Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began Thrones, Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript--with overwhelming success. Sayers' fans are in Walsh's debt, said the San Francisco Chronicle, for the transition is seamless; you cannot tell where ... more »

In her acclaimed debut Blind Run , Patricia Lewin proved her brilliant command of heart-stopping tales of suspenseand the staggering human emotions that go with them. Now in Out of Reach , Lewin returns with a gripping new thrillera beguiling story of a man and a woman entering a battle against an unseen ... more »

The Ultimate Readers' Guide to the Art of Forensics! An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket. A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographical ... more »

PerfectBound e-book exclusive: John Colapinto Talks to Cal Cunningham About About the Author. Cal Cunninghman has always fantasized about being a novelist. But at twenty-five, he's far from realizing his dream. Newly arrived in Manhattan, he toils as a bookstore stockboy, lives in a dire neighborhood ... more »

The first in a new mystery series that has it all -- a tragic puzzle, fabulous French food, and a peek into the fascinating world of wild orchids. In 1984, a young Canadian woman vanished while on a hiking holiday in the Dordogne region of France. Was Bedie Dunn the victim of an accident? Or could she ... more »

From a seductive storyteller who dares to plumb the dark, passionate depths of the heart and soul comes an absorbing new erotic thriller that is also a gripping tale of psychological suspense. Grief-stricken Justine Pagett fled to Paris after her mother's death, but scandal forces her back to the States ... more »

Drawing on unprecedented access to interviews, diaries, court records, and the criminal himself, I is the inside story of Keith Hunter Jesperson, Oregon's Happy Face Killer, who strangled to death eight innocent women in the 1990s.The murderer's own words chronicle his evolution from angry child to sociopathic ... more »

Interviewing people in police custody is part of Dr. Kit Quinn's job. But when Michael Doll, a disturbed derelict caught hanging around a London schoolyard, breaks a mug and tears up her face during questioning, he also cracks her composure and self-confidence. The incident leaves her with recurring ... more »

A literary investigation by one of the most powerful American writers at work today [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal, still-unsolved murder ... more »

Larson, an agent for WITSEC, the witness protection program, is desperate to find Alicia, who was formerly in the program but has left it because she didn't feel safe with her daughter, Penny. Now the mob family that she helped put away is coming after her, and only Larson can help her escape their wrath ... more »

In this thirteenth installment of the successful series featuring Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich, a slick and charismatic con man has been preying on the Irish community. But he picks the wrong mark in no-nonsense Common Pleas Judge Maureen Hartigan, who asks Jacovich to track him down ... more »

In a medical clinic in Washington, D.C., two dubious doctors and their team are completing plastic surgery on a client who is altering his face. As the team finishes up, the patient begins to stir--and suddenly the operating room is an inferno. Washington police begin an investigation, but are sidetracked ... more »