An excerpt of A Drop of Chinese Blood by James Church introduces Inspector O’s nephew, Major Bing, the long-suffering chief of the Chinese Ministry of State Security operations on the border with North Korea. The last place Bing expected to find the stunningly beautiful Madame Fang—a woman Headquarters wants closely watched—was on his front doorstep.…
An excerpt of Peppermint Twist by John Johnson, Jr., and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami, an insider account of The Peppermint Lounge—a favorite hangout of rock stars, celebrities, and gangsters in the 1960s (available November 13, 2012). The never-before-told story of The Peppermint Lounge, the famed Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout that launched an era.…
Stalked by Allison Brennan is the fifth book in the Lucy Kincaid romantic thriller series (available October 30, 2012). A new trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Lucy Kincaid has already seen more than her share of murder and mayhem. Still reeling from the sex-crime case that sealed her reputation, she’s found a true…
Piggyback by Tom Pitts is a California noir novella (available October 29, 2012). When two young girls disappear with a trunk-load of pot, unaware that their payload has been packed with an extra five kilos of cocaine, a lovable loser persuades a sociopathic killer to pursue them across Northern California in a violent, twisted goose-chase…
An excerpt of Trapped, a thriller by April Christofferson set in Montana (available October 30, 2012). Yellowstone backcountry ranger Will McCarroll is every poacher and trapper’s worst nightmare. His tireless defense of endangered wildlife has made him a national hero, but when Will’s anger over legislation allowing loaded guns in national parks causes him to…
An excerpt of Death in the Floating City, the seventh historical mystery in the Lady Emily series by Tasha Alexander (available October 16, 2012). Years ago, Emily’s childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. …
An excerpt of The Dead Man’s Wife, the third novel in the Detective Mike Coletti series by Solomon Jones (available October 16, 2012). She’s a cop-turned-defense lawyer. Her husband is a research scientist. She lives in a half-million-dollar home. Yet on this night, Andrea Wilson—a woman who seemingly has everything—awakens to a living nightmare. Her…
An excerpt of Dracula Cha Cha Cha, the third book in the Anno Dracula historical thriller series by Kim Newman (available October 9, 2012). Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda—his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire…
Every Monday in September, we will be bringing you serialized audio excerpts from Keigo Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint. You can either click to stream and listen on your computer, or download an MP3 to play on the device of your choice whenever you like! This week, we have chapter 4, so spend your afternoon…
Resurrection Express by Stephen Romano is a techno-thriller filled with intrigue (available September 18, 2012). There is no code Elroy Coffin can’t break, nothing he can’t hack, no safe he can’t get into. But for the past two years, he’s been incarcerated in a maximum-security hellhole after a job gone bad, driven to near-madness by…
