Mystery/Crime

"Gems fascinate me--the way women do. Like women, each gem is different. Each has its own individual coloring and shape. It can be a glittering thing, full of fire--or it can be cold and forbidding." Mike Sloan, most-wanted jewel thief and respectable jeweler on the side, was an expert with both gems and women. He could always get a beautiful woman to front for him. But tonight was his biggest and most dangerous job--and it would take more than a beautiful woman to keep Mike Sloan warm--and ali... more info>>

When Sally Oliver discovers her husband of only three months has murdered two previous wives, she flees for her life with the aid of her friend, Julia. Jimmy, obsessed with getting Sally back, follows her and Julia to Seattle. Even with detectives Williams and O'Brian on the job, Jimmy manages to kidnap Sally twice. He then discovers his third wife is helping the police. The three women take matters into their own hands and disguise themselves to track Jimmy down.

A private eye and an Arizona sheriff put their heads together to solve a murder and an attempted murder.

THE DEVIL'S DANCE! A ring of evil buried in an ancient forest, the Devil's Dance belongs to the country of the Melungeons, that strange race of outcasts whose prehistoric origin is unknown. People believe that they worship the Devil himself, practicing obscene rites and drinking the blood of their victims during their debauched rituals. When Christine arrives at the ancient mansion where her sister's staying, she hears all the lurid stories about the curious country folk. Then she discovers she ... more info>>

"Marry me, Anna, Be my wife--" When Tavas Haspura wills the Devil's Gate ranch to Anna instead of his own nephew, Ivan, the words Anna has hoped all her life to hear from her secret love bring suspicion and fear rather than joy and anticipation. Anna soon discovers the isolated Nevada ranch is in a state of panic. Mysterious cattle mutilations cause rumors of witchcraft, threatening to plunge the ranch into financial ruin. When Ivan's wife Colleen turns up missing and her body is found deep in t... more info>>

The Inspiration for Perry Mason! Erle Stanley Gardner used to read the Gillian Hazeltine courtroom mysteries, as an attorney himself, they inspired Gardner to create his own lawyer sleuth, Perry Mason. Now read the original!! Although the unusual aspects of The Diamond Bullet Murder Case fascinate the great criminal lawyer, Gillian Hazeltine, he refuses to take the case--convinced the defendant cannot possibly be saved, for the defendant's fiancée, Nellie Hearthstone, a terrified orphan, confess... more info>>

PI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teen-age daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The local law enforcement says it's an accident. Mary thinks it's murder. Frank is broke and the money Mary offers is too good to pass up, but his case quickly becomes more complicated when the stable manager is murdered one day after he starts his investigation. Frank soon discovers that there is much more going on here,... more info>>

First Three Classic Books Featuring "The Greatest Medico-Legal Detective Of All Time!" That's what the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection hails R. Austin Freeman's legendary fictional sleuth, Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke, forensic scientist and attorney. Like Sherlock Holmes, he is concerned with spying out concrete clues from which he can build irrefutable evidence against those guilty of crimes like theft an murder. A resident of London's Inner Temple district, Thorndyke is tall, slender, athl... more info>>

The plague came, seemingly, from nowhere, striking down tens of thousands without reason or mercy; and the stricken community rallied for whatever protection it could find. When PI Dick Hardesty is hired to investigate the murder of a man who was a willing partner in the slaughter, he must wend his way through a convoluted maze of suspects to find the one person responsible. And, as always, he learns that things are never as simple as they first appear.

There's evil hiding in the hills....There's a terrible secret buried in the drowning Chittenden hills. A generation ago, Janie Bainbridge's mother ran from that secret, leaving the hills forever for a life in the city. She never returned. A year ago, when they finished the dam and the hills began to drown, the secret found Janie's grandfather--and it killed him. Today, rebuilding her life in the wake of a nightmarish divorce, Janie's returned to Chittenden. Returned to face the secret that creat... more info>>

The harsh realities of village life in Colonial New England are fertile ground for gossip and superstition. Catherine Williams, a wealthy widow and midwife, refuses to believe that an Irish Catholic servant girl is to blame for the mysterious death of a newborn infant Catherine delivered. With the help of her Native American servant, Massaquoit, she must use the town's own religious prejudices to discover the truth. Historical Mystery by Stephen Lewis, originally published by Berkley Prime Crime

'"Brilliantly Constructed and Convincingly Told!" Wrote The London Times. Don't miss this handpicked trio of our editor's favorite Oppenheim thrillers! E. Phillips Oppenheim was one of the inventor's of the spy novel. Before James Bond 007, Oppenheim's debonair British agents were busy saving the free world from enemy agents, traitors, and vengeance seeking madmen. And romance is one of the strongest elements of any Oppenheim masterwork. All his books could be summed up by this review from the L... more info>>

