Fiction - Crime

"Lupin," I said, "tell me something about yourself." "Why, what would you have me tell you? Everybody knows my life " replied Lupin, who lay drowsing on the sofa in my study. "Nobody knows it " I protested. "People know from your letters in...

"There's Low Fennel," said Major Dale. We pulled up short on the brow of the hill. Before me lay a little valley carpeted with heather, purple slopes hemming it in. A group of four tall firs guarded the house, which was couched in the...

The Party Of The Year In Virginia Turns DeadlyWhat began as rural Virginia's premier New Year celebration turns into a day of horror when the enemies of Alex Destephano's grandfather, Congressman Adam Patrick Lee, bring the war to his Virginia estate killing, maiming and...

Depressed by injuries that have sidelined his career and pretty sure he'll never find love, Heathcliffe goes to his cousin Peyton's Dude Ranch in Southern Indiana for some "alone" time. His plan is to contemplate the direction his life is taking and figure out...

It's 1961 and Omaha, Nebraska, has little to offer Larry Hanson and his friends Johnny DeBarco and Ray Agostini but bad luck and misery. Then Larry stumbles into a Mafia plot to rip off $10 million from the U.S. government and the three hatch...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth...

"A positively rewarding thriller from an author who know just when to zig and when to zag" - Kikrus Reviews.In a race against time, Doyle puts his life at stake as he hunts for the assassin after he witnesses his brother, a marketing mascot...

The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and Ingenious Methods of the Great Detective. Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collector's dream, allowing fans to delve into...

Set in the heart of Chicago's South-Side, and inspired by real events, this riveting novel follows the story of Lil' Rico, a young hood prodigy, and his Rock Island crew as they struggle to stay on top of the game and out of the...

In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?Author: James McClureISBN-10: 1569476527ISBN-13: 9781569476529Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize:...

A mystery novel in the Karen Hayes series previously published in hardcover by Bridgeworks, now in paperback.In the third book of the Karen Hayes series, an elderly nursing home resident, who was once an Olympic champion swimmer with a murky background in the German...

Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off...

Something is terribly wrong at Symphony Hall. Luigi Spadafini, the symphony's star conductor, has been murdered--and the entire orchestra has confessed to the crime. This is the mess that Detective Lieutenant Pratt walks into one Saturday morning. Overworked and tired, he's also saddled with...

If you could take just one thing back... Every Little Thing explores how lives are shaped by the butterfly effect of decisions that go desperately wrong. After a shocking family tragedy, Cohen Davies feels isolated, guilty, and numb to everything except the allure of...

#1New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy. Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new...

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Ren馥 Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Ren馥 Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a potent fusion of tantalizing suspense and romance, in a thriller about a reckless pilot caught in a race against time. Rye Mallett, a fearless freight dog pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung...

Mark Ablett's house party goes well until his brother Robert returns from Australia and joins the festivities. Shortly after his arrival, Robert is found dead, and Mark disappears. Tony Gillingham is the stranger who decides to investigate, and what follows is a witty whodunit,...

GIUSEPPE VAZANNO is one of the wealthiest and most beloved landowners in 1911, post-feudal Sicily. His lemon orchards provide work for the Sicilian peasants, a rich life for his brothers and their families, and a peaceful oasis for his wife Maria and their two...

The last of the Wolf family dynasty is long dead; their cache of gold eagle coins lost forever-right?Author: Robert C. MowryISBN-10: 1630479438ISBN-13: 9781630479435Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2016Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

ilis from the Flats is a hard-nosed but tender chronicle of flawed characters, bad choices, and contemporary Dublin life.This Irish novel of scandal and substance abuse follows the exploits of Tommy Baker, a veteran journalist; James Tierney, a researcher at Empire Television; Jimmy Heffernan,...

"The Nappers is a saga about an East Harlem, New York, gangster who comes up with a lucrative, if dangerous idea of kidnapping his fellow gangsters. It is also the story about the collapse of the mob, which turns out to have been caused...

Bill Brown is a savvy, mostly honest L. A. cop who flees to Dallas after an investigation into corruption targets some of his off-duty organized crime gambling buddies. When his life is threatened to keep him quiet, Bill buys a bus ticket, and stumbles...

