Chapter 1 Arnie Blackwell was sweating bullets. He’d sweat so bad on the plane, he felt like he’d just stepped out of a shower fully dressed. When he’d boarded the plane in Atlanta, he’d had no idea that the suitcase he’d used to pack up the cash would be too big for him to…
Blame the Dead by former Army officer Ed Ruggero is the thrilling start to an action-packed and timely World War II series, where an inexperienced police officer and talented field nurse investigate a murder in wartime Italy. 1943. Army Lieutenant Eddie Harkins has arrived in Sicily. After being on duty for 24 hours, he and…
London, 1888. A royal scandal, a murdered madame, and the most notorious serial killer in history call Veronica Speedwell to the aide of the royal family yet again. It’s Autumn, and the intrepid, endearing, adventuring Veronica Speedwell, steps off a train from Cornwall straight into a London terrorized by Jack the Ripper. A Murderous Relation…
Welcome to the Pelican Harbor series, set in Alabama’s Pelican Bay area. Colleen Coble introduces Officer Jane Hardy as she is named interim sheriff after the longtime sheriff (her father) retires. Their relationship is strained and tense. Fifteen years earlier, father and daughter escaped from a cult, tragically, without Jane’s newborn baby. Jane, known as…
While it would be easy to attribute the success of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen to the dynamism of their creative collaboration, that would diminish their individual accomplishments. Hendricks earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, has contributed to the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Allure, and spent more than twenty years…
In the latest from Val McDermid’s bestselling thriller series, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan reunite after a mysterious skeleton turns up on the grounds of an old orphanage. ‘The cases that always took the most out of me were the ones that awoke echoes from my own past. Sometimes I learned as much about myself from…
Charming divorcée Penelope Kent is finally settling into her gorgeous new home in Provence. The English transplant’s first few months in the countryside were fraught with murder, but now she’s looking forward to finishing the renovations on her house, picking up the cello again — and romancing the handsome mayor of St. Merlot. But Fate…
CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Del Sol, a town full of sunshine, fresh air, and friendly faces. (Barring three or four old grouches.) Sunshine Vicram pushed down the dread and sticky knot of angst in her chest and wondered, yet again, if she were ready to be sheriff of a town even…
Fifty years after Michael Crichton came out with The Andromeda Strain—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel. In the year 1969, author Michael Crichton released a novel that was decades ahead of its time. That novel was titled The Andromeda Strain and it also spawned a top-rate film of…
In a post-Sopranos world, Italian-American stories have dried up like a Cucuzza left on the vine. An agent even told me she was sick of Italian mobster stories, and I agreed with her because in the hands of medium talents they descend into caricature; dumb, inarticulate brutes who our hero private eye—despite that he’s a…
