Armand Cole kills a snitch. He is supposed to take him to Monticello's infamous Pier 9, but a snowstorm forces him to leave the body on the freeway. A related murder at the pier is assigned to the MPD's Special Investigations squad. For Jessica Branson, this means she gets to do something she hasn't done in years: Real police work. But she must do so under the former Internal Affairs officer who sent her into exile.Armand is soon the point man for the drug operation's money man, a ...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence.Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anythin...

Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North Ameri...

Fentanyl. The latest scourge of Monticello's street. A detective, a street-level dealer, and an ambitious police official, it will weave its way through their lives and change their fates.For Detective Jessica Branson, it makes the house she can't afford unlivable and unrentable. When her tenants overdose, one fatally, her career teeters toward a crash.For Marcus Lincoln, it's the latest product, his ticket to the top of the Game as he moves up in the gang that still rules ...

NINE BOOKS FOR ONE GREAT PRICENine great crime stories to keep you up at night. Nine ways to be thrilled by nine award-winning and acclaimed crime fiction authors!Get to know each author and solve the mystery with their sleuths.TITLES INCLUDE the following crime fiction books by award-winning and notable authors interviewed on the Crime Cafe podcast:RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Austin CamachoAN ALL-CONSUMING FIRE by Donna Fletcher CrowSAVAGE NIGHTS by W...

Detective Mike Bennett takes on a chilling man trying to play god as he threatens New York with a terrifying epidemic in this gripping novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, Amy Gentry's propulsive and suspenseful Good as Gone is a "smart, crisply written thriller" (Minneapolis Star Tribune)."So gripping you might start to question your own family’s past."—Entertainment Weekly**Anna’s daughter Julie was kidnapped from her own bedroom when she was thirteen years old, while Anna slept just downstairs, unaware that her daughter was being ripped away from her. For e...

The perfect books for when you have a few minutes to kill.If you've got the time, we've got the crime. Test your detective skills and powers of deduction with 80 of the best quick-read whodunits in the popular Five-minute Mysteries series.Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories - some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on - are told with all the cl...

Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies or maddened extremists patrolling the earth.In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the ...

" The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing—like S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders, except about girls." —Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and ThinAt Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, s...

"Murder, mayhem, and mystery! Every story . . . is filled with suspense, sizzle and startling twists. I loved it!" -Lisa Jackson, New York Times–bestselling authorCrime comes to the capital of country music in these all-new stories by mystery and thriller stars including Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Robert Dugoni, Donald Bain, Jefferson Bass, and many more."Settings include backwoods hollows, late-night recording studios, seedy dives, quiet suburbs,...

Sixteen tales of dread and desire by Nancy Holder, Max Allan Collins, Graham Masterton, and others reveal our deepest fantasies.The eighth anthology in Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett's boundary-breaking Hot Blood erotic horror series delivers sixteen thrilling tales that will leave readers tied up ever tighter, even as the stories themselves defy all restraint. Four-time Bram Stoker Award–winner Nancy Holder, Shamus Award–winning and bestselling au...