Category
Crime and Mystery: Private Investigator / Amateur Detectives
April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. In this gripping small town mystery, the young woman’s death rocks the community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted....
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing begins when the U.S. government launches a secret billion-dollar operation designed to protect the dollar during a period of international monetary instability. The plan hinges on manipulating the price of gold and strengthening confidence in the American currency, but...
Blood Hollow 2009
Cork O'connor, Book 4
When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year’s Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn’s self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O’Connor isn’t about to...
Max Freeman, Book 1
After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the...
Career of Evil 2015
Cormoran Strike, Book 3
When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible -- and any one of them is capable...
Close to Death 2024
Hawthorne & Horowitz, Book 5
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
Alex Mcknight, Book 1
Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, the man convicted of the crimes has been locked away for years.
But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan,...
Come to Grief 2005
Sid Halley, Book 3
When ex-jockey Sid Halley uncovers a shocking web of violence, he becomes convinced that one of his closest friends—and one of the racing world's most beloved figures—is behind it.
Shocked and in disbelief, Halley faces the most troubling case of his career.
The Cuckoo's Calling 2013
Cormoran Strike, Book 1
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a...
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 2
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The hardboiled private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness...
Ken Tanaka, Book 1
Ken Tanaka, a Japanese American investigator in Los Angeles, is drawn into a case when a murder disrupts the tight-knit community of Little Tokyo. What initially appears to be a localized crime soon reveals connections that extend beyond the neighborhood, pulling Tanaka into a more complex...
Do Unto Others 1994
Jordan Poteet, Book 1
After a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librarian. Yet his quet domesticity is shattered when he locks horns with Ms. Beta Harcher, the town’s prize religious fanatic, in a knock-down drag-out battle over censorship.
When...
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 1
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice, about right and wrong. But in...
Ernest Cunningham, Book 3
My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones in this funny mystery. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it...
Extraordinary People 2016
The Enzo Files, Book 1
Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself.
As if...
Fletch 2002
Fletch, Book 1
Fletch is an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find the source of the drugs they live for. He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items...
Florentine Finish 1978
Hardy is a small-time diamond salesman and ex-cop who knows private deals mean trouble. Against his better judgment, he decides to help a rich acquaintance find a special diamond for his wife.
Saul finds the perfect gem, but the deal turns deadly when the diamond is revealed to be part of the haul...
Forfeit 2005
When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's no such thing as a sure thing.
Garnethill 2007
Garnethill, Book 1
Maureen O'Donnell, ex-psychiatric patient and all round winner-at-the-game-of-life, wakes up and knows it’s over. She doesn’t want to see Douglas anymore.
After a drunken night out with her best friend she wakes up and finds him tied to a chair in her living room, his throat slit. The police...
God Save the Mark 2004
mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.
That’s the long definition. The short one is:
mark n. Fred Fitch.
Fred Fitch is the kind of man every grifter in New York remembers fondly. He buys money machines, collects fake...
Grace’s life is turned upside down when she finds her boss’s dead body at his desk. After being questioned by the police, Grace takes it as a sign to declare her recent move to Philadelphia a bust and move back to Florida, until her boss’s widow, Jo, shows up and offers Grace a job as her...
The Hallmarked Man 2025
Cormoran Strike, Book 8
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in...
Hollywood Homicide 2017
Detective by Day, Book 1
Actress Dayna Anderson's Deadly New Role: Homicide Detective
Dayna Anderson doesn't set out to solve a murder. All the semifamous, mega-broke actress wants is to help her parents keep their house. So after witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she pursues the fifteen grand reward. But Dayna soon finds...
The Ink Black Heart 2022
Cormoran Strike, Book 6
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the...
Iron Lake 2019
Cork O'connor, Book 1
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, getting by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago’s South Side, there’s not much that can shock him.
But when the town’s judge...
Katwalk 1990
Kat Colorado, Book 1
Private investigator Kat Colorado is drawn into a case when she’s asked to look into the death of a young woman whose life may not have been what it seemed. What begins as a straightforward inquiry quickly becomes more complicated, pulling Kat into a world of hidden connections and uneasy...
Henry Kimball, Book 2
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high...
Lethal White 2018
Cormoran Strike, Book 4
When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But...
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved.
Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those...
Marble Hall Murders 2025
Susan Ryeland, Book 3
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she’s given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows...
Mercy Falls 2009
Cork O'connor, Book 5
Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call—only to become the target of sniper fire.
Soon after, he’s called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The...
Moonlight Mile 2021
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 6
Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption—the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone—Moonlight Mile returns...
How do you solve a murder that hasn't happened yet? Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made her a recluse, an existence she’s content to endure until a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of...
High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she’s built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage...
Murder on Sex Island 2025
Luella van Horn, Book 1
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don’t know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex–social worker...
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her...
