Bill Pronzini has been praised as “a master of suspense” by the Los Angeles Times, and his novels called “realistic and explosive” by the likes of Robert Ludlum. These same qualities distinguish his short fiction.
Graveyard Plots brings...
He was a middle-aged, medium-sized, unobtrusive sort of man, with the stamp of upper-class conservatism on his clothing and features and he lay sprawled on his back on a sidewalk in Miami Beach, Florida with a bullet-hole between his eyes.
There...
PI Sunny Randall owes a favor. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend, Spike, to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity...
Detective Jack Warr should be resting on his laurels. He’s just put sadistic serial killer Rodney Middleton behind bars and he’s ready to enjoy some time at home with his young family.
Instead, Jack is having violent nightmares that leave...
January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at fifty years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then...
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while trying to hold his family together. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small...
Had it been kidnaping? Pregnancy? Suicide? Or Murder?
The Doris Delaney case was no ordinary challenge, not even for Tom Alder, who specialized in finding missing heirs. The girl had disappeared from her boarding school some twenty-two years...
Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may...
IF YOU WANT SOMETHING BADLY ENOUGH, YOU’LL GET IT...
Bernie Rhodenbarr may be New York’s most charming bookseller (by day) and its most skillful burglar (by night), but the modern world isn’t kind to either of his vocations. How is a...