No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on--a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person--the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir...

BA ShapiroOn March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art...

Barbara O'Neal When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate―and a title to go with it. Raw with grief...

Stephen Coonts The headlines only reveal half the truth. Here’s the real story. . . . Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing...

Thomas Gifford For fans of The Da Vinci Code: A conspiracy thriller about an age-old brotherhood of killers. Once hired by princes of the Church to protect it in dangerous...

Brad Thor   The world’s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . . From behind...

Emma RousA grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V. C. Andrews and Kate Morton had a literary love child, Emma Rous’...

Ruth Rendell   The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.'A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving...

Anna Blundy Faith Zanetti isn't covering Israel out of some kind of altruism. She's there because she got posted there by the fat drunk who is her foreign editor. And...

Margaret ScherfFirst published January 1, 1978

Ian RankinOver the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories. Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share the best qualities...

Jonathan Lethem, editor New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction. For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.”...