Flynn's World

Written by Gregory Mcdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71358-3 (0-375-71358-1)

When Boston Police Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn’s barely adolescent daughter asks him to rescue her friend Billy from the cemetery, where he’s been fastened to a tree by a nail through his earlobe, the good inspector is pretty sure there’s something more behind what at first seems like a bully’s prank... Read more >

Son of Fletch

Written by Gregory Mcdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 6, 2005
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71359-0 (0-375-71359-X)

When Fletch learns there are four ex-cons on the loose in his part of the county, little does he suspect that one of the scruffy and very dangerous men will claim to be the son he never knew—in fact, was never even told about. But when a muddy and bedraggled young... Read more >

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 1

Written by Denise Mina
Illustrated by Andrea Mutti and Leonardo Manco

Format: Hardcover, 152 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-3557-4 (1-4012-3557-3)

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk... Read more >

Little Green
An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Written by Walter Mosley

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53598-4 (0-385-53598-8)

When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress—a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright—he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of... Read more >

Parishioner

Written by Walter Mosley

Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-80444-0 (0-345-80444-9)

A brand-new, eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardened criminal who regrets his past, but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again.

In a small town situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple church of white stone sits atop... Read more >

Death of an Englishman

Written by Magdalen Nabb

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-254-5 (1-56947-254-8)

It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on... Read more >

The Thief

Written by Fuminori Nakamura

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-61695-202-0 (1-61695-202-4)

Winner of the 2010 Oe Prize, Japan

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he... Read more >

The Thief

Written by Fuminori Nakamura

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-1-61695-021-7 (1-61695-021-8)

WINNER — 2009 OE PRIZE, Japan’s most important literary award

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces... Read more >

The Leopard
An Inspector Harry Hole Novel
Written by Jo Nesbo
Translated by Don Bartlett

Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74318-3 (0-307-74318-7)

In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself.

Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both... Read more >

Phantom
A Harry Hole Novel
Written by Jo Nesbo

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95115-1 (0-307-95115-4)

When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now he’s back and, although off the police force, he still has a case to solve. Oleg, the boy he helped raise, has... Read more >

Phantom

Written by Jo Nesbo

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-96047-4 (0-307-96047-1)

Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.

When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong—fleeing the traumas of... Read more >

The Redeemer

Written by Jo Nesbo
Translated by Don Bartlett

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59585-0 (0-307-59585-4)

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. An explosion cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil servant—has little to work... Read more >

The Snowman

Written by Jo Nesbo
Translated by Don Bartlett

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74299-5 (0-307-74299-7)

One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector... Read more >

Borkmann's Point
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Written by Hakan Nesser

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3032-3 (1-4000-3032-3)

Internationally bestselling author Häkan Nesser makes his U.S. debut with this riveting tale of murder and suspense that reveals the deep humanity of the characters portrayed even as it sends chills up the spine.
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police... Read more >

The Inspector and Silence
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Written by Hakan Nesser

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38724-0 (0-307-38724-0)

In this enthralling new addition to Hakan Nesser’s acclaimed Inspector Van Veeteren series, the Swedish detective must crack a secretive and uncooperative religious sect in order to solve a string of brutal murders.

When one of the Pure Life’s members is found raped and strangled in the forest near the group’s camp... Read more >

Mind's Eye

Written by Hakan Nesser

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38722-6 (0-307-38722-4)

Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English.
The swift conviction left Van Veeteren uneasy: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and his wife dead in... Read more >

Munster's Case
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Written by Hakan Nesser
Translated by Laurie Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94641-6 (0-307-94641-X)

Intendent Münster, Inspector Van Veeteren’s right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Håkan Nesser’s internationally bestselling series.

The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn’s life begins auspiciously: With three friends, he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends, after a... Read more >

Munster's Case
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Written by Hakan Nesser
Translated by Laurie Thompson

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90686-1 (0-307-90686-8)

For Waldemar Leverkuhn the day could not have begun more auspiciously. He and three of his friends, all retirees, have just won the lottery. It’s a modest sum when split four ways—certainly not enough to lift Waldemar out of the plain apartment he shares with his quiet, weary wife—but it’s enough... Read more >

The Return
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Written by Hakan Nesser

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3033-0 (1-4000-3033-1)

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is forced to unlock the secrets of a nearly perfect murder in this taut psychological thriller.
On a rainy April day, a body—or what is left of it—is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of... Read more >

Woman with Birthmark

Written by Hakan Nesser

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38723-3 (0-307-38723-2)

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is on the case once more in this breathless thriller of deception, blackmail, and cold murder.

Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. An utterly dull man, the only suspicious... Read more >

Start Shooting

Written by Charlie Newton

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53469-7 (0-385-53469-8)

“The best way I can describe the Four Corners neighborhood of Chicago is find a length of rebar, scratch a big cross into the concrete, set your feet solid in the quadrant you like best, lean back, and start shooting.”

Officer Bobby Vargas is hard-edged but idealistic, a Chicago cop who... Read more >

Nairobi Heat

Written by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Melville International Crime
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-64-6 (1-935554-64-6)

For fans of smart foreign crime books, an action-packed crime story in an unusual setting–Kenya–and rooted in fascinating African history

In Madison, Wisconsin, it’s a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana–famous for saving hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide–accepts a position at the university. Then a young girl is... Read more >

The Poe Shadow
A Novel
Written by Matthew Pearl

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7012-8 (0-8129-7012-8)

2009 Common Reading selection, Collin College (Plano, TX)

“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.”

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion... Read more >

Agents of Treachery

Edited by Otto Penzler

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47751-4 (0-307-47751-7)

For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.

Including:

* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special... Read more >

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories

Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45543-7 (0-307-45543-2)

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.

Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum... Read more >