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by Robert M. Utley

Written by a respected Western historian, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.

by Arnaldur Indridason

18 million copies sold worldwide! An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city pond unexpectedly captures everyone's attention. A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.

by Antonio Mercero

"La mañana en que el policía Carlos Luna se dispone a dejar para siempre su antigua identidad para presentarse como Sofía Luna, con su flamante nuevo DNI y una peluca rubia, o quizá morena, un asesinato terrible sacude la Brigada de Homicidios: Jon, el hijo de un famoso escritor de novelas históricas, ha sido asesinado. Todas las personas relacionadas con la víctima ocultan algo.Mientras avanza en la investigación, acompañada por su colega, y antigua amante, Laura, Sofía deberá lidiar con una sociedad que se resiste a los nuevos tiempos, y luchar por conservar su trabajo y el amor de su hijo adolescente." -- Site internet de l'éditeur

by Nicholas Pileggi

Presents a firsthand account of organized crime showing its brutality and fascination.

by Patricia Smith Wood

In this second Harrie McKinsey Mystery, Harrie goes out to retrieve her morning newspaper and she discovers a small child sitting next to her flower beds. The little girl's pajamas and teddy bear are smeared with blood, and Harrie's journey to find the child's parents involves her in a grisly murder investigation. Before the week is over, there's another murder, an attempted kidnapping, a race to uncover a plot to steal top-secret data, and an encounter with a desperate killer who intends to make Harrie his final victim.

by Harper Lin

The Pink Cupcake Truck is here! From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin In the middle of a messy custody battle with her ex-husband, Amelia volunteers to organize a high school bake sale to raise money for Meg's art club. After a frightening police lockdown at the school, which turned out to be due to the death of a student, Amelia wants to help. She also has ulterior motives to be inside the school: to get to the bottom of why a popular football player was found dead in the school gym. Read the 7th cozy mystery (30,000 words) in the popular Pink Cupcake series.

by Andrew Wender Cohen

The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernisation and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.

by T E. Kinsey

Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past. When she moves from London to rural Gloucestershire in 1908, she has her heart set on a quiet life in the country. But when she and her maid come upon a body in the woods, they become entangled in a murder mystery that sets them on an entertaining new path as amateur sleuths. In these, the first of Lady Hardcastle's adventures, she and Florence Armstrong, her faithful lady's maid, fumble their way through four mysteries. The Body in the Woods sets them on their new path when a supposed suicide turns out to be more than it appears. When The Circus Comes to Town, the amateur sleuths meet an old friend and must track down a multiple murderer who has turned the lives of the travelling entertainers upside down. The Case of the Missing Case sees a musician murdered at a country house party, but once again all is not as it seems and our heroines work with the Bristol police to solve the murder before the trail goes cold. In The Half Death of Gunther Ehrlichmann, Emily finally uncovers the truth of her husband's death and seals her own fate when an assassin tracks her down."

by Glenn A. Bruce

Are you tired of the yelling, the anger, the confusion in America's political system today? Are you angry at the anger? If you are, you need to read this book today! It's short and to the point; but more important, it is just as the title says: a Practical Guide to Being a Good American. This book should become the Anthem for the 80% of Americans who are "in the middle." As the author says, "If you take away the 10% on the extreme left, and the 10% on the extreme right, you are left with 80% of Americans who want a quieter, saner dialogue about our many problems, so that we can actually begin fixing them now."This book is easy reading, written in an everyday speaking style that makes it accessible to everyone. No concepts in the book are "over anyone's head." These are, as the title implies, practical ways of looking at our nation's issues. The author doesn't attempt to offer solutions. He's not an expert. He is one of us, just another American citizen who is frustrated by the shouting, red faces that lead us farther and farther away from each other, rather than uniting us to solve our many problems.If you are a rabid right-winger, or extreme lefty, don't read this book; but if you consider yourself to be a calmer person who is looking for direction, “Anthem” is your doorway! The author encourages you to read it, think and seek out answers for yourself. If you don't agree with everything, that's fine! That's America! We aren't supposed to agree on every point that comes up. W

by Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine's recent Bob Skinner mystery, DEATH'S DOOR, spent six consecutive weeks at number one in the Scottish bestseller list

by B. K. Stubblefield

The best part of Emily's childhood may have been the time she spent with her quirky aunt. When her favorite relative passes away, she drops everything to attend the funeral in the small town of Oak Creek. Just as she starts to get the hang of small-town life, an unknown driver runs her off the road and sends her to the hospital. But, why?

by E. H. Reinhard

A wanted serial killer and his girlfriend are on a bloody killing spree across the United States. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper, along with the rest of their team, are on a nationwide manhunt to bring them to justice.Scene after scene and body after body only add to the media coverage. The wanted couple's faces are splashed across every television and cover the front pages of every newspaper, yet Hank's team remains a step behind-leaving them searching through the wreckage and bodies left in the couple's wake.As the pair takes a turn for the border, Hank must pull out all the stops to capture the murderous lovers before they take more lives, cross the border, and slip through the FBI's grasp.The hunt is on.

by W. W. Tracy

RULE #1 CRIME CAN NOT BE COMMITTED AGAINST WOMEN When Jack Stacey finds himself at the scene of a homicide, he quickly identifies the profile as belonging to Michael Bittaker. Bittaker, and the local blue have been hot for each other for thirty-six years, without a single conviction. Some would say that's an epic effort in the life of a criminal. Stacey calls upon his partner, DCI Alexis Murphy, and as soon as she crosses the cordon, the past is haunting. The body count is steadily rising, and the chief suspect was recently cremated. As the pair set out to capture a ghost, they are forced to dispose Bittaker's ex-wife. When Sarah makes a series of chilling confessions, they discover their perp is not the monster they've been chasing and their failure to close a domestic violence case, has resulted in the rising of a serial killer. A chilling Australian story that weaves the tale of Domestic Violence, from a multifaceted perspective. The hard part isn't identifying culpability, it's allocating fair distribution of it.

by Daniel Defoe

Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime.