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Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period of America's most notorious bank robbers. Dillinger, Baby Face...

María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence. But the dangers of prison are not her only obstacles: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back.

Det är vintertid i Malmö och kriminalaren Jan Erelius har äntligen fått lite ledigt. Efter att ha lyckats avslöja en omfattande plan till terrorattentat i Sverige kan han äntligen pusta ut, lägga upp fötterna och göra precis ingenting. Men det dröjer inte länge innan en härva brutala mord på unga kvinnor rycker honom tillbaka in i tjänsten. Allting tyder på att Sverige har fått en seriemördare på halsen ... I samma veva får en pensionerad kollega till honom en brev. Innehållet är hotfullt och tycks varna om en tid som komma skall: en tid av lidande och död.

Chicago, 1932. Mick Oberon may look like just another private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand.

Dan Holiday learned about crime as a hard-boiled newspaper reporter and writes about it as a best-selling mystery novelist. How does he find his plot ideas? He advertises for adventure! Sound like a man you'd like to know? Drop him a note care of Box Thirteen.