The Lost House by Melissa Larsen In Melissa Larsen’s The Lost House comes the mesmerizing story of a young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family. Blood and the Badge by Michael Cannell For the first time in forty years, Blood…
Dash Fuller, a former Hollywood fixer, spent years helping disappear the film industry’s worst secrets. Now he’s starting a new career as a detective, and things are rough: he’s trying to figure out who killed a famous criminal who disappeared twenty years ago… and he’s being stalked by a mysterious figure in a skull mask.…
The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes Everyone knows that moms have eyes in the back of their heads when it comes to their children, but does that also apply to soon-to-be mothers trying to solve a murder? Pick up The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes for a charming debut mystery full of wit, a rambunctious…
One October can be a summer month in South Georgia. Temperatures in the nineties, leaves still green and locked onto the trees; humidity so thick that a small fish could swim in it. And the gnats were everywhere. I’d forgotten about the gnats. I left my bags in the beat-up old Fiat I sometimes referred…
One Wednesday, 21 June 1815 3 Bruton Place Mayfair, London, England The four o’clock hour of the morning The damning words folded in on themselves as the paper crumpled in Lady Petra’s fist. Flames danced merrily in the fireplace until one log split under the crushing heat, sparks flying like the spitting of an angry…
Trial by Ambush by Marcia Clark In this dramatic true account about the power of sensationalized crime, one woman’s case is exposed for its sexism, flagrant disregard for the truth, and, ultimately, the dangers posed by an unbridled prosecution. Nobody’s Hero by M. W. Craven A man who can’t feel fear is in a race…
Prologue On the early evening of November 6, 1990, forty-eight-year-old Eddie Lino drove his black Mercedes east through a clog of rush-hour traffic on the Belt Parkway, along the rounded southern belly of Brooklyn. Lino was a short, hard-bitten capo, or captain, in the Gambino crime family. He led a crew that trafficked heroin and…
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Chapter One CORDELIA I didn’t know how long I sat cross-legged in the snow, waiting for the dead man crumpled on the ground in front of my building to wake up. Might have been five minutes. Might have been five hours. As I watched, pellets of snow accumulated on his flannel pajama-clad legs and fuzzy-sock-covered…
Chapter Four Silence in the garden. I gaped at the pale foot and the ankle beneath it, then the boot in my hand and the sock hanging limply from it. I looked back at the foot. The freshly turned soil enveloped whatever was beneath it. “Oh my god,” someone gasped. A woman’s voice. Somewhere behind…
