Policiers & Mystères

Two for Joy: A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery

de Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis. Starred review in Booklist 12/00.It is now two years after One For Sorrow and John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the...

greenhorn

de Francesco Pagot

A gritty, realistic drama set in the malevolent world of human trafficking, GREENHORN shadows Sergeant Hardwood as he tests the resolve of idealistic rookie Pam Horn who has to prove herself to her fiercely...

Powers of Arrest: A Cincinnati Casebook

de Jon Talton

Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department....

Bullet Hole: An Alan Saxon Mystery

de Keith Miles

"In the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match. And never more so than at the British Open Championship, particularly when it is played at Saint Andrews, venerable home of...

The Devil To Pay

de Harold Robbins & Junius Podrug

Nash Novak, a struggling Seattle businesswoman who has been framed for arson and murder, is in desperate need of money for her defense. The only way for her to get it: A coffee plantation she has inherited....

One for Sorrow: A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery

de Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Byzantium, capitol of the 6th century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes. John the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian's Lord Chamberlain, orders...

Drago #6: And the City Burned

de Art Spinella

Only eight hours tip doom.

Nick and Sal are faced with a madman who wants nothing more than to burn Bandon to the ground – for the second time since 1936.

It's a race against the clock. Unravel clues leading...

A Killer in the Street

de Helen Nielsen

It was a Tuesday night in November, 1962. Rain fell slow and steady in Manhattan, slanting hard on near-deserted sidewalks and streets pocked by the occasional twin circles of approaching headlamps. Taxis spawned...

Dead on the Level

de Helen Nielsen

As in her sensational first offering, Helen Nielsen has again come up with a fast-paced and remarkably readable mystery. It begins when a gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would-be...

Death of a Flack

de Henry Kane

Lady on the Make:

She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn't know whether he was in heaven, or tangling...

A Hammer in His Hand

de Whit Masterson

He was called the Werewolf. He was nameless, faceless, a man who gave no reasons and left no clues. But he had a hammer and hate and lust ... and he'd left eight women ravaged and screaming. The ninth victim...

A Kiss Before Loving

de Mack Reynolds

Here is a saucy, realistic ovel of a group of pleasure-seeking expatriates living it up in the Paris that few tourists see . . .

Shelley Halliday, who made a living showing the seamy side of Parisian night life...

Fall Girl

de Richard Deming

Velda toyed with men. Sometimes she gave them what they wanted - sometimes not. But her games were somewhat limited by her marriage. For every time her husband found out about one of her flings, there were jealous...

Episode on the Riviera

de Mack Reynolds

She had coolly planned a campaign to settle her difficulties. A trip to the French Riviera. A stranger - an attractive man without strings. One who would welcome an affair with an American girl.

The first man...

Vice Cop

de Richard Deming

"Are you just going to stand there," Sharon asked the vice cop, "or do you want to join in the game?"

It was in the line of duty, Matt kept telling himself as he played at love with the wild teenager. Just enough...

Death of a Pusher

de Richard Deming

One surprise deserves another.

"Think you'll need any help, Sergeant?" Lieutenant Wynn asked Matt Rudd.

"I don't think so, sir," Rudd said.

"Kuzniki is a dangerous, but he doesn't know I'm here."

"O.K.," Wynn said....

The Severed Key

de Helen Nielsen

Was the crash deliberately contrived, a diabolical piece of sabotage, or was it cruelly fortuitous? Simon Drake-Miss Nielsen's very personable and popular lawyer-detective-happens to be at the airport at the...

Bourbon Street

de G.H. Otis

Savagery prowls the back alleys of New Orleans while a gunpunk tries to pull the deal of his life.

A Shadow in the Wild

de Whit Masterson

At last - they had found their quarry. Gib put his field glasses to his eyes and the pilot held the copter motionless above the mountainside. Gib lowered the glasses, his expression stony. "Let's go down."

"What...

Hot Cargo

de G.H. Otis

The ship was a seam-splitting, creaking, leaking, stinking barge.

It would get by.

The captain was a fat, foul-mouthed, drunken bum.

He'd do.

The crew was cutthroat, cunning, and crooked.

It did its work.

And the...