Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex Delaware is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author. For three months the police found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author ... more »

An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard--old families who summer on Martha ... more »

In rich, atmospheric mysteries set against the backdrop of modern-day Mississippi, Carolyn Haines has given the southern belle a brilliantly hip makeover. Now Haines and her unforgettable heroine, Sarah Booth Delaney, are back with a tale about skeletons in closets--and elsewhere. Sarah Booth Delaney ... more »

#1 international bestseller Ian Rankin returns with another chilling case from Inspector John Rebus's file: when two students are gruesomely murdered at Edinburgh boarding school, the investigation leads to a group of sinister teens. When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17 year-old students ... more »

Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov once more teams up with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, when they attempt to thwart the creation of a global unification of Russian, American and Italian mafias. The investigation becomes political, reaching right into the White House ... more »

Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan. From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan heads to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Divinity School--despite the fact that the door of his office was bolted shut from the inside ... more »

The master of hard-boiled detective fiction is back -- and better than ever -- with Something's Down There, a blade-sharp thriller set among the islands of the Caribbean. To the casual observer, Mako Hooker looks like any other grizzled fishing-boat captain trawling the Bermuda Triangle. He's content ... more »

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Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation. It is a search ... more »

Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. It's still a good life-tending ... more »

The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit ... more »