Jerry Lang was a high class burglar. Gloria Pavlich was his accomplice, his "leading lady," and his lover. They had five years of success, but then somebody set them up. One night after they had stolen a valuable painting the cops were waiting. In the struggle Jerry shot a detective. Gloria disappeared. In jail, Jerry barely survived four assassination attempts. Now he has escaped, intent on finding out who framed him and killed Gloria.

"Veteran screenwriter and novelist Gould writes with infectious crackle and humor. Colorful back stories peppered throughout add tension." -- -Kirkus Review

"Readers will appreciate Heywood Gould's wild Noir." -- Harriet Klauser, The Mystery Gazette

"A great Sunday afternoon read." -- Barbara Defina, producer of Goodfellows and Casino

"I'm a sucker for caper novels, and Leading Lady is a first-rate example of the genre" -- Hugh Abramson, Editor

Born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, Heywood Gould got his start as a reporter for the New York Post. Later he financed years of rejection with the usual colorful jobs - cabdriver, mortician's assistant, industrial floor waxer, bartender and screenwriter. He has written twelve books and nine screenplays, among them Double Bang, Fort Apache, the Bronx, One Dead Debutante, Glitterburn, Cocktail, Boys From Brazil, and Rolling Thunder.

New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller is back with reader favorite Mojo Sheepshanks, the irreverent newbie P.I. who finds truth in the strangest places . . .

Mojo is trying to enjoy her posh new home, but she's rather be back living over the biker saloon, where life was simpler. Her sexy cop boyfriend can't let go of his past, while her wealthy sister is being blackmailed for secrets in hers. And Mojo's smack in the middle of it all.

As the murders pile up, Mojo is starting to uncover secrets that even the dead don't want disturbed . . .

"Miller's got major storytelling mojo for the second adventure set in Cave Creek, AZ." -- Publishers Weekly starred review

"The combination of edgy suspense, humor and the supernatural-not to mention Miller's gift for characterization-makes the this one story you won't soon forget!" -- RT BOOKreviews, 4½ star Top Pick Review

Six years after her courageous testimony helped put her husband on death row for a string of gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest. She has moved from the West Coast to North Carolina with her young son, adopting a new name and a new life. But the world that she has created for herself is shattered when the father of one of her ex-husband's victims begins stalking her, then confronts her late one night. In the days that follow, he exposes Leigh, in newspapers and on television, to a startled North Carolina community. And just as her marriage to Randall Mosley, a man who became known to the world as a deviant serial killer, is brought back to light, a more deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
A new killer has emerged, one whose methods are frighteningly similar to those used by Mosley, who is awaiting execution thousands of miles away. Leigh and her son appear to be in the assailant's scope, and it becomes clear that he is more than a copycat killer--his targets are all tied to Leigh's former life. With the clock ticking down and the victims of a new killer mounting, Leigh is forced to probe the darkest corridors of her past to protect her life and her son's. She must also confront her own feelings of responsibility: Leigh has always professed her ignorance, but how complicit was she in her husband's horrific murder spree, as it was taking place?

From a major new voice in suspense, The Killer's Wife is a story driven by psychological insight and harrowing revelations, asking how well you can ever really know the person sleeping beside you.

"A book you can't put down." -- Iris Johansen

"Riveting and original... Will keep you turning pages until the shocking conclusion." -- Allison Brennan

"A compelling debut." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard

"Vividly imagined and sharply drawn... A welcome voice in a crowded genre." -- John Hart

"One hell of a scary ride." -- James W. Hall

Bill Floyd lives in Morrisville, North Carolina, with his wife, Amy. A graduate of Appalachian State University, this is his debut novel.

Jack Holm dreams of what life would be like without his wife, but when she doesn't come home one day his nightmare begins. CPS wants to take his kids, the cops want him in jail, and a killer is stalking his family. His only way out is to find out what happened to his wife. "Island Life" is the new suspense thriller from the author of the Emerson Ward mystery series.

"Beautifully written and richly nuanced, Island Life transcends the usual suspense tale." -- Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster

"Island Life is a terrific novel... A truly different and fascinating story." -- Jeremiah Healy, author of Turnabout and The Only Good Lawyer

"In a shift from his Emerson Ward mysteries (Death is No Bargain, 2006, etc.), Sherer creates a suspenseful tale of a family stressed by the conflicts murder reveals." -- Kirkus Review

After stints as manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor and pr executive, Michael W. Sherer decided life should imitate art--he's now a freelance writer. He has five novels in the Emerson Ward series (An Option On Death, Little Use For Death, Death Came Dressed In White, A Forever Death, and Death Is No Bargain). Island Life, a stand-alone thriller about an ordinary suburban father's race to find out what happened to his missing wife before he loses his children, his freedom and possibly his life, comes out in March, 2008. Please visit www.michaelwsherer.com and www.islandlife-thenovel.com.

Justice is as fast as a bullet...

As I lie in bed with Amanda, ignoring another late night call from my ex, a shot rings out in the New York night and a beautiful starlet dies outside the city's most popular nightclub. This is the kind of story I was born to chase--but I never dreamed this story began over a hundred years ago...

Suddenly another life is taken, the bullet fired from one of the deadliest guns ever made. Both victims are highly controversial, their murders more like public executions. My search leads me into the twisted world of The Boy--a world defined by a demented code of honor and shocking, long-buried secrets of the world's most infamous outlaw.

When this assassin realizes I'm getting too close to the truth, uncovering the past could jeopardize everything I care about. Because in his world there's a fine line between good and evil, and the difference between innocence and guilt depends on who's holding the gun.

