What was the clue of the lipstick on the dead man’s mouth that started Jerry Burke on the tortuous murder trail through El Paso and Juarez?
The death maze draws together an American oil tycoon; a high official of the State Department; and two...
When Detective V.I. Warshawski begins an investigation of a three million dollar theft from a monastery, acid is thrown in her face, and she suspects she might be taking on the Vatican, the Mafia, and an international...
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and...
This is a story of the most heart-rending of crimes — the kidnapping of a little child. First the author lets us see the crime itself. Then we watch the anguish of the parents as they discover their loss, the arrival of the ransom note, the...
“To the world, she was Amelia Earhart, but to me, and only me, she was Amy.”
Detective Nathan Heller has taken on some of the most sensational crimes of the twentieth century. In Flying Blind, he returns to the one unsolved case of his...
It’s midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the...