Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood-he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim. Before dying, Allan Armadale reveals that he previously killed a man also named Allan Armadale. It's a revelation meant for his young son who discovers the information as an adult. At this point, he's...

An animal appreciation of life and with various concerns thrown in.

Being dumped sucks. Big time. So when Harry Rhimes helps Lindsey Fairfax walk into his office, and she drops a runaway fiancé case in front of him, Harry knows exactly what's driving her to look for Preston Llyle. And that's where the problems start. What should have been a simple hide-and-go-seek missing persons case explodes into a rolling life and death situation as Harry becomes more and more involved with murders - old, new, and...

The Teeth of the Tiger (1921) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time-Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is the world's greatest...

When a Mexican drug cartel sets up shop in a small mountain community, Agent Buck Taylor of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and his team must put their lives on the line to protect this little piece of heaven. Buck, using his peripheral vision while keeping an eye on the two shooters, looked for cover. Not seeing any, he dropped to a crouch just as the first bullet flew over his head, pretty much where his chest had been just a nanosecond...

A WWII vet wrongly reported dead is on the hunt for his wife's killer. Los Angeles, 1946. Ex-cop and WWII vet Jack Chesley spent years in a German POW camp. But when he finally returns home to Los Angeles, he finds a new kind of torment waiting for him. It seems that after Jack was declared dead, his wife, Wilma, died a year later. The police said it was an accident. But Wilma's twin sister believes it was murder. Setting out to find Wilma's killer,...

For a select few people, friendship lasts forever. Nicky Fusco and Frankie Donovan were friends like that, but that was years ago. Now Frankie's a detective in Brooklyn's Homicide department, and Nicky is a reformed hit man. But when Frankie gets in trouble-and the law can't help him-he turns to Nicky. The problem is that Nicky promised his family, and God, that he'd go straight.

"In my criminal work, everything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise," declares Jack Knox, attorney at law and narrator of this sprightly mystery. Jack's cautiously chivalrous observation is prompted by the beauty and distress of his newest client, Margery Flemming. It seems that Margery's father, a crooked politician, has been missing for over a week. Unwilling to involve the police in her father's corrupt activities,...

All Jackson Dark wants to do is get home and surprise his wife with the special gift he's bought her… Special Delivery forms part of the Case Files series of short crime fiction stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating...