A brutal attack that leaves a young woman paralyzed is horrifying enough, but when it happens to one of Seattle police lieutenant Lou Boldt's own officers, and all the suspects wear the same uniform as the victim, it's much worse. ...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.Retirement doesn't suit John Rebus. Being a cop is in his blood. So when DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on a case, Rebus doesn't nee...

On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore.Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to...

A love triangle turned deadly sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge to Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast of England simmering with secrets. Accused of attacking a former lover's husband, an old trenchmate h...

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanis...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a maste...

L.A.P.D. Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, are profoundly shaken by this terrible 'accident' that has occurred frighteningly close to their daughter's school. And an irate call from the unaccounted-for flight attendant's ste...

Benni Harper spins her homemade quilts as finely as she deciphers the motives behind the murder of a successful photographer. When a friend of hers turns out to be a possible suspect, Benni must put down her needle and thread to unmas...

This police procedural, winner of the 2002 Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel, marks the American debut of Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, a police detective in Reykjavik, Iceland. After someone beats an elderly man to death wi...

When Stella Marz, Assistant County Prosecutor and head of the homicide division of the Prosecutor's office, investigates the deaths of two prominent men--one of a heroin overdose, the other hanged and castrated--she uncovers an unexpe...

One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion…The Planks moved from Lancaster County Pennsylvania to the small Amish community of Painters Mill, hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than on...

When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters ...

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud eno...

Although King writes in the familiar nature-drenched idiom of other Florida writers and sounds the same environmentalist themes, he takes us far deeper into the Everglades and much closer to the hard-core survivalists who live a rough...

One time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. But Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent li...

In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, Alone in the Wild, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. A...

From Booklist: The first entry in the popular series of mysteries featuring British police detectives Kathy Kolla and David Brock--a successful series overseas, just now making its appearance here--is a deceptive little tale indeed. ...

A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate.There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that t...

The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.In the once peaceful parks of Stockh...

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 abou...

Saturday, November 14, 5:00 A.M. In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, an old lumberman sits in the dark with his gun across his knees. Not far away, an unemployed logger sleeps off his bender from the night before. The owner ...

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful...

DI Joe Faraday’s Assistant, is dead. Her funeral is an end to another grim week of the ongoing war against Portsmouth’s surging crimewave. Now DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have ...

When the call comes in that Mike Wilson, the unlikable owner of the fancy West Branch Lodge, has gone missing, Sheriff Bo Tully is delighted. He'll have to stay at the lodge and investigate in luxury! But when an avalanche traps him t...

Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell, demoted and reassigned to the remote Bush town of Newenham, literally steps off the plane into a murder scene. Dealing with death is never simple, but when the woman leaning over the body proves to ...

In 1484, then Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull -- A decree giving the endorsement of the church to the inquisitors of the day who hunted, tortured, tried and ultimately murdered those accused of heresy -- especially the practice...

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from 'North of the Border' to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O.  Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can't, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologi...

Praise for Qiu Xiaolong:'A sequel [to Death of a Red Heroine] that in many ways is even more impressive. . . . [Qiu] has moved from the poetic, exotic milieu of his first book (although plenty of elements remain) into a tougher, wider...

"Astute, complex, layered—and very twisted. You'll remember this one for a long time." —Lee Child The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setti...

THE MOST GRIPPING ENTRY YET IN ARNALDUR INDRIDASON'S CELEBRATED INSPECTOR ERLENDUR SERIES.Arnaldur Indriðason, whom The Sunday Times calls "one of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation," has thrilled readers ar...