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“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An intelligent, satisfying crime novel.” —Sunday Times (UK) In Quietly in Their Sleep, the philosophical Venetian detective Commissario Guido...

In this heart-pounding thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller, Detective Alex Cross and his beloved fiancé find themselves tangled in a complex murder investigation—threatening not only public safety, but their chance at happiness together. Inspiration for the thrilling Prime...

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism...

Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam...

Caleb Zelic can't hear you. But he can see everything. After a lifetime of bad decisions PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy, his business is recovering and his relationship with his estranged wife Kat is on the mend. But soon Caleb is drawn into the tangled life of his troubled ex partner Frankie, which leads to a confrontation with the cops. And when Frankie's niece is kidnapped, she and Caleb must work together to save the child's life. But can Caleb trust her after her past betrayals?

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” —The Scotsman Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, this “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) reimagines the tantalizing suspense surrounding a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. “This book is more meticulously choreographed than a chorus line. It all pays...

In a world where virtual addiction kills, Kennedy Stark is paid to pull the plug. A professional halter—part detective, part counselor—he trawls the world's darkest surrogate-reality feeds in search of the lost. When he isn't working, he's dreaming of a one-way ticket to Mars, where a new colony has been established as a hopeful alternative to an Earth in the early stages of climate collapse.

One of the most acclaimed works of crime fiction ever written, The Big Sleep is the first novel featuring Raymond Chandler’s iconic creation Philip Marlowe, hailed as the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...

New Orleans detective August Kane finds himself swept into a drama of the dark side of life. First he must find a stolen Van Gogh masterpiece. Then it is for him to right the wrong done to a damaged female. Finally, on tour in India, he finds himself in the midst of a painful quest involving illegal money trade. Kane's ancestors were sugarcane slaves and French Creoles. He fights hard, loves hard, and lives hard. The genre is retro noir, like Kane himself.

A murder mystery in the same way Dr. Strangelove is a war movie. The crime is real. The corruption is real. The absurdity is the point. When investigative journalist Debra Ann Wynn receives a desperate call from family in rural Arkansas, she travels to the isolated town of Nero’s Fiddle expecting to uncover a brutal crime. What she finds instead is something far worse. Narcissus County is a closed ecosystem of power where: the County Judge owns most of the land the Sheriff enforces loyalty instead of law churches preach obedience instead of compassion and speaking the truth can destroy an...

When 25-year-old Wendy Winkworth decides to take a break from her PI business and visit her brother in Bern, Illinois, she simply wants to catch up on family affairs. Soon family affairs have her in over her head. She’s hired by a teacher to find out if his ex-con mother is going to show up and ruin his chances of marrying the love of his life and the richest girl in town. Wendy’s mechanic brother appears to be thieving on the side. And the local sheriff is trailing her, either because he likes her looks or because he wants her to stop looking too closely at what’s going on in town.

A tangled Trask Brothers thriller you will want to read in one sitting. He knew. There was only a scrap of red material, but he knew. Don Trask, Lead Agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, had no doubt what it was. For five years he had locked away the haunting memories associated with his most difficult case, the unsolved disappearance of a small girl. But now those memories had burst from their vault, and the nightmares that came with them were back. And then there was another, a young boy, and Trask knew who had done it. The same man who had taken the girl. The same man...

When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime Investigations (VCI) Team are called to the scene. The crime immediately flashes Mahler back to two unsolved homicides - young women who were also strangled - that took place at this same location a couple of years earlier. His inability to find evidence against the man he knows was responsible for their deaths has haunted him since.

When the 19-year-old daughter of the mayor of Dallas suddenly goes missing at the height of election season, the Chief of Police has a potential political firestorm on his hands. He assigns senior detectives Rob Soliz and Frank Pierce - partners known for their unorthodox approach to investigations - to investigate quickly and quietly.

Fifteen months undercover. A fentanyl sting that nearly broke her. Maisie Doss walks away with a clean slate—but nothing about her feels clean. When an old friend dies under suspicious circumstances, Maisie's pulled back into a world she swore she'd left behind. In Slate Creek Hollow, secrets don't stay buried.

Fallon Baxter FBI Mystery Series THREE BOOKS. In the hunt for justice, she'll unravel the deadliest mysteries. Your new FBI addiction. Clean language and heart-stopping twists that keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the very last page. A brand new FBI Mystery Series by New York Times, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore. Fast paced, page-turning mysteries with twists you will never see coming, storylines that keep you guessing until the end, rich dynamics between agents, and one great dog. Books included Killer Cult: In the hunt for justice, FBI Agent ...

A judge's wife is dead, and the public are demanding blood. It's the sort of case that will end a defense attorney's career. But Michael Gresham doesn't have much left to lose and when he smells a rat in this headline grabbing story, it's the justice establishment that needs to be worried. A brilliant legal mind with nothing to lose becomes a formidable adversary to those who abuse their power.

Don't miss the latest installment in Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author L.T. Ryan's Mitch Tanner suspense thriller series! When Tanner’s search for his son leads him to Denver, Colorado, an old friend is ready to help out. But things go sideways when Bridget Dinapoli is assigned a similar case. Nothing is as it seems as Tanner and Bridget race to stop a suspect. But when the trail goes cold, they find themselves being pulled into something much more sinister. It will take everything they have to save Tanner’s son, and themselves.

It was supposed to be easy...it turned out to be murder. In the thrilling start to the Trask Brothers Murder Mystery Series, identical twin brothers Dave and Don hunt a silent killer terrorizing anglers in the great north woods. "Spellbinding! I could not put it down. It will keep you on the edge all the way to the end." When Dave Trask ran for sheriff of wild Lake County, he thought the job would entail locating lost campers and catching poachers, and he didn’t really expect to get elected. He was wrong on both counts. Before he can be sworn in, two guests at a small fishing lodge are ...