Of Jackson Park , the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo Jefferson of The New York Times said, "Charlotte Carter blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale." Now Carter returns with another suspenseful novel ... more »

Shipwrecked on the coast of North Carolina, his companions killed, Tatton Chantry is alone--and ready for action. In the old world he fought wars, skirmishes, duels. Now, in the wilderness of America, this swashbuckling hero takes up against pirates, Spanish fortune seekers, savage Indians. Aided by ... more »

There are many terrible ways to die, but few die as terribly as Elizabeth Creay, a young mother and Washington Post reporter. Tortured in her Washington, D.C., townhouse, she didn't go out of this world easily. Now it's the job of Detective Jack Cassian and Sergeant Darius D Train to figure out who could ... more »

The Sacketts were fierce fighting men from the hills of Tennessee.  The Talons were French, but a life of piracy brought them to America.  Milo was half Talon, half Sackett.  He'd been riding the outlaw trail for three years, but now he was hunting a man who had betrayed ... more »

Detective fiction doesn't get any better than Marcia Muller's novels featuring San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone. Now, in her latest adventure, newlywed McCone must tackle the cold case of a missing woman and face her own worst fears: what can happen when a marriage goes bad-or turns deadly. For ... more »

You're a librarian, not a detective, Catherine Penny's daughter reminds her. But Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, finds it easy to slip into sleuthing mode when she leaves behind New York City and a failed marriage for a lovely 17th century cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood ... more »

In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires. At first glance, this one doesn't fit the bill: she's asked to find a missing ballet dancer, Carolyn Hamilton. When Carolyn's body is fished out of the Thames, stones in her pockets and ... more »

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa-never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For ... more »

SPIRITED AMERICAN STORIES GATHERED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense of epic adventure that epitomize Louis L'Amour ... more »

Gaylord Riley once rode with the notorious Colburn gang. He did what he had to do, and was handy with a gun, but the outlaw life led nowhere, and the young man from Texas knew his luck was bound to run out. So he headed for the rugged land near Dark Canyon, determined to set up a ranch and settle down ... more »

For the first time in book form, here is a collection of Louis L'Amour detective stories--vivid tales as memorable and exciting as his beloved frontier fiction.  Each story is personally selected, with an introduction, by the author. In the dark alleys of the pulsing cities and the savage criminal ... more »

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient ... more »