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 feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that he's skimming ... more »

Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #2. For those who yearn to walk those mean streets, no one provides a more satisfactory stroll than Lawrence Block (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Small-time stoolie, Jake The Spinner Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, from informer to blackmailer. ... more »

From her aunt's cryptic phone message, Don't worry, dear, we have not been kidnapped by terrorists..., to the tall, dark suit waiting at the Yellowstone Park entrance, cop-loathing Megan Davis smells a rat and all her instincts go on red alert. After a run-in with the press nearly kills his career, F ... more »

On picturesque San Juan Island, love and lavender are in the air. So, unfortunately, are jealousy, pettiness...and murder. Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid has come to the Puget Sound paradise to oversee her best friend's wedding. But when her own mother announces her engagement to a local millionaire ... more »

Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out her shingle as a p.i.-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill. Maybe it's not the best address in Baltimore, but you gotta start somewhere, and Tess's greyhound Esskay has no trouble taking marathon naps anywhere there's a roof. Then in ... more »

Benjamin Roan Is co-owner of a company that provides security for high-tech industry located In the high-society sunbelt of Newport Beach, California. When one of his guards, Ben's fiance,is found dead, everyone says, accident. But Ben suspects murder. To find proof, Ben takes over her guard duties at ... more »

From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators. He is called Ghost because he is so ... more »

Dennis Lenahan is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, the Casino Capital of the South, until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit -- Dixie style. The killer looks ... more »

The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch--hero, loner, nighthawk--the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn't just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam tunnel rat, fighting the VC and the fear they used to call ... more »

When Suzanna Dirkston, daughter of wealthy shipping tycoon Leopald Dirkston, learns that her father is dead, she knows it was not an accident. Forced to return to the family estate, Beacon, Suzanna is quick to sense the air of mystery and intrigue that hangs over the house and its inhabitants. Her shock ... more »

James Orayo Fielding is a multimillionaire who hates people- considers them little more than bugs . . . to be controlled or eradicated. Fielding also has a new way to solve the famine that is escalating in many overpopulated countries- a secret grain trea more »

Regan Reilly and her best friend, Kit, are on vacation in Honolulu, intent on having a Hawaiian adventure. They won't be disappointed! When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged. On the opening pages of Burned, Regan gets a call from Kit, urging her to come ... more »