Vintner Lucie Montgomery—The Merlot Murders (2006), The Chardonnay Charade (2007)—is getting ready for the harvest at her vineyard near Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. When she attends a lecture at Mount Vernon, she learns about the wines...
Ten years ago, Clare Cosi left an unhappy marriage along with a job she loved: managing the historic Village Blend coffeehouse in New York's Greenwich Village. For a decade, she was happy raising her daughter in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey;...
OVER 40 NEW STORIES FROM BRITAIN’S LEADING CRIME WRITERS
Leading editor and reviewer Maxim Jakubowski has compiled another beguiling collection of the year’s best new short crime fiction from the UK. Ian Rankin’s perennially popular...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” September 1, 1934.
A crook calls upon The Shadow to plan crime — and issues a challenge to the master of...
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of...
There was the heat of money. There w as the heat of wanting. There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended. Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash...
Each member of the class of
1980 has received the letter.
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen,
who is on the organizing
committee for Crozet High's twentieth reunion, decides to
take it as a compliment. Others
think it's a joke.
But Mrs....
Author Blaize Clement has
thrilled readers everywhere
with the first six books in her
pet-sitting mystery series. Now
Blaize's beloved heroine Dixie
Hemingway is back for another adventure, and she has her
hands full when the worlds of
celebrity...