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 »

I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James Whitey Bulger, who I always called Jimmy. Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear--permanently. We made millions. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were ... more »

THRILLING EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN CAT BURGLAR Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman jewel thief's rule of working alone gave him the name Lone Wolf and the world a new expression in 1914 when the first adventures of Michael Lanyard appeared.  Now you can read the first four Lone Wolf novels in ... more »

Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines ... more »

Product Info Chief Inspector Watson believes a murdered man's dying scribble is the primary clue. His new assitant, Sergeant Holmes, isn't quite so sure. more »