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In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a “hellish underworld of drug trafficking, addiction, and her own dark past in a journey that is both riveting and sacred.” (Ana Reyes, New...

Tattooed from her neck to her toesand sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire...

There was a time when being a “made man” meant something. Angelo Cipriani was a member of the inner circle of the powerful Fortunato Crime Family, which controlled the Upper Ohio Valley. Of course, Angelo would never admit that such an organization existed, let alone to all of the bodies he dropped for his boss. Angelo was a loyal soldier, even after a rival family strafed him with bullets and put him in a coma for three weeks.

Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, he had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart, and Gus is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more.

Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle - the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as minor, and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman, whose lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to the P.I. for help when the Mob fingers her for the next kill. Seems the new kingpin, Carmen Rich - with whom Hammer has a violent history - thinks Helen made off with ten mil in skim money courtesy of her late lover, or anyway, so Rich claims.

CAPE DIAMOND is the second book in the Edgar®-nominated and Arthur Ellis Award-nominated Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series by Ron Corbett. Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide — as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original), Ragged Lake — the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs ...

MISSION ROAD is book three in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series by Edgar®-nominated and Arthur Ellis Award-nominated author Ron Corbett. Diamonds are a girl's best friend...or your worst enemy... Millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds have gone missing and rumors abound that they're buried somewhere off Mission Road, an old logging trail outside the small town of Springfield, just above the Northern Divide. As people swarm to the area, setting up temporary camps and searching for their ticket to easy street, a student goes missing and Detective Frank Yakabuski begins his own search. But...

Frank Yakabuski Mystery Series Book 4 by Edgar®-nominated author Ron Corbett. Have you ever looked into the eyes of a cold-blooded killer? In this throw-back mystery, Frank Yakabuski is on his first case. High on the Northern Divide, in the mill town of Muskie Falls, a man loved by no one has been murdered behind a run-down hotel. The cops soon have four good suspects, men who were with the murdered man the night he was beaten to death, and likely know what happened. But to the cop’s surprise, and growing frustration, none of the men will talk. Threats, promises, old-fashioned police ...

The Church moved him. The law forgot him. Someone remembered.When a defrocked priest is found dead in his Belfast flat, the scene is disturbing but the reaction is muted. Father Dermot Quinn abused seventeen children. Spent thirty years escaping justice. Lived on a Church pension until someone arranged him like a saint awaiting judgment—candles lit, rosary threaded through his fingers, psalm open at his head.DS Rose Gallagher knows murder when she sees it. And when a second priest appears—same staging, same history, same escape from accountability—she knows she's hunting someone with ...

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm's cobbled alleys. Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn is pulled back into a grim world he swore he'd abandoned. His search crosses the cold waters between Denmark and Sweden, leading him to the stark and forbidding scrapyards of Stockholm, where victims are preserved like grotesque trophies.

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling – warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But 50 miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A child's body is discovered on the bracken, untouched by footprints, with no sign of how he died. And no one has come forward to claim him. At the International Tribune, reporter Jonny Murphy senses something is off. Police are appealing for relatives, not suspects.

Che cosa hanno in comune una ricercatrice dell’università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, un’impiegata in una cooperativa sociale e una donna ricca che vive di rendita, che non si sono mai incontrate? Proprio niente. Eppure sono le prime a cadere, in una rapida sequenza di giorni, sotto i colpi di un misterioso assassino, che la stampa si affretta a battezzare come “l’uomo del rasoio”. Pressato dal questore e da un’opinione pubblica sempre più scossa, l’ispettore Bartoli non riesce a sbrogliare una matassa così intricata e sanguinosa. E allora, a prendere in mano le indagini, è...

Dalton Savage, a decorated lawman with a sharp mind and a relentless drive, takes on cases where danger, deceit, and justice collide. In this thrilling box set, follow Savage as he uncovers sinister secrets, battles ruthless enemies, and risks everything to protect those who can’t protect themselves.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!” With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

After seven months laying low in Ocean Beach, California, Seattle PI Leo Waterman has finally stopped looking over his shoulder - specifically, for the vengeful band of Washington white supremacists who blame Leo for blindsiding their big plans for America. Where better to disappear with his bodyguard, Gabe, than this laid-back stretch of San Diego heaven? But when Leo finds a boy’s body on the beach, he comes out of hiding to investigate.

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses the killer’s positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to accomplish.

From the world's most celebrated author, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine—but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder. Haunted by guilt and shame, Michael Bennett is living with a father's worst...

Houston Homicide Detective Jack West is back at work. A fresh case he's working might be connected to a murder case fellow detectives Chang and Severson are working. The medical examiner's report shows some similarities to each murder, but the victims are strangers with nothing in common. A third murder victim found under a bridge on the Buffalo Bayou confirms Houston has a serial killer on the loose. Three very diverse people are dead—are these hate crimes, and if so, how many more will die? The clock is ticking; Jack and his team need to catch this killer before another body shows up.