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Ten Year Stretch: Celebrating a Decade of Crime Fiction at CrimeFest
By Martin Edwards, Adrian Muller
"--Publishers Weekly The twenty brand new crime stories in this book have been specially commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest, described by the Guardian as "one of the 50 best festivals in the world.
Deadly Detail
By Don Poter
It’s Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Worst Case Scenario
By Michael Bowen
She began to gather her purse up as Davidson opened the top drawer of his desk and fumbled in it. “Nah, gimme ten minutes,” he said. “I enjoy talking about Sharon, and I'm not going to stop just because some kid's too important to do ...
Lazarus, Arise

If I can learn from Molly's contacts where Geist's passport shows he'd been before he met the grim reaper in ... keen young man with a keen young face and a keen young haircut, who leaned across the table toward his companion and ...
Fever Dream
By Dennis Palumbo
Hidin' in plain sight, like they say. Stubbs musta thought he was bein' clever.” “Not as clever as you, turns out. You and your old Blackwater buddy, Ronny Baxter.” Roarke did his best to hide his surprise. “That was Ronny on the phone, ...
Love, Honour, and O'Brien
By Jennifer Rowe
'That's very brave of you, dear,' said Mrs. Moss. For the first time Holly noticed what a sweet voice she had. Soft, high and very slightly husky, like a flute. 'It's probably just as well, anyway,' said Abigail.
Lone Star: An Edna Ferber Mystery
By Ed Ifkovic
It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant.
Photo Finish
By John McEvoy
His name is Bakken. Horace Bakken, I think. The building manager told me Bakken is either unmarried, or divorced. I'd guess the latter. He's always knocking on our door to see 'How you young Irish girls are doing?' A real pain the arse.
Mute Witness
By Charles O'Brien
Its owner, an aged count is murdered. And a venal police inspector threatens to derail Anne’s project. The story rises to a violent climax in a vast limestone caveoutside Paris where the city has begun to bury its dead.
Drive
By James Sallis
They drove cross-country in Nino's cherry and cherry-red Cadillac, pulling into truck stops a couple times a day for hamburgers and steaks, making do the rest of the time with chips, Vienna sausages, sardines, Fritos.
Panthers Play for Keeps: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir
By Clea Simon
When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn’t expect to find a body.
Poisoned Ground: A Rachel Goddard Mystery
By Sandra Parshall
"A fast-paced plot with plenty of false leads keeps the reader turning the pages."—Publishers Weekly When a powerful development company sets its sights on Mason Country, Virginia, as the location for a sprawling resort for the rich, the ...
Washington Deceased
By Michael Bowen
“Gardner was heading around to the front of the building to go in by the main entrance. As he approached the basement door area, though, he saw another inmate named Lanier in the process of coming out through that door.
The Mark of the Pasha
By Michael Pearce
The bane of Zeinab's life were the forms she had to fill in. They were the bane of CairnsGrant's life, too, and he had delegated them all to Zeinab. She had processed them honourably and diligently, but that was really not her sort of ...
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

“Mickey, this is Marcel.” “Yeah, li'l brutha. What it is?” Mickey said. “Look, we got a guy owes money tryin' to make a run-out, and I want him stopped. How many men you got there?” “Oh, I reckon four boys 'round here somewheres,” ...
The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians
By Roger M Sobin
... The Howie Bowles, Secret Agent Shadow Horse Dolphin Luck Green Thumb 1999 Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Alice Rose and Sam Wreckers, The Kidnappers, The Holes Blue Balliett Peg Kehret Patricia Finney Daniel Pinkwate Zilpha Keatley ...
Missing Persons
By Michael Brandman
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best selling author, Michael Brandman.
Hair of the Dog: A Dan Mahoney Mystery
By Susan Slater
It sounds like some work and mostly play when United Life and Casualty sends its investigator Dan Mahoney to Florida.
Five O'Clock Shadow
By Susan Slater
Susan Slater reveals the same sharp offbeat plotting skills, the zest for language, and colorful scenes that marked her caper Flash Flood where “troubles buildlike thunderheads over New Mexico skies.” [Publishers Weekly]
Flash Flood
By Susan Slater
And the high stakes. A surprised Dan hadn’t counted on witnessing a murder, falling in love, or becoming the pawn of federal agents. It’s the flash flood that changes everything.