The Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony award-winning Rick Riordan delivers a spellbinding novel of a man on an edge so extreme that his fall will destroy not only him--but all that he holds dear. Chadwick's life was balanced on a knife's edge--his career, his marriage, his relationship with his dangerously troubled ... more »

In a New England courtroom, two young defense lawyers face a trial they cannot win. For attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach, partners and best friends, it seems an open-and-shut case. Their client confessed to a horrific multiple homicide-and Zack and Terry have only one hope: to spare him from the ... more »

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard. From the Trade ... more »

Loren D. Estleman delivers, with a hugely entertaining, taut new Amos Walker thriller. A snarl of Third World politics, ruthless show business, and the international drug market combine to make Poison Blonde a tasty, sizzling Forge debut for his three-time Shamus Award-winning private eye series. more »

With explosive tension and masterful suspense, A Handful of Kings is a page-turning thriller about what really happens in the world of espionage, by an insider who has lived it. American diplomat Vicky Sorrell learns the hard way that all is fair in love -- and espionage. A Handful of Kings, the latest ... more »

In this richly woven psychological thriller, Rock guitarist Chris Nielson gets a winter job house-sitting at the palatial Maryland beach house of his father's rich friend Ted Harper. An intriguing neighbor, Caroline, shares his love for music -- and more. But Chris soon finds himself in a web of betrayal ... more »

It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged, he leads ... more »

Barmaid Betsy's long quest for recognition seems to be coming true when a center for Celtic Spirituality tests her pyschic powers. And when the center's flamboyant director goes missing, it is Betsy who dreams where he will be found. At first his death seems like a straightforward murder case--he was ... more »

When an eccentric old woman is found dead in her living room, her head beaten in with a hatchet, Gabriel Du Pre feels compelled to look into the matter. Hoping to find answers at the scene of the crime, Du Pre spies two teenagers snooping around the house. Meanwhile it's dry season, and fires blazing ... more »

New Year's Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor'easter. Cool and efficient, she's a weapon of war superbly trained in the ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though she's outnumbered, she's got one major advantage: No one knows she's coming ... more »

From the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time, here are fourteen intense, eerie, and compelling stories, including one O. Henry Prize winner, stories from The New Yorker, and Riding the Bullet which, when published as an eBook, attracted over half a million online ... more »

An anthology of the world's best literary espionage, selected by a contemporary master of the genre, Alan Furst. Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose the base elements ... more »