Selected as one of the year's most compelling debut novels for Kobo's Emerging Writer Prize, Shadow Stitcher is guaranteed to deliight.This fast paced Noir mystery has a great cast of easily identifiable characters, a plot both easy to follow and intriguing, and an ending that will leave you satisfied.-----"...a rollicking mystery with a fascinating setting, a magical world with a hardboiled edge. For a novel with noir leanings, it’s a surprising...

Todd Malcolm would be the first person to tell you that he’s no Basil Stark. He’s just a bouncer, part-time detective’s assistant, and brawler who does his best to get by on the mean streets of 1950s Everland, relying on a keen eye and a quick temper that gets him into trouble as often as out of it. Everland is a dangerous place to poke at secrets. Colonized by corporate interests in the 1930s, it is an island of industry, fading magic, and political and corporate greed.When Todd g...

"Mankind built our houses, and our factories. We brought our ships to darken the shores of Neverland. We stole the very name of this place. Everland." When Basil Stark, Everland’s premiere (and only) private detective, is approached by a man claiming to be stalked by the legendary Crocodile, he’s dubious. The Crocodile hasn’t been sighted in years – like pirates, Lost Boys, and the legendary Pan, it’s a relic of the days when Neverland was wild and untamed. It’s a new worl...

A gripping serial killer thriller with a twist – from No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBrideThis time the serial killer picked the wrong family…‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter JamesThey call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring America kidnapping young women.The FBI’s investigating – but getting nowhere.The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one o...

“It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing.” — San Francisco Chronicle“[An] unbelievably accomplished first novel.” — NOW MagazineAmerican Booksellers Association Indie Next List pickShortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeShortlist...

Historical Society President Murdered, Lexie Starr Investigates in The Extinguished Guest, A Cozy Mystery by Jeanne GlidewellAt the Grand Opening of Stone Van Patten's new B&B, the local Historical Society's soon-to-be inaugurated new president, Horatio Prescott III, is found murdered in the inn's grandest suite.Much to Van Patten's chagrin, Lexie, a widowed library assistant, decides to aid in the investigation.Despite several foiled attem...

“A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the novel Retreat.“A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn“Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.”—Ruth WareNothing burns as bright as the truth....

In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks.When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the entire Appalachian Trail-Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the desperate search to find them.Hope turns to despair after two unidentified corpses are discovered-their ...

New from the author of the New York Times beseller and ispiration for the Netflix Movie Bird BoxA chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitating soundThe Danes—the band known as the “Darlings of Detroit”—are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once again have a number one hit. That is, until an agent from the US Army approaches...

What Endures is a story of powerful love. It is a story that will break your heart. Inspired by true events, it tells of the incredible bond between a mother and daughter, and with gut-wrenching poignancy reminds us of the little things that make life worth living.“Holdstock’s writing manages to be both heartbreakingly poetic and densely detailed … sad passages, ghostlike recollections, written almost from the vantage point of the present, establish the book as a great wor...

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery — a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier after she disappeared from a group rafting trip.As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren...

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kin...