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An account of a year inside a city homicide unit focuses on three detectives investigating murders in Baltimore--a city torn by racial tensions and plagued by drugs and crime.

Chronicles the experiences of Dr. Branion, who in 1968 was accused and convicted of killing his wife and who, despite the prosecution's knowledge of his innocence, endured more than twenty years of appeals and jail time before he was vindicated. Reprint.

Cheryl Keeton filed for divorce from her husband Brad Cunningham, and became engaged in a protracted custody battle. Her beaten and bloody body was found in her van inching perilously along the Sunset Highway. Police concluded that whoever killed her wanted it to appear as if she'd died in a car crash and also hadn't cared how many innocent people were hurt. Ann Rule tells the story of the crime, the trial, and the aftermath of the case.

Mystery fans will wonder how they ever got along without this easy- to-use, fun-to-browse, 384-page book featuring more than 500 women writers of series mysteries. Over 3,400 titles in more than 600 mystery series are presented in correct order, followed by indexes for mystery types, settings & detectives by name. Also included are an alphabetical listing of all titles, dates of publication, awards information, mystery periodicals, short story anthologies, extensive bibliography & master index.

Embroiled in a tight race for reelection, Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, must ferret out the murderer of the beautiful and somewhat wild wife of one of the local citizens.

Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel -- the debut of the Philadelphia-set Amanda Pepper
series.
Amanda Pepper, English teacher at Philly Prep, does not hate her life. But when a fellow teacher who's engaged to a senate candidate, begs for rest on Amanda's couch, then dies, things could be better. Then the police suspect her of murder, she begins her own investigation, and ends by teaching a certain blue-eyed cop a thing or two....
"Gillian Roberts is a mystery reader's dream come true."
Lia Matera

The quiet life of the Yorkshire countryside is shattered by a brutal murder and the shocking revelations unearthed by Scotland Yard investigators Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynsley. Read by Derek Jacobi.

When private eye Kat Colorado accept a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta's search for a serial killer takes two steps backwards for every one step forward: Someone is destroying the few clues she has to track down the ruthless killer.

The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness---takes home a $250,000 purse.

But this year, the prize is survival.

Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska's premier female "musher," fears she may be the next intended victim, but nothing is going to prevent her from aggressively pursuing the glory and the rewards that victory brings.

Dedicated State Trooper Alex Jensen is determined to track down the murderer before more innocent blood stains the pristine Alaskan snow. But Jensen's hunt is leading him into the frozen heart of the perilous wild that Jessie Arnold knows so well -- a merciless place far from any vestige of civilization, where nature can kill as fast as a bullet...and only the Arctic night can hear your final screams.

A stunning mystery set against the high-country trails of the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas, where the age-old battle of man against nature is fought with a frightening twist. Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country's national parks. In the remote backcountry of West Texas, however, she discovers murder and violence. Fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed, presumably by a mountain lion. But the deep claw marks Anna finds across Drury's throat and the paw prints surrounding the body are too perfect to be real. Suspicious from the start and eager to prevent the needless slaughter of her beloved cougars, Anna can't let the matter rest. The disappearance of another ranger and the frightening reality of a hiking "accident" of her own convince Anna that something is very wrong. Following a trail with few leads, Anna must confront the dark side of the desert. As she comes closer to the truth, she realizes that whatever is stalking the land she loves is now stalking her as well. Atmospheric, evocative, and rich in the mysterious secrets of the Southwestern wilderness, Track of the Cat marks the mystery debut of a superior writer.

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattans infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizlers intellect and Moores knowledge of New Yorks vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man theyre looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historians exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.

Bloodhounds can make you laugh and cuss in the same breath.

When Jack Reacher first shows up in Margrave, Georgia, the local cops arrest him for murder. While Jack is still reeling from the obviously false accusation, he finds out that the dead man is his own estranged brother. Then, it seems that anyone else that he's made contact with is also dead. The town-wide conspiracy has Jack running in circles, but with a little help from the new (and not yet corrupted) chief of detectives, and a young female officer who's taken a shine to him, he may be able to figure out just what is going on in this strange town.

Hectic plans for three family weddings in one summer are made even more hectic by murder. New author Donna Andrews combines murder and madcap hilarity with a cast of eccentric oddballs in a small southern town.

This literary mystery, set in 1990s China, features a homicide detective who is also a poet and translator.

When a wealthy widow disappears, Kinsey Millhone must follow a trail of arson and theft to track down a killer who has plans on finding her first.

Bobby Callahan can't remember who tried to kill him, or why, but he knows someone is after him. He desperately asks private detective Kinsey Millhone for protection, but before he can regain his memory, Bobby is found dead and Kinsey is left looking for an elusive and highly effective killer.

Clarice Starling, an F.B.I. agent searching for an elusive serial killer, turns to a convicted psychopath for help. Dr. Hannibal Lecter--known as "Hannibal the Cannibal" due to his predilection for the taste of human flesh--is aware of his position of power, and manipulates Starling's mind and emotions and he slowly reveals one demented clue after another, leading her closer to the killer, as well as the edge of her own sanity.

