The murder of a wealthy young woman sparks a backlash against the hippie commune that has recently arrived in Black River Falls.A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have the right to stay—despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem—as always, there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from criminal activities to Satanism. As usual, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy, especially when the teenage daughter of Paul Mainwaring, one of the town’s wealthiest men, is found murdered in the commune’s barn. A deeply troubled young man (and Vietnam vet) named Neil Cameron is immediately charged with the crime, but Sam has serious doubts. In this lively and poignant new novel, Ed Gorman offers readers his richest portrait yet about Black River Falls and its people.

The new Dev Conrad mystery from the author of the Sam McCain and Jack Dwyer series - Political consultant Dev Conrad knows that helping Congressman Michael Robards to get re-elected is going to be tough. Robards’ liberal voting record stands against him, and his staff seem resentful of Dev himself – which could doom the campaign. But there’s a bigger problem. A campaign worker has been shot behind Robards’ headquarters. Both Dev and the police presume it was a mugging, but as the election draws near, Robards is implicated in the murder by his enemies . . . (20120115)

Product Description: Any amateur can do away with family. But it takes a professional to kill an almost perfect stranger. Fiendishly convoluted and often grotesquely funny, this is a tale of geometrically multiplying homicides and a foolproof murder whose repercussions keep spreading to consume victim after victim...read more

Product Description: 1965: America’s favorite small-town detective must solve the murder of two old friends against the backdrop of America’s cultural revolution.For small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain the year 1965 is not a sweet one. His father is gravely ill...read more

Product Description: Publishers Weekly: "A strong collection." 13 tales by a master of the dark suspense story. Lethal parents, a rapist cop, a con trying to go straight, a dying vigilante. "One of our finest contemporary short story writers regardless of genre" (Jon Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)...read more

Product Description: Troubleshooter Dev Conrad agrees to work with Congresswoman Susan Cooper. The congresswoman has a secret she won't share, and then a political consultant, out to destroy Cooper's campaign, is murdered.

Product Description: In this annual staple of the crime fiction world, Ed Gorman and Martin Greenber collect the best short crime fiction of 2009.

Product Description: Child of Rage is one of Jim Thompson's most bitter and sexually explicit novels. Includes an interview with Thompson's paperback publisher, two color photographs by Harry O. Morris, photographs of Thompson, and a bonus novella by Thompson, this is the definitive edition...read more

Product Description: "Gorman and Greenberg follow up A Prisoner of Memory (2008) with another impressive anthology, which features a diverse assortment of styles and settings."—Publishers WeeklyCrime fiction's biggest names have been rounded up for a truly impressive collection of 2008's best short stories...read more

Product Description: Guild the bounty hunter just wants to collect his latest reward, but a beautiful woman, a man from his past, and a wild lynch mob are going to do all they can to make sure Guild sticks around—even if it means his death.

Product Description: High adventure and intrigue in the African jungle, on the high seas, and in the streets! There is always justice that needs to be served, whether it's in the present... or the past. Since 1936, The Phantom has been thrilling audiences who crave adventure! Nearly five centuries ago, during a daring raid at sea, pirates took the life of merchant ship captain Christopher Standish...read more

Product Description: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human...read more

Product Description: A blackmailer is playing with fire when he makes a terrifying serial killer his target.

Product Description: As a seasoned political consultant, Dev Conrad approaches working on the reelection campaign of Illinois Senator Warren Nichols with trepidation. The senator’s best friend and adviser has just committed suicide. And though Conrad agrees with Nichols's political positions, he’s leery of the senator’s reputation for sleeping around...read more

Product Description: Darkness falls quickly when you're being stalked . . . but it is always dark when you are the stalker. This anthology of chilling stories takes listeners into the deepest depths of terror to explore both sides of the hunt. Includes tales from such masters of the genre as Dean Koontz, F...read more

An annual collection of a traditional mystery series features the works of such names as Joyce Carol Oates, Ed McBain, and Carole Nelson Douglas, in a volume of novellas that represents top-selected works reflecting the state of the mystery genre. Original.

Product Description: Death visits the drive-in, in this new mystery featuring America's favorite small-town detective.Sam McCain is back, with all "the rueful wisdom and charm of an exemplary hero who"—says the San Francisco Chronicle—"is curious not only about whodunit but also about some of the more elusive riddles of human existence...read more

Ordered to protect a valuable thoroughbred entering a horse race offering the biggest purse in history, Secret Service Agent Dev Mallory must save his partner's life when she is kidnapped by a high-stakes player who is determined to beat the odds.