No Colder Place 1997
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, Book 4
Private investigator Bill Smith takes on what appears to be a simple case, but it quickly leads him into the guarded world of a withdrawn young girl and her fiercely protective mother. As he spends more time with them, Bill senses that something deeper lies beneath their isolation—an undercurrent of...
Promised Land 1992
Spenser, Book 4
Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.
Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape...
The Retirement Plan 2025
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement...
The Running Grave 2023
Cormoran Strike, Book 7
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that...
Sacred 2021
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 3
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. So has a pile of money. . .
Enter tough-nosed Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all—and survived....
The Second Murderer 2023
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective.
Has Philip...
Sex on Murder Island 2026
Luella van Horn, Book 2
Marie Jones has hit rock bottom. Just three months ago, her crime solving alter-ego Luella van Horn cracked the case of a murdered contestant on the hit reality show Sex Island, but now all her gigs have dried up. Marie finds herself on the verge of eviction, broke and alone, in the midst of an...
Sherlock 2026
Award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine the most iconic character in literature with ten new original Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Silkworm 2014
Cormoran Strike, Book 2
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, he discovers...
Hilary Tamar, Book 3
Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that’s worth a fortune—if Cantrip’s tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles....
Theresa Galloway, Book 1
Private investigator Theresa Galloway takes on a case involving a missing child, expecting a difficult but straightforward search. As she begins to follow the trail, however, the situation quickly grows more complicated, revealing inconsistencies that suggest the disappearance is tied to deeper,...
Strange Houses 2025
When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building’s floor plans reveal a mysterious...
Strange Pictures 2025
This psychological thriller is an exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by...
Harvey Blissberg, Book 1
A slugger struggles with an empty ballpark and a murdered teammate in this Edgar Award–winning mystery.
The Providence Jewels, an American League expansion team, have been taking a beating all season. Worse, relief pitcher Rudy Furth has just suffered a beating of a more lethal kind—and been left...
Strange Pictures 2025
This psychological thriller is an exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by...
The Cuckoo's Calling 2013
Cormoran Strike, Book 1
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a...
Strange Houses 2025
When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building’s floor plans reveal a mysterious...
Sherlock December 1, 2026
Award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine the most iconic character in literature with ten new original Sherlock Holmes stories.
Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder October 13, 2026
Grace’s life is turned upside down when she finds her boss’s dead body at his desk. After being questioned by the police, Grace takes it as a sign to declare her recent move to Philadelphia a bust and move back to Florida, until her boss’s widow, Jo, shows up and offers Grace a job as her...
Sex on Murder Island June 30, 2026
Luella van Horn, Book 2
Marie Jones has hit rock bottom. Just three months ago, her crime solving alter-ego Luella van Horn cracked the case of a murdered contestant on the hit reality show Sex Island, but now all her gigs have dried up. Marie finds herself on the verge of eviction, broke and alone, in the midst of an...
The Hallmarked Man September 2, 2025
Cormoran Strike, Book 8
A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in...
Murder on Sex Island June 24, 2025
Luella van Horn, Book 1
When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don’t know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex–social worker...
Murder Takes a Vacation June 17, 2025
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her...
A Most Puzzling Murder June 10, 2025
How do you solve a murder that hasn't happened yet? Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made her a recluse, an existence she’s content to endure until a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of...
Strange Houses June 3, 2025
When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building’s floor plans reveal a mysterious...
Marble Hall Murders May 13, 2025
Susan Ryeland, Book 3
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she’s given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows...
The Retirement Plan May 6, 2025
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement...
Strange Pictures January 14, 2025
This psychological thriller is an exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .
A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by...
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret October 22, 2024
Ernest Cunningham, Book 3
My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones in this funny mystery. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it...
The Alaska Sanders Affair September 17, 2024
April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. In this gripping small town mystery, the young woman’s death rocks the community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted....
Mother-Daughter Murder Night September 3, 2024
High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she’s built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage...
Close to Death April 16, 2024
Hawthorne & Horowitz, Book 5
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
The Kind Worth Saving February 6, 2024
Henry Kimball, Book 2
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high...
The Running Grave September 26, 2023
Cormoran Strike, Book 7
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that...
The Second Murderer August 1, 2023
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective.
Has Philip...
The Ink Black Heart August 30, 2022
Cormoran Strike, Book 6
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the...
Moonlight Mile October 19, 2021
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 6
Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption—the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone—Moonlight Mile returns...
Sacred August 31, 2021
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 3
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. So has a pile of money. . .
Enter tough-nosed Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all—and survived....
Darkness, Take My Hand June 29, 2021
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 2
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The hardboiled private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness...
Troubled Blood September 15, 2020
Cormoran Strike, Book 5
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite...
Iron Lake June 11, 2019
Cork O'connor, Book 1
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, getting by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago’s South Side, there’s not much that can shock him.
But when the town’s judge...
