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  • From a Whisper to a Scream

    Samuel M. Key

    Originally published under the pen name "Samuel M. Key""Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events."In ...

  • Into the Shadows

    Jordan K. Weisman

    MERCS, MAGIC, AND MURDER-- In the world of the future, reality has shifted. It is a time where supercorporations are the true rulers, and their corporate wars, power games, and espionage missions all too often rampage out of control. The nation is...

  • Target: Subic Bay

    Mack Tanner

  • The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant. Then, with The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, he launched a thrilling n...

  • Nomads of the Sky

    William H. Keith Jr.

  • War Drums

    John Vornholt

    The planet Selva--a lush colony world settled by a hardy group of humans, who found the planet already inhabited by a small gang of young Klingons. When violence erupts between the two groups, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to rend...

  • From a Distance

    Emilie Richards

    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS He was ice and she was fire--mated in a cascade of wedded bliss. Yet their happily-ever-after turned into a sea of estrangement, and nothing could stem the salty tears that washed Stefan and Lindsey onto the barren shores of separ...

  • Golden Conquest

    Patricia Roenbeck

  • The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez

    Simon Hawke

    Catseye, P.I.Name's Gomez. I'm a cat. And yeah, I talk. Because in an age of magic, nothing's quite what it seems. When you combine magic with genetic engineering, predators and crooks take on a thousand different forms. So do the good guys. Denver w...

  • The Attack of the Jargonites

    Leah Rewolinski

    Fresh from their victory over the dreaded Cellulites, Captain Jean-Luc Ricardo, Captain James T. Smirk, and their plucky crew aboard the U.S.S. Endocrine look forward to relaxing when suddenly, before one can say, "Beam me up", the Jargonites...

  • Crystal Line

    Anne McCaffrey

    CRYSTAL'S PRICE When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. But Killashandra had a lot of painf...

  • Fools

    Pat Cadigan

    In a world of mindsuckers and bodysnatchers, of Brain Police and personalities for sale, you can't take anything for granted--not even your own identity. When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club w...

  • Geodesic Dreams

    Gardner Dozois

    As one of the most admired figures in science fiction, Gardner Dozois has built a reputation not only as an anthologist and editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, but as an award-winning writer himself. Now, in this comprehensive collection, Dozois pres...

  • Man-Kzin Wars V

    Larry Niven

    GIVE PEACE A CHANCE A Kzin's instinctively combative responses make for poor diplomatic relations between species. But now that their "first you scream and then you leap" approach to interstellar relations have led to three straight losses to the ...

  • A Million Open Doors

    John Barnes

    Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the wind...

  • Mind Games

    Victor Appleton

    Propelled into a fantasy world through his Total Reality Generator--a computer game that electronically recreates true-to-life scenarios--Tom discovers that the game has turned frighteningly authentic and that he could be in genuine danger. Original....

  • Mostly Harmless

    Douglas Adams

    Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIt...

  • The Price of the Stars

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    THE WAR WITH THE MAGEWORLDS IS OVER. NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE REAL STRUGGLE TO BEGIN. Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds--or her highborn ...

  • Time Warped

    Leah Rewolinski

    The third book in the bestselling series parodying America's favorite science fiction TV show. The crews of Captain Smirk and Captain Jean-Lucy Ricardo blunder through the timeline to retrieve a videotape accidentally transported into the future--whi...

  • Tyrannosaurus Rex

    J.F. Rivkin

    Sixty years after the disappearance of explorer Percy Fawcett into the Brazilian rain forests, Christine Fawcett travels to the region, along with boyfriend Tony and his buddy Manuel, to find out what really happened to her ancestor. Original....

  • Vain Command

    Roland J. Green

    MERCENARIES ON PLANET When the Shenandoah is assigned to reinforce the Federation presence at a training colony, the ship's crew realizes that something odd is happening on Victoria. The fact that intelligence agents are hard at work around them does...

  • The Big House

    Tom Tolnay

    In the Big House, a mysterious movie studio in Astoria, Queens, down-and-out reporter Igor Lopes agrees to rewrite the script of a movie for Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, Sydney Greenstreet, and a cast of other great stars...

  • The Body in the Cornflakes

    K.K. Beck

    THE SUPERMARKET SPECIAL OF THE WEEK IS MURDER.... Ted is at his wit's end. Between pampering the assorted temperaments of his employers, the Krogstad family, and orchestrating Galaxy Foods's grand reopening, the last thing he needs is a dead body ...

  • The Corregidor Tape

    Charles Ryan

    As heads of state gather off the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, a rogue agent and his power-hungry men prepare to attack, and a maverick American scientist and a brash TV anchorwoman race to stop them. Original....

  • Court of Honor

    William P Wood Jr.

    Called upon to assist federal investigator Neil Roemer in his hunt for corrupt judges, Superior Court judge Tim Nash digs into a world of dirty deals and disloyalty and uncovers a plot of betrayal. Reprint....

  • Dark of Night

    Richard Nehrbass

    Private investigator Vic Eton searches for the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Hollywood big shot who ran away with crucial preproduction materials for her father's latest film. By the author of A Perfect Death for Hollywood. Reprint....

  • Dark Tracks

    Arthur Rosenfeld

    When ex-SWAT sharpshooter Nestor Dark sets off for a rain forest to catch a killer, he soon discovers that he is caught in a cross fire between greedy businessmen and concerned environmentalists. Original....

  • Driving Force

    Dick Francis

    Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. He runs his fleet of vans and their drivers with tight reins, strict security, and everything on the up-and-up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule--never pick up a ...

  • The Garden Club

    Muriel Resnik Jackson

    Merrie Lee and Warren Spencer are forced to sell all of their yuppie belongings when Warren loses his job, but their new life in Davis Landing provides them with plenty of excitement when the strapping old Miss Emily dies mysteriously of a broken ank...

  • Grandpa's Stolen Treasure

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

  • The Highest Form of Killing

    Malcolm Rose

    When three young people--Mark, Sylvia, and Derek--investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a chemical weapon called T42, they become entangled in a web of government intrigue, high-level conspiracy, and misunderstandings linked to the dead...

  • Man of Blood

    Margaret Duffy

    Piers Ashley receives a frosty welcome from his high-fallutin' family after he is released from jail, but that becomes the least of his worries when someone begins stalking him and the rest of the residents of Ashleigh Coombe castle....

  • Palomino

    Virginia Vail

  • Ransom Game

    John Buxton Hilton

    When a kidnapper with an odd ransom request--that an imprisoned crook be permitted to raise white mice in his cell--shatters the peace of Bedfordshire with his crimes, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard begins to investigate. Reprint....

  • Ripley Under Water

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." -- Frank RichNow part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without rem...

  • The Stars Shine Down

    Sidney Sheldon

    Lara Cameron is America's Princess, the power behind the tallest building on earth, a self-made billionaire who towers over a traditionally male domain, an icon of glamour and accomplishment to men and women everywhere. Beautiful but insecure, ruthle...

  • The Stranger Returns

    Michael R. Perry

  • The Swiss Account

    Paul E. Erdman

  • Touch of Evil

    Whit Masterson

    This powerful novel, on which Orson Welles based his famous 1958 film, is a sleek, dark indictment of the American justice system--an original American masterpiece. "Masterson looks at corruption in society and shows how it taints all of us".--Atlant...

  • Unholy Ghosts

    D.M. Greenwood

  • The Vampire's Kiss

    Jesse Harris

  • Breach of Faith

    Aimee Thurlo

    Forgive and Forget? The mysterious desecration of a Hopi god's sacred garments brought disaster to Joseph Payestewa. His brother was murdered, his family disgraced. Now it was left to Joseph to save the family honor and, as the trail of destructio...

  • Come Into My Parlor

    Marilyn Campbell

    ONE WOMAN HAS A TERRIBLE PROBLEM... Ted Carmichael's life is an ironic mixture of heaven and hell--success and failure. While her artistic talents are making her a rising star in the world of book cover illustrations, her gambling husband's dangerou...

  • Garden of Thorns

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    Arriving in Fort Worth, Texas, to search for archaeological artifacts with her friend Mark, Hilary Chase finds that the site of the dig is Osborne House, a rambling estate resounding with ghostly lamentations...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Eileen Dreyer

    Chris Jackson has secrets. A wildly popular author of suspense novels, Chris hides away in the tiny town of Pyrite, Missouri, where she lives in a converted storefront and practices breaking-and-entering on local businesses. Most of the citizen...

  • The Kiss of Death

    Patricia Rosemoor

    Passion . . . deceit . . . murder These were the essential ingredients needed to boost the ratings of the soap opera "Rivals." But this time when the director called, "Lights, camera, action," Teague Slaughter's leading lady wound up dead. It was ...

  • Murder by the Book

    Margaret St. George

    The house stood alone in the storm Outside, the wind howled and snow fell, drifting into piles that almost reached the eaves. Inside, lights flickered in the drawing room of the brooding old mansion. Seven people were stranded there, and before th...

  • Still Waters

    Tami Hoag

    STILL WATERS RUN DEEP... When Elizabeth Stuart searched for a quiet, peaceful home for herself and her son, Still Creek seemed perfect. Nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, this small, idyllic Minnesota town would allow her to put a shatter...

  • Suspicion

    Julia Grice

    Pretty divorcee Cici Davis has found the perfect man in Bryan Wyatt. Not only is he handsome and charming, he owns his own successful business. But as their wedding rapidly approaches, Cici begins to wonder about Bryan's past, about the family he say...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Beverly Barton

    DANGEROUS PASSION Hot. Demanding. Inescapable. The power of destiny had joined Nate Hodges and Cyn Porter together, but the savagery of man seemed fated to tear them apart. A warrior who walked alone, Nate could never mean anything but danger f...

  • When She Was Bad

    Robin Francis

    When she was bad... she was horrid It was an innocent childhood rhyme that haunted Jenny Spaulding during what should have been the best time of her life. She and Peter Darien were finally ready to walk down the aisle. But unless Jenny could thwar...

  • An Awkward Arrangement

    Rebecca Ashley

    WITH HER FLAMING HAIR, FLASHING EYES, AND OUTSPOKEN WAYS, SHE WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THOSE CONFOUNDING IRISH. Molly Mill's plan to return to her native Ireland did not include a handsome stranger appearing at her door, announcing that the heirloom...

  • Be-Witchie

    Jeanne Savery
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Black Widow

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    Kisses and Consequences Meribe Prestwich's beauty should have made her the belle of the ton --as indeed it once had. That was before the gentlemen who won her heart died from mysterious accidents one by one. Now she was shunned by all who valued l...

  • The Bones of Faerie

    Hope Manville
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Cynic

    Elizabeth Michaels

    HE HAD NEVER THOUGHT TO MEET HIS MATCH IN A WOMAN! Miss Meg Sutton was the wealthiest debutante to come to Town for some time. She did not lack for instant admirers from amongst the best Society had to offer. This did not, however, include Lord...

  • The Drowned Lovers

    Elizabeth Holden
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Fashionable Spy

    Emily Hendrickson

    Dangerous Games Miss Victoria Dancy was as fearless as she was fiercely determined to avenge the death of her parents at the hands of the perfidious French. Willingly she braved the dangers of unearthing enemy agents in England. But when she met the...

  • Haunted Hearts

    Teresa DesJardien

    THE MASQUERADE For one fog-ensbrouded evening, Olivia Beacham was, determined to break away from the confines of society and experience a taste of excitement and freedom. Her husband's sudden death had left her in mourning for the last two years...

  • Heart's Deception

    Christina Cordaire

    Love Unmasked... Everyone agreed that Alaina St. Clair was the loveliest debutante of the year, but her come-out season was soon foiled by a wicked scheme to steal her inheritance. Overnight, Alaina became Alan the stabelboy, escaping her ancestra...

  • Lady of Shadows

    Susan C. Stone
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • A Lady's Gambit

    Valerie King

    HER EFFRONTERY INTRIGUED HIM The Honorable Gregory Rushton gave Miss Cressida Chalcot a triumphant smile. Once again -- of course! -- he had deftly thwarted her clever attempts to enveigle his innocent young ward into a highly unsuitable match wi...

  • Lord Samhain's Night: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • A Matchmaking Miss

    Joan Overfield

    A MANAGING MISS How could anyone accuse her of being a managing female, wondered Matty. She simply wanted what was best for those around her, and that included the most reserved Earl of Kirkswood. That vexing man claimed he bad no need of a wife, bu...

  • The Mistletoe Bough

    Morgan Llywelyn
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Nabob's Gift

    Andre Norton
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Oakdean

    Elizabeth Broadnax
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Pack

    C.H. Sherman
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Parson's Mousetrap

    Marie Louise Cull
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Peer Behind the Scene

    Joan Aiken
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Pipe Dreams

    S.N. Lewitt
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • A Portrait of Faith

    Marvin Kaye
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Superstition

    Carola Dunn
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Surprising Lady Rochdale

    Annette Summers

    SHE HAD NO ILLUSIONS, BUT HE HAD BEEN DREAMING HE WOULD RUE THE DAY SHE HAD AGREED TO BE HIS WIFE As the daughter of a British doctor stationed in India's most discursive hospices, Miss Candace Marston was not typical of the gently bred lad...

  • Theodora's Dreadful Mistake

    Carol Proctor

    The Husband-Hunter Theodora Westmoreland simply has to marry -- and marry well. Only a wealthy husband can rescue her and her widowed mother from ruin. Happily, the perfect match has arrived in Bath. Quentin Mansfield has superb looks, magnificent...

  • The Wagered Miss Winslow

    Kasey Michaels

    AN OUTLANDISH BETROTHAL Resigned to the spinster life, lovely Rosalind Winslow spends her days running her late father's estate. But while the house is Rosalind's, it seems her disreputable brother lost the land it sits upon in a game of chance. A...

  • Waiting for Harry

    Caroline Stevermer
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Wife Errant

    Joan Smith

    "I HAVE NO INTENTION OF REALLY BEING A LOOSE WOMAN, YOU KNOW, LORD REVEL. I JUST WANT MAMA TO THINK SO." With Mama dashing scandalously about Bath playing the young flirt to avenge Papa's improprieties, Tess Marchant realized that neit...

  • The Winchelsea Bride

    Nancy Richards-Akers
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Alessandra in Between

    Robert Kaplow

  • Choose Me

    Marilyn Kaye

    Just how much is winning worth? Nicole and Martin are the happiest couple at Central High, not only boyfriend and girlfriend, but best friends, too. But when Nicole is nominated for Homecoming Queen everything begins to change. Nicole is thrilled, b...

  • Storm Rising

    Marilyn Singer

    Seventeen-year-old Storm, lonely, lost, and going nowhere, is drawn to a gentle older woman who possesses unusual powers, and as love develops between them, Storm experiences the beginnings of confidence, suffering, and a promise of a new start to hi...

  • Watching the Roses

    Adele Geras

    I DIDN'T KNOW AND WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED THAT ALL THE CAREFUL, LOVING WORK THAT HAD GONE INTO REARING ' THE ROSES FOR YEARS AND YEARS COULD HAVE BEEN UNDONE IN THIS SHORT TIME. Alice grew up the only child of loving parents. They live in a gorge...

  • A Thousand Bridges

    Michael McKinney

    Five years after his partner and lover Patty Sheevers was killed during their investigation of a shady politician in northwest Florida, Clay has become a lackey for ultraconservative Bob Birk, leader of the political machine he'd been out to destroy....

  • Booked for a Hanging

    Bill Crider

    Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, finds the body of book dealer Simon Graham hanging from the rafters of an old college building he had planned to restore. Graham's business partner, his erstwhile girlfriend and a rival book dealer all la...

  • Entranced

    Nora Roberts

    A baby had been stolen and it was her job to find it--but private investigator Mel Sutherland had run out of leads. She could hardly blame the child's desperate mother for seeking the help of psychic Sebastian Donovan. Though Mel preferred to work al...

  • Out of the Blue

    Kasey Michaels

    HE WAS MR. RIGHT . . . Spunky American Cassandra Kelley wandered away from her guided tour of the Tower of London and into a secret room. Enveloped by a mysterious blue mist, she was catapulted through time to Regency England . . . and into the arms...

  • Time-Spun Treasure

    Thomasina Ring

    TIMELESS PASSION . . . TIMELESS LOVE Patrick Henry had laryngitis, George Washington's fly was missing two buttons, and Thomas Jefferson's wig had sprung a curl --- but that wasn't all that went wrong with the historical reenactment at St. John's Ch...

  • The Werewolf's Kiss

    Cheri Scotch

    The world of the Louisiana werewolves.... Sensual and seductive, it holds secrets that only the initiated may share. Sylvie Marley is drawn to the moonlit bayous, to her lover, Lucien, and to a choice between the debutante's life she knows and the we...

  • Blue Chipper

    Geoffrey Norman

    SOME MEN PLAY BY THE RULES...OTHERS KILL TO WIN William Coleman is a "blue chipper"--a high school basketball phenom destined for NBA greatness. His brother Jackson is a two-bit lowlife, jailed for a drug-related murder...and a guaranteed ticket t...

  • The Case of the Pietro Andromache

    Sara Paretsky

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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...

  • Epitaphs

    Bill Pronzini

    The bitterest of woes is to remember old happy days. At least that's what old man Pietro Lombardi thinks. He's got la miseria and can't even play a peaceful round of Sunday bocce with his friends at Aquatic Park. That is, until he sees the Nameless D...

  • Silver Spire

    Robert Goldsborough

    The Reverend Barnabas Bay, world-famous televangelist, has been receiving bad tidings from the Good Book: a series of threatening notes lifted from Bible verses and placed in the collection plate on six consecutive Sundays. Nero Wolfe refuses to take...

  • Close to the Bone

    David Wiltse

    The FBI knows he's out there. A brilliant assassin who kills for profit - and pleasure. He carries an icepick. And his trail of victims leads straight to the U.N.... Agent John Becker is a man on the edge. His ability to think like a terrorist...

  • Death Penalty

    William J. Coughlin

    Criminal attorney Charley Sloan had it all--the Rolls, the Rolex and the expensive wives--until alcoholism took him to the brink of disbarment. Now he's fighting his way back, defending the infamous Dr. Death, who's accused of helping his wealthy pat...

  • Mirage

    J. Robert Janes

    Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Su+a3rete+a7 is called in to investigate a murder in German-occupied France, but he is being shadowed by a maverick Gestapo officer who has been assigned to follow the progress of his investigation. A first novel....

  • No Mardi Gras for the Dead

    D.J. Donaldson

    NO BED OF ROSES... Criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn has had experience with skeletons in the closet -- but not in her own backyard. The discovery of a body's remains leads her boss, New Orleans chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, to some interes...

  • Pursued by Shadows

    Medora Sale

    When her former assistant -- who happened to have run off with her then-boyfriend -- contacts her out of the blue asking for help, architectural photographer Harriet Jeffries at first has no desire to become involved again with the people who broke h...

  • Seven Kinds of Death

    Kate Wilhelm

    Tootles runs a secluded retreat for artists, and is ready to go on a tour with her works of sculpture, the best known of which is titled Seven Kinds of Death. Constance, a long-time friend, attends the pre-tour party at the retreat. But Tootlesȁ...

  • The Sourdough Wars

    Julie Smith

    Thanks to front-page coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, everyone knows about the upcoming auction of the Martinelli family's renowned sourdough starter. No one anticipates the outcome: the auction will never take place, because handsome Peter M...

  • Throw Darts at a Cheesecake

    Denise Dietz

    The Weight Winners are doing so well at winning the battle of the bulge, someone starts murdering the biggest weight losers. Group leader Ellie Bernstein's got to watch her back as well as her calories before she finds herself on the most permanent d...

  • Witness to the Truth

    Paul Lindsay

    In 1992, FBI agent Paul Lindsay received commendation and a $600 incentive award from FBI director William Sessions for helping spearhead the capture of serial killer Benjamin Atkins. After writing this novel, Paul Lindsay -- a twenty-year veteran of...

  • The Wrong Gun

    J.P. Hailey

    After Russ Timberlaine, a wealthy gun collector, tells Steve Winslow that one of his pistols is missing, a body is found in Timberlaine's mansion, apparently killed by the stolen firearm. By the author of The Naked Typist. ...

  • Coffin on a Case

    Eve Bunting

    HENRY COFFIN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, AT YOUR SERVICE Twelve-year old Henry Coffin helps out his dad at the Coffin and Pale Detective Agency. Only one thing is missing: he's itching for the chance to work on a case of his own. And then beautiful, blon...

