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“They pushed, and they pushed, and they…pushed; now they will pay with their lives.”From the Back:High school is hard, but for four seniors who have been bullied all of their lives, enough has now become more than enough. For years, they endured the wrath of their classmates, schoolyard...

My name is Nicolette Mace, though the city knows me as the Raven Siren. I'm the youngest private investigator most people have ever come across. I've been in hospital more times than I have been in a school class room. I was playing with guns when I was four years old; I knew how to drive cars...

Standing between Bo and Slick and $642,000 from the bank job: Prison. A hurricane. A horny cop. A naked priest. An angry cab driver. Two wanna-be criminals. A speeding train. A hot soldering iron. A peeping tom. A fed-up girl. A gun dealer. A homeless lady. An empty shotgun. A girlfriend with...

To see more is to find oblivion... Screenwriter Tommy Pic fell hard from Hollywood success and landed in a psychiatric ward, blacked out from booze and unmedicated manic depression. This is not the first time he's come to in restraints, surrounded by friends and family who aren't there. ...

It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies – and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer – Quarry’s got his work cut out for him. NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES! The longest-running series from Max...

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It’s not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences—but coming after Quarry has consequences, too.

Murder. Suspense. Sex. And some handy household tips. IN BOOK 9 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES: It's up to Donna Stone to save a hotel filled with international dignitaries from the terrorists whose usual demands are million-dollar ransoms. But this time, the price is much higher,...

Two dead junkies. One missing girl. And a deranged killer who plays God like the devil. Brooklyn’s grittiest neighborhood delivers another gruesome crime to Special Victims Unit detectives Danielle Foster and Carter Dobbs, this time a double homicide that quickly proves to be one of the most...

The Death Panel: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness features 13 stories from authors of crime, suspense, and horror. Sadistic serial killers, German war criminals, cops and zombies, the mob and monsters, detectives and were-creatures, all rolled up into one roller coaster ride of an anthology. Ultra violent,...

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961. AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME. AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two...

Short stories are the poetry of prose. Mistakes, in a novel, can be buried. In a short story, they stand out like roaches on a sugar cookie. Short stories are precise, cut to the bone, every word a necessity. A novel may go far afield, but a great short story requires unbelievable restraint. Not many...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  PROTECTOR is the gut-wrenching, heartrending story of hard-bitten Denver homicide detective Jane Perry and nine-year-old Emily Lawrence. Emily has witnessed the murder of her parents – murders that the authorities believe are part of a larger wave of crime. However, Emily...

Emerson James used to be a dangerous man, but you’d never know it. To everyone who knows him now, he is the distinguished Dr. James—respected professor, scholar, and lecturer. To accomplish this, he had to change his life completely.Thirteen years ago, after participating in unspeakable...

"Brendan DuBois is a fine novelist and easily the best short-story writer of his generation." --- Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author.In his sixth book in the Lewis Cole series, mystery author Brendan DuBois takes a look at the special kind of madness that descends upon New Hampshire...