An American cargo ship has been seized by terrorists, its captain kidnapped and its crew slaughtered. In Washington, a peace-loving president's refusal to punish the transgressors has enraged Congress. An ambitious young congressi...

My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old.I now have synesthesia, a neu...

In this politically-minded suspense thriller that portrays the tensions in the Middle East with heartbreaking honesty, a fundamentalist rabbi is kidnapped by a Palestinian terrorist who insists that the Israeli government meet his dem...

Bestselling author C. J. Box―an Anthony and Macavity Award winner―earned starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist for this exceptional mystery.Taking advantage of a legal loophole, a lawyer kills four people in Ye...

Politics, terror, and spellbinding literary gamesmanship are at the heart of this daring fiction debut. Set in fogbound, wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set ou...

Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has seen humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. She's lost loved ones. Come close to death countless times. But she always manages to triumph over evil. Luther Kite is humanity at its mos...

Award winning author Julia Spencer-Fleming does it again in this third mystery featuring Rev. Clare Fergusson and Sheriff Russ Van Alstyne in the small town of Millers Kill, N.Y. As the small town's gossip increasingly speculates abo...

From senators to summer interns, from all the president's men to all-powerful women, Margaret Truman captures the fascinating, high-wire drama of Washington, D.C., like no other writer. Now this master of mystery fiction takes us into...

Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking — even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist...

Eighteen gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today.

Lucky O'Toole, the Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, one of Las Vegas' most over-the-top strip properties, is seriously regretting booking a reality television show, The Forever Game, into the small theatre at her ...

For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained 'Packy' Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wre...

Now available in paperback from one of the most acclaimed authors in the thriller genre-praised as a "maestro of the sinister" by the New York Daily News-Mo Hayder delivers her most excruciatingly suspenseful novel to date. ...

A particularly unpleasant murder—that of a very old woman in a housing project—rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later, a sim...

In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin -- and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological ...

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling William Monk novels feel as if they've experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In Execution Dock, Perry's first Monk novel in thre...

A murdered antiquities dealer, a missing mummy, and an irascible husband are just a few of the complications involved in an archaeology trip for Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. An ancient tomb may turn out to be her grave.

When Monday Brown disappears and circumstances point to murder, few people in Billings, Montana, are surprised or think it undeserved. His business practices were undesirable and his profession - a trader in Indian artifacts who woul...

After her daughter, Shana, is hospitalized for mental evaluation, tough judge Lily Forrester discovers that the institution is more interested in collecting its extravagant fees than in treating patients. What she doesn't know is that...

When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of the brutal murder of a young soprano, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed Smith, launch their own investigation that leads them into a race against time to stop an...

Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C. ' on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Pet...

It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too ...

When all of his friends have left town, Kinky Friedman feels very much alone. He sits and ponders the imponderables of life and discusses the state of the world with his cat. His reverie (and constant state of morbid self-absorption) ...

In his third mystery featuring the eunuch detective Yashim, Jason Goodwin takes us back into a world that is as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling.

While enjoying the July 4th fireworks on the edge of Lake Superior on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight and his former partner come to the aid of three men caught in the wreck of an antique wooden boat, a rescue that draws Ale...

Montalbanos gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. There are many suspects, but it is a reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.

Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeca loft, and a...

Intrepid reporter Sara Joslyn, having escaped the clutches of the supermarket tabloid Weekly Galaxy, is finally going to be allowed to practice 'clean journalism.' Unfortunately, intrepid editor Jack Ingersoll has other plans, assigni...

Set in the Kaw River Valley, where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as anti...

James Jesus Angleton was the master, a legend in the time of spies. He was the founder of American counterintelligence at the end of the second World War and a ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America. His name became synonymou...