In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with... more »

Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.Small towns are like families:Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secret... more »

The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen presides with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. So when a belligerent Hell's Ang... more »

A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their headswhile frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as they curl their... more »

The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor McGoorty is master billiards writer Robert Byrnes racy account of the life of Danny McGoorty, a billiard... more »

As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle... more »

The Lonesome Gods is LouisL'Amour's biggest and most important historical novelto date, a sweeping adventure of the Californiafrontier. Here is the fascinating story of JohannesVerne, a young... more »

The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activi... more »

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine i... more »

"New York Times bestselling author Patrick A. Davis returns with an electrifying novel of murder, the military, and one man's search of the truth. Air Force investigator Martin Collins is used... more »

Haunted by the death of her mother and tortured by the secret that died upon her best friend's lips, assistant district attorney Mary Crow is obsessed with finding the man who holds the key to both... more »

In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own ... more »

The fight against terrorism has reached the next level and now America will really go to war. A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of ... more »

Official Selection of the NBC Today Book Club. In the small town of Promise, Oklahoma, Chief of Police Charlie Grover has his fair share of trouble on his hands. Being a single father of a... more »

"Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window gets an affectionate kick in the butt in this homage from master crime writer, philosopher, and equal-opportunity offender Kinky Friedman. It's ... more »

"""The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am ... more »

The annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, once the home of James and Dolley Madison, are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. The race meet offers a c... more »

"Corruption. Deceit. Cold-blooded murder. These skies are far from friendly. Tough, resourceful, and beautiful, Alex Shanahan survived the cutthroat corporate world on her own terms. But now, ... more »

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery. Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia--a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as ... more »

A hanging party rules the badlands and a lone rider races for his life.  Falsely accused of back-shooting a man as he stood sipping whiskey in a saloon, Matt Keelock takes on a posse of angry men wi... more »

Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, and was al... more »

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would hav... more »

PRAISE FOR LAUREN HENDERSON AND THE SAM JONES SERIES “Wickedly funny . . .”— New York Times Book Review “Sharply intelligent. . . . Hipper than hip.”— Denver Rocky Mountain News more »

In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sni... more »