With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization […]
Another exhilarating thriller from Edgar Award winner David Ellis, introducing the new series protagonist Jason Kolarich. J ason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman with a lineman??s build and an easy smart-ass remark. He??s a young, intelligent maverick, but he??s also struggling with an overwhelming emotional burden??one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly […]
A damaged detective and a brutal serial killer collide in this nail-biting thriller debut. Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he??s left his past behind him in London. But it seems a serial killer has followed him north?? Brook??s seeking sanctuary. Years in the MET have left their mark – so much so that hes fled […]
In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel, Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans policeman, is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche, in the heart of Louisiana, to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon, Robicheaux finds himself smack […]
Liz suspects The Fraternity to be a front for renegade IRA men. Also it looks as though a plot is being hatched against the security forces. Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence officer is involved. But during their investigations, Dave goes missing. Liz fears the worst, especially when she […]
John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with The Innocent Man, a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels). The Innocent Man chronicles the story of Ron Williamson, how he was arrested and charged with a crime he did not commit, how […]
A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death — there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth […]
The postmortem is in–Black Notice, the 10th in Patricia Cornwells Scarpetta series, is a gore-splattered, intensely exciting read. As winter grips Richmond, Virginia, an air of somberness pervades chief medical examiner Kay Scarpettas world. Her beloved niece Lucy is involved in a dangerous undercover police operation in Miami, and auntie fears for her life. A […]
Harry Dresden ?? Wizard Lost items found. Paranormal investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment. Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, hes the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they […]
Virginias chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: “Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire,” it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped […]
The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante??s Inferno. Only an elite group of America??s first Dante scholars??Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields??can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante??s literary future […]
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammetts archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandlers Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammetts Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the […]
A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels […]
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic […]
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and […]