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Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is the story of nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Watch a beaten and broken man survive against all odds. Later in life the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues... -
![To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee]()
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 104 ratingsTo Kill A Mockingbird The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic... -
![Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore]()
Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma’s childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry—or Asku, as Alma knew him—was the most promising student at the “savage-taming” boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil... -
![Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout]()
Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent—only to become the sole suspect when the corpus delicti is found... -
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![Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout]()
Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel—which they wouldn't—it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero—and the answer to the mystery of her father's death... -
![Black Orchids by Rex Stout]()
Black Orchids by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNot much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. It’s a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhere—and Wolfe must do it quickly... -
![The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton]()
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel. Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something... -
![Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose]()
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system... -
![Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman]()
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDuring a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people... -
![Darktown by Thomas Mullen]()
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsResponding from pressure on high, the Atlanta police department is forced to hire its first black officers in 1948. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers and their authority is limited: They can’t arrest white suspects; they can’t drive a squad car; they can’t even use the police headquarters and must instead operate out of the basement of a gym... -
![White Butterfly by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay]()
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over... -
![Deathtrap by Ira Levin]()
Deathtrap by Ira Levin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSeemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds... -
![The Case of the Sulky Girl by Erle Stanley Gardner]()
The Case of the Sulky Girl by Erle Stanley Gardner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUnable to marry due to a stipulation in her late father's will--which states that she will lose his millions if she does wed--headstrong Frances hires Perry Mason to get around the clause, and soon he ends up solving a family murder... -
![Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett]()
Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroduced by Colin Dexter, one of England's greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart... -
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![The Wrong Case by James Crumley]()
The Wrong Case by James Crumley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn extraordinary detective story from one of the great American crime fiction authors. Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of in the Pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws he has taken to drinking and staring out the window... -
![Hart's War by John Katzenbach]()
Hart's War by John Katzenbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria... -
![In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines]()
In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past...In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend... -
![The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer]()
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel—one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel... -
![A Red Death by Walter Mosley]()
A Red Death by Walter Mosley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'It has come to my attention, sir, that between August 1948 and September of 1952 you came into possession of at least three real estate properties. I have reviewed your tax records back to 1945 and you show no large income, in any year. This would suggest that you could not legally afford such expenditures.. -
![Pleasantville by Attica Locke]()
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Locke’s bestseller Black Water Rising, returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to winFifteen years after the events of Black Water Rising, Jay Porter is struggling to cope with catastrophic changes in his personal... -
![Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon]()
Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the Twin Cities.Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Chippewa woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota’s Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton... -
![The Buried Book by D.M. Pulley]()
The Buried Book by D.M. Pulley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible.It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He’s lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to stay in his uncle’s good graces. No one knows where his mother went or whether she’s coming back... -
![White Jazz by James Ellroy]()
White Jazz by James Ellroy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLos Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire... -
![The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel]()
The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name... -
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![The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh]()
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEx-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his besta tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life. Twenty and two... -
![The Murderess by Laurie Notaro]()
The Murderess by Laurie Notaro
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro comes a haunting true-crime novel about Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the twentieth century’s most notorious and enigmatic killers.It’s October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a suspicious porter... -
![El octavo día by Thornton Wilder]()
El octavo día by Thornton Wilder
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThornton Wilder’s renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder’s unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material... -
![The Shark-Infested Custard by Charles Willeford]()
The Shark-Infested Custard by Charles Willeford
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license... -
![The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner]()
The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCalifornia lawyer Perry Mason takes on a client, Eva Belter, who is described and instantly hated, as “all velvet and claws” by his secretary Della Street.Eva's husband George is behind tabloid editor Frank Locke’s blackmail of Congressman Harrison Burke. The politician and Eva had been together at a restaurant when there was an attempted robbery... -
![The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert J. Serling]()
The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert J. Serling
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a calm night in a nervous world, Air Force One jets off from Andrews Air Force Base. Aboard is the President of the United States, Jeremy Haines, an idolized leader whose image combines the best qualities of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - but whose inner thoughts remain a dark secret even to his closest aides. The flight is normal - until the plane is high over Arizona... -
![Bloody Waters by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera]()
Bloody Waters by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung private investigator Lupe Solano struggles to find the birth mother of an illegally adopted baby who needs a transplant, but when the search gives way to murder, Lupe must uncover the truth before it is too late. Reprint... -
![The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson]()
The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'[An] addictive tale of intrigue' - the IndependentIn 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal.For Reggie, justice is not the only draw to this case... -
![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons... -
![The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford]()
The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career... -
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![Flashpoint by Lynn Hightower]()
Flashpoint by Lynn Hightower
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book: Cincinnati homicide detective Sonora Blair hunts a serial killer who's playing with fire in Shamus Award—winning author Lynn Hightower's chilling thriller. A single mother of two children and a police specialist with the Cincinnati Homicide Division, Sonora Blair is still awake in the middle of the night when the call comes in... -
![Murder at Ford's Theatre by Margaret Truman]()
Murder at Ford's Theatre by Margaret Truman
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was the site of one of the most infamous assassinations in American history. Now bestselling mystery master Margaret Truman premieres a new murder at Ford’s Theater–one that’s hot off today’s headlines.The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for senator Bruce Lerner–and who volunteered at Ford’s–is discovered in the alley behind the theatre... -
![Father's Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg]()
Father's Arcane Daughter by E.L. Konigsburg
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPOOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach and a fancy private school. But with over protective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream... -
![The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman]()
The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him. It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John's hands... -
![The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb]()
The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history—the case of the Greenbrier Ghost.Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D... -
![Black Diamond by Zakes Mda]()
Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence... -
![Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh]()
Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom debut historical novelist Jenni L. Walsh, Becoming Bonnie is the untold story of how wholesome Bonnelyn Parker became half of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde duo!The summer of 1927 might be the height of the Roaring Twenties, but Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint... -
![The Mystery of Monster Mountain by M.V. Carey]()
The Mystery of Monster Mountain by M.V. Carey
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe three young sleuths solve a case of double identity while investigating the legend of Monster Mountain... -
![The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell]()
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 1960 news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces... -
![The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel by Eleanor Henderson]()
The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel by Eleanor Henderson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter... -
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![Detective Story by Imre Kertész]()
Detective Story by Imre Kertész
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality... -
![The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb]()
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people’s lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight...Categorized as:
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![American Ghost by Janis Owens]()
American Ghost by Janis Owens
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn engrossing novel inspired by a true event about unresolved family history and racial tensions that threaten a Florida community.With American Ghost, Janis Owens offers an evocative southern novel continuing in the tradition originally established by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and brought into the new millennium by writers like Karen Russell and Kathryn Stockett... -
![A God in Ruins: A Political Thriller About an Irish Catholic Presidential Candidate and an Explosive Secret from World War II by Leon Uris]()
A God in Ruins: A Political Thriller About an Irish Catholic Presidential Candidate and an Explosive Secret from World War II by Leon Uris
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States... -
![A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen]()
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction...
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