For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a rive...

Following the commercial success of the original Manhattan Noir, mystery titan Lawrence Block explores the historic literary roots of this dark island.Fea...

Reality is losing stability. The Bay Bridge disappears, causing cars crossing it to fall into the sea; a cave lion from the Stone Age finds itself in our tim...

Answers to questions and the very survival of humanity depend on understanding the connection between the Map on the Skin and the Well of Souls. The search f...

Keith Livingston, while searching for the Map on the Skin, unexpectedly meets Arthur Flinders-Petrie, the same one on whose body the Map is inscribed. The fa...

Keith Livingston becomes a participant in the search for the Map on the Skin. However, the evil Count Burley and his bandits are also looking for the Map. Pa...

What role does chance and probability play in human life and in the life of the entire Universe? For example, how random is the formation of our world, gene ...

What is humanism? Can there be morality without God? Without religion, are our lives left without meaning? Stephen Law considers all these questions in th...

The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Pet...

This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary."A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Po...

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singul...

Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Rob...