The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York...
Petros Markaris's crime fiction has won critical acclaim around the world. His suspense novels are propelled by intricate plots and peopled by villains and all-too-human heroes tangled up in the peculiar ways of contemporary Greece, and at their...
This is a taut, provocative mystery and a telling psychological portrait of a man and a nation haunted by the past.- This book provides another tightly woven, brilliantly written thriller with an African backdrop--appealing to readers of "The No....
Private Eyeful…Remember Llona Mayper-The Nude Who Never ? Well, she's a little more experienced now. Call her The Nude Who Hardly Ever, perhaps?At any rate, after becoming a bride and a widow all in one day, Llona had lots of reasons for finding...
Something is amiss at Maus
Haus. Not just the mystery of an
unsolved "suicide" which hangs
over the old mansion, but
something ominous in the
present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on
his new gastronomical
assignment, strange...
A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pot hauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of...
Joe Grey never regretted the mysterious accident that gave him the ability to talk and undersand human speech. Especially now that he had company – for it had happened to his "girlfriend" Dulcie, too.
The problem was, Dulcie wasn't only listening...
A new Sherlock Holmes mystery worthy of the master Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the...
On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled – and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall…So begins Ã…sa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's...