“It is the absurd predicaments of her central characters that readers find themselves recalling, and Cannell is cunning at devising outlandish situations for them.”-Chicago Sun-Times
“Cannell orchestrates plenty of laughs along with a clever...
Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell.
In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the...
The Saint has been pardoned for all crimes now and his identity is no secret. This book consists of 15 short stories which originally appeared in the Empire News, a now-defunct Sunday Newspaper, in 1932. Leslie Charteris had a contract to write a...
An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crimewriting – the latest in the Oslo Detective's series
A recovering drug addict, Katrine Bratterud, is almost finished with her time in rehab. One evening, contemplating her...
Perennial New York Times bestselling crime novelist Linda Fairstein explores the rich – and little-known – history of New York's City's Central Park in her latest Alexandra Cooper novel, Death Angel.
In her fourteen bestsellers, Linda Fairstein...
A shady book publisher and a showgirl with an artistic streak have to escape both the cops and the Mob after publishing a made-up account of a robbery at a Mob-run...
The first of Tey's Inspector Grant mysteries concerns the murder of an unknown man, apparently struck down as he stands in a ticket queue for a London musical comedy. Grant tenaciously pursues his suspects throughout the length of Britain and the...