A notorious gunslinger is slipped a slow-acting poison by an heiress and told he has three days to track down and rescue her sister, who has been kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums and holds the antidote.
A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion
Seven friends summon a monster when they are tricked into eating burgers made of human flesh.
The professor and the dectective head to Seattle for a teachable talk weekend on murder. Some participants take the theme a bit to seriously as intrigue insues. The added tension of former lovers strains the investigation as ties become increasingly tangled.
People are descending on Elmstead College in Garrison, Washington for the Mystery Book Festival, organized in part by English Professor Amy Winslow, who specializes in crime fiction, and which has as the keynote speaker Professor Emeritus and author of the successful Atticus Keller series of
There have been a rash of middle of the night break-in burglaries at the commercial establishments on Main Street in Garrison, Washington, the latest to be hit being the pharmacy. Out for an early morning run, Garrison Police Detective Claire Tate is knocked unconscious and hospitalized in coming
Amy Winslow teaches mystery fiction at the college where she is a professor, but now real crime and real mysteries are erupting around her with the theft of a very valuable lab specimen, murder, a students disappearance and an apparent suicide. Detective Travis Cole of the local police is
Henry Warner has a wife who wants somebody elses life, a teenage daughter who wants her own apartment, and an eight-metai old daughter who wants to be Wayne Gretzky, while his mother-in-law hates him and his five-metai old son has yet to speak. Henry and his family make an unlikely connection with
When 15-metai-old Alex revealed she was gay to her devout Mormon parents, they feared so deeply for her soul that they took her from their Southern California home and placed her against her will in a conversion therapy home in Utah. Trapped for eight months with strangers, Alex faced horrible
The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
After taking control of the capital, Nannys gang prepares for the biggest smuggling action in the history of Poland.
A beautiful Japanese madam and her ladies. A deranged, drug-addled Tokyo gangster and his crew. A sadistic serial killer on the loose. The intersection of these stories, and the interior world of the characters, plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultraviolence and orgiastic sex, as everyone
Detective Sergeant Lisa Armstrong investigates a missing person in Morecambe Bay.
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.