Dark streets. Darker secrets. Jackson Steeg thought he'd finally put all that behind him. He was wrong. Jackson Steeg isn't an NYPD homicide cop anymore, not since the bullet he took to the lung. But Steeg's retirement is looking anything but relaxing. After months of death threats, his ex-wife ... more »

A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories, Shades of Black is a landmark achievement. Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field-from Walter Mosley, one of America's best mystery writers (New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose gift for retaining suspense is golden (Chicago ... more »

Even generations later, you can't escape. . .the evil that men do. Stripped of his private investigator's license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he's finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn't seen in ... more »

JFK is in the Oval Office. Love Me Do is climbing the charts. And in West Berlin, a wealthy ex-black marketeer, the Dane, is offering a stolen spy satellite for sale. Nothing unusual there, except the asking price: half a billion dollars. Too much for any satelliteunless it's Hitler's legendary, long ... more »

Anthony and Macavity Award finalist J.A. Konrath returns with the latest gripping and hilarious Jack Daniels mystery. Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline Jack Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city's toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal ... more »

I don't play cards with men named Doc, or eat at places called Mom's. Or drink before I burgle....It is, I should point out, not a career I would recommend for anyone. The fact that I evidently can't give it up doesn't mean I'm not well aware of the disagreeably sordid nature of what I do. -- Bernie ... more »

Annie Darling discovers the secret of the Franklin house, but Death Walked In . . . Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and says she is afraid. The caller ... more »

Part-time GED instructor Kendra Clayton's spring break is proving to be anything but relaxing. First her best friend, Lynette, suffers a major panic attack days before her wedding and vanishes. Then her sister, Allegra, who craves attention the way Kendra craves chocolate brownies, arrives in town determined ... more »

Chemah Rivers is back in an all-new erotic roller coaster of a story--the final book in a captivating trilogy filled with mystery and heart-stopping drama. There are stories within the Bible that have hidden, erotic depths that have never been revealed. Now, Playing in the Dark follows a unique and creative ... more »

Jubilee Street - the haunt of addicts and vagrants is a part of town to avoid at all costs, especially when it becomes the stalking ground of a brutal and ruthless murderer. A drunken down and out is the first casualty, mutilated and burned alive but his grisly death raises even more problems for the ... more »

... unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, a new master of the classical detective story,* brings back crime detection's oddestand oldestcouple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery. It's an impossible crimea member of the Peculiar Crimes ... more »

JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER. In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide ... more »