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2221) Wake up, little Susie
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At a car dealership's big opening day, the festivities are marred by the discovery of a corpse It is September 1957, and America is waiting to meet the Edsel, Ford's top-secret new automobile, whose promotional campaign has redefined the word hype. Sam McCain, lawyer, detective, and car fiend, has been dreaming of the Edsel for months. But when the sheet comes off Ford's new creation, the car is a nightmare. Pastel colored, bulky, and with a distinctively...
2222) Promised land
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Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder
2224) Don't look for me
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"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
2226) Adapt
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On the run and in hiding, Havoc struggles with her new drug therapy, only to draw the attention of VOC Pharmaceuticals and the relentless pursuit of their most prized asset. Adapt is an intense, action-packed short story, not for the fainthearted. Pick up Adapt today and lose yourself in a wild 20-30 minute read!
2227) The Healer
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A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad.
We're in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter's...
2228) Havoc
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When police are ambushed by a professional assassin in an area covered by CCTV cameras, an expert analyst is called in to remotely process the scene. But when even the most carefully concealed cameras fail to capture even the slightest detail, that might reveal the assassin's identity, it's clear they have insider knowledge. Leaving just one question... from whom? Havoc is an intense, action-packed short story, not for the fainthearted. Pick up Havoc...
2229) Won't Back Down
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Jack Keller's violent past is very much with him these days, despite his efforts to leave it behind. He's back in rural North Carolina, looking for steady work, and trying to establish a relationship with Francis, the son he never knew. But the boy's heard too much about Keller, particularly from Ben Jones, his half-brother and the son of Marie, the woman Keller loves. Ben's alienated, angry, and headed for trouble, and Keller's living with the guilt...
2230) The Red Hand of Fury
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A series of bizarre suicides leads Detective Inspector Silas Quinn to revisit his own troubled past ...
June, 1914. A young man is mauled to death at London Zoo after deliberately climbing into the bear pit. Shortly afterwards another man leaps to his death from the notorious Suicide Bridge. Two seemingly unconnected deaths — and yet there are similarities.
Following a third attempted suicide, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn knows he must uncover...
2231) One Hot Summer
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A taut psychological thriller from the bestselling author of the Connection Trilogy.
A city on fire. A killer who can't be stopped. Who will be next?
When two teenagers are found dead in a fire, DI Laura Henshall and DS Will Peters are called in to investigate. They believe it was a revenge attack gone wrong.
But soon fires are cropping up everywhere, and the police suspect they're dealing with something much bigger...something that could bring the...
2232) Murder by Proy
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A psychotic serial killer is unleashing indiscriminate death among the elderly, using a unique and diabolically dangerous device. The old people are apparently dying of influenza and the deaths are accepted as from natural causes. Sheriff Cnut and his team are fighting a losing battle against a powerful, informed enemy. Shockingly, as the death toll rises, Cnut learns that the killer is a highly disturbed figure from his own hidden past. Constant,...
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Histoires policières, mystères et suspense.
Qui est Victor, ce séduisant quadragénaire pour lequel Juliette a eu le coup de foudre... L'homme de sa vie ou l'homme de sa mort?
O mène cette route qui porte le nom étrange de « Route du noyé »?
Qui se cache derrière celui que les médias ont surnommé « Le tueur des salles obscures »?
Qu'est-il arrivé à cette famille qui, depuis le jour de Noël, demeure introuvable?
Faut-il croire...
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In the tradition of the best legal and political thrillers, Friendly Fire is an explosive tale of greed, revenge, treason, and murder.
When Geoffrey Tate, one of the world's richest individuals and the CEO of Yukon, the country's preeminent artificial intelligence company, is shot and killed by his young trophy wife, it's going to grab headlines. And seasoned Newshound reporter Nik Byron intends to be the one generating them. But Nik's investigation...
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What money can't buy, murder can.
Someone is siphoning funds from billionaire Zachary Barron's currency hedge fund. Intent on prosecuting the thief to the fullest extent of the law, he hires Katerina "Kat" Carter, the best forensic accountant in the business, to follow the money trail. Both are shocked when it leads to Zachary's father, Nathan. And he's just the tip of the iceberg.
Nathan belongs to a shadowy organization with global ties and unimaginable...
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Dickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed private investigator, is forced at gunpoint to track down the daughter of an ex-con, setting up a chain of events that unleashes a war within the corrupt police force, exposes shocking conduct in child services, and unearths a secret that threatens to tear the nation's capital apart. The second book in the Dickie Cornish mystery series, STANDALONE is a must-read for fans of S. A. Cosby,...
2237) Button Man: A Novel
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During the scorching hot summer of 1988, Michael Dukakis leads George Bush senior in the polls. And while political conventions, campaigns continue to be in session, Hawk and the rest of the "button gang" sell their buttons first to Democrats in Atlanta, then Republicans in New Orleans. As always, the gang sells to either side of any persuasion, offering a unique underview of the American political process, amoral hucksterism, and a corrupted form...
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In the early spring of 1944, three nine year old boys bicycle to Double Woods, a patch of second and third growth woodland just beyond the borough limits of Newtown, Pennsylvania. While playing there, they find the body of a young woman, Penny Ringle, buried under a mattress in a make shift dump. The town's new police chief, Stan Burns, back from the war after being wounded in Italy, investigates the murder. He is faced with a small list of suspects...
2239) Qaraqosh: Polar
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Clovis se méfie de Mikki, qui prétend avoir combattu en Irak aux ctés d'une milice chrétienne, Qaraqosh, fondée à Prague.
Ce qui est sûr, c'est que Clovis ne voit pas arriver ce Mikki d'un très bon œil... D'une part, parce que cet escogriffe pas très clair se dit menacé et cherche une planque du cté de la Varune, d'autre part, parce qu'il arrive d'Irak o il prétend avoir combattu au sein d'une milice chrétienne nommée Qaraqosh. Et...
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CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors including David Corbett, Tyler Dilts, Brendan DuBois, Bill Fitzhugh, Alison Gaylin, A. J. Hartley, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson, and Zoë Sharp, and, from the music world, Galadrielle Allman, author of Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman and award-winning songwriter-novelist...
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