American Mysteries

Craig Johnson has won multiple awards and earned starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews for his New York Times best-selling Walt Longmire mysteries. Embarking on his eighth adventure in As the Crow Flies, Sheriff Longmire is searching the Cheyenne Reservation for a site to host his daughter’s wedding, when he sees a woman fall to her death. Teaming up with beautiful tribal chief Lolo Long, Walt sets out to investigate the suspicious death.

"Captivating, suspenseful & raw. An accurate depiction of life during that time. Incredible!" When Danny Jackson says "the N-word" on his fifth birthday his grandmother tells him their family doesn't use that word, though he's learned it from his father. There's a mysterious grave in their woods, and all he's ever heard it called was "the N-word Grave." Thus begins a family saga and coming of age story as an Appalachian grandmother tries to change her family's trajectory regarding race relations. Danny and Martin Noble Peoples, a descendent of the murdered black man, team up to uncover the ...

Eulan- has raised his niece ever since the death of her parents. He's trained her in the way of their people, the Ohrs, from the planet, Arets Yesna, even though they are stationed on earth. Now, nearly ten years later, he knows she is closer than ever to starting her work, as a protector. Knowing this, he tries to prepare himself to let her go when she is called. Will he be able to let her go out on her own? Or will he be pulled into something bigger in order to help her complete her mission? Echo- has waited impatiently for years to be summoned to do what it is she has trained for all of ...

New Easy Rawlins mysteries—original short stories from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery author. As Carolyn See said in The Washington Post Book World: "God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!" This handsome collection contains six interconnected stories. Fans can now add these original stories in Six Easy Pieces to their Walter Mosley library: "Smoke," "Crimson Stain," "Silver Lining," "Lavender," "Gato Green," "Gray-Eyed Death," and "Amber Gate."

Sheriff Jim Weber always said it was just a matter of time before somebody shot Bureau of Indian Affairs Agent Gordon Hahn. The man was a loud, crude, misogynist drunk who treated women with disrespect, and was a racist who rode roughshod over the people of the White Mountain Apache Reservation. So Weber wasn't surprised when somebody finally did put an end to all of it with a bullet. He just didn't appreciate Hahn getting himself killed in the middle of Big Lake's annual Pioneers Days fireworks display. With more people who wanted the victim dead than alive, Weber and his deputies have ...

Yoshi Lomax loves playing dirty. She'll do whatever it takes to win a case - including bribing cops, sleeping with her superiors, and convincing her DEA pals to make evidence disappear. But when Yoshi runs out of tricks while defending a Haitian mob boss, the gangster makes one thing clear: Yoshi either wins the case or loses her life.

In 1998 Spade established the United Gangster Crips in his neighborhood to combat the nefarious Bloods gang holding the city siege. His brainchild blossomed into an iron rose; UGC had become a force to be reckoned with. He’d played a major role in changing the urban status quo in Brooklyn. When Spade is arrested for a firearm, Sue Blue takes control of UGC. She builds a tight bond with a subordinate, Royal, who opens her eyes to many things about being a real Crip, given her an entire new outlook on gang banging. Implementing new rules among UGC members, Sue Blue’s actions creates a ...

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan’s investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco.

One man’s curse is another man’s weapon. Genetic engineer Neah Haversham thought unlocking the code to her psychic gift would ease the way to blocking it, something she’d wanted since puberty. Within months of finishing her studies, she discovers the life she’d planned has vanished with the rescue of a sarcastic, hardheaded teen with an unprecedented ability. Ouray Bernard is a healer and warrior, a Native American who uses his skills to train other uniquely talented individuals. When called to help the woman invading his dreams, he can’t refuse. Loyalties collide as each defends ...

In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it.

Dive into the heart of a sun-soaked scandal with "You'll Go to Jail," where the warmth of Florida meets the chill of mystery. In a town where danger lurks in paradise and secrets are as deep as the ocean, crime-solving runs through Katrina Jacobs' veins. Join her and the Black Girl Magic Crew as they unravel a case where justice is as elusive as the tropical breeze. Detective Katrina Jacobs, renowned for her sharp wit and unwavering determination, is summoned to Florida by her mother, Evonta Jacobs, for a case that hits close to home. Evonta’s lifelong friend, Tamara, is grappling with ...

Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June—AKA the Calendar Crew—are celebrating the opening of their latest joint business venture, a new laundromat, to much fanfare (and controversy). However, what should’ve been a joyous occasion quickly turns into a tragedy when they discover the building has been vandalized—and the body of Ninang April’s niece, recently arrived from the Philippines, next to a chilling message painted on the floor. The question is, was the message aimed at the victim or Lila's gossipy godmothers, who have not-so-squeaky-clean reputations?

El ano: 1948, pasada ya la epoca de la Ley Seca, pero en un mundo en el que aun hay cientos de oportunidades para negocios mas bien ilegales. La ciudad: Los Angeles, donde florecen los clubes nocturnos y la juerga de la posguerra. El protagonista: Easy Rawlins, un curtido ex combatiente negro sin trabajo, al que le caera del cielo ¿ o por encargode Dewitt Albright, un personaje harto dudoso ¿ la mission de buscar a una mujer.

Desmond Aloysius Limerick (“Dez” to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig, when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled team attempts to kidnap the chief legal counsel of Triton Expeditors, a major military contractor—in fact, Petra Alexandris is the daughter of the CEO—but their meticulously planned, seamlessly executed scheme runs into the figurative "spanner-in-the-works," Dez himself.

Dr. Will Romine leaves a successful academic career. Cynical, disillusioned, and unanchored he goes on the tramp as a gypsy medical generalist in the rural American West. For 16 days in January he covers the clinic at the world’s largest cattle seed stock expo, the National Western Stock Show. He has a secret that gnaws at him. He wants to write a book, but struggles with “about what?” At the National Western he finds inspiration in a remarkable seed stock bull. It is owned by a reclusive billionaire. The disappearance of the Bull sets off speculation of “how” and “why.” Over ...

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than 2,000 miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico.

AMERICAN KILLERS - VOLUME 1 *Bloodlust Unleashed Henry Lee Lucas, an embodiment of unbridled malevolence, reigns as a figure cloaked in darkness and infamy. His claims to have extinguished the lives of hundreds teeter between the chilling realms of truth and the treacherous landscapes of his own sinister imagination. *The Fallacy of a Perfect Slaying Conceived as the epitome of criminal artistry, a meticulously planned crime unfolds. Yet, the hubris of two affluent prodigies who snuffed out the life of a 14-year-old boy proves their intellect far inferior to their audacity. Within mere ...

“This book checks all my boxes: mystery, romance, drama, archaeology, horses, and the vast desert. Well-written, suspenseful, and descriptive, I felt I was inside the story peering from behind a diaphanous curtain, my heart pounding!” –Linda M., Education Administrator Kira Fontaine comes to Arabia with only one thing in mind—to find a legendary lost river—never realizing her life is about to change forever. When she crawls from the wreckage of her plane, she finds herself stranded in a vast, unforgiving desert. Relying on her Native American ancestral knowledge and skills, and ...

Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She’s about to be arrested for his murder. And she wants Bo to represent her. There’s a lot working against them. Just before his death, Helen’s ex-husband threatened to reveal a dark secret from her past. Bo has been in a tailspin since his wife’s death.