This fantasy is the author's first published novel. Although the typical back cover quotes from Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley overpraise it somewhat--stunning, terrific, classic--it's a good, highly readable debut. Kristen Britain tells her story at a headlong pace and with considerable charm ... more »

Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings us another unforgettable mystery featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, who is fighting to save a frightened child from a brutal murderer. What kind of monster would break into a man's home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The ... more »

E-book exclusives: Afterword: Roots of Mystery: Sodium Azide and Learning to Believe the Unbelievable by J.A. Jance. Special environmental report: It Will Kill Practically Anything: Do you drive a 1994 or newer car? If so, you're sitting just inches away from a deadly poison. Sheriff Joanna Brady and ... more »

E-book extras: Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'; Elmore Leonard's If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It; All By Elmore: The Crime Novels & The Westerns; Selected Filmography Wealthy industrialist Robbie Daniels has a new thrill: homicide. He's tried it, he likes it, and he'd like to ... more »

The Robler Clinic is getting a reputation for too many deaths during routine operations. A gorgeous female administrator, Ms. Kathy Hahl, is discovering a profitable little racket, and her tame anaesthetist, Dan Demmet, is playing along nicely. When timid more »

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery--. People who love cats...have a friend in Rita Mae Brown, declares The New York Times Book Review . And nowhere is it more obvious than in this, her sixth deliciously witty foray into detective fiction written with the paws-on help of collaborator Sneaky ... more »

E-book extra: Criminal Minds: Laura Lippman Interviews Karin Slaughter The third pulse-pounding novel in the Grant County series from the New York Times-bestselling author of Blindsighted and Kisscut. Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, GA, is called out to an apparent suicide ... more »

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than ... more »

File M for Murder Librarian and former New Yorker Catherine Penny has already sleuthed out the truth behind a deadly house fire since settling in the tiny English town of Far Wychwood. But nowhere is too far for painful memories to find her when her ex-husband, who left her single in her sixties, arrives ... more »

A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects ... more »

When Kentuckian Riley Stokes and Texan Cass McCasland join together and head to the frontier they are bound to encounter the best and the worst, and enlist in some of the greatest adventures known to the west. The two misfits agree to guard an Army paywagon that's headed for Fort Dodge, but when a half ... more »

The odd couple of detection-the brilliant but cranky detectives of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit-return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding-and a killer no ... more »