Best Mystery & Crime Books

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An exclusive gift edition of the thriller of the year. A hardback, replete with a beguiling new design, foil packaging, top and tail binding, a placeholder ribbon and sprayed red edges.You Dont Know Her. But She Knows You. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller "Gripping, enthralling a topnotch thri...

Marriage can be a real killer.One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work draws you in and keeps you reading with the ...

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, ...

From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The ...

A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the ...

Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie_x0097_when his reality shatters. 'Are you happy in your life'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he aw...

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A New York Times BestsellerForeword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When firstyear graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiplechoice survey on urban povertyand impress his professors with his boldn...

Named one of the best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, and Publishers WeeklyWhen a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal,...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organi...

An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.We are in England in the 1660s. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's shortlived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a p...

Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this mesmerizing tale of murder and memory, ...

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. The handsome packaging and splendid illustrations in this limited edition collection more than befit that classic status. Included are all four fulllength Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces?from The Adventur...

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa.It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a yo...

The crimeinfested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is wellknownand cautiously avoidedby most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24hour openair drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an awardwinning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20year veteran of the urban drug w...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Cinnamon Skin is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hardboiled detective who lives on a houseboat. In the Florida Keys, a houseboat explodes in a giant white flash, instantly killing the honeymooners onboard. Travis McGee?s best friend, Meyer, loses not only his home and every single th...

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in HaightAshbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest...

The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis LehaneGeorge V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a downanddirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When smalltime gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the penthat is, unless ...

Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home a place he vowed he would never go back to.Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. His family's 150yearold newspaper is failing, and Jet Talal, the love of his youth, h...

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Halfstarved and filthy, she wont tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesnt appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA cant be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is livi...

Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two onceinseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat....

In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Lau...

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Amber Patterson is fed up. She_x0092_s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more_x0097_a life of money and power like the one blondhaired, blueeyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne_x0097_a socialite and philanthropist_x0097_and her r...

Fueled with gripping suspense and surprise, Michael Crichton?s The Great Train Robbery is a breathtaking thrillride that races along tracks and breakneck speed.Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live sidebyside in Victorian London ? and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome and ingenious, he charms the city?s most prominent...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals_x0097_and coldblood...

Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet expoliceman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are ...

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic BoydCarrington. So Hastings ...

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Baco...

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Naz...

Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hardboiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she?s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: t...

A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" (Providence Sunday Journal).You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.Then, by chance, you see h...

A great bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American heroand maybe the star of a new movie franchise! Reissue....

"I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, the Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike." Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers ...

"You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA.Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance betwee...

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men practiced and confident who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same s...

Sono passati 25 anni da quando Pablo Escobar, il criminale più potente e pericoloso dell'ultimo mezzo secolo, fu ucciso in un quartiere di Medellin, ma la sua storia di "nemico pubblico numero uno" è vìva e attuale. Nessuno ha dimenticato l'imprendibile signore della droga che ha impegnato l'America in una caccia all'uomo senza precedenti e la Colo...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy By The Man Who Helped Catch HimHe was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried bene...

Two wildly different women one a grifter, the other an heiress are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a pageturner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from ...

How far will you go to protect your family Will you keep their secrets Ignore their liesIn a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they_x0092_re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it_x0092_s cle...

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genrethe medical thrilleris now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen othersall admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedureswere victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operat...

Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy.When Emily lets a stranger step out in front of her, she never imagines that split second will change her life. But after Emily watches a car plough into the young mother _x0096_ killing her instantly _x0096_ she finds herself unable to move on.And then she makes a decision she can nev...

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There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vicecommissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly aff...

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteenyear marriage has finally gotten too interesting...Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.We loo...

"True crime devotees won't want to miss this one!"Publishers Weekly "Very engrossing . . . in the finest you can't put it down tradition." Hartford Courant "This factual account of each murder, through the conviction of the killer, has all the excitement of a firstrate work of fiction, and is told straight, without the usual sociological ja...

The world knows Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, nononsense detectivethe toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimee first came to inherit Leduc Detective . . . November 1989: Aimee Led...

The definitive study of John Wayne Gacy?from his abusive childhood to the murders of thirtythree boys?based on four years of investigative reporting. John Wayne Gacy, the ?Killer Clown,? was a suburban Chicago businessman sentenced to death in 1980 for a string of horrific murders after the bodies of his victims were found hidden in a crawl space ...

From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel drawn from reallife historical events: the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a governmentbuilt dam is about to flood an Appalachian townand a little girl goes missing.A river called Long Man has coursed through East Tennessee from time immemoria...

The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos. The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos. ...more...

Those stories you hear The ones about things that only come out at night Things that feed on blood, feed on us Got news for you: they_x0092_re true. Only it_x0092_s not like the movies or old man Stoker_x0092_s storybook. It_x0092_s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There_x0092_s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected ...

Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloi...

Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA NonFiction DaggerChronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, i...

"The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson's singular, Poelike gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off."_x0097_Time Out New YorkWhen Kline is kidnapped by a dark sect that believes amputation brin...

