Mike Shepherd—self-proclaimed Chicago’s number one private detective—never expects his next case to blow past him on the freeway. But when fugitive Ferlin Husky Lewis speeds into view, Mike sees more than a criminal… he sees a payday he desperately needs. The pursuit costs him everything: his only decent suit, a crucial date with Diana, and any chance of keeping this case under control. Because Lewis isn’t just running—he’s leaving a trail of bodies behind him. As the killer stays one step...

Matt Pearson steps in when his young friend and neighbor refuses to be recruited as a drug runner for a local gang and they won’t stop. Matt can’t ignore it. A confrontation escalates into aggression placing a target on his back. When they murder someone close to Matt, they ignite a war. Assisted by his ex-military buddy Paul the gang is disrupted. Now all Matt has to do is convince the cops he should not be criminally charged for his involvement, and that he didn’t kill the person he love...

A smudge of blood involves a woman on the hunt for a mob killer. All Trish Morgan wanted was to grab a few bucks at the ATM, but she finds blood on the screen then hears a moan. She ventures into the alley and finds a dying woman. While Trish calls 911, the woman slips a DVD into her purse—a DVD that puts Trish's life in danger. Now Trish is stalked by an assassin who wants the disk and Trish erased. Each time Trish thinks a problem is resolved; she realizes her troubles are far from over....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How Stephanie Plum will pull it all off: top secret.“The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York TimesTrenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in ...

A USA Today Bestseller!New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann Walker continues her red-hot Black Knights Inc. series in rough-and-tumble Peru"The Man" is backDan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him four thousand miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He's hot on the trail of a rogue CIA agent selling ...

Frank, an Army Special Forces vet, screwed up, went to prison, and is now out, living in small-town Wyoming and trying to go straight.But then some old "friends" from the big house come to collect on a favor, and everything goes totally nuts, forcing Frank to go outside the law to save the one thing he cherishes most.* * * * *"A nonstop page turner!" —LARRY CORREIA, New York Times Bestselling Author“John Brown understands trouble makers and misfits....

Edgar Award Finalist: In the first novel of the Jack Leightner crime series, the Brooklyn homicide detective investigates a perplexing murder in dangerous terrain: the rundown neighborhood of his youth.Unlike the other members of the elite Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force, Detective Jack Leightner prefers his murders baffling. He likes to lose himself in tough cases, and he has just caught a murder that will consume him like no other: an unidentified body, bound e...

LA Times best-selling authorA gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles's noir underworldAsh Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los An...

Scooter and Nugget cannot be content like most other house cats eating, sleeping, and annoying their humans. These two sisters, who just happen to speak English as well as cat talk, decide to sneak outside on a regular basis to explore their neighborhood. When they overhear their human housemates Tony and Misty discussing a recent burglary in the area, Scooter and Nugget decide to become amateur detectives and solve the case. Getting outside is easy once Tony and Misty go off to work. Deal...

With a month off from Homicide, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth bails out to accept an invitation from an old pal to consult as head of security for a high-tech startup corporation.But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a homicide investigation with overtones of corporate espionage and domestic terrorism, all the while butting heads with his counterparts in the local police. Instead of a much-needed rest, he i...

From the author of The Carter A. Johnson & Kate Menke Thriller series and Outnumbered comes The Irrevocable Change Trilogy Book 2 The Assassin Evolves.Clayton Albrecht has become the Assassin. He has a new boss, a ruthless female crime lord in Chicago. He knows her well; his precarious position with her will one day cause her to release a horrific fury against him. The ensuing battle unleashes revenge that shocks even Chicago's jaded crime lords....

A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award finalist Gabriel Cohen's acclaimed crime series.At a bed and breakfast in upstate New York, Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner is doing his best to propose to his girlfriend. When the hotel staff loses the engagement ring, romance is put on hold and Leightner retur...