Returning to his home in Florida only to find himself facing the state’s worst hurricane season and a pair of serial killers vying for ‘most wanted’ status, Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned companion, Coleman, tackle the most challenging case of their careers. By the author of The Big Bamboo. (Suspense)
Archive for the ‘Mystery & Detective’
Deep Lie
At a secret Baltic submarine base, a renegade Soviet commander prepares a plan so outrageous it just might work. In the waters off of a European capital, a lone periscope appears. And waits. And in the long halls of Langley, a CIA analyst comes to a chilling realization. Of course, no one believes her. Which leaves her only one option to save the free world.
River of Darkness
As rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child. The local police dismiss the slaughter as a botched robbery, but Madden detects the signs of a madman at work. With the help of beautiful Dr. Helen Blackwell, who introduces him to the new science of criminal psychology, Madden sets out to capture the killer, even as the murderer sets his sights on his next innocent victims. As darkly stylish as the best P. D. James, rippled with tension and resonant with historical atmosphere, River of Darkness marks the debut of a powerful new voice in suspense writing.
Rumpole Rests His Case
The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the ‘great defender of muddled and sinful humanity’ triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda–She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Chateau Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole ‘is at his rumpled best’ (The New York Times).
Blue Ridge
A rollicking novel filled with unusal wisdom and rare humor follows Clayton, a notorious ne’er’do’well who is known for his devotion to pornographic movies on the satin channel, as he suffers a dramatic personality change that bestows upon him prophetic gifts that win him fame and adulation and force Deputy Ray Tatum to solve the mystery surrounding Clayton’s condition. 30,000 first printing.
