Whit Masterson: 7 books

12:10 a.m. When he pulled the girl out of the darkened car his intentions were simple and terrible 2:30 a.m. The tough police lieutenant found that the stolen girl was his daughter 3:57 a.m. A Shore Patrolman spotted the girl’s purse in a trash can outside the window of a Skid Row...

The newspapers called it the Crime of the Century. The extravagance was understandable. The crime would have made headlines had it happened to an ordinary citizen, but this blow had been struck at Andy Paxton. His golden voice had made him an American institution. Lissa, his actress wife, was almost...

So you’re a divorce detective—it’s a dirty business, but you operate as clean as you can. A rich man hires you to tail his wife, because he thinks she’s cheating on him. She turns out to be the woman who cheated on you, once. Then she gets killed . . . and you know you were picked to take the rap . . .

A revisit of the 1950s classic that inspired Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most...

He was called the Werewolf. He was nameless, faceless, a man who gave no reasons and left no clues. But he had a hammer and hate and lust ... and he’d left eight women ravaged and screaming. The ninth victim would never scream again. The rapist had turned killer, and the shadow of his hammer hung...

At last - they had found their quarry. Gib put his field glasses to his eyes and the pilot held the copter motionless above the mountainside. Gib lowered the glasses, his expression stony. "Let’s go down." "What is it?" Restibo asked anxiously, reaching for the binoculars. "It looks...

The Death Ship moved slowly toward the land bringing a cargo of terror and a threat more deadly than a bomb. Only a handful of men and one woman could stop the annihilation of mankind.