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 »

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 »

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 »

In his critically acclaimed novels The River Sorrow and The Last Sanctuary, Craig Holden forged a powerful, poetic vision of the American heartland. Now the writer The New York Times calls astonishing returns to this haunting landscape in his newest work. At once a suspenseful search for the truth in ... 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 »

Over the course of twenty years, from 1914 to 1933, Oscar Hartzell conned millions of dollars from tens of thousands of trusting, innocent people. And when he was caught, they gave him more. There are no folk heroes more all-American than con artists. Though we may openly condemn them, deep down we admire ... 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 »

In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond ... more »

Future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold that its greatest practitioner . . . has been Agatha Christie. The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and ... more »

A gripping and explosive new thriller from internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, featuring Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan on the trail of a modern murder and an ancient biblical mystery... When an Orthodox Jewish man is found ... more »