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The first death could have been an accident. When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record, I... More

The sins of the past come back with a vengeance in this complex, multilayered thriller which finds Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigating the case of a murdered freelance music journalist, a case that will take him back through more than 30 years into an old murder that may be chillingly... More

A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose ...When Rebus also starts looking into the a... More

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives insi... More

Secret agent Tara Chace, introduced in "A Gentleman's Game," is coaxed back into the game with a chance to vindicate herself. Sent to Uzbekistan, Tara is going to find out that the War on Terror is more terrifying than anyone knows.Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genre' s most fearless writer, would d... More

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for... More

The new collection from Ruth Rendell comprising of the bestselling short stories "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy". 'Murders sometimes seem an afterthought to Rendell's stories: the obvious way to closure but not really necessary to compel our atten... More

Tough and complex, Detective John Rebus gets personally involved in a case when he rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering a French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. But when his daughter is mortall... More

"A...beautifully written series." -"The New York Times Book Review" When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the... More

"A classic."--"The London Times What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one b... More

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville Wes... More

What begins as a case of typical British indiscretion, when a prominent member of Parliament is caught in a police raid on an Edinburgh brothel, turns into a nasty murder investigation when his party-happy wife is soon found beaten to death. It's up to Inspector Rebus to learn whether the MP is self... More

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard faade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie herself. ... More

Newly arrived from London, Chief Inspector Alan Banks finds himself at the center of small town outrage over police failure to apprehend a Peeping Tom. Then an elderly lady is found brutally murdered, and Banks is faced with choices he hoped he'd never have to make when his wife is drawn into the cr... More

In a crumbling housing development in Edinburgh, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus tracks down a young woman who knew the dead boy and heard him cry out his terrifying last words: "Hide! Hide!" Now, with the help of a bright, young detecti... More