THE CUTIE
Donald E. Westlake
March 2009

There are many ways to sell yourself.

THE DEAD MAN'S BROTHER
Roger Zelazny
February 2009

It would take more than luck to find the Vatican’s missing millions—in the jungles of Brazil...

KILLING CASTRO
Lawrence Block
January 2009

Some lust for power—others, for retribution...

FIFTY-TO-ONE
Charles Ardai
December 2008

When it came to crime, she wrote the book.

GUN WORK
David J. Schow
November 2008

It’s all about choosing the right weapon.

THE FIRST QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
October 2008

Killing is a young man’s game.

THE MAX
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
September 2008

Max and Angela are going down.

BABY MOLL
John Farris
August 2008

No man escapes the sins of his past.

NO HOUSE LIMIT
Steve Fisher
July 2008

They backed the world’s greatest gambler to bring down an honest man.

SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY
Donald E. Westlake
June 2008

Even a New York cabbie can get taken for a ride.

THE MURDERER VINE
Shepard Rifkin
May 2008

In the Deep South, the days are lovely—but the nights are murder...

SHOOTING STAR/SPIDERWEB
Robert Bloch
April 2008

When murder comes to Hollywood, only a reluctant con man and a one-eyed private eye can deliver justice.

ZERO COOL
John Lange
March 2008

How did an American doctor vacationing in Spain find himself performing an autopsy at gunpoint?

MONEY SHOT
Christa Faust
February 2008

It would take more than bullets to stop Angel Dare.

A DIET OF TREACLE
Lawrence Block
January 2008

She was a good girl—until she found her way to Greenwich Village...

DEADLY BELOVED
Max Allan Collins
December 2007

Some men deserve to die.

DEAD STREET
Mickey Spillane
November 2007

Men would kill for the secrets locked in her head.

SLIDE
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
October 2007

Some people just aren't suited for the lines of work they choose.

KILL NOW, PAY LATER
Robert Terrall
September 2007

Why would a party girl make him a party to murder?

FRIGHT
Cornell Woolrich
August 2007

A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how the nightmare begins. But with whose death will it end...?

SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Richard Aleas
July 2007

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

BLACKMAILER
George Axelrod
June 2007

What did a gorgeous Hollywood starlet have to do with the disappearance of a Nobel Prize winner’s last manuscript?

THE WOUNDED AND THE SLAIN
David Goodis
May 2007

Their vacation in paradise became a descent into hell.

THE VENGEFUL VIRGIN
Gil Brewer
April 2007

Shirley's wealthy stepfather was dying—but not quickly enough...

ROBBIE'S WIFE
Russell Hill
March 2007

Screenwriter Jack Stone knew better than to get involved with another man's wife...didn't he?

LUCKY AT CARDS
Lawrence Block
February 2007

Professional card sharp Bill Maynard was hungry for action—but not nearly as hungry as the wife of his latest mark.

THE PEDDLER
Richard S. Prather
December 2006

Tony Romero's women offered paradise—for a price...

GRAVE DESCEND
John Lange
November 2006

Something’s going down off the coast of Jamaica...

THE LAST MATCH
David Dodge
October 2006

The beautiful heiress on his trail brought a whole new meaning to the term "hot pursuit"...

THE GUNS OF HEAVEN
Pete Hamill
September 2006

One reporter is all that stands between New York City and a terrorist attack.

THE LAST QUARRY
Max Allan Collins
August 2006

The ruthless hitman Quarry comes out of retirement to kill...a librarian?

LEMONS NEVER LIE
Richard Stark
July 2006

Grofield never wanted to get involved with Myers’ crazy plan to heist a brewery payroll—but now he's involved, whether he likes it or not...

STRAIGHT CUT
Madison Smartt Bell
June 2006

Tracy knew something was up when he took the assignment in Rome, but he didn’t realize it involved drug smuggling—or that his his beautiful ex-wife was caught in the middle of the plot...

BUST
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
May 2006

When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath.

WITNESS TO MYSELF
Seymour Shubin
April 2006

Alan Benning knew he was guilty...but of what?

SAY IT WITH BULLETS
Richard Powell
March 2006

Bill Wayne took the road trip through the West to find out which of his former army buddies shot him in the back and left him for dead—but the would-be killer isn't just waiting to be found...

A TOUCH OF DEATH
Charles Williams
February 2006

The burglary sounded like an easy score—but Lee Scarborough didn’t count on having to face off against a woman as ruthless as Madelon Butler.

NIGHT WALKER
Donald Hamilton
January 2006

Navy Lieutenant Dave Young wakes up with his face in bandages, another man’s name on his hospital chart, and a beautiful stranger claiming to be his wife...

THE GUTTER AND THE GRAVE
Ed McBain
December 2005

Matt Cordell may be a drunk—but he’s still the best detective in New York City...

THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HEART
Lawrence Block
November 2005

Hayden and Rance had a scheme to bilk a wealthy entrepreneur out of a fortune, but they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone, an amateur with the soul of a grifter...

THE COLORADO KID
Stephen King
October 2005

Who was the dead man, and what was he doing so far from home?

DUTCH UNCLE
Peter Pavia
July 2005

Harry had done his time and wanted to stay clean—but with his pockets full of drug money and a dead body at his feet, it wasn't going to be easy...

BRANDED WOMAN
Wade Miller
July 2005

Beautiful jewel smuggler Cay Morgan landed in Mazatlán with a gun in her purse — and a vendetta in her heart.

PLUNDER OF THE SUN
David Dodge
May 2005

On the trail of the lost treasure of the Incas — with every fortune hunter in South America closing in!

361
Donald E. Westlake
May 2005

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler destroyed Ray Kelly’s life. Now it’s his turn.

KISS HER GOODBYE
Allan Guthrie
March 2005

When his daughter is found dead, underworld enforcer Joe Hope will stop at nothing to find the person responsible.

HOME IS THE SAILOR
Day Keene
March 2005

Swede Nelson just wanted to meet a nice girl and settle down. So how did he find himself on the run, wanted for murder?

THE CONFESSION
Domenic Stansberry
November 2004

Forensic psychologist Jake Danser needs to prove himself innocent of strangling his beautiful young mistress. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did it?

TWO FOR THE MONEY
Max Allan Collins
November 2004

After 16 years on the run, will Nolan bury the hatchet with the Mob — or will they bury him first?

LITTLE GIRL LOST
Richard Aleas
October 2004

Miranda Sugarman was going to become a doctor. So how did she end up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

TOP OF THE HEAP
Erle Stanley Gardner
October 2004

The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared — but nothing made private eye Donald Lam suspicious like a perfect alibi.

FADE TO BLONDE
Max Phillips
September 2004

Ray Corson agreed to protect Rebecca from a smut-peddling gangster. He just didn’t count on having to become a gangster himself to do it.

GRIFTER'S GAME
Lawrence Block
September 2004

Joe Marlin thought he was just stealing the man’s luggage. But what he wound up stealing was 60 cubic inches of raw heroin — and the man’s wife!