A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad,...
Lawrence Block’s new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years.
“Hard Sell,” a story ghost-written under Craig Rice’s name, appeared in the first issue of Ed McBain’s Mystery Magazinein 1960, and...
A True Crime, Ripped From the Headlines — and Heller’s on the Case
Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ most acclaimed series of novels (more than 1 million copies sold!), comes to Hard Case Crime for the first time...
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...
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...
Just another day in Paradise...
Chief of Police Jesse Stone is on his way home from a long shift when a call comes in for a welfare check on an elderly resident of the wealthy seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Inside a house packed with...