Modern-day Rome: Two American archaeologists suddenly die in an underground passageway in the Roman Forum leading to the buried rooms of Emperor Nero's Golden Palace. The Italian authorities conclude the deaths were caused by a devastating and highly contagious virus. Tom Stewart, an NYU forensic archaeologist who was present when the deaths ......
Hollywood, 1934. Prohibition is finally over, but there is still plenty of crime for an ambitious young private eye to investigate. Though he has a slightly checkered past, Riley Fitzhugh is well connected in the film industry and is hired by a major producer--whose lovely girlfriend has disappeared. He also is hired to recover a stolen Monet, a ......
The Kafka Society by Ron Felber finds Jack Madson, (A Man of Indeterminate Value), on another adventure. After a night of clubbing, Jack has no memory of how stripper, Amber Starr got into his bed. Great sex doesn't make up for the discovery of a severed head in the trunk of his Mustang convertible. Is Madson a murderer? Before that question can ......
This engaging book explores the parallel histories of Sherlock Holmes and England during the Victorian era. Black traces the evolution of Arthur Conan Doyle's plots and characters as culture and society changed dramatically in his lifetime. Black brings London to life as a cosmopolitan city of the world with a dark underbelly where crime abounds.
In 2007, three years after leaving the military, Zev Evans is a drunk - and a neurotic one at that. Living with his Sicilian mother and running figure eights through Long Island's dense suburbs, he believes that the weird thoughts that plague him - he calls them tics - might have entered his head while he was undergoing brain surgery three years ......
The devil is in the details when the one percent gets what the one percent wants...no matter what, no matter how much or how legal. NYPD Detective Mike DiMaggio is catapulted into an international conspiracy when the details of a not-so-routine murder investigation get his partner killed and him fired. His suspicion that Cassandra Cassidy, a ......
Juggling her job, her family, her friends and worries about her future is keeping Singapore bookshop assistant Mei busy but when a customer is murdered, she needs to know why. Taking lessons from her favourite detectives, the always inquisitive Mei navigates the darker side of Singapore to find out what really led to the death of Sally Song.
On a dank fall night at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, police uncover naked corpses of three murdered young women. Weirdly, their bodies are neatly arranged to form a triangle, each face up with one eye glued open and the other shut. Dr Henry Liu calls together the Global Interactive Forensics Team to investigate these brutal murders.
Delilah Price is still dealing with the consequences of her recent abduction, but she needs to keep her life on track. In order to survive as an artist in New York City, she has started working as a substitute teacher, which leaves her navigating between two worlds that are foreign to her - students and educators. Detective Patrick Quick has ......
