Dick Francis’s second thriller again has steeplechasing as its setting. Despair, suicide and obsessive hatred — mixed well with humour, love, and horses — brew up into a story of a battle between one man’s nerve and another man’s cunning....
Chelion Piper has been arrested under suspicion of murder. One of the tenants of his country apartment house, an unsocial and secretive old lady named Miss Minnie, was found by Chelion and two other men in her bungalow, dead in her bed. Suicide or...
“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...
When you’re short on memory and cash, taking a questionable case is a no-brainer.
But when Mick uncovers a conspiracy that threatens the entire populace, he'll have to tackle the case with more than just his dry wit and seven-shot revolver. It...
Amy Bloom masterfully curates a star-studded cast of contributors, including Michael Cunningham, Stephen L. Carter, and Roxana Robinson, to portray the city’s...
Brand-new stories by: Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, David Fulmer, Jervey Tervalon, James Nolan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Maureen Tan, Thomas Adcock, Jeri Cain Rossi, Christine Wiltz, Greg...