Volumes: 955 books

The rich, the poor, and the evil take on two New York cops in a gripping novel that rips the city wide open. THE KILLER. The leather-clad owner of a fancy townhouse that looks like a porn parlor, a very wealthy man with one devastating obsession. THE CAST. Brutal, terrifying...

For Detective Joe Dante, a grisly killing is the first shocker in the last case any cop wants… MILLIONAIRE ART COLLECTOR OSCAR WEMBLEY is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his priceless paintings slashed to bits, his blood used to paint vicious epithets on the walls of his Greenwich Village...

She called the lump in Her breast ‘a black pearl’, She called her Mother to nurse Her in the darkest hours, She called memories of the three men She loved at different times of Her life to draw the parallels between seemingly similar situations of betrayal. Who is going to betray Her, who is going...

Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortifications, commanded by regiments of well-equipped elite enemy troops, the Plei Trap Valley was called the superhighway of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So confident of its invulnerability to U.S. assault were the North Vietnamese that they housed a major...

Basis for the film Hannah Lee: An American Primitive MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville “Well,” Montgomery challenged him, “how many people have you killed?” The young man stopped laughing. His face turned into black stone. "Sixty-seven." To...

The Civil War is over. The American West is on the mend. But one man’s battle has just begun as he discovers that freedom and justice are never as simple as black and white. JUSTICE GUN Live by it. Die by it. It was a miracle for gunman Matt Price to make it out of Redemption, Texas,...

Even now, my hand trembles as Iwrite of it . . .A STATUE, unearthed in ancient Babylon during the course of an archaeological dig, is transported to London. Once there, it quickly exerts an evil influence over those with whom it comes into contact; an influence which threatens to spread throughout London, and beyond, and which pits the living against the dead in a battle for all mankind.

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IS ABOUT TO HIT HOME In the United States Army, soldiers are subject to both the laws of the land and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. When either is broken, the case is turned over to a specialized team of detectives whose sole mission is to find the guilty-no matter...

WINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND AGATHA AWARDS FOR BEST TRUE CRIME In 1968, Dr. John Branion was found guilty of murdering his wife in their posh Chicago home. After exhausting his appeals, he evaded authorities by fleeing to Africa. He was finally captured in 1983—but his case was far from over....

TWO NOVELLAS Dead for the Last Time In “Dead for the Last Time,” Larry Sterne is a free-spirited young fellow who comes back to his home town after his first year of college. He learns that an old pedophile has been found dead in an abandoned milk factory and some of his friends...

THE STREETS Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd. A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf. But when a man is struck down by a car outside a posh...

For Detective Joe Dante, a grisly killing is the first shocker in the last case any cop wants… MILLIONAIRE ART COLLECTOR OSCAR WEMBLEY is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his priceless paintings slashed to bits, his blood used to paint vicious epithets on the walls of his Greenwich Village...

Revenge. Blackmail. Murder. Sometimes they add up to justice. THEN It’s 1963. A beautiful young girl dies in the middle of an abortion on a cold table in a motel room. The cover-up is quick, quiet, and—for almost thirty years—worth every penny. N0W It’s 1991....

Lane Weller is a man who is looking for something bigger than himself to believe in. He finds it with Cora McGavin, a woman who is also looking for something more than she has in life now. Unfortunately, Cora is married, and her husband is a bullying sort who always wants things done his way. As a...