In Don Bredes's Cold Comfort, Hector Bellevance left Vermont for Harvard, graduated into a job with the Boston Police Department, made detective, married, divorced, accidentally shot his partner during a raid gone bad, and then returned to Vermont because, as Robert Frost famously said, "Home is ... more »

Miami criminal attorney Jack Swyteck is back (The Pardon; Beyond Suspicion). His best friend's brother, ex-thug Tatum Knight, stands to inherit a fortune -- $48 million -- if four other people die. Now Jack has to find out if his client is an innocent man or a killer. more »

Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started with a conman's deathbed confession ... more »

Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love--with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival--until their Casablanca -esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion ... more »

Beverly Hills detective Art Murry has seen it all - or so he thinks. Then he's handed the grisly decapitation of Julia Garoute - his big ticket to regaining his reputation as a hot shot homicide detective. But can he and his rookie partner, Billy the Kid, solve the crime before another detective steals ... more »

Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection. Indeed ... more »

Product Info Grace Rossi's life is complex: she's tangled in a death penalty appeal and an affair with her boss. And now she's investigating a murder that's stumped the FBI. more »

When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the truth. A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where thieves of time ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Moving Finger; 2) The Marples: the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets--a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous ... more »

In the cellar there was no sound at all except her own breathing and the soft rustle of her skirts. After her eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, she noticed a niche in the wall a yard from where she stood. She saw something there about the size of her fist. Agnes quietly picked it up. It was wrapped ... more »

Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend. When that boyfriend threatens Toni she knows ... more »

Benedetta Bennie Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and an unconfirmable ... more »