The Man on the Balcony

Written by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Introduction by Jo Nesbo

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39047-9 (0-307-39047-0)

The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.

In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies. The city is on... Read more >

Murder at the Savoy

Written by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Introduction by Arne Dahl

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39091-2 (0-307-39091-8)

The shocking sixth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating a brutal assassination.

When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist is shot during his after-dinner speech in the luxurious Hotel Savoy, it sends a shiver down... Read more >

Roseanna
A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)
Written by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Introduction by Henning Mankell

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39046-2 (0-307-39046-2)

The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.

On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck... Read more >

The Terrorists

Written by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Introduction by Dennis Lehane

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39088-2 (0-307-39088-8)

The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax.

An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However... Read more >

Hard Feelings
A Novel
Written by Jason Starr

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72709-2 (0-375-72709-4)

In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, Hard Feelings is an original novel that lets us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things that even he couldn’t have imagined.

Richie Segal’s prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, what’s more humiliating, his wife’s prospects... Read more >

Tough Luck

Written by Jason Starr

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72711-5 (0-375-72711-6)

Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He’s got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey’s got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey... Read more >

Twisted City

Written by Jason Starr

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7506-5 (1-4000-7506-8)

From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare. Written in caustic, streamlined prose, Twisted City is a chilling depiction of how quickly one's life can take a turn for the worst.

Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist... Read more >

Niceville

Written by Carsten Stroud

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-70095-7 (0-307-70095-X)

A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet... Read more >

Honeymoon to Nowhere

Written by Akimitsu Takagi

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-154-8 (1-56947-154-1)

Etsuko has fallen in love with a shy, studious lecturer at a university. But she has to tell her parents she’s pregnant to force their agreement to her marriage. Their objection is to the rest of her fiancé’s family: his father was a war criminal; his deceased younger brother, a murderer... Read more >

Tattoo Murder Case

Written by Akimitsu Takagi

Format: Trade Paperback, 324 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-156-2 (1-56947-156-8)

Miss Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs left behind. Gone is that part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered by her late father. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor, must assist his detective brother who is... Read more >

The Little Friend

Written by Donna Tartt

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3169-6 (1-4000-3169-9)

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved... Read more >

The Queen's Gambit
A Novel
Written by Walter Tevis

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3060-6 (1-4000-3060-9)

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing... Read more >

After Dark, My Sweet

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73247-1 (0-679-73247-0)

After Dark, My Sweet is Thompson's tour de force of spiraling paranoia and violence. Read more >

The Criminal

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73314-0 (0-679-73314-0)

A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Read more >

The Getaway

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1990
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73250-1 (0-679-73250-0)

The Getaway is a Dantesque tour of the American underworld, a place where no motive is pure, no stranger is innocent, and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second. Read more >

A Hell of a Woman

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1990
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73251-8 (0-679-73251-9)

Hell of a Woman is Thompson's homegrown version of Crime and Punishment. It is a novel devoid of sentiment, where a murderer goes about his deadly business without a prayer of redemption. Read more >

The Killer Inside Me

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73397-3 (0-679-73397-3)

An underground classic since 1952, The Killer Inside Me-- about Lou Ford, the small town Texas sheriff and his "sickness"-- is the book that made Jim Thompson's name synonymous with the roman noir. Read more >

Pop. 1280

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1990
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73249-5 (0-679-73249-7)

Welcome to the twisted universe of Jim Thompson, a place where the double-cross is as common as a handshake and murder is only the emphatic form of "goodbye." Pop. 1280 is a chilling and brutally funny romp through the id of the American South. Read more >

A Swell-Looking Babe

Written by Jim Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 156 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73311-9 (0-679-73311-6)

Combining an ingeniously nasty blackmail scheme with serpentine Oedipal intrigue, A Swell-looking Babe is the crime novel as gothic. Read more >

The Reservoir

Written by John Milliken Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-444-3 (1-59051-444-0)

On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group... Read more >

Once A Spy
A Novel
Written by Keith Thomson

Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-47314-1 (0-307-47314-7)

When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring home his Alzheimer’s-addled father, Drummond, they’re attacked by two mysterious shooters. At first, Charlie thinks his Russian “creditors” are employing aggressive collection tactics. But once Drummond effortlessly hot-wires a car, Charlie discovers that his unassuming... Read more >

Twice a Spy
A Novel
Written by Keith Thomson

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53079-8 (0-385-53079-X)

In the tradition of Robert Ludlum, with a witty twist, Thomson’s second novel featuring a former spy and his son once again poses the question: What happens when a former CIA agent can no longer trust his own mind?

Charlie and Drummond Clark are now in Switzerland, hiding out from criminal charges... Read more >

The Book of Revelation
A Novel
Written by Rupert Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70845-9 (0-375-70845-6)

In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power.

Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to buy cigarettes for his girlfriend, a dashing 29-year... Read more >

Sliver of Truth
Ridley Jones #2
Written by Lisa Unger

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-94968-4 (0-307-94968-0)

In Beautiful Lies, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act—picking up a few envelopes of prints at a... Read more >

Aftershock
A Thriller
Written by Andrew Vachss

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90774-5 (0-307-90774-0)

The idyllic facade of a small coastal tourist magnet hides its secrets well. But when the shining star pitcher of the girls’ softball team guns down the most popular boy in school, the shockwaves reverberate far beyond the school’s walls. In the wake of the killing, two of the town’s newer... Read more >