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 ...

Working at Mt. Locust, a historic plantation on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace parkway, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds the body of a man, the brother of the local sheriff candidate, apparently killed in an S&M ritual gone awry, ...

Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redhead private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery high...

When four seasonal employees at Yosemite National Park mysteriously disappear, park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a hotel waitress to solve the crime. Her investigation eventually leads her on a perilous solo journey into the ...

Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north - where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysteri...

When zookeeper Theodora ''Teddy'' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killing implicate other animal keep...

In Margaret Truman's latest mystery, the scene opens with an obscure death in Washington's Foggy Bottom, home of the State Department, shifts to mass murder in the downing of aircraft, and then moves on to mayhem in the streets of the...

Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to dona...

When legendary Washington Post reporter Mary Keegan is found murdered, homicide detectives Frank Kearney and Jose Phelps pull up the file on another open case. There as here, the victim was a female who had been hacked to death in a p...

Blackford Oakes is Yale's answer to James Bond. In this Cold War thriller, Oakes is sent abroad to penetrate England's royal circle and save the new Queen, after the CIA traces the leak of vital military secrets directly to the Queen'...

When lawyer Mary Ariza stops on the street to help a man having a heart attack, she unknowingly marks herself for death. Jack Kordic, a cops cop, is thrust into the same nightmare. Neither knows they stand in the way of an assassin kn...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.][Read by Lloyd James] As spring bursts forth, so does a whole lot more, including murder by arrow, in quiet Benteen County, Kansas. Nothing ever happens here. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a...

In the first gray of a mid-September morning, Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant o...

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...

Book 4 in the Young Bond Series. As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lagrimas Negras, its bloodthirsty ruler is watching and waiting. Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape on their minds. On the ...

Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road ye...

Whenever a celebrity throws a phone, crashes a car, or kills a spouse, celebrity journalist Bailey Weggins is there to cover it for the gossip magazine Buzz. Now, the new television show Morgue is the talk of the town, and just as Bai...

A beautiful Jane Doe with no memory of who she is or how she got to the bottom of a treacherous ravine; and a psychiatrist who joins her on her search for her identity.Dr. Phyl Forster was intrigued by the lovely woman who had been re...

A full-fledged pilot for several years, Sharon McCone is due for the biannual flight review required by the FAA. Her former flight instructor, Matty Wildress, invites her to fly up to the small Sonoma County town of Los Alegres for th...

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...

A paperback edition of a novel featuring Brother Cadfael. A young man pursued by a lynching mob seeks sanctuary at the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury. He is accused of robbery and murder, but Cadfael senses his innocence and sets...

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles--and of a cop treading a thin, thin line. Northern Ireland, spring 1981. H...

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find ...

Released after a three-year stretch in a mental institution, Royston Blake finds that the world has moved on, even Mangel. Gone are most of his old haunts, including Hoppers, where he spent years working the door. In its place: a huge...

What if a reality TV show like The Jersey Shore set up production in the fictional seaside resort Sea Haven? What if hitting the gym, tanning, and doing a little laundry aren't the only things the contestants get into? By-the-bo...

Special Agent Dagny Gray is smart, athletic, and fearless. She's also fragile, depressed, and anorexic. If she doesn't get healthy soon, the FBI will drop her — and she'll never have a chance to end the crime spree of the so - calle...

SHY, BUT SCRUPULOUS, he is happy working as a coroner in the Cologne morgue — until one of his usually taciturn "clients" starts talking to him. It seems the ghost of a recently deceased (and surprisingly chatty) small-tim...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] {Alafair Tucker Mystery series, Book 6} [Read by Pam Ward] The year 1916 was not shaping up to be a good one for Alafair Tucker, and finding Bernie Arruda dead in a ditch didn't help matters. A...

In the fifth legal thriller featuring the exceptionally self-involved lawyer Victor Carl, he and his partner Beth Derringer research the case of womanizing chef Francois Dub', convicted three years ago of murdering his wife. Hired by ...

A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress. But the suicide was murder and both men's deaths are connected to a sinister series of killing...