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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breathtaking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero chance of saving his client from a death sentence. However, his obligation runs deeper than simply professional: Morrison's wife, a CIA executive ... more »

Joe Kurtz is back in this thrilling sequel to the bestselling HARDCASE. In HARD FREEZE, we learn Kurtz isn't finished with the Farino mob family--or rather, they aren't done with him. In addition, Kurtz may have found out who really killed his girlfriend, Samantha, and he really wants to make them pay ... more »

Television audiences around the world witness in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents. The captured gunman is revealed to be the son of one of Britain's most infamous nuclear defectors, which brings the believe-nothing Charlie Muffin into the investigation ... more »

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there, among the last-chancers known as resurrection men, he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group ... 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 »

A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relent-less hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi ... 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 »