  • Devil's Bridge

    Cynthia DeFelice

    For Ben, there's more involved in the annual Striped Bass Derby than catching the biggest fish. He's proud of the fact that no one has ever beaten his father's record which was won before Ben was born. But now Ben overhears two men plotting to win th...

  • Elizabeth Gail and the Mystery of Hidden Key

    Hilda Stahl

  • Elizabeth Gail and the Secret of the Gold Charm

    Hilda Stahl

  • Plumbing for Willy

    Mary Higgins Clark
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  • Probable Cause

    Grif Stockley

    When profits at the firm of Mays & Burton reach an all-time low, ex-public defender Gideon Page is fired like a shot--but not before he steals a case with all the makings of a media nightmare. Dr. Andrew Chapman, a black psychologist, is charged with...

  • Quaker Silence

    E. Kirsten Peters

  • T.F. Benson and the Dinosaur Madness Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • T.F. Benson and the Funny Money Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • Voodoo Ltd.

    Ross Thomas

    She was quite drunk, not quite beautiful, and all Hollywood--an actress-director named Ione Gamble driving crazily toward her rich boyfriend's mansion in Malibu. It was just too bad for her that she stumbled upon a loaded Beretta before she came acro...

  • 1492

    Homero Aridjis

    A best seller in Latin America in the 1980s, this novel of life in fifteenth-century Spain depicts a world in which both the Moors and the Jews are under attack. This is the formative period of the phenomenon known today as Crypto-Judaism, and Aridji...

  • The Trespassers

    Robert Roper

    Catherine Mansure must decide whether to sacrifice her life of leisure on a large estate in California and perhaps even the love of her son for her powerful, passionate love of a musician who makes his living growing marijuana...

  • Women of Granite

    Dana Andrew Jennings

  • Always and Forever

    Gina Robins

    Lost in a shipwreck when she was a child, castaway Creole belle Candeliera Caron remained blissfully unaware that she was the daughter of a wealthy New Orleans family. Her tropical island, and the natives who called her their princess, were all she k...

  • And One Rode West

    Heather Graham

    FROM THE BITTER AFTERMATH OF WAR... A regal beauty with raven hair and piercing blue eyes, Christa Cameron suffered the indignities of defeat in the Civil War's bitter aftermath, her spirit unvanquished and her hatred of the victorious enemy undimin...

  • Angel Fire

    Deborah Satinwood

    A MAN OF MYSTERY Cameron Forrester had lost all his money, his home, and his family in the War Between the States, and now he was beginning to think he had lost his mind. What kind of father would pay a complete stranger to marry his daughter only t...

  • Another Eden

    Patricia Gaffney

    Beautiful, sensitive and aristocratic, Sara was tired of lying to protect brutal, grasping Ben Cochrane, tired of pretending that her life of luxury was anything but a gilded cage. And from the moment her eyes first met Alex McKie's, she knew tha...

  • Captain of My Heart

    Danelle Harmon

    LOVE AND WAR Excitement heralds the arrival of Captain Brendan Jay Merrick, a dashing privateer whose daring sea battles against His Majesty's fleet have made him a legend in the American colonies. Brendan has plans for Ashton Shipyard to buil...

  • Colorado Tempest

    Mary Lou Rich

    A RUDE AWAKENING Samantha woke up with a headache--and without a stitch on--in the chilly, ramshackle cabin. The only source of warmth was the handsome stranger next to her... A STRANGE BEDFELLOW In a haze of whiskey, Nick had no more idea than ...

  • Columbine

    Miranda Jarrett

    A New Land, A New Life The wilds of New England had bested many a man, but could they tame one wanton woman? Kit Sparhawk had his doubts. Lady Dianna Grey had obviously been brought up a pampered English beauty, but beneath her soft exterior lay a...

  • Come Spring

    Jill Marie Landis

    ANNIKA She canceled her wedding, longing to explore the wide open West. But nothing could prepare her Bostonian gentility for an adventure that thrust her into the arms of a wild mountain man... BUCK Hardened by heartache, he sent for a bride by...

  • The Conquest

    Lucy Elliot

    Fire and Ice Canadian Anne-Marie Doucet had hated the British for years, and she vowed to aid the rebellious Americans in their attempt to wrest Quebec from British hands. She would have blown the redcoats back across the Atlantic, but coolheaded Am...

  • Delta Moonfire

    Linda Windsor

    SHE WASN'T BORN YESTERDAY Streetwise out of necessity, petite Erin Devereau knew every trick and game a woman can play to relieve a traveling man of his money. How else could an orphan girl survive in the rough-and-tumble world of Natchez-Under-the-...

  • The Desire

    Patricia Hagan

    Refuge from the Nightmare Caught in the cataclysm of the Civil War, Belinda Coulter found refuge from her private battles in nursing the Confederate wounded. Here she could heal others, if not herself. But then the tides of war swept her into the ...

  • Emerald Queen

    Karen Jones Delk

    SHE WAS AN EMERALD-EYED ENCHANTRESS Hoyden of the New Orleans streets. Mysterious queen of a steamboat fleet. Chatelaine of a grand plantation house. Men would cross swords and sell their very souls to possess scandalous Simone Devereax. Marcel...

  • Fireblossom

    Cynthia Wright

    THE WILD WEST OF 1876 WAS NO PLACE FOR A LADY And Madeleine Avery was every inch a fine Philadelphia lady, from the top of her tidy head to the tips of her ivory kid shoes. Gold had lured her father to the Black Hills -- but with neighbors like ...

  • Flowers from the Storm

    Laura Kinsale

    He is London's most notorious rakehell - a charming, irresistible seducer possessing a brilliant mind and reckless passions. Until, in the wake of a shocking tragedy, he is condemned to a world of shadows...and madness. An innocent beauty of modes...

  • Forever in Your Embrace

    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

    On a dark and perilous road in a vast, magnificent land Colonel Tyrone Rycroft saves the life of a countess of royal blood. But the beautiful, highborn Synnovea repays his courage with deceit--ensnaring the dashing soldier-of-fortune in an inescapabl...

  • Gypsy Jewel

    June Cameron

    MANHUNTER She lived for danger. A beautiful Pinkerton agent, Jewel Flannery disguised her identity to track down outlaws. And she always got her man. LADYKILLER He lived for passion. A magnetically handsome riverboat gambler, Brent Connors could...

  • Indigo Blue

    Catherine Anderson

    Born of two worlds, Indigo Wolf was as free and proud as the noble Comanche blood flowing through her veins. No man has ever possessed her elusive spirit--until a magnificent stranger came to work in her family's mine. Jake Rand's bold caress ignited...

  • Into the Long Dark Night

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    The War Between the States has escalated into a full-scale conflict threatening to tear the nation apart. Having been invited by President Lincoln to come to Washington, D.C., to assist in his reelection campaign, Corrie finds herself a long way from...

  • Lily, a Love Story

    Cindy Bonner

    Lily DeLony is the properly brought-up daughter of a hardworking, God-fearing, firm-as-a-rock father. Marion "Shot" Beatty is the youngest of the infamous Beatty brothers gang, the terror of McDade, Texas, in the year 1883. The odds are against their...

  • The Lion's Daughter

    Loretta Chase

    PASSION BORN She is Esme Brantmore, a fearless rebel with a tender heart but a temper that runs hotter than her flaming red hair. Secretly determined to avenge her father's death, she is forced to travel with a handsome English wastrel through a har...

  • Love's Endless Flame

    Betty Brooks

    HE ALONE COULD SAVE HER When she first heard the rumble of falling rocks, Miranda found it hard to believe that she -- a first-rate cave explorer -- could have been caught in a landslide. But when the dust cleared she discovered she was trapped in...

  • Lyon's Prize

    Virginia Lynn

    A FIERY VIXEN With amber eyes and hair the color of flame, Lady Brenna of Marwald possesses a rare and fragile beauty. But beneath her gentle curves beats a fierce heart -- and an even fiercer hatred for any man who seeks to bend her to his will. No...

  • Midnight Secrets

    Janelle Taylor

    A passion-filled story of love and adventure sweeping from the post-Civil War South to the sprawling Texas plains to the majestic mountains of Colorado ... as a spirited beauty risks all she cherishes in a daring deception... Her beloved Georgia r...

  • The Midwife's Advice

    Gay Courter

    Hannah Sokolow, the spirited Jewish-American heroine of Gay Courter's bestselling novel The Midwife, returns in this powerful story to face new medical challenges in turn-of-the-century New York. As head midwife at Bellevue Hospital, Hannah sees her ...

  • Nevada Ecstasy

    Lindsey Hanks

    Until she rescued Sam Cassidy from the bullets of a corrupt sheriff, photographer Reilly Reynolds had lived a solitary life. But after saving the handsome gambler and nursing him back to the full bloom of health, thoughts of solitude were quickly ban...

  • Only With Your Love

    Lisa Kleypas

    The newlywed bride of a Creole aristocrat, Celia Vallerand prays for deliverance from the bloodthirsty brigands who abducted her from a New Orleans-bound schooner. Though she believes her beloved husband slain and despairs for her own life, the shy F...

  • Prairie Dreams

    Teresa Warfield

    TWO HEARTS BOUND BY MEMORIES OF THE PAST -- AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE... LAURA: A tragic accident sent her into the arms of a man who was everything she most desired--and most feared. CALEB: His bitter grudge against Laura's father told hi...

  • Restless Passions

    Sandra Donovan

    Voyage of passion... The sight of Captain Marcus Bond commanding their Bermuda-bound ship, his virile masculine form encased in tight black breeches and his white seaman's shirt open at the throat, sent well-bred young Amy Hawthorne's pul...

  • Santa Fe Surrender

    Kristal Leigh Scott

    DANGEROUS TEMPTATION When Lassie Layton found add handsome stranger lying half-dead in the snow near her cabin, she knew it was up to her to save his life. But she never expected fires of passion to flare up between them while the storm raged outsid...

  • Sotah

    Naomi Ragen

    Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem's ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman's struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety three weeks on the best-seller list.Sotah introduces a family ...

  • Sweet Deception

    Colleen Faulkner

    A WOMAN OF SECRETS After accidentally killing her husband in self-defense, Thomasina Waxton, Viscountess of Greenborough, fled into the night. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, Thomasina became Ellen Scarlet and made a new life for herself...

  • Terms of Love

    Shirl Henke

    THE HEIRESS Cassandra Clayton could wield a blacksnake whip as well as any mule skinner and cuss as well as any Denver saloon girl. She could run her father's freighting empire without the help of any man, but there was one thing she couldn'...

