Stuart Kaminsky: 65 books
Mystery Midrash
An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Confront murder, mayhem—and your own mysteries of being.
From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this...
On a Raven's Wing
New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Rupert Holmes, S. J. Rozan, Don Winslow, and Fourteen Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself.
Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working their eerie magic on readers of every stripe—thrill-seekers,...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In the Edgar Award–winning crime series featuring a veteran Moscow cop, “Kaminsky evokes Russian life like a born Muscovite” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
During the widespread corruption of the Yeltsin era, violent crime has risen in Moscow by 200 to 300 percent, keeping Inspector Porfiry...
Double Shot
Two Full Novels: Bright Futures and Not Quite Kosher
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Abe Lieberman: a strong, sympathetic Chicago cop. His love for his family is matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to do what is right. Sometimes he's faced with some uncomfortable ethical choices in order to see that justice—rather than the letter of the law—is meted out.
Lou Fonesca**:**...
Melody and Murder
Two Novels
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
From Hollywood’s Golden Age to a rock ’n’ roll tragedy, this pair of detective novels from two award-winning maestros of mystery hits all the right notes.
From Edgar Award–winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky, Dancing in the Dark shines a light on the 1940s Los Angeles dancing scene. Paired...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
“Never miss a Kaminsky book, and be especially sure not to miss Death of a Russian Priest.” —Tony Hillerman, New York Times–bestselling author
In the darkest hours of communist rule, Father Merhum fought to protect the sanctity of the Orthodox Church. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Howard Hughes hires Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters to find stolen blueprints in the “marvelously entertaining” series (Newsday).
Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secrets. He likes to keep them—and he definitely doesn’t like having them stolen. Hollywood PI...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
A Soviet cop stars in this novel of “sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers” (The Washington Post Book World).
The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink,...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The stakes are life and death when Bela Lugosi is threatened in this “affectionate parody of the hard-boiled private-eye” genre (The New York Times).
1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie palace, five vampires crowd around Bela Lugosi. They should not frighten the fading...
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
“A page-turning romp” from the Edgar Award–winning author featuring a nutty dentist, a killer crossbow, and Joan Crawford in 1940s Hollywood (Booklist, starred review).
Mildred Minck is an unremarkable woman—until one tragic night in June 1944 when she becomes the first citizen of Los...
People Who Walk In Darkness
An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
After a very long absence, Forge is delighted to be bringing back one of Edgar award winning Stuart Kaminsky's best loved characters, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union Russia. Known as "The Washtub,"...
Not Quite Kosher
An Abe Lieberman Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
An Abe Lieberman mystery
Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom," says The Washington...
The Dead Don't Lie
An Abe Lieberman Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The Dead Don't Lie is the latest in Edgar Award winner and MWA's Grand Master Stuart Kaminsky's Abe Lieberman mystery series. Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, are hell or heaven bent on making the mean streets of Chicago just a little safer.
As usual they have their hands full. Three...
Retribution
A Lew Fonesca Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front...