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New York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson is back with The Lost, the second spine-tingling entry in her supernatural noir trilogy, Celestial Blues. Fallen angel Griffin “Grif” Shaw and his mortal lover, reporter Katherine Craig, are trying to learn the truth about Grif’s death...

Murder, suspense, sex--and some handy household tips. IN BOOK 12 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES: There is only one way for housewife assassin Donna Stone to save her husband and mission leader, Jack Craig, from torture and termination: become a traitor and act as a double agent for...

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).  In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead,...

FIRST WINNER OF THE FRANK WATERS SOUTHWEST WRITING AWARD Circling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent ​Dolph Martinez​ to the corpse of a man executed in the desert…a murder that shatters the fragile calm in a​ dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against the Mexican Army,...

According to Fiora, my dead Uncle Jake taught me more than I should know about adrenaline, smuggling, and borders. I liked it way too much. That was what drove Fiora and me apart. Lately, though, we had been doing well together. I didn’t want to see it end. Neither did she. But yesterday always comes,...

"McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER This time out, McGee came close to losing his status as a living legend when he agreed to track down the killers who brutally murdered an ailing millionaire. For starters, he renewed an unfinished adventure...

For fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and Gillian Flynn. She's no killer. She's just taking out the trash. Don’t call Lucy Kendall a serial killer. She’s fighting for the innocent, and she’ll do whatever it takes to bring justice. When a child disappears, Lucy quickly...

Fiddler and Fiora: Book 5 I had been on the road for weeks, trying to burn out my anger at Fiora for pulling in the FBI rather than letting me handle a case my way. Then a flat tire and a cold wind sent me into the shelter of a Santa Fe art gallery. No problem, right? A tire is a tire is a tire. Wrong...

The Indiana Paranormal Investigators are spending a night in a gothic mansion on the outskirts of Cedar Point, Indiana. Four people are participating...only three remain in the morning. There have been other disappearances and homicides in the past connected with the mansion. And the one common denominator...

A mother won't talk even after one of her children is killed. Walker has to try and break her down, while dealing with the murder of an old friend. Another winner! Both somber and entertaining. DLF Review http://markconnollyauthor.com

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author RED ADEPT SELECT   “Imagine a killer who can kill at will from a distance. No gun, no weapon. Nothing more than a thought." Catherine Mans has the ability to see and hear what others can’t. With the help of Homicide Sergeant...

Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is… THE OWL Haunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate. The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure. SCARLET SERENADE It’s...

So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric...

A killer rises… Determined to start over, Lucy Kendall moves to Washington, D.C., and takes a position with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But the past doesn’t want to let her go. When a police officer walks into her office and tells her the unthinkable,...