Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade--until a new one ... more »

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Shane Scully is back on the LAPD, hailed as a hero after bringing down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral. At a glamorous party with his new wife, Alexandra, Shane hears a world famous director make an ominous remark about the fate of his ex-wives. This is more than police business, it ... more »

LOST, the television series, takes place on a remote South Pacific island, where a plane crash has left 48 survivors stranded. This novel focuses on Bernard, a college student with a closely-guarded secret - he's not really a rich kid but a poor poseur who has been faking it to impress his wealthy girlfriend ... more »

It's a cold Cleveland November when trace evidence expert Evelyn James is summoned to the scene of a bizarre crime--a young woman has been forcibly drowned in the Cuyahoga River, her feet and legs chained and sunk in cement. When yet another body is found, murdered under similar circumstances, and the ... more »

At forty-two, psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin seems to have it all: a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter. But Joe's snug, happy world is crumbling. Recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he's dreading the inevitable and all too palpable deterioration of his body and mind. Then ... more »

Set in Venice, ex-partriot American Urbino Macintyre returns from a trip to Morocco and is reunited with his long time friend Barbara, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. The Contessa seems a little nervous and confesses that an old lacemaker, Nina Crivelli, has been following her around in an attempt to ... more »

Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to town with her two children, but minus one husband and one nanny. Libby's husband has been accounted for -- she left him back in Annapolis. However, the nanny, Sophie, is truly missing. As soon as Hitch starts to nose around, Sophie turns up ... more »

He appeared to be a decent, upright, honest citizen.... And yet appearances can be more than deceiving in the world of blackmail and extortion. The shocking gangland-style murder of known blackmailer Sy Kramer begs the question: which of Kramer's marks had given him his very last payoff? A politician ... more »

No one knows the dark side of "The Street" better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more ... more »

John Pellam, Hollywood location scout and former stuntman, is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Hell's Kitchen residents. Suddenly, buildings and lives are going up in flames. The pyromaniac's masterpiece is to be a devastating conflagration, with Hell's Kitchen ... more »

Edgar Award-winner Dana Stabenow's novels set in Alaska combine a lush and evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and top-notch characters, culminating in the dynamic character of Aleutian p.i. Kate Shugak. Here the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near ... more »