Challenged by departmental red tape and a dearth of clues, British detective Peter Diamond must solve the murder of a down-on-her-luck soap opera actress, who was found floating face down in a reservoir.

Although in the midst of a hotly contested judiciary election, candidate Deborah Knott investigates a murder case that has gone unsolved for 18 years.

Muller's popular heroine, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone, faces her greatest challenge when her boyfriend disappears while delivering a $2 million ransom for a kidnapped researcher. Each of Muller's mysteries sells more than the previous, and this 14th ties into her new July hardcover Till the Butchers Cut Him Down.

In the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee some believe the hills are still haunted by a woman kidnapped 200 years ago by the Shawnee. When a convicted murderer escapes from prison and heads home to the wife who divorced him, policewoman Martha Ayres must put superstitions to rest and stop the real flesh-and-blood predator before he kills again. An entry in McCrumb's acclaimed Ballad series, which also includes "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter", and "The Rosewood Casket".

In Walker's second 'Molly Cates' novel, a school bus driver and 11 of his young charges are kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics and held underground at the group's highly fortified compound. Crime reporter Molly Cates steps in to help the authorities, and her ex-husband, negotiate with Samuel Mordecai, the cult's iron-willed leader.

Following the suicide of his police detective brother, journalist Jack McEvoy decides to exorcise his grief by writing a feature on police suicides. Researching his story, Jack stumbles on a shocking federal investigation that leads him to the most terrifying elements on the Internet. In grabbing hold of the story of a lifetime, Jack knows that he is making himself the most visible target for a brilliant killer who has eluded the best investigators in the country.

Sleuth team Bill Smith and Lydia Chin go undercover to investigate what seems to be a few corrupt workers sabotaging the construction of a Manhattan apartment building. But Bill and Lydia soon find out that there's a lot more to this case than meets the eye.

Former FBI man Terril McCaleb is jolted out of retirement when he learns that the woman whose heart now beats in his chest, was not a willing donor--she was murdered. Burdened by a terrible guilt, McCaleb desperately searches for the truth behind the woman's death.

Nominated for the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.

Deep in Derbyshire, a young girl disappears while walking her dog in the woods. A rookie detective is assigned to the case, and must ferret out the truth in a small, inbred, closely guarded community.

Someone is sabotaging the Liberty Harbor Restoration--first with fire, then with murder. As director of the town's Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain should have been glad when the police made an arrest. Unfortunately, it was the one person she believed innocent!

An anti-abortion demonstration leads to murder when a bomb kills two women, and tough Chicago political boss Jimmy Flannery goes after the murderer.

Mystery bookstore owner, Annie, turns sleuth to protect her beloved from an accusation of murder on the set of the local production of "Arsenic and Old Lace."

Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared to that of Agatha Christie.

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myrons prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a familys tragedy, a womans secret, and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business--where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.

When Theresa Galloway's septuagenarian mother calls at 3:00 a.m., she knows it means trouble. Mrs. Barkley, always keen to the goings on in her Sacramento neighborhood, is sure something nasty is going on next door. When Theresa arrives, they find the neighbor dead and a little boy missing. Now Mama wants Theresa to find the child and track down the killer.

Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder.Meet Tres Navarre...tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble.Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre lefttown and the memory of his fathers murder behind him. Now hes back, looking for answers. Yet the more Tres digs, trying to put his suspicions to rest, thefresher the decade-old crime looks: Mafia connections, construction site payoffs, and slick politicians games all conspire to ruin his homecoming.Its obvious Tres has stirred up a hornets nest of trouble. He gets attacked, shot at, run over by a big blue Thunderbird--and his old girlfriend, the one hewants back, turns up missing. Tres has to rescue the woman, nail his father's murderer, and get the hell out of Dodge before mob-style Texas justice catchesup to him. The chances of staying alive looked better for the defenders of the Alamo....

Edgar Award-winner Laura Lippman is developing a reputation as one of the most exciting new detective fiction authors in years. Now she delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, and places Baltimore's Tess Monaghan...IN BIG TROUBLE.First as a reporter and then as a p.i., Tess Monaghan has learned how th survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost. It starts when she gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend with a tantalizing shard of headline attached: IN BIG TROUBLE. The answers lie far frmo Baltimer, deep in a world of good-time music, old-fashioned ambiiton, and rich people's games. For Tessmust find out what happened to a man she thought she knew, to a woman who may have changed him forever, and to the victims of a killer who dances to a different--and deadly---drummer.

The general manager of a top-rated radio station on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Kelly Ryan is delighted by her new life in a tropical island paradise, until she stumbles upon the corpse of a tourist, a loud-mouthed woman found impaled by a spear. Original.

A collection of original crime fiction by today's top female editors and edited by the creator of V.I. Warshawski.

Edited by Tony Hillerman, the Southwest's foremost suspense writer, this first-ever collection of mystery stories set in the West contains 20 original entries by such luminary mystery writers as Marcia Muller, Susan Dunlap, and Robert Campbell.

Fifteen short stories featuring Sharon McCone.

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