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When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again.The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball...

Brooklyn, July 1996. Punk kids have to make their own fun in the summer. Bobby Santovasco likes to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his daughter Amelia and reads meters but also has...

FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHRIS OFFUTT. 'Excellent Kentucky noir - Offutt's third Mick Hardin novel is the best yet.' - Kirkus An explosive return to the mayhem of the Kentucky hills, Code of the Hills is a harrowing novel of family - of what we're...

FROM ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING AUTHORS IN THE WORLD'Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page' - The Sunday Times Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in this new exciting...

Don’t miss this gripping thriller from the author of The Weekend Alone – with a twist that will take your breath away! ‘An excellent thriller and a writer to look out for’ Lesley Sanderson, author of I Know You Lied‘It's been such a long time since I...

‘I was invested in this book from the first page. It literally drew me in immediately and my attention never waned. Classic thriller with a dynamic main character!’ NetGalley reviewer, His secret could destroy them, but her truth is even harder to bear… ...

The stunning new thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. One down… A dark night in the isolated Scottish countryside. Nicholas Wilson, a prominent professor known for his divisive social media rants, leaves the house with his dog,...

Winner, This Is Horror Award Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for the Bram Stoker AwardA collection of 15 stories that feature, among others, zombies, a hardboiled detective, a giant space-traveling lobster, an enigmatic alien, Rod...

THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNS WITH A DARK AND TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER.‘Truly exceptional…twists and turns that I didn't see coming, a unique concept, and brilliant characters…simply captivating.’ JOHN MARRS ...

‘One of the great novelists of all time’ STEPHEN KING ‘One of the finest thriller series in existence. Sandford is superb - in a class of his own’ JOHN CONNOLLYLucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling...

THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE BESTSELLING FIREWATCHING 'Hard-hitting' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Comparable with the best of Michael Connelly’s Bosch books and James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux novels, and – naturally – Ian...

Duty to the job or personal ambition? Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie . . .Six months ago, London nightclub owner Josh Reynolds was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. His death was quickly...

Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week ago. Now he's turned up in London, wandering the...

In this outdoors mystery, special agent Sam Rivers investigates the unexplained-and very unlikely-cougar attack that killed a wealthy business owner.The sighting of a cougar in the Minnesota River Valley, outside the Twin Cities, is incredibly rare. A...

The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson...

Black Phoenix magazine is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genresall dreamed up by its sole author and illustrator, Rich Tommaso (Eisner Award winning creator of Clover Honey, Spy...

A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso's one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres.Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine...

The Rachel Conditionis at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel,...

Brain disease worsening, Rick Cahill risks everything-even his life-to provide for his fractured family's futureSan Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with...

AWARDSFINALIST-Fiction: Thriller Adventure, Best Books Awards, 2023 When does the student become the master? At what cost? Grieving the loss of his sensei, the master swordsman Yamashita, Connor Burke struggles with the challenges of recovery from the...

A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso's one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres.Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side-the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century-in...

"Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022"-The Strand Magazine"Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nation's capital come alive."-Publishers WeeklyDickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed private...

Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning...

'..the first time you heard a Tizita that was yours, you fell in love with it. You never forget your first love; you never forget your first Tizita.'In the heart of Nairobi, four musicians The Diva, The Taliban Man, The Corporal and...

As 1959 dawns, Billy Glasheen is in deeper trouble than ever. The past has caught up with him in the form of Fred Slaney, Sydney's meanest, most corrupt cop, who's got Billy framed up for the murder of his crooked partner. Not that Slaney wants to arrest...

Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds...

August 1945.The Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate - his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he's on the run from criminals and the...

Decades after playing the titular killer in the 80s horror franchise Night of the Reaper, Howard Browning has been reduced to signing autographs for his dwindling fanbase at genre conventions. When the studio announces a series reboot, the aging thespian...

Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his...

From Paris to London to New York to Los Angeles, dead bodies keep appearing during wild passionate nights spent by beautiful and sexy men and women, yet all deaths pointing to accidental cause. Only the police know that it is too much of a coincidence...

Special agent Sam Rivers' investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets in this wildlife-themed thriller.In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence...

Punk rock legend Blag Dahlia returns with his third transgressive novel Highland FallsNina West is a deceptively petite young trickster who works at a funeral home in the suburban Illinois town of Highland Falls. Her short-term boyfriend Ace fronts the...

It's the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything's changing.Punks, dopers and assorted miscreants play in the decaying homes of Hollywood golden era stars. The playfully decadent, diverse LA punk scene is under threat from the violent, misogynistic...

Age range 14+From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading...

A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian...

Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemn, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J...

Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy...

San Diego Writer's Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning AuthorWill Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child-or will sadistic killers murder him first?Rick Cahill is...

Foreword INDIES Bronze Award in Thriller and SuspenseA sinister private detective agency, a shady shell corporation, and a dead friend-Rick Cahill is on his most dangerous mission yetPrivate investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and...

Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Author A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now...

If you're going to fight bad guys, you might as well make them really mad at you!A few weeks ago, I had a good life-I was a respected Portland police detective and successful martial arts instructor. Then I shot somebody-then I shot two more people. It...

Best Books Award Finalist - USA Book News Winner - eLit AwardIn the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.At the...