It looked like an ordinary group of tourists – a mix of easy-going and critical, quiet and talkative, enthusiastic and bored. But antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is leading this tour through the souks, mosques and ruins of Tunisia so you know it...
Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, certainly tries. Natasha may have stolen the spotlight, and Sophie's husband, but Sophie is determined to rob her of the prize for the...
The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America 's foremost writers of crime fiction.V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching...
A collection of suspense stories, puzzle stories, whodunits and tricky whydunits involving police detectives, private eyes, talented and sometimes lucky amateurs, armchair detectives, and ethnic...
In the summer of 1990, Dr. Bill Brockton — a bright, ambitious young forensic scientist — is hired by the University of Tennessee to head, and to raise the profile of, the school's small Anthropology Department. Six months later, the ink on his...
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Travel is broadening, we are told, but travel can be dangerous as well. And half of the stories in this issue have a foreign setting as backdrop for chilling tales of intrigue and murder. London’s airport is the scene for a tense,...
Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the grocery store, and where high school cliques and antics are...
"…I fear I have been killed because of what happened today at Swains Lock." So begins the dried-out note that Vin Illick finds while scavenging planks from an abandoned shed near the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It's signed by canal-hand Lee...
From the author of DESERT PLACES, ABANDON, and “Serial,” comes this 1500-word short story which is an excellent and affordable introduction to the author’s work. “Unconditional” explores a devastating conversation between two people...