Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother just trying to get by. A random act of brutality in one of Chicago's rougher neighborhoods permanently ends her struggle.Richard Allen Smith walks the streets of ChiTown saying God has sent him. He has an unusual, rather nasty way of getting converts to see the light.What do these people have in common? Nothing, it would seem, except they are all part of Detective Abe Lieberman's very long day. Lieberman, a sad, baggy-eyed spaniel of a man with the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon is trying his best to make his beloved Chicago a better place. But when Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, encounter these three very different situations they find that there are ties that bind and ties that can cut a man's heart out. Abe Lieberman faces a Gordian knot that he must somehow untangle--and if he makes a mistake, someone very near to him could die.

Product Description: A Whisper to the Living continues the adventures (some would say trials and tribulations) of Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union. Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia...read more

Product Description: Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the Man Who Makes Things Work in Sarasota, is once again faced with cases that try his patience and test his sanity.  A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed...read more

Product Description: Murder Mystery / 5m, 2f 2008 Mystery Writer’s of America Edgar Award nominee for Best Play. After robbing a savings and loan, Brian takes refuge in a down-and-out used book store run by Maddy and Betty. The book store’s principal customer is Christopher, who steals books his brother pays for at the end of each week...read more

Product Description: Mystery Drama / Stuart Kaminsky / 7m (one teen), 2f / Unit Set Winner of the 2008 Angie Award for Playwrighting! The Edgar Prize-winning author Kaminsky tells the tale of one of literature’s most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes...read more

Product Description: Mitchie, a stage shy fourteen year old, loves to sing. So when her mom takes a job as a cook at a summer camp for aspiring rock stars, Mitchie is thrilled. But to get in with Tess, the most popular camper, Mitchie pretends her mother is high up in the music biz...read more

Scratching out a living as a process server in Sarasota, Florida, four years after the hit-and-run death of his wife in Chicago, Lew Fonesca finally is ready to come to terms with the past and returns to his hometown, determined to deal with grieving friends and family and to uncover the truth about the 'accident' that claimed his wife's life and the killer responsible. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

When three prominent members of Chicago's Turkish community are brutally murdered, veteran cop Abe Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, connect the killings to a century-old event, in a case with ties to the beating of a chef and Bill's long-standing nemesis. 25,000 first printing.

In the midst of a heavy spring rain that is wreaking havoc on the city, the CSI team is confronted by three different cases, as Mac Taylor and Don Flack investigate a series of grisly, connected murders, while Lindsay Monroe and Danny Messner focus on the death of a teacher at an exclusive private school, and Stella Bonasera and Sheldon Hawkes face danger at a suspicious building collapse. Original. (A CBS television series, starring Gary Sinese, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Eddie Cahill, Hill Harper, & Anna Belknap) (Suspense)

Intrepid detective Lew Fonesca must once again help Adele, the runaway he saved previously, when she becomes involved with a reclusive best-selling author and several priceless manuscripts vanish, a situation that results in betrayal and murder.

Scratching out a living as a process server in Sarasota, Florida, four years after the hit-and-run death of his wife in Chicago, Lew Fonesca returns to his hometown, determined to uncover the truth about the 'accident' that claimed his wife's life.

Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of strangely linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has cost a fourteen-year-old boy his life. Reprint.

Product Description: The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes' boats, bikinis, and gentle breezes, but it has nevertheless attracted scores of international actors, directors, and deal-makers. For some, the festival represents Moscow's re-emergence as a world-class city...read more

Product Description: In the spring of 1942, Joe DiMaggio’s enjoying a much better season than either General MacArthur in Corregidor or private eye Toby Peters in Hollywood. Blond bombshell Mae West has just finished her book, a sensational tell-all life story that could turn Tinsel Town into scandal city...read more

NYPD Detectives Mac Taylor and Stella Bonasera lead their team of crime scene investigators in an investigation into the brutal murders of members of a Queens family and the apparent ritualistic killing of a devout Orthodox Jew, whose body is found laid out in a grisly display in his own synagogue. Original. (A CBS television series, starring Gary Sinese, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper, & Eddie Cahill) (Suspense)

When the target of an extradition case in Arizona is gunned down, detective Abe Lieberman works to prevent a gang war while pursuing the killer's identity, while priest Bill Hanrahan struggles with a racist and sexist colleague who thwarts a rape investigation. By the author of Not Quite Kosher. Reprint.

Product Description: The first in the Edgar-winning Inspector Rostnikov series Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a lot on his plate. His superiors in the Moscow police force are suspicious of his Jewish wife, the black-market copies of his beloved Ed McBain “87th Precinct” novels are getting tough to find, and his dreams of becoming a competitive weight-lifter are receding at a rapid clip...read more

Detectives Mac Taylor and Stella Bonasera investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive man whose body is found in the elevator of a ritzy Upper West Side building, while Aiden Burn and Danny Messer probe the supposed suicide of a witness being held in protective custody. Original. (A CBS television series, starring Gary Sinese, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito, Hill Harper, & Eddie Cahill) (Suspense)

Members of the Mystery Writers of America join forces in an ingenious new anthology of short mysteries set in the world of entertainment, featuring original stories from John Lutz, Annette Meyers, Edward D. Hoch, Carolyn Wheat, Parnell Hall, Robert Lopresti, and other popular authors. Reprint.

Product Description: The time is January 1942, and Toby Peters' services have just been retained by the private eye's strangest client: Bela Lugosi, who, over a decade after frightening millions of Americans with his depiction of the notorious Count Dracula, is now being stalked by a very real, very deadly, all-too-human creature of darkness intent on punishing the fading actor for perceived slights made against the vapiric race...read more

Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of strangely linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has cost a fourteen-year-old boy his life. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: An Edgar Award-winning Author Known as the Rabbi and the Priest, Chicago detectives Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan have seen their share of heartbreak - and hope. Now, Hanrahan is coupled with a temporary partner who is a racist while Abe heads for Arizona on an extradition case that goes horribly wrong...read more