From 11-million-copy, bestselling author Andrew Greeley comes this spellbinding mystery in which Father Blackie Ryan investigates the murder of a rich Chicago matriarch. Greeley does his best work yet in this multigenerational mystery with real puzzles and strong characters.--Publishers Weekly. View More...
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city. Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his ... View More...
As new - gift quality! " Several weeks have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt-ridden after the tragic accident of Lu Aguilar?he has been tossed a case outside his jurisdiction, in the village of Chesham, where a beautiful young woman has been murdered in the grounds of a pub called the Black Cat. And the only witness to the murder is a black cat..." 323 pages. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
An unlucky stiff interrupts Jake's poker game on a frigid Minnesota night....When the frozen body of a man is discovered on the highway, Detective Jake Hines is called to investigate. The victim is identified as a local trucker shot through the head. But where is his truck...and his trucking partner? Both are found, covered in blood and bullet holes, involving Jake in a double murder investigation. For Hines, solving a murder is a lot like playing cards -- figure out who's bluffing and who's got the perfect hand, especially when one of the players is a cold killer. View More...
Carmen Ramirez returns to her Oklahoma home town as a newspaper copy editor, and finds a lesbian suicide that looks to her like murder. A striking story of love and loyalty and moral choices. View More...
When a decades-old mass grave near a notorious Biloxi nightclub is unearthed, reporterCarson Lynch is among the first on the scene. The remains of five women lie within, each one buriedwith a bridal veil--and without her ring finger. Once an award-winning journalist, Carsonknows her career is now hanging by a thread.This story has pulled her out of a pit ofalcohol and self-loathing, and with justiceand redemption in mind she begins toinvestigate. Days later two more bodies appear, begging the question--is a copycat murdererterrorizing Biloxi, or has a serial killerawoken from a twenty-five-yea... View More...
In an unprecedented literary event, Steve Hamilton's "A Cold Day In Paradise" has hit mystery's Double Play, winning the two most prestigious honors in the business-- the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel. Now, open its covers and see for yourself why this extraordinary novel has galvanized the literary and mystery community as no other book before it... Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian ... View More...
"Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop."--The New Yorker Here are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us The Maltese Falcon. Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double- and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled descriptions to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, ... View More...
As new - gift quality! "Seit ihre Schwester Katie spurlos verschwand, befindet sich die Privatdetektivin Anne Lockheart auf der Suche nach der sie zu einem Jazzclub im French Quarter von New Orleans führt." 359 pages. Text in German. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
In Sleep Like a Baby, the next installment of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Charlaine Harris's Aurora Teagarden series, Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu. One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe's brother Ph... View More...
A SECOND CHANCE TO DIE For his favorite charity, the high school drama club, Willard Platt fakes his own murder as an April Fool stunt. But the repeat performance later that day is the real thing. And some, including the next-door neighbor, say he deserved it. Investigator (and ex-nun) Christine Bennett is haunted by the sad state of Willard's survivors. His widow roams the road at night. His son has a troubled marriage and bizarre secret life. Behind this suburban family's respectable facade, violent passions are seething. For this is not the first tragedy to strike them. Nor will it be the l... View More...
One of America's most beloved mystery writers, Carolyn G. Hart, the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author, returns to her original mysteryseries that features Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore, and her husband, Max, with Mint Julep Murder. Normally, Annie Laurence Darling would be eagerly awaiting her trip to Head Island, where this year's Dixie Book Festival is being held. But this year Annie has agreed to be the author liaison to five authors honored with the much-coveted Dixie Book Festival Medallions, and she fears she is going to have her hands full juggli... View More...
