Arly Hanks, Police chief of Maggody, Arkansas, is forced to return to the Big Apple—and it’s even more rotten than she remembers. Once there, she tangles with the NYPD, faces down killers, bakers, and the most dangerous villain of all: her ex-husband.

Known as “the mother of the detective novel,” Anna Katharine Green invented many of the genre’s most enduring characteristics. In this collection, she masterfully combines an American sensibility with well-crafted, legally accurate plotlines.

A young heiress turns amateur sleuth when a politician—the brother of the man she loves—is murdered in this Golden age mystery from an Edgar Award winner.

The author of the wildly popular Executive series digs into the history of the Earth to find the secrets people are willing to kill to keep buried—weighing age-old arguments between science and religion in a tense thriller that spans time and questions recorded history.

"A high energy combination of history and intrigue." —Peter Greenberg, CBS News Travel Editor

Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a “missing chapter” along with commentary from Christie expert John Curran.

Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.