"Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at short...

'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kin...

If ever a subject begged to be associated with crime it is gambling, writes Otto Penzler in his introduction to this collection of short stories set at th...

James Bond. Agent 007. The most famous spy in the world. The hero of Ian Fleming’s legendary novels, which served as the basis for a super-popular film epic ...

An old-school reporter discovers that the search for the truth is still full of surprises in a twisty short thriller from bestselling master of suspense J...

Things started out so sweet. Everyone was going to be rich. All because of Trunk Man. He was the guy Papa and his meatheads stuffed in the back of a stole...

Daniel Pell, sentenced to life for brutal murder, makes a daring escape from his cell. The search for the criminal is carried out by Katherine Dance, an expe...

Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year’s most distinguished tales of m...

After just three years, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES series is already a great success, earning raves from such diverse sources as Joyce Carol Oates,...

A homicidal maniac appears in Monterey County. His calling card is a grave cross by the road, with the date of the assassination indicated on the cross. The ...

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award — winning author C. J. Box.

When the FBI comes to Lincoln Rhyme with the news that a mysterious assassin is targeting him, the detective is not particularly concerned. With his long ...