Mystery & Thriller

The psychological tortures that  Roberto Arlt puts his main protagonist through are on a par with those endured by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment or Dmitri Karamazov.

At age 10, Casey Cox discovers her father's lifeless body hanging in their house. The consensus is he committed suicide, but Casey insists her father had no reason to kill himself.

Phillip Margolin is a talented storyteller. He’s got a silky, deceptively simple style that snakes back around when you least expect it and grabs you.

“a cop’s loyalty to justice and the law must take precedence over her personal opinion of the victims.”

For generations, Los Angeles has confounded writers attempting to define its shimmering quicksilver character, qualities that jumble up glamour and tawdriness, success and failure, riches and pover

“With a fast-paced story and surprise ending, River Road is a destination you’ll surely want to take.”

“a solid short story collection . . .”

Tricky Twenty-Two is the most recent in the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Her heroine, Stephanie Plum, is a bounty hunter who works for her cousin Vinnie, a bail bondsman.

“‘My brother and I were kidnapped off a street in Chungking, China, when I was five years old . . . We never saw our father or mother again.

“a good, solid, page-turner . . .”

Ruth Rendell’s career as a crime and mystery writer is superbly capped with this, her final novel.

"The story is breathtakingly laid out . . ."