Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky’s life is a mess. He is staggering to come to terms with the recent death of his wife and the financial burden she left behind. Then his psychologist persuades him to enter a virtual world called Second...
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world...
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don...
The "heir to Clancy's throne" (The Real Book Spy) returns with his most compelling, explosive techno-thriller ever.
Despite decades of treaties, military missions, and covert actions devoted to preventing it, Iran has finally assembled its first...
Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devastation wreaked at Pearl Harbor and the crushing defeat of US ground troops in the Philippines.
On the home front, scientists at the...
A Hell of a Finale to a Decade of Assassination
It began with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Then Malcolm X in 1965. Martin Luther King in April 1968. And then, in June of the same year, President Kennedy’s brother Robert fell before an assassin’s...
You might as well know this going in: Lawrence Block’s new novel is not for everyone. It’s recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman.
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When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He’ll soon find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and...
While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story’s subjects — an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts the dog, whom...
A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...
RICHARD CORRINGTON IS RICH. HANDSOME AND A HOUSEHOLD NAME. BUT IS HE SANE?
Journalist Joyce Carter is murdered only a few miles front Richard’s west country home. Richard’s wife suspects he has been having an affair with Joyce and forensics...