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Inspector Montalbano is stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses, one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer. And with the alluring Liliana Lombardo trying to seduce him, Montalbano soon feels he's being manipulated on all fronts.

Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Ricciardi must untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration, and jealousy in order to solve the riddle of Viper's death.

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession. But the organization won't let him go--they have other plans.

Glamorous reporter Crystal French blows into Lochdubh and is promptly given a speeding ticket by Constable Hamish Macbeth. She then rakes up old local scandals, outraging the entire village. When Crystal turns up dead, everyone becomes suspect.

When an illegal immigrant falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jameson Rook. All is well until Rook decides Heat has arrested the wrong man.

Elizabeth Church has been murdered, but her husband, Sam Lattimore, still sees her. In fact, he holds conversations with her almost every evening and watches her line up books on a beach. What at first seems a hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself as something else entirely.

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession. But the organization won't let him go--they have other plans.

This crime fiction novel from the author of the Bino Phillips series follows former Dallas police officer Frank White as he matches wits with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system.

Martha Lawrence came to Ellery Queen claiming that her husband's jealousy was putting her in danger. But did the man have grounds for his rage? When unsigned letters begin to arrive, Ellery is dragged all over New York in search of the truth.

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day. Clive McCahon returns to his tiny hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke with a lot to make up to his younger brother--but he doesn't realize the trouble he's bringing home.