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Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being... (more)

The Blue Edge of Midnight

by Jonathon King

Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him for ever. The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defence in a Philadelphia shootout. The night he stopped being a cop. Now he lives a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Then he finds the corpse of a child beside an ancient river, and Freeman's past explodes into the present. He is thrust into the centre of the search... (more)

The Chicago Way

by Michael T. Harvey

From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles. Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an... (more)

Blue Heaven

by C. J. Box

A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder---four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children’s fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the... (more)

City of the Sun: A Novel

by David Levien

Riveting suspense in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, City of the Sun introduces retired detective Frank Behr—an imposing, charismatic former cop who agrees to take the case of a boy who’s been missing for over a year. Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban Indianapolis neighborhood. He is twelve years old. Somewhere en route, as the October sky... (more)

Bait

by Nick Brownlee

Ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore’s career was cut short by a bullet; ten years later, he runs a game fishing business that is about to go broke. But old habits die hard, and when cerebral Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma—seemingly the only good policeman in a city where corruption is king—asks for his help in solving a baffling murder case, the two men find themselves drawn into a deadly conspiracy involving local... (more)

The Fifth Floor

by Michael T. Harvey

Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (“A wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a major new voice” —Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City’s... (more)

The Fourth Victim

by Tony Spinosa

Several home heating oil delivery drivers have been robbed and murdered. Joe Serpe and Bob Healy, now partners in an oil company of their own, make sure their drivers are safe. But when Rusty Monaco, another ex-NYPD detective, becomes the killer's fourth victim, Serpe and Healy take matters into their own hands. In the course of their unofficial investigation they stumble upon a completely different set of crimes... (more)

The Good Son

by Russel D. McLean

Recipient of two starred reviews in Publishers Weekly for his crime short stories, Russel Mclean’s full length debut has been characterized by authors such as John Connolly and Ken Bruen as the emergence of a major talent. There is something rotten behind the apparent suicide of Daniel Robertson and it’s about to come bursting into the life of J. McNee, a Scottish P.I. with too much baggage. James Robertson, a... (more)

Jump (Library)

by Tim Maleeny

When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isn’t too hard to find suspects. But the police want to call it a suicide, since both the Mayor and press are complaining about the dismal closure rate for homicide investigations. Call it a suicide and no one has to solve the case. But ex-cop Sam McGowan knows it was murder. He also knows that anyone living... (more)

To Oz and Back: A Bones and the Duchess Mystery (The Bones and the Duchess Mysteries)

To Oz and Back: A Bones and the Duchess Mystery (The Bones and the Duchess Mysteries)

by Alexandra Eden

As the first in this endearing series of juvenile mysteries, Alexandra Eden introduces ex-policeman-turned-detective Bones Fatzinger, and clever twelve year old Verity (Duchess) Buscador—a unique pair of crime solvers. They tackle their first case of two twelve year-old best friends, Wanda and Arvilla, who have disappeared. Together Bones and Duchess attempt to decode jumbled messages written by the two girls... (more)

Burn

by Nick Brownlee

Just when Inspector Daniel Jouma believes calm has returned to Mombasa, all hell breaks loose. Bodies are piling up in the morgue, Jouma-s new boss wants answers - and the mayor wants him out. Meanwhile, bulldozers are hurtling towards Jake Moore-s stomping ground. Playing hero, the maverick cop turned fishing-boat skipper faces up to the might of Kenya-s most ruthless - and dangerous - developer. ... (more)

Empty Ever After (Moe Prager Mysteries)

by Reed Farrel Coleman

There are no second acts for the dead...or are there? For over twenty years, retired NYPD officer and PI Moe Prager, has been haunted by the secret that would eventually destroy his family. Now, two years after the fallout from the truth, more than secrets are haunting the Prager family. Moe Prager follows a trail of graverobbers from cemetery to cemetery, from ashes to ashes and back again in order to... (more)

When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel

by Kate Atkinson

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a... (more)

Acts of Nature

by Jonathon King

Hailed for his "extraordinary" writing ( Publishers Weekly ) and his "incisively chiseled characters" ( The New York Times ), Jonathon King returns with a chilling new thriller featuring Max Freeman, the most thoughtful, well-read, and multilayered private eye hero since Spenser" ( Booklist , starred review). Craving some quiet time together, Max Freeman and Detective Sherry Richards retreat to Max’s ... (more)

A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries (Paperback))

A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries (Paperback))

by Philip R. Craig

Hell to the Chief At first, the girl J. W. Jackson encounters strolling alone along South Beach seems like your typical teenager. But there's nothing typical about young Cricket Callahan, the spirited only daughter of the vacationing President of the United States. What ex-cop-turned fisherman Jackson can't figure out is why the feisty First Kid is so intent upon eluding her Secret Service guardians. . .or why... (more)

Color Blind

by Jonathan Santlofer

Kate McKinnon is back -- and this time it's personal. When two hideously eviscerated bodies are discovered and the only link between them is a bizarre painting left at each crime scene, the NYPD turns to former cop Kate McKinnon, the woman who brought the serial killer the Death Artist to justice. Having settled back into her satisfying life as art historian, published author, host of a weekly PBS television... (more)

Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Black Dagger Brotherhood: Book 4

Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

by J. R. Ward

Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living, ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, Marissa, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. If he can't have her, then... (more)

The James Deans (Moe Prager Mysteries)

by Reed Farrel Coleman

It’s 1983 and Reaganomics is in full swing. But beneath the facade of junk bonds and easy money, New York remains a gritty metropolis offering Nirvana with one hand and desolation with the other. Moe Prager, ex-NYPD cop turned reluctant P.I. is too busy reeling from a family tragedy to see what’s coming. He’s about to be sucked into a case that might deliver him what he’s always wanted or plunge him... (more)

Soul Patch

by Reed Farrel Coleman

The Fourth Moe Prager Mystery set in New York City.

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