  • The Touch of Fire

    Linda Howard

    SHE WAS A LADY DOCTOR...HE WAS A DESPERATE OUTLAW. ONLY HER HEALING TOUCH COULD IGNITE HIS HEART'S HIDDEN PASSION. Annie Parker came to Silver Mesa, Arizona, because it was the only place she'd found where folks thought a woman doctor was better t...

  • Under the Desert Moon

    Marsha Canham

    HER FATE WAS UNCERTAIN... But that did not keep spirited Aubrey Blue from journeying to Santa Fe to avenge a shattering past that tormented her soul. Disguised as a prim schoolmarm, she hid more than her alluring beauty. For no one could see her f...

  • Warrior of the Sun

    Kathleen Drymon

    To Shadow Dancer, war chief of the Aztec-Apache, the silken-haired woman he called Moon Flower was his tribe's long-awaited destiny...and his most coveted bride. And although lovely Iva Cassidy was afraid of nothing, not even Indians, she nearly fain...

  • Wild Rapture // Savage Touch

    Cassie Edwards

    ON THE UNTAMED FRONTIER A FIERY AND FORBIDDEN LOVE Fresh from Paris' finest art academy, exquisitely lovely Briana Collins comes home to paint the beautiful wilderness of her native Minnesota. Her ambitious uncle wants her to be a pretty ornament f...

  • Wild Texas Wind

    Victoria Thompson

    HE SAVED HER LIFE --- BUT AT WHAT PRICE? Rebekah Tate's years with the Comanche left her with precious little but the faint glimmer of hope that she would ever see the beloved home of her girlhood again. That is, until the day a tall redheaded tra...

  • Wish Me a Rainbow

    Jessica Douglass

    WITHIN THE WILD-SPIRITED GIRL... From feisty manner to fiery hair, Amelia O'Rourke grew up on her father's Texas ranch with a tomboy's spunky exuberance. But she was changing in spite of herself, whispers of unfamiliar longings beginning...

  • The Captive

    L.J. Smith

    CAN THE SECRET CIRCLE SURVIVE... Lured into the most popular in-crowd imaginable, Cassie is intoxicated by her newfound strength, a power as addictive as it is perilous. Caught between Faye and Diana's consuming desires to use the coven's myste...

  • Gone South

    Robert R. McCammon

    It was hell''s season, and the air smelled of burning children.... With “one of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival,...

  • Lost Boys

    Orson Scott Card

    From bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software ...

  • The Mall

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    HE'S EVERYWHERE...WAITING JUST FOR HER! Trish smiles into the dressing-room mirror, admiring herself in the gorgeous white dress. Unknown to her, someone else is watching. He knows she is smiling just for him. His soft, strange voice whispers her ...

  • Nightmare

    S.K. Epperson

    On a remote ranch deep in the Flint Hills at a clinic for women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, patients are dying in extremely violent ways. The staff has invited Dr. Bryan Raleigh and his team, along with his journalist brother, David...

  • Psychosphere

    Brian Lumley

    After Richard Garrison lost his sight in a terrorist explosion, he developed vast mental powers that more than compensated for his blindness. He mastered the Psychomech machine, then used it to conquer his enemies and restore his dead love to full a...

  • Shock Waves

    Chris Westwood

  • The Stalker

    Nicole Davidson

  • The Tale of the Body Thief

    Anne Rice

    For centuries, Lestat--vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals--has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and ...

  • The Third Evil

    R.L. Stine

    IT'S BACK! Did the evil spirit really leave Kimmy's body? The cheerleaders of Shadyside High can still feel its dark presence, and Corky knows that it is out there, somewhere close. And getting closer. Corky is tormented night after night by dreams ...

  • Thirst of the Vampire

    T. Lucien Wright

  • Valentine: Return to Vampire Junction

    S.P. Somtow

    The sequel to Vampire Junction finds Brian, PJ, and Terry ten years after the disappearance of vampire rock star Timmy Valentine, remembering the terrible night in Junction and fighting the Gods of Chaos who believe Timmy is still alive. Repr...

  • What's Wrong With Tamara?

    D.A. Fowler

  • Wilding

    Melanie Tem

    A family of female werewolves, united by their primitive rituals, runs through the streets of Denver in desperate pursuit of their youngest member, an uninitiated, half-human runaway whose reckless life threatens the survival of the group...

  • The Wildlings

    Scott Ciencin

    TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO WOLDS… Half-human, half vampire, Danielle Walthers was caught in a twilight world between human desire and inhuman need. In the dangerous streets and wild nightclubs of Los Angeles, nineteen-year-old Dani was fighting the cal...

  • Arms of Nemesis

    Steven Saylor

    South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the S...

  • The Dutchman

    Maan Meyers

    THE ENEMY WITHIN THE WALLS OF NEW AMSTERDAM The fledgling Dutch settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island is under siege. The British have sailed into the harbor, threatening war, and tales of treachery and betrayal abound. But for Pieter...

  • The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

    Elizabeth Peters

    Aboard a boat traveling up the Nile, their delightful (but catastrophically precocious) son, Ramses, back in England, Amelia Peabody and her handsome husband, Emerson, just might have a second honeymoon while they search for Nefertiti's tomb. On the ...

