A tough Irish cop. A prostitute. A massive cover-up that stretches to the highest levels of law enforcement... and its fatal impact on three generations of a New York police family. Harlem, just before midnight. A New York Police Department cop and his partner pull up in front of a tenement. A short while later, Sergeant Brian O'Malley is dead from a stab wound to the jugular, and a prostitute has fallen down an airshaft to oblivion.   A few years...

When the CEO of a local casino is fished out of a lake by former police officer Andy Burns, it sours his otherwise peaceful retirement. Something about the murder weapon, a custom-made knife jutting inches above the late CEO's silk tie, sticks in Andy's mind. He's seen this blade before and Andy is not happy about the implications his admission will mean for an old friend.Sergeant Jolene Hadfield is assigned the case, and despite rampant racism, sexism...

A mob boss is dead, and his widow wants Drake to help him rest in peace Dominic Vennezio is found on the floor of his beachside love nest, murdered on a Sunday night. It looks like an ordinary mob hit, part of a routine power struggle with the East Coast Outfit, but Vennezio's widow has other suspicions. Her marriage to the kingpin had been strained ever since he began taking his secretary for weekends at the beach house, but even now, she feels a...

Step into the seedy underbelly of the Missouri River casinos, where the glitz and glamour of the flashing neon lights belies a darker truth. In this gripping novel, follow the rise and fall of the notorious Pendergast family and their legacy of underground gambling rings. But amidst the hustle and bustle of the casino scene, the city is plagued by a terrifying serial rapist, striking fear into the hearts of its residents. As the police struggle to...

Swan Song for an Agent A band hits the big time. They become hugely successful and tour. It is taking too much out of them, so they decide to break up.Then their agent is found with her throat cut. Nick Storie investigates.Sing a Song of MurderA band becomes successful on the strength of the front man. Things are looking up!Then the man's girlfriends start getting murdered.Final TourA singer is very popular and making millions. Then there are attempts...

The debut novel from longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes, Triple Homicide is the gritty saga of two generations of New York City police officers fighting to stay on the right side of the law. In the early 1990s in New York, easy money stands to be made at every turn, and temptation proves a bitter struggle for the young and much-decorated NYPD Sergeant Steven Holt---and for Steven and his uncle Robert, an officer before him, an...

Sheriff Steele's world shattered as US Marshall Maddox Creel entered her office with a swagger. After he recovered from finding a woman in the Sheriff's chair, he described the days-old escape of a prisoner, Augustus Sims. She couldn't believe her ears. How did this happen?Augustus is not someone you want walking around your neighborhood. A jury sentenced him to life in prison for murder two years ago, and that's where he belonged.Steele promised...

A young girl vanishes, leaving nothing behind but a pile of nude photos Since the Germans occupied Paris, police inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr has not been able to work a murder, robbery, or arson case without his German overlords demanding he work faster. His partner, Bavarian detective Hermann Kohler, does not share the sadism of many of his Gestapo colleagues, but he, too, has an obsession with speed. Their latest case calls for a sprint. For if...

A mystery from the past bursts in upon the present in this gripping Inspector Banks short story- featuring an excerpt from Peter Robinson's new novel In the Dark Places ("Thrilling"-Louise Penny). Acclaimed by Michael Connelly as "a man for all seasons," Inspector Alan Banks is among the most beloved characters in contemporary fiction. And now Banks confronts one of the most puzzling cases of his career- when a tourist claims that several decades...

A thrilling, beautifully written mystery debut that brings Victorian Dublin vividly, passionately to life, drawing readers on a gripping journey of murder and intrigue. In the 1880s the Dublin Metropolitan Police classified crime in two distinct categories. Political crimes were classed as "special," whereas theft, robbery and even murder, no matter how terrible, were known as "ordinary." Dublin, June 1887: The city swelters in a long summer heat...