When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of Ken Bruen's dazzling novel The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and his sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. Now Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back and a pint of Guiness on his mind. So ... more »

The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous--mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest ... more »

In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as ... more »

On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this spellbinding new novel featuring Detective Nic Costa ... more »

Gossip columnist Rick Domino is hosting a live telecast of the Academy Awards, while at the same time his lover, actor Shane Kirk, is up for Best Actor. Of course, their relationship is a very deep secret, as Kirk is one of Hollywood's hot young hunks, publicly straight (though privately bi-sexual) and ... more »

The Braswell family has everything: money, looks and power. But then their eldest son, Andy, the family's shining light, is killed in a grotesque fishing accident, yanked overboard and pulled down to his death by a giant marlin. He takes with him a dark secret, so corrupt it will destroy his family. ... more »

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now issued for the first time as an e-book.Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only ... more »

The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there have become unstable. Worst of all, guerrilla rebels, in their lust for the resource-rich land, have sunk to depravity and terrorism to evict ... more »

In a thriller of astounding menace and power, the acclaimed author of A Season for the Dead returns to the landscape he has made his own-the seething landscape of modern-day Rome-where ancient crimes lie hidden beneath colorful, bustling avenues. Here a teenage girl has disappeared, a detective is exploring ... more »

Maggie O'Brien, a nurse and a medic on a SWAT team, has a thirst for justice, and a chip on her shoulder. She lives in the shadow of her father, a famous (or infamous) cop. Is she more his daughter than she wants to admit? The question hits home when Maggie feels the desire--as all cops, nurses, doctors ... more »

Fed up with the hypocrisy and bureaucracy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch has resigned and is forced to find a new source of income--and a new way of life. But the life of a retiree doesn't suit him. He has devoted himself to law enforcement, and on his own, he is still drawn towards the abyss. When he rediscovers ... more »

It's the city's most infamous after-hours haunt-a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club...for there's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong. His murder and the desperate attempt to keep a deadly ... more »