Death Comes to Pemberley

Written by P. D. James

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95985-0 (0-307-95985-6)

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.

It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together... Read more >

Devices and Desires

Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7624-6 (1-4000-7624-2)

After the publication of his latest book of poetry, Commander Adam Dalgliesh has escaped from the hubbub of London to the remote Norfolk headland called Larksoken and the converted windmill he has inherited from his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape from murder. A psychopathic serial killer has been terrorizing... Read more >

The Murder Room
A Novel
Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7609-3 (1-4000-7609-9)

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne—a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time—when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees... Read more >

Talking About Detective Fiction

Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74313-8 (0-307-74313-6)

P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting.

Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at... Read more >

A Taste for Death

Written by P. D. James

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9647-3 (1-4000-9647-2)

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the... Read more >

The Paris Directive
A Novel
Written by Gerald Jay

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-53548-9 (0-385-53548-1)

In a Berlin hotel room in the late 1990s, two former French intelligence agents hire Klaus Reiner, a ruthlessly effective killer, to eliminate an American industrialist vacationing in southwestern France. Reiner easily locates his target in the small Dordogne village of Taziac, but the hit is compromised when three innocent people... Read more >

Greed
A Novel
Written by Elfriede Jelinek
Translated by Martin Chalmers

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-842-5 (1-58322-842-X)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE

Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to... Read more >

Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story

Written by Mat Johnson
Illustrated by Simone Gane

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2160-7 (1-4012-2160-2)

In the days after Hurricane Katrina, two men travel to a devastated New Orleans to pull off the bank heist of a lifetime. Up against the clock and eluding armed competitors, the men find themselves in the middle of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in American history. All around them... Read more >

Some Kind of Fairy Tale
A Novel
Written by Graham Joyce

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53578-6 (0-385-53578-3)

Acclaimed author Graham Joyce's mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she's been, will challenge our very perception of truth.

For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared... Read more >

Devil-Devil
Introducing the Sergeant Kella and Sister Conchita Series Set in the Solomon Islands
Written by Graeme Kent

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-060-6 (1-61695-060-9)

It’s not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been... Read more >

Death and the Penguin

Written by Andrey Kurkov
Translated by George Bird

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Melville International Crime
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-55-4 (1-935554-55-7)

A masterful tale set in post-Soviet Kiev that’s both darkly-funny and ominous...

In the widely hailed prequel to Penguin Lost, aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev–he’s out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha that he rescued when the local zoo started getting rid... Read more >

Penguin Lost

Written by Andrey Kurkov
Translated by George Bird

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Melville International Crime
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-56-1 (1-935554-56-5)

Andrey Kurkov’s first book to be published in English, Death and the Penguin, was hailed by leading critics in the US and the UK as “a tragicomic masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph) of suspense about life on the crime-riddled streets of an impoverished, post-Soviet Kiev. But until now, fans haven’t been able... Read more >

The Bottoms

Written by Joe R. Lansdale

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47526-8 (0-307-47526-3)

It is 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River... Read more >

Vanilla Ride

Written by Joe R. Lansdale

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45545-1 (0-307-45545-9)

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the kings of East Texas mischief and mayhem, return in this full-throttle thriller to face off with the Dixie Mafia.

When Leonard is asked to rescue a teenage girl from a lowly drug dealer, he gladly agrees and invites Hap along for the ride. Everything goes according... Read more >

Easy Money
A Novel
Written by Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39023-3 (0-307-39023-3)

From one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense laywers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld.

Jorge Barrio is a drug dealer who's in jail again after his accomplices flipped on him to save their own hides. Meticulously, he plots his revenge. Meanwhile, JW, a student working part time as a cab... Read more >

Easy Money
A Novel
Written by Jens Lapidus
Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37748-7 (0-307-37748-2)

From one of Sweden’s most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm’s underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system.

JW is a student having trouble keeping up appearances in the rich party crowd he has involved... Read more >

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy
Written by Stieg Larsson

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45456-0 (0-307-45456-8)

In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head.

But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist... Read more >

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Written by Stieg Larsson

Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26999-7 (0-307-26999-X)

Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she’s well enough, she’ll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she... Read more >

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy
Written by Stieg Larsson

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45455-3 (0-307-45455-X)

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the... Read more >

Motherless Brooklyn
A Novel
Written by Jonathan Lethem

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 24, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72483-1 (0-375-72483-4)

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of... Read more >

Jade Lady Burning

Written by Martin Limon

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-61695-090-3 (1-61695-090-0)

Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the U.S. Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high. Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink at their bars and carouse with their women. When Pak Ok-Suk, a young Korean woman, is found... Read more >

The Last Detective
Introducing Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond
Written by Peter Lovesey

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-61695-081-1 (1-61695-081-1)

A nude female corpse has been found floating in a large reservoir just south of Bristol. In order to solve the mystery of the “Lady in the Lake,” Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors on the force to save a... Read more >

The Barbarous Coast

Written by Ross Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27903-3 (0-307-27903-0)

The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy “uncle,” Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset... Read more >

Black Money

Written by Ross Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76810-4 (0-679-76810-6)

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling... Read more >

Blue City

Written by Ross Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74073-1 (0-307-74073-0)

He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murder–his father’s murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.  When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young... Read more >