Out
A Novel
Written by Natsuo Kirino

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95

Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.

This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then... Read more >

Strip Search
A Novel of Suspense
Written by William Bernhardt

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $7.99

She likes the sudden seconds of sheer terror. The neon dreams fit perfectly with the dreams that wake her up at night: about the man she loved and lost, about the constant temptations in her life, and about the odds that inevitably she’ll be in the right place at the right... Read more >

Defenseless

Written by Celeste Marsella

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $6.99

They’re overworked, underpaid, and unstoppable: four young women in a big-city attorney general’s office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s not just their careers that are in danger—it’s their lives.

It’s after midnight when a young coed’s body... Read more >

Sunset Express
An Elvis Cole Novel
Written by Robert Crais

Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $7.99

Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s brutal murder. But he’s not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Rossi needs a way back to... Read more >

L.A. Requiem

Written by Robert Crais

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $7.99

The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a... Read more >

M Is for Malice

Written by Sue Grafton

Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1997
Price: $7.99

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N Is for Noose

Written by Sue Grafton

Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1999
Price: $7.99

Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townfolk were sad but not surprised. Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, drank too much, and exercised too little.

Newquist's widow, Selma, didn't doubt the coroner's report... Read more >

K Is for Killer

Written by Sue Grafton

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1995
Price: $7.99

When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail... Read more >

L Is for Lawless

Written by Sue Grafton

Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 31, 1996
Price: $7.99

"THIS IS ONE OF GRAFTON'S MOST FUN-TO-READ BOOKS. . . . One of [Kinsey Millhone's] wildest adventures yet."
--San Francisco Examiner
When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII... Read more >

Every Last Drop
A Novel
Written by Charlie Huston

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00

“[Charlie Huston’s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn

It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt... Read more >