A twisted genius plays Satan in an attempt to ruin his enemy's reputation and destroy his sanity. This is opposed, incognito, by the world's greatest hoax breaker in a black magic gamut of horror that unexpectedly runs into the real thing--a demon who is behind the curse of Thorncliff Manor. The genius ... more »

On an island of glitz, in a season of ambition, Philip Randall is getting what everyone wants. A rising career in a big New York law firm. A rich and beautiful wife. A cavernous downtown loft. And enough disposable income to turn Manhattan into a movable feast. So why is Philip testing fate by sleeping ... more »

Abbie Devereaux was threatened, gagged, kidnapped, starved, and imprisoned in an airless shed before she escaped her unknown captor. The trouble is, no one seems to believe her: Not the police who find her bruised and beaten on the front steps of a run-down housing project on the outskirts of London ... more »

A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense -- they are, in fact ... more »

The victim had a knife plunged in her chest. The husband was glad, and didn't hide it. From the beginning, Detective Carella is sure someone was hired to make the murder look like an interrupted robbery. Then the dead woman's secrets begin to come out of the closet. Now happily married Steve Carella ... more »

Michael Connelly returns with a new character and a story that reaches new levels of intricacy and suspense--his most gripping work to date. Thanks to a heart transplant, retired Los Angeles-based FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has a new lease on life. Formerly a well-known media fixture as pointman for the ... more »

eBook Special Feature: Read a chapter excerpt from LOST LIGHT! When a cop's suspicious death is ruled a suicide, Detective Harry Bosch has a hard time believing the company line. This wasn't just any cop, but a missing LAPD narcotics officer who was rumored to have crossed over to the other side-peddling ... more »

Lucifer Jones is back--and Asia's got him! Come along with everybody's favorite con man as he encounters the Oriental Detective with too many sons, the Other Oriental Detective, and (shudder!) the Insidious Oriental Dentist. Join Lucifer as he hunts for the Yeti, wins the Great Wall in hand-to-hand combat ... more »

USA Today bestselling author of Nine JAN BURKE delivers chills, suspense, shockers, and sharp wit in eighteen works of short fiction sure to satisfy longtime fans and newcomers alike. This positively addictive anthology is full of surprises -- a patchwork of settings and characters not soon forgotten ... more »

eBook Special Feature: Includes a chapter excerpt of The Lake House. When the Wind Blows , the most brilliant and original what if suspense novel to come along in a decade has somehow surpassed the page turning chills of Cat and Mouse and Kiss the Girls . Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian ... more »

This time the chips are truly down for Hollywood Jake Donovan. A government scientist, Dr. William Rush, has been found dead in a North Carolina state park; he'd been doing sensitive research -- possibly a weapons project -- and he'd been brutally murdered. His colleague, Janice Callahan, is also missing ... more »

eBook Special Feature: Includes two original articles--The Writing of Fearless Jones and Black to the Future, both penned by Walter Mosley--and a chapter excerpt of BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN. Like most of us, Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s ... more »