It is 1807 and portrait painter Charles Corday, charged with the murder of a Countess he was in the process of painting, has only seven days to live. Political pressures make it expedient for the Home Office to confirm his guilt. The man...
Ed McBain, the legend of contemporary suspense, returns to Calusa, Florida, in a novel that weaves multiple points of view into a tantalizing, brilliant plot.
Matthew Hope has been shot — taking two bullets outside a bar in Calusa’s seediest...