Ruth couldn’t commit murder—
• When Dave Tully returned from a business trip that night he found the house dark. At first he thought that Ruth, his wife, was out playing bridge and had been delayed. Then he had a caller.
• The...
Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players — a hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as among the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent...
PI Sunny Randall owes a favor. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed, and it is up to Sunny and her best friend, Spike, to ensure her protection. But as Sunny looks into the identity...
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...
Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a...
Rumpelstiltskin. An old fairy tale. Straw spun into gold, a dwarf with a wicked temper. A dwarf who covets a child. A woman is found murdered, her daughter is missing. Who is madman enough to kill the mother and steal away the child?
Matthew...
With Day of the Guns Mickey Spillane introduces a master hero, a man as forceful as his name. Tiger Mann is afraid of no one, and he is backed by so powerful a group that he can set his own rules. For Tiger is not merely a sleuth but a major...
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...
An original John Rebus story and the stage debut for one of crime fiction’s greatest creations.
John Rebus may have retired but he’ll always be a detective.
Coming home one night, he finds a young woman waiting for his neighbour. He...