Fresh off the runway at Teterboro, Stone Barrington arrives home to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, anxiously soliciting Stone’s help. But everything is not as it seems, when the client reveals the true nature — and value — of...
A Little Treachery is enacted in a quaint-looking rural cottage in idyllic surroundings. Idyllic at least they seem to Clem and Catherine Hare, two elderly spinsters who have just obtained it ‘for a song’ through the offices of a friend of a...
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...
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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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...
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...
Nothing can stop an avenging vigilante from channeling her rage — or pursuing her prey. Not the relentless cops in her rearview. Not the cunning and elusive sociopath she’s closing in on.
A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and...
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...
John Vallancourt, the cool, calm diplomat, was worried stiff. A dear friend was dead and his daughter Nancy was missing. John feared the worst and the worst was Nancy’s sweetheart Keith Rollins. Keith was the prime suspect in the case and he was...
In the Spring of 1926 we published Cornell Woolrich’s novel Cover Charge. It was presented to us in the previous autumn, by a young man, just nineteen, still attending courses at Columbia University and it was one of the very few unsolicited...