The odd couple of detection-the brilliant but cranky detectives of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit-return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding-and a killer no ... more »

Oh-h-h-h, Cam-er-on! Agony, reproach, entreaty, vibrated in the clear young voice that rang out over the Inverleith grounds. The Scottish line was sagging! - that line invincible in two years of International conflict, the line upon which Ireland and England had broken their pride. Sagging! And because ... more »

The very day Liz Sullivan, freelance writer, returns to Denver to visit her estranged family, her ex-husband's body is dumped at her parents' door. Since Liz had once tried to kill her extremely abusive husband, the police think she's their killer. Liz finds it necessary to do some dangerous sleuthing ... more »

Denver Post crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide-detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how: he starts work on an investigative report about police suicides. But soon his research reveals a sinister pattern-suicides by detectives ... more »

In her acclaimed mystery debut, M.G. Kincaid introduced the complex Scottish detective Seth Mornay. Now Mornay must solve a murder while caught between the spotlight of unwanted fame and the shadowy past he'd hoped to leave behind. After the events of The Last Victim in Glen Ross, the image-conscious ... more »

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A woman discovers a frozen corpse under the ice in her fishing shack--coincidentally, on the same lake where Detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying an afternoon of ice fishing with his partner just a few shacks away. In this keenly intelligent, strikingly original new novel of suspense John Farrow once again ... more »

As a young man, New York Times bestselling author John Dunning earned his living for several years working behind the scenes on the racetrack circuit. Now he brings his memories of the horse world and his expertise in collectible books to this mesmerizing new Bookman novel rich with the lore of both ... more »

Althea Tomlinson says she has returned to Egypt to see the sights, and to chaperon a spoiled teenager through this strange and breathtaking desert land. The truth is more complex...and dangerous. Ten years ago, something here brought about her father's ruin and subsequent death -- and Althea intends ... more »

Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #12. When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference (The Philadelphia Inquirer). An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant -- a fraternity ... more »

An oddly paired duo, Pete, a computer junkie and class nerd, and Lilly find themselves trapped in a time warp. As they travel through time and space they have to solve numerous mysteries of the past or rescue some unusual characters they meet along the way. Their missions are as exciting as they are ... more »

Nash Devon, a Carolinian claiming ancestry back to the Croatan Indians and Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, was a hero and a murderer in the Gulf War, but haunted over the years by his actions. Assigned back to Saudi enroute to the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq, Devon is shanghaied by US military ... more »