Reader Review: My favorite book of Chandler's, it is the story of Philip Marlowe's investigations into the disappearance of a local businessman's wife. I went on a Chandler kick, partly inspired by writing a paper on film noir for class. His novels tend to follow a formula that ...

A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is ...

Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. "C...

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. ...

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE: Broughton J. "Bruff" 'Brannon, IV has no experience as a private investigator when his namesake uncle dies and leaves him the Fan Detective Agency in Richmond, Virginia. The offers he receives to sell the business from Clive Morgan, who owns the la...

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE: Guilty or Innocent? That question haunts marketing consultant and juror Mara Taylor. All Mara wants is to resume her normal life, but a series of 'accidents' convinces her that someone wants her punished for setting Holden free. And the former def...

MEDICAL THRILLER: When Dr. Andrea Pearson, an AIDS researcher, finds Dr. Milton Grafton mutilated and brutally murdered, she begins a descent into the bizarre that threatens her academic appointment and ultimately, her life. Homicide detective, Gary Krastowitcz, isn...

Mystery/Suspense: When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many. What's the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a myster...

Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home. When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Br...

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE: Romance, mystery, suspense - events of 150 years ago set the modern scene in California's Sierra Nevada. While Joe struggles to save his lifelong dream, Iris seeks her place in this new, frightening world of suspense, and love. What begins as her ...

Romance, Suspense, Gothic: The 1895 Newport summer season is off to a smashing start-in spite of the recent murders of several maids along the town's famous Cliff Walk. Then the body of wealthy, beautiful Rosalind Sinclair is found, dressed in a maid's uniform; a sin...

Romantic Suspense: DARCY SINGER has witnessed a murder. In her head. And--it's not the first time her psychic abilities have put her in touch with violence. Yet the gift of sight is something she'd hoped was behind her--along with a broken marriage. TYRONE SHARPE, yo...

SUSPENSE/THRILLER: What kind of person murders pregnant women? That's the question baffling Kansas City, Missouri police, and secretarial temporary, Lenore D'Angelo. When she fills in at a women's clinic where Pro-Life activists are demonstrating, Lennie learns that...

Suspense/Thriller: In CLOSE TO HOME, a brutal killer with a bloody sense of revenge terrorizes the affluent Chicago suburb of Ravensburg. First the well-scrubbed teenage "girl next door" is found dead, her corpse provocatively posed alongside a busy thoroughfare. The...

Mystery: Deputy Tempe Crabtree is challenged by Nick Two John to learn more about her Yanduchi heritage. When Nick is charged with the murder of his boss, the owner of the local Inn, Tempe sets out to find the true killer and soon becomes a target herself.

Mystery/Suspense: When Michael Slater, an investigative reporter for a TV news magazine is assigned to cover a story on a stage hypnotist accused of exploiting women, he discovers that the real show begins once the curtain comes down. However even more intriguing is...

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one ...

Hilarious, sexy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan was one of the most celebrated debuts in recent years. Acclaimed author David Schickler’s collection of linked stories follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City . On a ridge overlooking Burnside Bridge—the focus of the Battle of Antietam—souvenir hunters find the unmarked grave of an unknown Union officer. Don Spaniel, an archeolog...

When a sexy nudist hires him to protect her from whoever is threatening her life, Nick Bancroft becomes the target. Someone tries to burn him alive, beats the hell out of him and, since that didn't run him off, uses him for target practice. Meanwhile, two people ...