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The Underground Man
A Lew Archer Novel
Written by Ross Macdonald
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder—and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The... Read more >
A Lew Archer Novel
Written by Ross Macdonald
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder—and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The... Read more >
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Cut Throat Dog
Written by Joshua Sobol
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 22, 2010
Price: $15.00
International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller
An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare – because he’s got a way with words – finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy?... Read more >
Written by Joshua Sobol
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 22, 2010
Price: $15.00
International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller
An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare – because he’s got a way with words – finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy?... Read more >
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The Blue Hammer
Written by Ross Macdonald
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $11.99
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before... Read more >
Written by Ross Macdonald
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $11.99
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before... Read more >
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The Weight
Written by Andrew Vachss
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.
Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he’s picked out of a... Read more >
Written by Andrew Vachss
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who’s about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever.
Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, tough and loyal as a pit bull, packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he’s picked out of a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Cut Throat Dog
Written by Joshua Sobol
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller
An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare – because he’s got a way with words – finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy?... Read more >
Written by Joshua Sobol
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller
An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare – because he’s got a way with words – finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy?... Read more >
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eBook.
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Elegy Written on a Crowded Street
A Novel
Written by Peter Plate
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $13.95
Welcome to San Francisco: the first fully gentrified city in America.
May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Plate
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $13.95
Welcome to San Francisco: the first fully gentrified city in America.
May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Kismet
A Kayankaya Thriller (4)
Written by Jakob Arjouni
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
Introducing Kemal Kayankaya, a wise-cracking private detective in Frankfurt – aka, "the ugliest town in Germany."
As a Turkish immigrant raised by Germans, he's regularly subjected to racism in the gritty, working-class city, and getting work isn't easy. So when his friend Romario asks Kayankaya to protect him against... Read more >
A Kayankaya Thriller (4)
Written by Jakob Arjouni
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
Introducing Kemal Kayankaya, a wise-cracking private detective in Frankfurt – aka, "the ugliest town in Germany."
As a Turkish immigrant raised by Germans, he's regularly subjected to racism in the gritty, working-class city, and getting work isn't easy. So when his friend Romario asks Kayankaya to protect him against... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Collusion
A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Written by Stuart Neville
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $25.00
A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer's cross-hairs. To catch the assassin and... Read more >
A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Written by Stuart Neville
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $25.00
A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer's cross-hairs. To catch the assassin and... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Looking for Rachel Wallace
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance... Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post
Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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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
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $25.00
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 >
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch
Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $25.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
Collusion
A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Written by Stuart Neville
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2010
Price: $14.00
A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer's cross-hairs. To catch the assassin and... Read more >
A Jack Lennon Investigation Set in Northern Ireland
Written by Stuart Neville
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2010
Price: $14.00
A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer's cross-hairs. To catch the assassin and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Sailor & Lula
The Complete Novels
Written by Barry Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $19.95
On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and... Read more >
The Complete Novels
Written by Barry Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $19.95
On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international bestseller, Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Third Rail
Written by Michael Harvey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $9.99
Written by Michael Harvey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $9.99
A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is killed as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Then, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege, and Michael Kelly, former...
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The Third Rail
Written by Michael Harvey
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $17.50
A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two hours after that, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege... Read more >
Written by Michael Harvey
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $17.50
A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two hours after that, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Village of the Ghost Bears
A Nathan Active Mystery Set in Alaska
Written by Stan Jones
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire that killed eight people. Read more >
A Nathan Active Mystery Set in Alaska
Written by Stan Jones
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire that killed eight people. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Mortal Stakes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $7.99
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.
Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with... Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $7.99
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.
Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
Early Autumn
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $6.99
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With a contract out on his... Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $6.99
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With a contract out on his... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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Year of the Dog
A Detective Jack Yu Investigation
Written by Henry Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2009
Price: $13.00
"A vivid, street-level portrait."—The New York Times
"An Asian-flavored The Wire. . . . A richly atmospheric panorama of New York's immigrant demimonde."—Entertainment Weekly
"Utterly riveting."—Slate.com
Wherever Chinatowns are located geographically, they form one community; fire a gun in New York and its echo is heard in Hong Kong. In his... Read more >
A Detective Jack Yu Investigation
Written by Henry Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2009
Price: $13.00
"A vivid, street-level portrait."—The New York Times
"An Asian-flavored The Wire. . . . A richly atmospheric panorama of New York's immigrant demimonde."—Entertainment Weekly
"Utterly riveting."—Slate.com
Wherever Chinatowns are located geographically, they form one community; fire a gun in New York and its echo is heard in Hong Kong. In his... Read more >
Valediction
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $7.99
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make... Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $7.99
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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My Dead Body
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.
Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.
Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
My Dead Body
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $11.99
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.
Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $11.99
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER. NOT EVEN A VAMPYRE.
Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pale Kings and Princes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
"Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action... but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction." --Newsweek
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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A Savage Place
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story... Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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Taming a Seahorse
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
Spenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up dead. Read more >
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $7.99
Spenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up dead. Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
Sideswipe
A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $11.99
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy... Read more >
A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller
Written by Charles Willeford
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $11.99
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
