this sexy new mystery series.

In a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue, two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive Manhattan girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. Feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile case fast, M...

Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has...

""A WINNER."" --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY""FIENDISHLY CLEVER."" --THE TIMESIn this heart-stopping installment of Peter May's award-winning China Thrillers, the Beijing Olympics are the setting for fierc...

Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the South of France. At the end of The Vintage Caper, Sam had just carried off a staggering feat of derring...

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...