Volumes: 955 books

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY—WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE…? The brain-searing nightmare of world war III left few survivors. These tiny pockets of civilization now face certain annihilation as the Soviet fighting machine advances, tightening its global stranglehold....

Wild Bull Hanson has some reputation. Folks say he's killed over twenty men, including Clint's old friend. Wild Bill Hickok. Strangely, Clint and Bull have never crossed paths. Now a writer wants Clint to help him find Hanson to get his story. Clint is willing to oblige—but for his own reason. The...

Deception turns deadly in the twenty-sixth case featuring Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective." Beyond the wrought-iron gates and behind the stuccoed facades of the Spanish-style houses in the affluent California community of Greenwood, a murderous maze of deceit, adultery, fraud,...

Secret Service agent John Quincannon has found little joy in his life since the day his stray bullet killed an innocent young woman and her unborn child. Still in mourning a year later, Quincannon seeks his solace at the bottom of a jug of sour mash. But he'll have to buck up—and sober up—for...

A FRIEND IN NEED Gunn heads for Plata Butte, right in the heart of Apache country, when he receives a desperate plea for help from Trilla Collins, an old friend of his dead wife. When he arrives at his destination and asks where he can find Trilla, everyone suddenly plays dumb. Gunn wants to...

Twenty-one people in Arizona have a heap in common. They've all ridden into the same triangle-shaped stretch of land—and not one has ridden back out. The Secret Service sent in a woman agent to investigate, and she vanished without a trace. Next they sent in a man who disappeared into the dust....

ON THE RUN AND UNDER SUSPICION, SHELBY WYATT IS GAMBLING WITH HER LIFE.... Welcome to the Golden Phoenix Casino, Shelby. Here, amid the colorful throng of strangers, you can disappear. Anonymous in the feverish rush of the crowd, you'll be safe. In this dazzling world of electric shadows, he...

Fleeing in confusion after tragedy ended her loveless "society" marriage, Kate Danbury sought refuge in a remote Wisconsin farmhouse—and blissful escape in the arms of Blake Koehler. Their "arrangement" lasted an idyllic week—until an intruding world and a jealous woman forced...

For a brief, idyllic time Brooke and Morgan shared a rare and tempestuous passion—before his suspicions and angry accusations sent her away. Now she lives in a run-down section of Boston and works in a dingy nightclub, forcing herself to smile seductively at strangers. No one suspects she is married...

A PLACE TO DIE FOR... Dr. Richard Candlemas's academy had been the place where Meredith Sawyer grew up—a place she had spent her adult life trying to forget. The school's charismatic founder had been gifted with telekinetic powers and an undeniable brilliance, and so had the special children...

"Gorman's writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet."-DEAN R KOONTZ "Gorman is the poet of dark suspense."-BLOOMSBURY REVIEW THE MASTER OF DARK SUSPENSE IN A QUIET MIDWESTERN CITY... ...A community is coming apart at the seams. He is a mild-mannered...

KYLIE THIS, KYLIE THAT Riding instructor Kylie Rainwood had been getting on Tyler West's nerves. His teenage daughter chattered about Kylie morning, noon and night, so why shouldn't Ty resent the woman who'd stolen his child's affections— even as he grew more out of touch? The moment...

A DAY IN THE LIFE Does anybody care about a dead hooker? That's the question Chicago journalist Cat Marsala is wrestling with. The hooker, Sandra Love, is sleeping on Cat's couch in exchange for the inside scoop on life as a prostitute. Now she's dead in a gutter outside Cat's building and nobody...

The last thing a town like New Falls needed was a lady doctor. So when Amy Cornell fills in for Doc Peeler, it's an invitation for trouble. Which means the Gunsmith will be paying a visit, too. After illness strikes one family, Dr. Cornell is forced to quarantine the entire ranch. There's talk...