Southern Crime

Michael Hunt is alive—and on the run. Presumed dead by friends and family, the undercover assignment he's been working for the past eight months has just been blown. With a hit out on his life and corruption inside the Atlanta police department, Michael finds himself hunted by both the cartel...

Emily Hunt might come from a family of cops, but she never goes looking for an adrenaline rush. She lives the quiet—well, relatively quiet—life of a teacher and thrives on making a difference in the lives of her students. But she'll have to draw on a well of strength and savvy she didn't...

Dangerous Passage exposes a fully-realized and frightening world where every layer peeled back reveals more challenges ahead. Romantic suspense fans will be hooked from the start by Lisa Harris's first installment of the new Southern Crimes series.

The Convict and Other Stories is a superb collection of stories set in and around the American Deep South and its charismatic people. From New Orleans to Dallas, with excursions further afield in Korea and Vietnam, James Lee Burke's characters live out lives of laughter and tragedy, mystery and...

Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally. Neighbours that are siblings in spirit, vastly different in landscape, antipodean authors offer readers and listeners a blend of exotic and familiar, seasoned by distinctive senses of place, outlook, and humour, and roots that trace to the earliest days of our genre. Southern Cross Crime is the first comprehensive guide to modern Australian and New Zealand crime writing.

This gripping true crime journey exposes the psychological motives and systemic corruption haunting Southern Africa. Perfect for a thrilling commute, these unsettling narratives transport you from desolate border posts to bustling coastal cities where detectives hunt for justice. Discover the...

Once the flashy, successful lawyer known for his in-your-face billboards—IN AN ACCIDENT? GET RICH—Jason Rich has fallen from grace, his reputation scrubbed of its glitz and his life stripped of the people he cares about. All thanks to meth kingpin Tyson Cade. But when Cade is shot and killed in the heart of his territory, things go from bad to worse for Jason as he is charged with his murder.

The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people. "Gripping." —New York Times “A stinging indictment of slavery.” —NPR Books? Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but...

UN THRILLER QUE TE ENGAÑA HASTA LA ÚLTIMA PÁGINA. CRÍMENES DEL SUR 2 En el centro de la ciudad de Málaga, nadie tiene secretos para nadie. ¿O tal vez sí los tengan? Hay novelas imposibles de dejar una vez que has comenzado, historias que llevan el suspense a su estado máximo y...

UN THRILLER QUE TE ENGAÑA HASTA LA ÚLTIMA PÁGINA. En el centro de la ciudad de Málaga, nadie tiene secretos para nadie. ¿O tal vez sí los tengan? Hay novelas imposibles de dejar una vez que has comenzado, historias que llevan el suspense a su estado máximo y hacen dudar al lector...

Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows...

From #1 bestselling author Sandra Brown—a young mother living on the Louisiana bayou and a man accused of murder must solve a corruption case while on the run from a dangerous manhunt. When her four-year-old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help...

Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County Sheriff and take down a corrupt...

First Chance is a suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down—perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and Michael Connelly. Chance Kirby isn’t new to detective work, but starting over in Hopeful, Texas, is a big step. Determined to leave behind her father and stepmother’s shadow...

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, private investigator Lew Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder—and a trail of motives...

Annie can hardly believe it. The police say her husband, Max, sits behind bars. They speak of him with a beautiful blonde. By the time Annie bails out Max, the blonde has disappeared and Max is the prime suspect in a crime. The baffling, bloodstained trail leads to the home of the Tarrants, a...

Tampa Bay joins Miami in representing the (alleged) Sunshine State in the Noir Series arena.

From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers...

Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures.

"A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." —J.Tom Morgan In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform—promising to clean up corruption...