The early 1980s found Cliff Hardy well established as a private investigator but still battling his demons. He has quit smoking and moderated his drinking. The memory of his brief marriage still haunts him along with other ghosts from his past.A case in Bondi attracts him as an exsurfer and admirer of the suburb. It began as a routine investigatio...

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most pr...

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prizewinning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired_x0097_in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota_x0097_Michael Swa...

For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne?s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are Dominick Dunne?s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow?s romp through two trials; the Los Angeles media...

On St Valentine's day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. This book was first published in 1967....

_x0093_Delicious and addictive._x0094__x0097_Salon.com _x0093_Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel._x0094__x0097_CNN _x0093_What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis_x0092_s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans Or Sue Grafton_x0092_s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4 Clare...

In this historical mystery series, a courageous nurse and a warscarred police detective in 1860s San Francisco champion the downtrodden and fight for justice ? After serving as a nurse in the Crimea, Britishborn Celia Davies left her privileged family for an impulsive marriage to a handsome Irishman. Patrick brought her to San Francisco?s bustli...

With a thrilling, fastpaced narrative, awardwinning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sexfueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Mau...

Shocking evidence hits close to home for attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger as Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh_x0092_s acclaimed series continues.Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twentythree years ago. Since then he_x0092_s lived under the weight of that disappearance_x0097_until his father_x0092_s car i...

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie "Aunty" Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's bestloved home cooking restaurantAfter losing her husband, Rosie Lee could easily have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady devoted to mahjongg and luxury shopping. Instead she threw herself into building a ...

An Alabama boy_x0092_s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times_x0096_bestselling author of Swan Song.It_x0092_s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It_x0092_s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelveyearol...

From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly What_x0092_s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She_x0092_s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everythi...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, S...

In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix orginal series Longmire, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hitandrun accident involving a young motorcyclist near Devils Tower Craig Johnson's The Highwayman is now available fro...

Quentin Tarantino director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his inspiration from the popular, and often lurid, "p...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPENING IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE _x0093_This book is a public service._x0094_ _x0097_ MICHELLE MALKIN, founder of Twitchy and author of Culture of Corruption_x0093_Every American needs to read Gosnell._x0094_ _x0097_ DAVID DALEIDEN, the Center for American Progress reporter behind the undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood"Ann and Phelim courageousl...

With compelling style and suspense this truecrime book reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj. Sweeping back and forth over half the globe from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of Mount Everest to the underbellies of Bangkok and Hong Kong Sobhraj left in his wake a trail of...

In the course of researching her bestselling books, McDermid has become familiar with many branches of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science and the people who make sure that for murderers, there is no hiding place. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a co...

Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jers...

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under consta...

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist....

Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and firsttime camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she?or anyone?saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door...

Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting?the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain.Trainspotting is the hilarious, appalling, riveting, bestselling, and altogether masterful first novel that launched the spectacular career of Irvine Welsh. It is an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group por...

New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real ?March Madness??behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament. When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the champions...

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won_x0092_t see comingA mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shoppi...

Colophon Letterford?s life changed overnight when she uncovered Shakespeare?s lost manuscripts. Now the authenticity of those manuscripts is in question . . . and the centuriesold family publishing business is in danger. In this exciting mystery, thirteenyearold Colophon travels from Oxford?s lofty Tower of the Five Orders to the dank depths of ...

Thirteen yearold Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since bir...

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton_x0092_s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton_x0097_until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.That_x0092_s not Pat_x0092_s biggest problem. She_x0092_s visiting her old friend, the Earl_x0092_s heir Jimmy Yoxall_x0097_but she wants to spend a lot more time with Jimmy_x0092_s fiancée. The irrepressib...

A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrillkilling of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him even after he's been captur...

?A smartly structured whodunit sure to please young detectives?so long as they heed the warnings about the toots.? ?Kirkus ReviewsWhere, oh where, can Frank the French bulldog be See if you can follow the clues and find the missing pup! Amateur sleuths will have loads of fun with this uniquely interactive book. Frank loves to run, play, and give s...

Exciting fiction premiere from beloved "New York Times" bestselling author Beth Moore.Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen himor her grandmother, the ice queenin almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the...

protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffeedrinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadv...

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty_x0097_even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain....

In 1913, 13yearold Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a collegeeducated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a gr...

HARRY DRESDEN _x0097_ WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come t...

An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times "Girl in the Blue Coat is a powerful, compelling comingofage story set against the dark and dangerous backdrop of World War II. It's an important and pageturning look at the choices all of usincluding young Adult,shave to make in wartime. A beautiful combination of heartbrea...

A Newbery Honor BookA hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Althoug...

In this provocative and eyeopening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and ?America?s best truecrime writer? (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twentyyear long search for America?s most prolific and horrifying serial killer. In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the...

There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She_x0092_s worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC_x0092_s lunchtime news, putting work before friends, family, and her now exhusband. So, when someone threatens to take her dream...

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the coldblooded TateLaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his ...

You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you doIf you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickelanddime bounty hunter;...

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twentyyearold American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeo...

What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dadJasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was yearround. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could_x0097_from the criminal's point of view.And...