Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding ... more »

Denver defense attorney Jackie Flowers doesn't want to take the case. Convicted child killers are not her favorite clients. Thirty years ago, Rachel Boyd was just a child herself when she was found guilty of killing her little playmate, Freddie Gant. After three decades in reform school and adult prison ... more »

Product Info A man is shot dead in a woman's bedroom. Was it murder, or self-defense? more »

Book 3 of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This is a collection of 12 of Sherlock Holmes's adventures with Dr. Watson, most of which occurred after Dr. Watson's marriage, when he was no longer living with Sherlock Holmes. Some of the cases include: The Adventure of the Speckled Band--A woman had died after ... more »

Shell Scott, a not-so-private investigator, has a new type of case; he has to bare it all. But this case requires no fancy P.I. accessories ... in fact, it doesn't require any accessories: he's got to find a murderer in a nudist colony. Experienced nudists and adventurous visitors frolic about the colony ... more »

The delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's already hugely popular new detective series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie -- editor of the Journal of Applied Ethics -- and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace. When Isabel's niece, Cat, asks ... more »

Harley Spring is a supervisor with a problem. She has to get her group through a certification inspection or Sil-Trac; the large computer chip manufacturer she works for will lose millions of dollars in contracts. When Mike, the worker in charge of figuring out why the numbers don't add up disappears ... more »

What was the real crime committed in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and by whom? Unsatisfied with the happy ending, Gonzalo investigates.... There's a subtle clue in the epigraph quotation, which genuinely comes from Shakespeare's play. more »

I pushed the door to Mona's office fully open. She was lying on the floor just in front of her desk, face-up, dressed in black pants and top, her arms and legs twitching violently as if she had touched a high-voltage wire... New York Times bestselling author and Cosmopolitan editor in chief Kate White ... more »

REINTRODUCING THE MOST ROMANTIC DUO IN SUSPENSE FICTION Jimmy Dale was the most brilliant of all thieves, a member of society by day, at night a celebrated cat burglar, The Gray Seal. But vulnerable to blackmail, he was only a pawn in the hands of the Tocsin, the mysterious, unseen woman who forced him ... more »

The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduces Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous detective character with his little gray cells , absurd patent leather shoes, and magnificent mustaches. Poirot starred in more than 30 of Christie's novels, and in many movies. more »

Alex Hawke is back. In this explosive,jaw-tightening follow-up to Ted Bell's rich, spellbinding, and absorbing (Clive Cussler) debut national bestseller, Hawke, fearless intelligence operative Lord Alexander Hawke matches wits with a cunning and bloodthirsty psychopath in a desperate race to avert an ... more »