Crime Mystery & Thriller

A teenaged boy's family is murdered before his eyes, and he ends up in the hospital in unstable condition with multiple stab wounds. In a state of shock, he remains unconscious.

“bleak, despairing, and an utterly compelling examination of freewill versus fate.”

To say that this novel is set in Lagos is to miss the point—the book is a memoir of Lagos. If Abel Dike is the protagonist, then Lagos is the eponymous antagonist.

Fistful of Rain is a modern Western, complete with mountain ranges and vast prairies, where folks still ride horses and have cattle drives.

“Serious stories, taking in the main a hard line on reality, and any gray scale would show them on the dark end of the spectrum.”

“This is the novel that started it all.”

It’s the late 1940s. Mike Hammer has come to Killington, Rhode Island, to keep a promise to a friend.

Sigrid is in a tough place.

“No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.”

"Highly recommended."

A woman’s nude body is found in a Helsinki apartment with religious references scrawled on her back.

“This is a book that will keep you up all night, unable to turn off the light, because the pages almost literally fly beneath your fingers.”

James Grippando won the prestigious 2017 Harper Lee Prize for excellence in legal fiction for Gone Again, his 12th Jack Swyteck thriller, and A Death in Live Oak is the 14th offer