Bill Pronzini has been praised as “a master of suspense” by the Los Angeles Times, and his novels called “realistic and explosive” by the likes of Robert Ludlum. These same qualities distinguish his short fiction.
Graveyard Plots brings...
Finally enjoying some downtime in Santa Fe, Stone Barrington agrees to attend an art exhibit with a dear friend. There, he encounters an intriguing woman who is on the trail of a ring of art thieves. Always one to please, Stone offers his help. From...
A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station discovers the body of a man entombed in ice.
The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking...
WHEN IT’S LIFE OR DEATH, WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
Teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark LeDrew shows up at school with a bomb strapped to his chest,...
Larry had started happily on his shipboard honeymoon... his bride a ravishing, exotic girl.
But now, ashore in the tropics, he found a devil in the woman.
Why had her guardian tried to stop them — for his sake?
What strange language...
The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark...
In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen’s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a hotel full of...
Private Beijing is ripped apart after an attack leaves three agents dead and the head of the team missing.
With the Beijing branch in turmoil, Private’s owner and global head, Jack Morgan, immediately gets on a plane from LA.
Soon after...
Margaret Millar (1915–1994) was an internationally popular author whose well-crafted and sharply-written books pioneered the subgenre of psychological suspense. In a nearly 50-year writing career — which began in her native Canada and continued...
In this page-turning short story from international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, senior detective Jon Avery inherits a deeply troubling case. At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a...
In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit — a cold case squad — to catch the criminals nobody else can.
In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner — convicted of forgery and theft — was pronounced...