From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations...

Anthony Horowitz has yet again reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes. One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper -- the wealthy mother of a famous actor -- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant,...

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear, but now her ex-boyfriend is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.

THe old Billings Girls are gone. Reed Brennan now has a new school year ahead of her with 6 new house mates in Billings. But Cheyenne Martin believes the changes that the headmaster has made are a mockery of Billings history. Despite the new rules, Cheyenne vows to keep the old ways alive.

Arthur Parkinson tells how his family fell apart, his problems when he turned fifteen, and how the murder of Annie Marchand, his old babysitter affected him.

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house-cleaner, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life, as well as Montalbano's,...

Police captain Mat Joubert of Cape Town's Murder and Robbery Department, on a downward spiral since the death of his wife two years earlier, is given a last chance to redeem himself on the job when he is assigned to find a killer who is using a century-old German handgun and ancient bullets to gun down a string of seemingly unrelated victims.

Tim thought no one suspected him, but months after the murder off the Alaskan coast the letters begin to arrive. At first they seem innocuous accounts of historical events, but they begin to point to Tim and to murder.

Fifteen-year-old Nicky Snape, a chronic trouble-maker, is found hanging from the shower of the children's home while in custody on suspicion of murder, and it appears that his death may not have been suicide as the police would like to believe.