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Jazz pianist Evan Horne, settled into the San Francisco jazz scene, takes a gig in Los Angeles, where he’s offered his most unusual job yet.

At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, precisely processing loans for a mortgage company.

Summer in Benteen, County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war.

A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Mid-summer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day.

Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend’s gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

Soon after an ancient talisman is smuggled out of Hong Kong, a container ship filled with Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz, the crew murdered.

Attorney Rep Pennyworth has the client from hell... Charlotte Buchanan, author of a mystery of no particular merit, contends her 1997 novel was stolen and used as the basis for a 1999 film.

Parrots will repeat anything; they don’t talk sense. Or do they?

Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache, until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother’s driveway.

Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as "Englishman," faces his toughest re-election challenge yet.

Storm Kayama’s old high school friend, Tanner Williams, wants a favor.

Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia.

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is always busy, but now more so than ever.

A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. But when he’s brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world’s most deadly drug cartels.