Lethal White September 18, 2018
Cormoran Strike, Book 4
When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But...
Hollywood Homicide August 8, 2017
Detective by Day, Book 1
Actress Dayna Anderson's Deadly New Role: Homicide Detective
Dayna Anderson doesn't set out to solve a murder. All the semifamous, mega-broke actress wants is to help her parents keep their house. So after witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she pursues the fifteen grand reward. But Dayna soon finds...
Extraordinary People May 10, 2016
The Enzo Files, Book 1
Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself.
As if...
Career of Evil October 20, 2015
Cormoran Strike, Book 3
When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible -- and any one of them is capable...
The Long and Faraway Gone February 10, 2015
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved.
Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those...
The Silkworm June 19, 2014
Cormoran Strike, Book 2
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, he discovers...
Yesterday's Echo May 7, 2013
Rick Cahill, Book 1
A dishonored ex-cop’s desperate chance for redemption.
While never convicted of his wife’s murder, Rick was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s...
The Cuckoo's Calling April 30, 2013
Cormoran Strike, Book 1
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a...
Strike Three You're Dead April 9, 2013
Harvey Blissberg, Book 1
A slugger struggles with an empty ballpark and a murdered teammate in this Edgar Award–winning mystery.
The Providence Jewels, an American League expansion team, have been taking a beating all season. Worse, relief pitcher Rudy Furth has just suffered a beating of a more lethal kind—and been left...
A Cold Day in Paradise May 22, 2012
Alex Mcknight, Book 1
Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, the man convicted of the crimes has been locked away for years.
But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan,...
A Drink Before the War April 26, 2011
Kenzie & Gennaro, Book 1
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice, about right and wrong. But in...
The Blue Edge of Midnight October 14, 2010
Max Freeman, Book 1
After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night and the...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie January 19, 2010
Flavia De Luce, Book 1
It is the summer of 1950—and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia...
Mercy Falls August 11, 2009
Cork O'connor, Book 5
Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call—only to become the target of sniper fire.
Soon after, he’s called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The...
Blood Hollow July 21, 2009
Cork O'connor, Book 4
When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year’s Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn’s self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O’Connor isn’t about to...
Garnethill September 20, 2007
Garnethill, Book 1
Maureen O'Donnell, ex-psychiatric patient and all round winner-at-the-game-of-life, wakes up and knows it’s over. She doesn’t want to see Douglas anymore.
After a drunken night out with her best friend she wakes up and finds him tied to a chair in her living room, his throat slit. The police...
Come to Grief December 6, 2005
Sid Halley, Book 3
When ex-jockey Sid Halley uncovers a shocking web of violence, he becomes convinced that one of his closest friends—and one of the racing world's most beloved figures—is behind it.
Shocked and in disbelief, Halley faces the most troubling case of his career.
Forfeit April 5, 2005
When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's no such thing as a sure thing.
A Time of Predators March 1, 2005
The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was a homosexual--but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.
It was Paula Halstead's bad luck to witness the attack and catch a glimpse of one of the boys. After they got through with her, she...
God Save the Mark January 1, 2004
mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.
That’s the long definition. The short one is:
mark n. Fred Fitch.
Fred Fitch is the kind of man every grifter in New York remembers fondly. He buys money machines, collects fake...
Fletch March 12, 2002
Fletch, Book 1
Fletch is an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find the source of the drugs they live for. He’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate his style. Or the expense account items...
No Colder Place September 1, 1997
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, Book 4
Private investigator Bill Smith takes on what appears to be a simple case, but it quickly leads him into the guarded world of a withdrawn young girl and her fiercely protective mother. As he spends more time with them, Bill senses that something deeper lies beneath their isolation—an undercurrent of...
Somebody Else's Child January 1, 1996
Theresa Galloway, Book 1
Private investigator Theresa Galloway takes on a case involving a missing child, expecting a difficult but straightforward search. As she begins to follow the trail, however, the situation quickly grows more complicated, revealing inconsistencies that suggest the disappearance is tied to deeper,...
Death in Little Tokyo January 1, 1996
Ken Tanaka, Book 1
Ken Tanaka, a Japanese American investigator in Los Angeles, is drawn into a case when a murder disrupts the tight-knit community of Little Tokyo. What initially appears to be a localized crime soon reveals connections that extend beyond the neighborhood, pulling Tanaka into a more complex...
Do Unto Others October 1, 1994
Jordan Poteet, Book 1
After a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librarian. Yet his quet domesticity is shattered when he locks horns with Ms. Beta Harcher, the town’s prize religious fanatic, in a knock-down drag-out battle over censorship.
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Wolf in the Shadows July 1, 1993
Sharon Mccone, Book 13
Private investigator Sharon McCone is drawn into a case that begins with a missing person but quickly reveals deeper and more troubling connections. As she follows the trail, she uncovers links to past events that refuse to stay buried, suggesting that the disappearance is part of something far more...