THE LAST RESORT North Country Academy is where desperate parents send their troubled teenagers when all else has failed. For remote Trout Run, New York, the school means good jobs, always scarce in the Adirondacks. But to Police Chief Frank Bennett, the Academy -- with its roster of delinquent students ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Cat Among the Pigeons; 2) The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls ... more »

Nothing can prepare criminal attorney Bennie Rosato for her new client, Alice Connolly, accused of murdering her lover, a highly decorated police detective. Connolly, who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Bennie, tells the astonished lawyer, Pleased to meet you. I'm your twin. But Bennie grew ... more »

E-Book Extra: More about J.A. Jance's Thrillers and More about J.A. Jance For more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold -- the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler that was left on the side of Highway 86. No one ever paid for the horrific ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Sleeping Murder; 2) The Marples: the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. Soon after Gwenda Reed moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise ... more »

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given readers a new kind of hero. Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and ... more »

After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as it's more commonly called, the SHIT squad. But the more things change, the more they stay the ... more »

The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.' Jean Sheridan ... more »

From Emmy award winning journalist and best-selling author, comes a gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of 19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the Mexican-American border, and the 25-year-old female mastermind responsible for the human trafficking cell held responsible ... more »

Intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page -- another classic Robert Goddard mystery. Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour ... more »

In With No One as Witness, Elizabeth George has crafted an intricate, meticulously researched, and absorbing story sure to enthrall her readers. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is back, along with his longtime partner, the fiery Barbara Havers, and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata. They ... more »

When it's sink or swim, this Quick Guide will keep you afloat! On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual.  Diesel Engine Care and Repair  provides all the answers--fast. Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it ... more »