Tad Summers, a brilliant young man, lost his voice early in his life when his vocal cords were crushed during a horrific accident when he was a small child. His father, a special agent for the United States Federal Government, was killed in this crash. Watching his father die in his arms and not being able to help or even talk to him at the time, has turned this man into a crusading crime fighting character. Turning adversity into benefit, he worked his way through school to become a professor a... more info>>

Agent Jim Anderson has retired from the Agency due to an eye injury he acquired after seeking revenge against his wife's killers. He's found all but the ring leader, Dick Hendersen. When he leaves the Agency, he's given a new identity: Tom Casey, Private Investigator. He moves to the remote Copco Lake in northern California, where his ability to heal injured hawks earns him the nickname Hawkman by the local residents. There he meets, Jennifer Morgan, a young widow. Dick Henderson is the double a... more info>>

The classic adventures of a "female Sherlock Holmes"! Return to the era of the gaslight and the Hansom Cab. Encounter murder Victorian-style in this classic first published in 1893. Loveday Brooke was one of the most popular of the fictional female detectives to rise to popularity on the wave of demand for mystery stories that swept the U.S. and U.K. in the wake of Sherlock Holmes' unprecedented success. Loveday was also one of the most unique and modern of all fictional female detectives of her... more info>>

I hadn't reread this book in years. When I began to prepare it for FictionWise, I discovered that it may be the best book I ever wrote. How do you simultaneously chase a serial killer and fight a massive hurricane? Mark Shigata and Al Quinn have to do it.

Sentiment gets lost ... a wilderness of pain replaces it. Detective Sergeant Rachel Blake investigates domestic violence. And wonders how--or why--a heart complicates matters, and makes a woman stay.

Anne McPhail is back in Culver's Mills, Vermont for a quiet holiday. But Culver's Mills is an unlucky spot for her vacation. She finds the dead body of a naked man, and is soon helping her friend Adam Davidson to investigate the murder. Who is the dead man and what was his involvement with the theft of a painting and a sampler from the art gallery? Who owns the art, James Trevelyan, an elderly man whose genealogy may hold the key, or the owners of Evan's, the restaurant where they were found?... more info>>

Skewered by a Spear and Barbecued! Seattle gay art gallery owner Horton Lendland is definitely dead, and it wasn't just a wienie roast! The suspects are legion: A hustler--two business partners--the best friend--the once-successful painter--the Catholic priest--sundry street urchins--the gay bar owner--the S&M crowd--the American Indian--the teacher accused of pederasty. Trouble is, the Seattle P.D.'s too busy chasing serial killers to spare anyone but the young, inexperienced Detective Cord Max... more info>>

Green-haired Henrietta hires Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, to help her feed two dogs, Ralph and Patsy. Sounds simple enough. However, Tom soon discovers the dogs are Presa Canarios with a taste for human blood and they guard a warehouse marijuana plantation.

The First Mystery Novel Megabestseller & Two Others! When Fergus Hume's classic detective novel Mystery of a Hansom Cab first appeared in 1888, two years after the initial magazine appearance of the first Sherlock Holmes story, it created a sensation. Doyle's creation had whetted the public appetite for tales of mystery and detection, and Hume's Mystery of a Hansom Cab appeared to satisfy that hunger. Almost half-a-million copies were snatched up in the United Kingdom alone, an unheard of sale f... more info>>

THE FIFTEENTH LETTER Book 3 of the Falcon's Bend Series by Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler Sins of the father... For the past fifteen years, on the anniversary of his arrest for armed robbery, Zeke Carfi has received a threatening letter signed by the wife of his deceased partner in crime. Zeke's daughter Amber, Falcon's Bend Police Department's newest patrol officer, has spent fifteen years holding onto a secret that could further condemn the father she'd worshipped as a child. When Zeke is re... more info>>

In The Final Problem, the original, public version of the final confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty was told. Now, at long last, the truth of these events is revealed in The Final Solution. The year is 1892 and the murder of Sir Anthony Roberts, a prominent young judge, leads Holmes and Watson along a deadly trail that leaves them on the wrong side of the law. From London high society through the depths of the city, Holmes and Watson must battle both Moriarty's forces an... more info>>

"The Scientific Detective," John Dickson Carr. Arthur B. Reeve's Craig Kennedy, Carr writes, "Was the scientific detective. His laboratory flashed with stranger sparks, and bubbled with more weird beakers and test tubes, than the laboratory of the late Dr. Frankenstein. For each occasion, he had some new gadget, guaranteed sensational, to clap on somebody's wrist or wire underneath their chair. He was the first in the field of fiction with the lie detector, with murder by electrolysis, with radi... more info>>

Three classic MRR spellbinders in one inexpensive eBook! Download Rinehart's best, The Bat, The Breaking Point, and Where There's a Will--for one low price! Rinehart's mysteries are filled with love and humor, and feature ordinary people in terrifying situations that could happen to anyone. You have a relative with a will, don't you? Could it be the springboard to murder in your family? Everyone has a breaking point? What's yours? If an insane murderer picked you out as a target, how confident d... more info>>