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Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike….
A wheelchair-using woman is strangled, her son Eddy is arrested, and doubts arise about his guilt. The case intensifies as bodies pile up, testing Geraldine’s limits.
Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this next installment in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series….
Army-cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt…
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in an open grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts… especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal….
Robert B. Parker’s PI Sunny Randall’s newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation….
1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie is poised to start a glittering academic career when he falls in love with Amy. But there’s a problem: he’s white, she’s not. Facing arrest, the couple flee South Africa and settle in Cambridge, becoming involved in increasingly dangerous schemes to undermine the South African…
An explosive crime drama, Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights….
A fascinating window in on life in a British maximum security prison, Billy Rags – by the author of Get Carter – is crime fiction at its best: lean, mean, and full of startling psychological depth….
Broke, desperate, and stranded in Abilene after losing his shirt in a poker game, a Harvard-educated actor agrees to help a hard-drinking, hard-living Texas millionaire save himself from bankruptcy in exchange for a ticket out of Texas….
In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carre, The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband’s mysterious disappearance….
An inoffensive man is murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack. DI Geraldine Steel and her team are baffled, until DNA from an apparent stranger is discovered on the victim’s body. Someone is lying and the police must uncover the truth before anyone else is killed……
A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler…
In her latest thrilling adventure, PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery….
*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER* The Western Front, July 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front. One of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate…
Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has marked generations….