The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule. Bruno -- as he is affectionately nicknamed -- may be the town's only...
The Washington Post described Peter Lovesey’s crime fiction as “ingenious... irresistible... wickedly clever.” In “The Sedgemoor Strangler,” a serial killer leaves a naked corpse among the reeds, and a young waitress gradually comes to...
The first DKA File novel, Dead Skip, was called “superb in its swift, to-the-point plotting and on-the-mark dialogue. Dan Kearny’s detectives are Lew Archer in concert, and Joe Gores’ novel ranks at the head of its class.”
— O. L....
A woman has been kidnapped. Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back... dead or alive.
After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner,...
When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn’t remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for loan shark and general hardman Tommy Logan, a man with his own plans for...
How can you all sit there, Deming’s nerves screamed, playing poker as if you cared? Any minute, any hour, a man will walk into a trap — a man that we must...
FANATICAL LOVE, DANGEROUS OBSESSION AND A TERRIBLE DEADLY SECRET...
Detective Chief Inspector Rose Piper’s life is in turmoil. At only thirty-five, her marriage has collapsed and she is unsure about her future with the Avon and Somerset...
What was the clue of the lipstick on the dead man’s mouth that started Jerry Burke on the tortuous murder trail through El Paso and Juarez?
The death maze draws together an American oil tycoon; a high official of the State Department; and two...
A car bomb explodes in a white-orange flash, blowing a pretty young homicide detective to bits. A thousand miles away in Washington, Benjamin Dill learns of his sister’s murder and returns to their hometown to find out who killed her and why.
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