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. First...

He pulled her close to him and kissed her gently. "I don't think so," he said. It was no longer important that Erica had been Ivan's mistress. He wanted her more than he had ever wanted any woman before. He let his hands slip...

She traded hope of heaven for a paradise on earth. She was a sprite, a witch, a perpetual temptation to every man, a soul searing torment to herself, and rough was the road she traveled. First published in February 1952.Author: Steve FisherISBN-10: 1627553584ISBN-13: 9781627553582Publisher:...

He knew the way to a girl's heart-and body Alice was sweet, Marie was stacked, Lola was loaded... And Nicky...was willing First published in 1957.Author: Orrie HittISBN-10: 1627551735ISBN-13: 9781627551731Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2013Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.Author: Charles EinsteinISBN-10: 1627551158ISBN-13: 9781627551151Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2013Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Her veneer was big city...but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders...

Nicky Weaver is an insurance man with a policy of loving women. Each Monday he goes out to collect money for the insurance he's sold, he conducts business with a bevy of beautiful ladies. Young girls, widows, and the wife of a sketchy artist...

An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingISBN-10: 1627551050ISBN-13: 9781627551052Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Jim Work, a twenty-five year old just out of Korea, arrives on the California coast to attend college on the G.I. Bill, but lands himself in a minor traffic accident that leads to major trouble. Of the two people in the other vehicle, he...

Homicide Johnny West has been called in to solve the murder of Harry Waters whose newspaper columns have ruined many men. But the web of violence grows, and murder follows murder, until Johnny and his co-worker, Penny Lane, find out they are next in...

Is it possible in this day of enlightened justice for a man to be punished twice for the same crime? Double Jeopardy answers this question, at the same time uncovering the greatest of many loopholes in our modern jurisprudence. In this very human but...

On a Caribbean cruise with her older husband, Honey is convinced that the man in the next cabin plans to murder his wife. But why wouldn't anyone believe her? And why has her own husband turned against her?Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingISBN-10: 162755081XISBN-13: 9781627550819Publisher: Black...

There were three witnesses to swear that only Gregory Drake could have been in the back room with Maysie Grey when she was strangled to death. Even Randolph Lee, Drake's defense counsel, thought that his client was guilty. It took two more murders to...

"Several million dollars of that Russian gold is in a numbered account in the Banque du Shebab-Syrie. I know the name of the man who controls that account, as well as untold millions more in numbered accounts in Switzerland. That man is here in...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertISBN-10: 1627550399ISBN-13: 9781627550390Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2013Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, eternal scream. Originally published in 1949.Author: Fredric BrownISBN-10: 162755033XISBN-13: 9781627550338Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2013Pages: 202Format:...

She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling...

There's only one man, along with two loyal friends, who can shake up the entire hood in Chicago.Author: Silk SmoothISBN-10: 1622865758ISBN-13: 9781622865758Publisher: Urban BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2017Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.90d

Duncan Cochrane wanted to be governor... until the murder of his daughter."...a compelling picture of the Windy City when it was still in thrall to the mob and its own unique political machine." Shots MagazineWhen Duncan's daughter is murdered, he blames his own political...

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and '30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today--after every possible mystery plot has...

Bestselling author William Wood spins this dark, riveting tale of a beloved Sacramento cop killed in a bizarre accident, and the hunt to track down his killer-a fast-paced thriller of murder, deceit, haunting pasts, and one man's dangerous scheme to fight for those he...

Commissario Alec Blume, on leave for health problems, fleeing his partner Caterina and their newborn daughter, retreats to a villa somewhere in central Italy, where he enrolls in a natural remedies class conducted by a young woman named Silvana. But rather than finding comfort,...

Crime, corruption, and colonialism--as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor--are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character-driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U.S.The Odyssey of Pablo Camino,...

Crime, corruption, and colonialism--as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor--are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character-driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U.S.The Defining Sea. book two,...

Bobby Decker, a white police officer, arrests a young black burglary suspect one chilly spring night, but can't explain how the suspect's skull was fractured. The elected prosecutor with aspirations of a judicial appointment, claims Decker smashed his skull with a flashlight. Black activists,...