Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a...
Erle Stanley Gardner dons his other cap and comes up with superior fare for A. A. Fair fans.
Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle, and in Bertha’s glittering...
A Hell of a Finale to a Decade of Assassination
It began with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Then Malcolm X in 1965. Martin Luther King in April 1968. And then, in June of the same year, President Kennedy’s brother Robert fell before an assassin’s...
It’s the summer of 1949 and Steve “Snap” Malek has been assigned by his editors to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city’s beautiful Lakefront. Malek,...
I’m a private eye in Tampa. My card reads:
Nationwide Detective Agency
Southeastern Division
Agent in Charge: Ed Rivers
It all started during Gasparilla Week, when our city re-enacts the good old days when that lusty pirate, José...
A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben’s bestselling thriller and #1 Netflix series, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for the...
In the middle of the night, Detective Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is called to a Westside hospital. A young woman has been left dead at the entrance to the E.R.
Milo soon identifies the victim as an aspiring actress, and evidence points him in the...
Hunting him would be murder...
When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. As the service progresses, he notices a man seated six rows in front of him. At first, Taylor thinks he must be...
The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark...
In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen’s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a hotel full of...