Mystery & Crime

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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 ...

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 ...

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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,...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...