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Crime Fiction | Crime Fiction

j-p-smith's picture
Aug.06.2012
         It’s a Friday afternoon in October 1970, on a college campus in western Pennsylvania, and Nick Copeland is quietly going out of his mind. On the brink of throwing himself out the window, he decides instead to summon the student next door, Rob Johnson, to help him...
leighton-d-gage's picture
Dec.21.2011
It is the eve of the FIFA World Cup, the globe’s premier sporting event. The host country is Brazil. A victory for the home team is inextricably linked to the skills of the country’s principal striker, Tico “The Artist” Santos, the greatest player in the history of the sport. All the politicians in...
collin-kelley's picture
Sep.29.2011
In 1968, Irène Laureux's husband was murdered during the Paris riots and his body dumped near Notre-Dame cathedral. Thirty years later, she finally catches up with his killer. With the help of American writer Martin Paige, Irène will illuminate decades of secrets and lies only to discover that...
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Aug.23.2011
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Aug.23.2011
matt-beynon-rees's picture
May.01.2011
 It's 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is Vienna's brightest star. But six weeks after he tells his wife that he has been poisoned, the great composer is dead. The city is buzzing with rumors of infidelity, bankruptcy and murder. Wolfgang's sister Nannerl refuses to believe such base gossip. As she...
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Feb.22.2011
Emma Graham, amateur sleuth and cub reporter for the weekly Conservative newspaper, has survived an attempt on her life and solved one crime in Spirit Lake. Now she's on the trail of a hauntingly unsolved twenty-year-old crime: the kidnapping of baby Fay Slade from the Belle Ruin hotel that is...
charles-a-ray's picture
Aug.29.2010
Buster Mayweather and his wife Alma, while on vacation in West Virginia, witness what they think might be a murder.  The militia who are involved, later kidnap Alma and Sandra Winter, Al Pennyback's girl friend, to keep Buster from exposing a plan more dastardly than mere murder.  Al, who is...
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Jul.28.2010
Long Beach, California, homicide detective Danny Beckett is pouring the weekend’s first shot of vodka when the call comes in: Elizabeth Williams, a teacher at nearby Warren High School, has been brutally murdered in her classroom. When Danny arrives at the school, the blood-spattered crime...
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Jun.14.2010
When Pete Dyes, the beloved and Academy-Award winning actor, is shot and  killed one night outside a famous director’s Brentwood home, and then America’s Sweetheart, movie actress Allison Rodgers, is gunned down in broad daylight in a public park, Hollywood holds its collective breath. Someone...