From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories--some never before published--that distill dread back down to its essence--and inject it straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his ... more »

When two little girls find an abandoned baby, good intentions go awry and three families are ruined. Now, seven years later, another child is missing and rookie homicide detective Nancy Porter must uncover the truth in a world where no one is innocent -- not even the children. Since her debut in 1997 ... 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 It's not Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne's fault that they were in the real estate office when ... more »

E-book Extra: "We Are Very Different People": Stuart Woods on Stone Barrington. Stone Barrington had thought he'd heard the last of Arrington Carter after she'd left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest star. Now Arrington has vanished, and her new fiancé wants Stone to find her. ... more »

With a national election going on, Shell Scott's timing might have been less than perfect. Perhaps he did prevent the victory for the shoo-in candidate, but a lot of strange things were happening. There was Polly Plank whom he encountered in her psychiat more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember; 2) The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. The Ravenscrofts didn't seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid... And yet, twelve years earlier ... more »

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Seattle p.i. Leo Waterman isn't looking for trouble when he and his forensic pathologist girlfriend Rebecca escape into the Washington wilder for a few days of relaxation -- it just seems to find him. An old friend has purchased some choice property here in North America's only rain forest and his posting ... more »

THE EVIL GENIUS OF CRIME That fiendish, brilliant turn-of-the century villain is back again.  Read the original trilogy that launched his celebrated career.  A brow like Shakespeare, a face like Satan, and eyes of hypnotic green - and an army of the weirdest, most fiendish cohorts, tortures ... more »

Ein schockierendes Verbrechen stellt die Londoner Polizei vor ein Rätsel: Ein Fremder hat die Familie Peach in ihrem eigenen Haus überfallen. Unaussprechliches muss sich zugetragen haben, bevor er wieder verschwand, nicht ohne den kleinen Sohn der Peaches mit sich genommen zu haben. Doch die schwer verletzten ... more »

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. Then all hell breaks loose. A taut noir story ... one of Lawrence Block's best (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood ... 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 Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto. Now ... more »