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The author of Blitz and the author of the Jesse Stone novels collaborate on a "rough and profane read" about two childhood friends who become criminals (Daniel Woodrell). Nick''s Irish-American father, a Brooklyn rent-a-cop working security in the World Trade Center''s North Tower, named him after a Hemingway hero. The old man must have been expecting a different kind of kid. Because, like the R&B song says, Nick was born under a bad sign. As aimless as a stray bullet, his only constants are ''Nam movies, pulp novels, and an unquestioning devotion to his childhood friend, Todd, a Jewish New York con artist with connections to the Boston mob. When Todd inducts Nick into his world of petty crime, it starts with reckless fun—scoring weed, low-level stings, and burglary. But the deeper they sink into the world of the syndicate, the more they realize how unknowable a friend can be, and how unprepared they are to rescue themselves, and their souls, from the gutter. Alternately telling this "brutally poetic" story from the perspectives of Nick and Todd, award-winning "noir masters" Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Colemen "shine, dropping in-jokes, experimenting and displaying all the literary chops that have made their novels such cult favorites among mystery fans" ( Publishers Weekly).

Dylan Klein, an insurance investigator, teams up with ex-New York City Police detective Johnny MacClough as life in post-Cold War Brooklyn begins to get complicated, clients begin dying, and simple survival becomes the ultimate goal

In noir, love is motive. Passion turns deadly in this gripping anthology featuring Reed Farrel Coleman, Vincent Zandri, and more. Betrayal, obsession, and revenge collide in stories where romance always comes with a body count.

Issue four closes our exciting first year with the very talented debut of Arthur Klepchukov. His intelligent "A Damn Fine Town" is followed by film director and writer John Shepphird and a prequel to his award-nominated "Shill" trilogy, a bit of a teaser for those of you who may not have discovered Jane Innes...yet. Brian Silverman is up next with a story set on his fictional Caribbean island of St. Pierre featuring his characters, Leonard and Tubby. The featured story this issue is of the most excellent Inspector Kubu by the writing team of Michael Stanley. If "Shoot to Kill" is your first Kubu tale, believe me, he''s only better when he''s in a novel. Our featured historical story is by the very prolific, very good Frederick C. Davis, who became one of Harry Whittington''s "St. Pete Boys," the group of writers like Gil Brewer, Day Keene, and occasionally John D. MacDonald, that met on Sunday afternoons at Harry''s house. Davis''s story is the first Secrets, Inc. installment, "Blood on the Block." We close out the issue with an offbeat heist story by Robb T. White called "Inside Man," and a short piece by the always terrific Lissa Marie Redmond, who first appeared in issue two, called "We Don''t Talk About Lester Anymore." There''s a good reason for that.

1944, camp de concentration de Birkenau. Les destins de Jacob et d’Isaac se trouvent scellés quand le carnet de ce dernier est confisqué par le sous-lieutenant Kleinmann. Chronique des activités criminelles du camp et des victimes des chambres à gaz, son Livre des Morts peut les conduire à leur perte. Les deux hommes tentent de récupérer le précieux objet mais, surpris par Kleinmann, Isaac est tué. Le carnet semble définitivement perdu.Mais que sait-on réellement de Jacob et d’Isaac ? Sont-ils vraiment les héros que l’on croit ? Et si Le Livre des Morts venait à ressurgir, que dévoilerait-il ?

In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man''s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone''s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse''s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls'' mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered. It''s up to Police Chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all the murders are connected.

Fourth book in the acclaimed Moe Prager mystery series taking place in New Yor k City

Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It''s been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when a young woman is found murdered and her boyfriend, a son of one of Paradise''s most prominent families, is missing and presumed kidnapped. Though seemingly unrelated, there is a connection between the reunion and the crimes as Jesse discovers that one of his former teammates may in fact be his main suspect. Sometimes, danger comes not from where you expect it--but from your blind spots"--Provided by publisher.

Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman''s Sonnet. That same morning, an elderly woman dies while her house is being ransacked. Is the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape? While the town fathers pressure him to avoid a PR nightmare, Jesse must connect the cases before the bodies pile up further.

"Readers are rewarded with a somber and gripping crime story". -- Publishers Weekly "An insouciant, inspired retake on The Daine Curse''s angel of death". -- Kirkus

Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray.

"The NYPD has a secret they''d like to keep in the past. Detective Jack Kenny doesn''t like keeping secrets." Conservative, stubborn, and frustrated by institutional red tape, Detective Jack Kenny solves crimes the old-fashioned way. If there''s anything that thirty-plus years in the NYPD--or being born into a family of Irish Catholic cops--teaches you, it''s that good police officers need little more than a badge, a six-shot revolver, and some seasoned street smarts to get the answers they need. Kenny''s partner, the young, beautiful, and technologically savvy Carmen Romero, believes that computers--not hunches--are the key to identifying and catching today''s toughest criminals. Together, Kenny and Romero make a pairing as fiery as it is effective. But when a new witness to the grisly, thirty-year-old "Bronx Barber" murder comes forward, linking the brutal slashing of a prostitute with an NYPD stag party gone wild, the duo''s skills and loyalties are put to the test like never before. Suddenly, Jack''s long-deceased first partner is implicated in the crime, and an unpaid debt drives the veteran detective to get to the heart of a secret that the NYPD would prefer to leave in its past. With pressure escalating and time running out, Kenny and Romero''s frantic search for truth will put their careers, reputations, and lives at stake. Along the way, they''ll learn just how strong the ties that bind New York''s Finest really are.