In the shadowy metropolis that is 1938 Chicago, Steve Malek is a Tribune police reporter in a city gripped by the Kelly-Nash political machine and the post-Capone crime syndicate. In Malek’s depression-era world, the Tribune is the largest of the...
Autumn 1948 — the final tense days of the Presidential campaign between incumbent Harry S Truman and Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. As Truman prepares for a visit to Chicago, Tribune police reporter Steve “Snap” Malek is warned of a...
THE MARILYN TAPES is a powerful novel of the days just after Marilyn’s death... and how J. Edgar Hoover, Louella Parsons, the Mafia and the Kennedy brothers battle each other for possession of the provocative tape recordings secretly made in...
“That was no lady who cashed that bond... that was your wife,” they told Palmer. The only trouble was, Palmer wasn’t married at the time.
The strangest things were happening. And all of them added up to more trouble. Especially when Palmer...
Roy Grace never dreamed a murder investigation would take him deep into Buckingham Palace...
Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train, heading to a charity event in Sussex, when disaster strikes — the train is derailed.
A...
Lights! Camera! Action! Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood hits are made of.
Otto Penzler delivers the director’s cut of classic short stories that inspired some of...
The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973.
Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation — this time on Long Island to help look after his...