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 »

This fourth adventure for former Department of Defense research analyst turned magazine columnist Lewis Cole begins when a late night disturbance at a nearby state park catches his attention. A solitary man has been shot in the back of the head in the empty resort area's parking lot. Lewis is curious ... more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The Father Dowling mysteries have been Ralph McInerny's longest running series and have proven to be his most successful and best reviewed. In the latest installment, Father Dowling's spiritual retreat turns into a murder investigation when a man is found with an axe in his back on the grounds of a dying ... more »