For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler — both Edgar winners — have assembled the best that 1997 had...
Virginia Ginger Lightley is the owner of Coreyville Coffee Cakes, a popular bakery in East Texas. It's a shock to the whole community when a young man drops dead across town after eating one of her famous cakes. When the newly appointed police...
Best remembered for his sensational bestselling novels of the 1930s, James M. Cain may well be one of the most important, yet still misunderstood, of American authors. Among other writers and for certain critics, his reputation and singularity are...
Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best — and now the...
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career.When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves,...
The new mayor of a small town in Illinois unearths a series of devastating secrets when he re-opens a 30-year-old murder investigation
17-year-old Betty Jo Dean was abducted and murdered thirty years ago. It took two days to find her body. She was...
A girl is found, dead, with a dog wedged in her surgically enlarged throat, turning Detective Gill’s missing persons case into something much darker.
Drug addict, Vanessa, has been gone for weeks. Her baby girl too. Gill was already fearing...