One of the true masters of the short story, Bill Pronzini delights in thrilling, mystifying, amusing and terrifying his readers as the spirit moves him. In this collection, you’ll find virtually every kind of crime story there is. There’s stolen...
Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients—until the day one of them starts...
‘Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered, beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all...?’
Why does a theft at Christmas lead Chief Inspector Morse to look upon the Festive Season...
‘Your orders are to kill Conroy… We shall approve any method you like to use.’
This is the ultimatum that sends Commander Esmonde Shaw, dynamic agent of British Defence Intelligence, to join a Moscow-bound coach tour in West Berlin....
In 1945, Stalin imprisoned a team of Nazi scientists and forced them to think beyond the nuke. Now seven decades later, they are finally ready.
A Russian President cornered by sanctions and a Russian Analyst unencumbered by legacies team up to...
When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers—information that only Finn’s widow knows. But Anna, a former KGB colonel who betrayed her country...
A collection of eight stories. Includes the first appearance of the DKA File Series, and “Goodbye Pops” which won an Edgar for the Best Short Story of the Year.
Joe Gores has written over 100 short stories, a dozen screen and teleplays (for...