  • Witness of Bones

    Leonard Tourney

    As Queen Elizabeth slowly dies, Puritans and Papists play a deep game of deception. A plot is already afoot to unseat her principal advisor, Sir Robert Cecil, by destroying his good name. Therefore merchant-constable Matthew Stock, who considers Sir ...

  • Blood of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    BLOODY MONTANA GOLD Major Cosgrove not only owned the small gold mining town of Red Light lock, stock and barrel, he thought he owned everyone in it -- until Smoke Jensen rode in to prove otherwise. All Smoke wanted was to settle up the estate of ...

  • Boomtown

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Chaney Edge

    T.J. Jack

    THEY CALL HIM RUTHLESS.

    HE LIVES UP TO HIS NAME.

    Buck Chaney first crosses paths with Rufus Blanton on a West Texas train car halted suddenly in the night. "Ruthless" is on board -- and set on robbing every passenger. When a shootout with B...

  • Cherokee Lighthorse

    Gary McCarthy

    Accompanied by his brother, sister, and the last four mares of the Ballou Farm, Houston Ballou leaves his beloved Tennessee and the destruction of the Civil War and sets out for a new, and dangerous, life. Original....

  • The Golden Chance

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

  • Gunpoint

    Giles Tippette

    A legend in Western fiction, Giles Tippette brings the relentless, unforgiving West alive with bullet-driven tales of honor and survival . . . Justa Williams didn’t build up his sprawling Half-Moon ranch by sitting back on his spurs. More ofte...

  • Land of Promise

    T.L. Tedrow

  • A Little Bit Dead

    Chap Reaver

    Saving a Yahi brave, Shanti, from being hanged by a group of renegade lawmen, Reece finds his life complicated when one of the hangmen is shot, Reece is charged with the murder, and Shanti pays a high price by testifying for him. Reprint....

  • Lone Star and the Buccaneers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight in a double threat -- rustlers working on land and sea!Their prize herd stolen by a group of buccaneers, Jessie and Ki spring into action, riding south of the border with Brownsville's worst cutthroats for a deadly encounter with ...

  • Longarm and the Double Eagles

    Tabor Evans

    When half a million dollars disappears from the U.S. Treasury Office in Grants Pass, Longarm steps in to investigate and discovers that the thief, a deadly killer, is hell-bent on keeping his booty. Original....

  • Missouri Mama

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Montana Fire Smoke

    Jon Sharpe

  • Mountain Miracle

    T.L. Tedrow

    Laura meets Josie, an eccentric old woman living in the mountains who is an herbalist and nature lover. Josie's strange and wonderful ways are viewed with suspicion by the townspeople, but Laura is determined to convince them to open their hearts and...

  • Northwest Passage

    David Thompson

    Threatened daily by hostile native Americans and cutthroat frontiersmen, Nathaniel King nonetheless agrees to lead a group of pioneers through the treacherous mountains and discovers a terrible secret about the people in his charge. Original....

  • Raging Rivers

    Taylor Brady

    In wagons, in mule carts and on foot--down treacherous rivers and across endless plans--the pioneers came in search of the Garden Land--drawn ever westward by the glorious promise of the American frontier. -- Fleeing the horrors of her past and the...

  • Reno

    Gilbert Morris

  • Ride the Wild River

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner

    Walter Dean Myers

    Wanted: One low-lifed, sniveling scoundrelArtemis Bonner wants to set the record straight. He's just arrived in Tombstone, Arizona, to avenge the murder of his uncle Ugly Ned Bonner. And if he happens to stumble across the gold mine his uncle describ...

  • Rimrock

    Gilbert Morris

    As newly appointed deputy, Reno must face the death threats of a bloodthirsty saloon owner and a sinister gunslinger. Marshal Jesse Lindsey has done his best to keep the peace in Rimrock. But the marshal is showing his age, and the wild frontier town...

  • River Raid

    Hank Edwards (1)

  • The Road to Testimony

    J.R. Roberts

    There's nothing lower than a bushwhacker -- except a back-shooting bushwhacker. When Clint Adams faces down three gunmen, only to be shot from behind by a fourth and left for dead, he's got more on his mind than justice. Vengeance nurses the Gunsm...

  • Robber's Trail

    W.W. Lee

  • Shootout in Sendero

    Jim Miller

    When the deputy he sends to pick up a prisoner in Sendero fails to return, Texas Ranger Wash Carson rides into Sendero to find him and discovers that his deputy has been jailed for murdering a prisoner. Original....

  • Silent in the Saddle

    Norman A. Fox

  • Slaughter

    Elmer Kelton

    Although Crow Feather and his Comanche tribe rule the southern plains, Confederate veteran Jeff Layne and his party of desperate hide seekers, traveling from Dodge City, refuse to be turned back from their trek. Reprint....

  • Sundance

    Richard S. Wheeler



    Along the Oregon Trail, a war party of Lakota Sioux rob Con Brann of all that he holds dear--his horses and, more devastatingly his lovely daughter Hester.  Only Mister Skye, guide and scout to the Great Plains, can help Brann now.
     
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  • Where the Broken Heart Still Beats

    Carolyn Meyer

    At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken tolive as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chiefand the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker...