The private-detective business starts out badly for former Phoenix Deputy David Mapstone, who has teamed up with his old friend and boss, Sheriff Mike Peralta. Their first client is gunned down just after hiring them. The case: A suspicious death...
A judge murdered in a city park. Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused. A homeless person burned alive. Detective Renee Ballard catches the case on the LAPD’s notorious graveyard shift. An unsolved homicide from a lifetime...
Edgar Awards (nominee)
On a blustery April day, the quiet, rather private wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later, driving along a winding country road and distracted perhaps by her own thoughts,...
SUMMARY: We are in a new arena of intrigue where the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed. We are in a new world of espionage where the habits and rules forged by past generations of spies are...
On the loose in the shadowy, gaslit streets of London’s East End — Jack the Ripper.
Baffled by the horrific series of murders in Victorian London, Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline is struck by the fact that all the killings have taken...
Ed Gorman has established himself as a writer whose “lean prose and deep compassion set his books apart from everything else in the genre,” in the words of Loren D. Estleman. Now, in The Night Remembers, Gorman delivers his most powerful work to...
Eleventh century Cambridge is rocked by a series of brutal murders.
Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff's verdict that this was the result of...
About the Author
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1908, Harry Kemelman was the creator of perhaps one of the most famous religious sleuths: Rabbi David Small. His writing career began with short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine...
Nine teller strokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country...