John Austin, known as Auty, is not an impulsive man. But even so, he decides to abandon a successful and lucrative law practice thats won him notoriety and a reputation for integrity.When a big case is on the line, Auty is the suit you want in your corner. And he owes it all to his friend, mentor, and senior partner of his law firm, Ed Fielding. So Auty doesnt think twice about taking a plane from Wisconsin to Florida to break the news to the old man in person. He hopes to find som...

As a sinner enters the confessional, he glances about the empty church. Father Dan Rutledge waits patiently for Ray Cronin to begin his declarations of guilt. No one hears the squeak of church door as a tall shadow quietly enters and trains his weapon on the confessional doors. Moments later, Ray Cronin is dead, Father Dan Rutledge is barely hanging on, and the only thing everyone knows is that someone has already killed four priests in Dade County in the last six months.John Auty ...

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world.Meg is Team Mom and Michael is coach of their twin sons' youth baseball team, the Caerphilly Eagles. Meg tangles with Biff Brown, the pet...

More mayhem, madness, and mystery ensue in Tim Dorsey's seventh entry in “Florida’s hottest helter-skelter, hallucinogenic freak show” (Publishers Weekly).Though he may not always show it, lovable serial killer Serge Storms has a romantic side. Sure, life as a fugitive on the Overseas Highway has been fun. But it’s been lonely too, especially now that he’s hit the beautiful Florida Keys. Serge wants a bride. And nothing will come between him and his soul m...

In this short story, Harry's a blackjack dealer at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. The kind of guy you'd never notice. Ordinary-looking, inconspicuous, practically invisible. Lives in a little apartment behind the hotel. Been working graveyard shift for twelve years now. Got no life of any consequence.But one night Petra sits down at his table, and then…"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." -- Max Allan Collins, author of ROAD TO PERDITION"Dennis writes true noir." -...

William Bennett, a history professor, lost everything when he lost his daughter and his wife. He strolls through life unattached to anything or anyone, except his friend Charles. William had all but given up on ever being happy again...on ever laughing again. All his wants and dreams and hope died with his family until the day he was shown a time machine by a scientist, Doctor Smitty, who was working with our government on a secret mission to stop an outlaw time traveler, dubbed the Time B...

The very day Liz Sullivan, freelance writer, returns to Denver to visit her estranged family, her ex-husband's body is dumped at her parents' door. Since Liz had once tried to kill her extremely abusive husband, the police think she's their killer. Liz finds it necessary to do some dangerous sleuthing, if she doesn't want to find herself in prison again--or dead. 3rd Liz Sullilvan Mystery by Lora Roberts; originally pulished by Fawcett

New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel returns to the merciless winters of Grizzly Falls, Montana, pitting two of her most fascinating characters—detectives and friends Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli—against a ruthless serial killer determined to make Pescoli his next victim..HE’LL CHOOSE THEM . . .Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the “Star Crossed Killer” case for months, never imagining she’d be captured by th...

A woman on the run is a Montana serial killer’s ultimate target in this psychological thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are struggling with a new acting commander while Sheriff Dan Grayson is in a coma after being shot. It's the worst possible time for a homicide. A woman’s body has been found, frozen and missing a finger. Alvarez hopes this was an isolated case of a ...

Two recent divorcees meet at a North Carolina inn in the midst of a brewing storm in this romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook**.**Adrienne Willis is forty-five and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend...

Jeff Resnick's curiosity is piqued when he sees a sign advertising psychic readings. At first he's sure the medium is a fake, but then his funny feelings lead him to suspect that a murder has taken place in the dilapidated house where Madam Zahara holds her readings. Just who died and how? And why is Jeff compelled to look for bodies buried in the medium’s yard?(This story takes place between the Jeff Resnick Novels Dead In Red and Cheated By Death.)* * *...

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A. Storms -- who has stopped keeping up with his meds -- is still looking for a briefcase stuffed with five million dollars...and is now capable of wreaking more havoc than hurr...