"[A] suspenseful, well-plotted neo-noir set in L.A. . . .[features] a quirky, thoughtful detective with a wry sense of humor and a philosophical bent." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLos Angeles Private Detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design, smart women, cheap American beer.He's a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember, avoid brunch at all costs, and don't live in...

An LA detective must hunt for a deadly predator lurking among exotic fish collectors in this "exciting, well-written [mystery] far above the ordinary" ( Kirkus).Finalist for the 2017 Shamus AwardPrivate Detective John Darvelle is back—drinking cheap beer, playing ping-pong and sharing his philosophy on everything from work/life balance to restaurants with bad air-conditioning. (He doesn't believe in the former, he despises the latter...

"Funny, tense, smart...Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen should be proud, there's finally a writer to carry on their tradition." —James Frey, national bestselling author of Bright Shiny MorningIntroducing Donald Tremaine, P.I.Once the world's number one surfer, Donald Tremaine quit at the top of his game, moved into a trailer in Malibu, and became a detective. Beautiful women don't ask for his autograph anymore. Now they ask for his help—like the stunn...

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.---Retired private eye Jake Spanner may have gotten old, but he hasn't gone soft. When an old gangster Jake put away some forty years ago shows up at his door, it's time for Jake to grab his hat and Browning automatic and get back to work.Old? Sure. Slower to catch his breath? Maybe. But, sharp as a tack and with a lifetime of investigating know-how, Jake Spanner has nothing to lose and everything to prove. Sniffing...

The Boardwalk is third in the Gulliver Dowd Mystery series, featuring a New York private investigator. In award-winning author Louise Penny’s words: "A little man with a huge heart and a huge chip on his shoulder, Gulliver Dowd swaggers into the crime fiction world and takes his place with the great investigators. Smart, vulnerable, wounded, heartbreakingly hopeful, I just adore his company."Gulliver Dowd is finally on the verge of unraveling the mystery b...

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission...Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind b...

"Fans of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels (written under his Richard Stark pseudonym) will be on familiar ground. . . . A very good entry in a very good series" ( Booklist).Wilson should have just walked away when three men came looking for a way to boost a valuable piece of art. The art came off the wall, the alarm screamed thief, and Wilson walked away clean. But it turned out that job was an interview for an even bigger heist. A dangerous man wants Wi...

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year“A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years.”—Harlan CobenFrom New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an unforgettable new hero, a man who will walk out of prison and into a harrowing double life that is anything but free.

"Next to Sam Hunter, Dirty Harry looks like Mother Theresa."—New York Daily NewsLos Angeles private eye Sam Hunter doesn't have a soft side. Everything about him is a hard as a knuckle to the face. So, when a call for help comes in from a trashy porn magazine, it's not out of the goodness of his heart that Sam takes the case. It has more to do with the curves of the magazine's sizzling-hot editor.The magazine is called Sleaze, and that's exactly what has made it the target of...

It's dangerous enough when an ordinary college girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she's smarter than the killer, kingpins, and cops who think they control her.Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her boyfriend. Unwilling to betray him but desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie has no choice but to become a "CI" -- a confidential informant.Philly narcotics cop Ben Wildey is hungry for a career-ma...

Quinn Colson returns to Jericho, Mississippi, and gets pulled back into a world of greed and violence in this gritty, darkly comic tale from New York Times bestselling Southern crime master Ace Atkins.After being voted out of office and returning to the war zone he’d left behind, Quinn Colson is back in Jericho, trying to fix things with his still-married high school girlfriend and retired Hollywood stuntman father. Quinn knows he doesn't owe his hometown ...

A beloved local priest brutally murdered in his own church.A cloistered monk in a peaceful seminary shot at point-blank range.A Jesuit teacher slain at night in his classroom.Facing a brutal serial killer with his sights set firmly on the Catholic diocese, Boston homicide detective Lieutenant Joe McGuire—one half of the best homicide team in Boston’s history—is in a race against time to find a killer who seemingly leaves no trace.With the help of the local d...