Impresario Maxie Jones knew a good gimmick when he saw it. The Dance of Kali was sure-fire: a beautiful, exotic girl doing a spectacular dance — sexy but dignified, you understand — and to cap it, a legend that death struck when the dance was...
The radio reports of the sudden tropical storm into which the freighter was heading caused the captain to order a change of course. “We’ll miss both Rio and Santos,” he told the mate. “And also the worst of the storm.”
This news made...
In the wake of a huge nor’easter, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But within feet of...
Ed Gorman has established himself as a writer whose “lean prose and deep compassion set his books apart from everything else in the genre,” in the words of Loren D. Estleman. Now, in The Night Remembers, Gorman delivers his most powerful work to...
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...