British Fantasy Society (nominee)A hotel offers a taboo service for its troubled clients, a vampire library attacks its readers, and a young man discovers the cutlery of the Marquis de Sade. Incarceration, incantations, romance, revenge...
When a man is brutally murdered and the suspected killer has disappeared, the family of the victim hire private investigators, Jake and Annie Lincoln, to track down the missing murderer. A dangerous and deadly pursuit begins, in which both the...
In John Verdon’s most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn’t have been committed the way the police say it was.
The daunting task that confronts...
There was nothing distinctive about her except the hat — the shape and color of a pumpkin, with a cockerel feather curving up from the center. And that is all Scott Henderson could remember when his life depended on it. He had met her in a bar...
Never has the balance of power in the Middle East been more delicate…
Stoked by the flames of defeat, the Libyan high command has secretly completed the construction of a massive chemical weapons plant in the desert.
Their Sukhoi-24...
1351 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt… until the day he casts off his crown and mysteriously disappears into the desert, his legacy seemingly swallowed up by the remote sands beneath the Great Pyramids of Giza.
AD 1884: A...
March 1943, at the height of World War II, a newly commissioned B-17 bomber is nearing the west coast of Greenland.
Flown by a carefully picked crew, it is carrying a piece of vital secret cargo that under no circumstances can be allowed to fall...
Ex-astronaut Richard Baedecker sees everything he has ever done as merely preparation for something bigger and his quest for higher meaning leads him to a mysterious young woman who shows him the "places of power" in his own...