Several years after a global ecological catastrophe the majority of humanity has morally regressed. Violence and corruption have escalated. This new era has come to be called The Neo Dark Age.<br><br>Nero, a resident of a valley community, daily documents the transpiring madness as he battles feelings of guilt over the death of a young girl. In his log he recounts the schemes of a madman named Mondo, a gang of menacing youths, and an ...
Eyes Like Hell is the thrilling first chapter in the All Hallows' Eve series. <br><br>Something is lurking in the mountains of North Georgia. A handful of locals have been missing for weeks, and a group of unwary travelers are about to discover Appalachia's hideous secret. ...
Two-Thirds of a Ghost, a Dr. Basil Willing Mystery, by Helen McCloy<br><br>"One of the most enjoyable whodunits of this or any season. Reason: Its gorgeous satire on the book publishing business and the people in it or on the fringes."—Columbus Dispatch<br><br>Amos Cottle was a valuable property—a first-rate novelist who produced four best sellers in four years. He had to be protected ...
Name Your Poison by Helen Reilly, an Inspector McKee Mystery<br><br>As McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion…stuffed in a trunk. <br><br>"Svelte story…The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's] smooth, romantic manner always pleases."—Kirkus Reviews<br>"The be ...
The Dead Can Tell, an Inspector McKee mystery<br><br>"The letters forming the name 'Sara Hazard' and the word 'murdered' were written large caps."<br><br>The death of Sara Hazard, a Manhattan socialite, was first deemed an accidental drowning. This patch-work letter claimed otherwise and is sufficiently convincing to bring Inspector McKee on to the case.<br><br> ...
Follow the conflict between two warring crime families and the assassin hired to take out one of the mob bosses. An assassin whose loyalty is to no one and who can take a life as easy as swatting a fly.<br><br>Follow a young boy growing up on the streets of New York City as he is exposed to both the good and bad of urban life. His future is determined by his relationship with his uncle; a police officer, who takes him in when tragedy ...
This prequel to The Heart of an Assassin takes you to the beginning and exposes you to what made the Assassin who he is. <br><br>Follow his life as a young boy growing up on the streets of post war Chicago. His carefree innocence is shattered by a ruthless crime family whose rise is determine by the money they steal through extortion.<br><br>Witness how in an attempt to escape the streets of Chicago his mother returns to ...
Erle Stanley Gardner – The Case of the Backward Mule (1946), a Terry Clane mystery.<br><br>Note: this edition is very slightly bowdlerized, but the character of the story remains as it was in 1946.<br><br>Killer or not – she had it coming! <br>Terry Clane and Cynthia Renton went to the warehouse that night because of an urgent call from Edward Harold. They found a man lying on the floor, a bullet through h ...
The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.<br><br>"Mass murder of postmen in a posh Chicago suburb interests lawyer Malone, Jake and Helene Justus, and other well-remembered Riceomaniacs.<br><br>Plot and people as wacky as ever, with busted Malone and chicken-poxed Justuses supplying plenty of comedy and, surprisingly, much intriguing sleuthing. Verdic ...
