Eine tote Frau in einem leeren Swimmingpool. Ein Mörder mit einem wasserdichten Alibi. Und Ex-Kommissar Van Veeteren, dem dieser Fall - der einzig ungelöste seiner Laufbahn - auch fünfzehn Jahre nach der Tat keine Ruhe lässt. Wer hat Barbara Clarissa Hennan auf dem Gewissen? Ihr Mann, wie alle glauben ... more »

Deadly Betrayal, the second in Jude Morris' Indian Creek, Texas series, reads like a locomotive - non-stop action from beginning to end. The delightfully homegrown characters, so vividly created in Morris's first book, Deadly Secrets, are brought vividly back into play in this gripping new murder mystery ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Nemesis; 2) The Marples: the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently ... more »

In many countries, women have little value and the value they have is owned by men. Those women are-by rule of law and custom-virtually uneducated and subject to brutality and torture. S.E.W, the secret SOCIETY FOR EMIGRANT WOMEN, runs a rescue operation for women in danger that is much like the underground ... more »

In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide-but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the ... more »

Harley-riding PI, Rick Sage, follows his heart into darkness once again when he meets up with ten-year-old Pedro, a Mexican-American kid lost on the streets of Tijuana. Pedro hires Rick, with the two dollars and thirty-five cents he has left in his pocket, to find the gang of antiquities thieves who ... more »

China is poised to invade the island of Taiwan. And when an escort of American and British planes is ambushed by Chinese fighters, the man-made island fortress known as Sea Base prepares for battle... more » more »

"I think he was dead before I shot him." With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland's finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript ... more »

E-book extras: Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'; Elmore Leonard's If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It; All By Elmore: The Crime Novels & The Westerns; Selected Filmography The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he was in a uniform and people ... more »

The Robler Clinic is getting a reputation for too many deaths during routine operations. A gorgeous female administrator, Ms. Kathy Hahl, is discovering a profitable little racket, and her tame anaesthetist, Dan Demmet, is playing along nicely. When timid more »

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Eine Serie grausamer Morde erschüttert San Francisco. Zunächst scheinen sie nichts gemeinsam zu haben - außer ihrer Brutalität. Lindsay Boxer, einziger weiblicher Detective bei der Mordkommission, ahnt jedoch, dass es da eine Verbindung geben muss. Ein Fall für den »Club der Ermittlerinnen«! Zusammen ... more »