"Pinter's cool fusion of a new outlaw with blood ties to an old one hits the mark. The resolution is a ripsnorter, leaving thrill fans ready for the next Henry Parker newsflash." -- Publishers Weekly

"Pinter is among the best of a new generation of thriller writers." -- Joseph Finder

Jason Pinter is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and worked in book publishing for five years before leaving to write full time. He is the bestselling author of THE MARK which has been optioned for film. He is a member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America, and is a founding member of Killer Year. He lives in New York with his wife Susan and their dog Wilson, and is currently at work on his next Henry Parker novel, THE STOLEN. Visit him at www.jasonpinter.com.

Best-selling author Charlotte Bronte travels to London, witnesses a murder, and becomes embroiled in a dangerous chain of events. Aided by her famous family, she pursues a ruthless killer throughout Victorian England and overseas, confronts demons from her past, and finds romance as well as adventure.

"The author of Jane Eyre plays sleuth in this enchanting historical from Rowland, acclaimed for her mystery series set in 17th century Japan . . . Bronte fans will delight in Rowland's portrait of Charlotte, who closely parallels Jane both in personality and station." -- Publishers Weekly

Laura Joh Rowland is the author of the mystery series set in 17th c. Japan that features samurai detective Sano Ichiro. Her work has been published in 13 foreign countries and nominated for the Anthony Award and the Hammett Prize. She is also the author of The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte. Laura lives in New Orleans with her husband Marty and their two cats.

The church waits in darkness. It looks abandoned, forgotten. It has no congregation, but it is not empty. Under its floor, in a pit dug long ago, lies a wooden crate that was never meant to be unearthed. But the church is finally being renovated and workmen have found the pit. How could they realize what they have done? How could they know the forces they've unleashed?

Father Pilazzo is overseeing the renovation of the old church. His dream is to see it restored to its former glory. But his dream is becoming a nightmare. He's begun to see horrific visions, unholy images of death and warnings of terrors to come. And within the church forgotten men fight to survive against impossible demons, while sides are drawn for the ultimate battle...

Michael Laimo's novels include ATMOSPHERE, DEEP IN THE DARKNESS THE DEMONOLOGIST, and DEAD SOULS all of which were published in paperback by Leisure Books.  His short fiction has found its way into the pages of A WALK ON THE DARKSIDE, LOST ON THE DARKSIDE, HOT BLOOD XII: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, SURREAL MAGAZINE, INHUMAN MAGAZINE, plus many more anthologies and magazines, many of which will be collected in a new short story collection entitled DARK RIDE.  

Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aimée, determined to avenge him, follows a trail leading to a sleeper Jihadist which embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics.

"Riveting." -- Publisher's Weekly starred review.

"If the cobblestones could talk, they might tell a tale as haunting as the one Black spins." -- New York Times

"One of the best writers in crime fiction today." -- Lee Child

Cara Black lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and her son. Her bestselling, award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series, is set in Paris. Her books are published in five languages.

Felix Gomez, Iraq war veteran and vampire detective extraordinaire, has survived aliens, nymphomaniacs, and x-rated bloodsuckers. But now the aliens are back, in a fiendish conspiracy to kidnap earth women. Only Felix stands between the aliens and their hapless prey. But when an Army hit man attacks Felix and fellow vampire (and sexpert) Carmen, only the astonishing erotic powers of the Undead Kama Sutra may be able to save Felix.

"Hard-boiled action mixes with soft-core titillation..." -- Publishers Weekly

"...trashy...silly and so much fun." -- Seattle Stranger

"Acevedo has proven once again that he is a very disturbed man-and I mean that in the absolute finest sense of the term." -- Tim Dorsey

Mario Acevedo is a former paratrooper, military helicopter pilot, engineer, and art teacher to incarcerated felons. He lives and writes in Denver, Colorado.

FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace "Smith," only to discover that her real name name is Merle Raye Finkel--and she's a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's the prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president, and Agent Grayhawk has just five days to find his dangerous lover....

"Gritty suspense, hot romance! Joan Johnston dishes up the murder and mayhem Texas style, with plenty of larger-than-life characters and edge-of-your-seat action."-- New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner

"Great plot, characters to root for, white-knuckle suspense, sizzling romance--A Stranger's Game has it all."-- New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards

Joan Johnston is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of 48 novels and novellas with over 10 million copies of her books in print. Joan has a B.A. and M.A. in Theatre and a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Joan has been a newspaper editor, drama critic, director of theatre, college professor and attorney on her way to becoming a full-time author. She has raised two fairly normal kids and splits her time between homes in Florida and Colorado.

After author Chris Keane has written books that have been made into movies and series, The Hunter (Paramount) and The Huntress (TV series on USA Network), along with teaching at Harvard and NYU and writing features, he came to the conclusion that the best way by far to get you book or screenplay into production is to place the greatest amount of focuis on the central character. It makes sense. Agents and managers want their star clients to star in movies that will enhance their careers. And so Chris wrote Romancing The A-List. This book follows his international bestselling How To Write A Selling Screenplay.

"Chris Keane's emphasis on developing a central character as the way to get A-List actors to come on board is quite simply brilliant." -- - Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich, Oscar Winners for Saving their Lives and members of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Chris Keane's Romancing The A-List stands head and shoulders above a very crowded field of "how to" books. Successful both as a writer and teacher, Keane explains the tactics necessary for building a story and getting it into the marketplace. Essential reading for anyone interested in a career in screen writing. -- Michael Miner, director, The Book Of Stars, co-writer, Robocop and Anacondas: Hunt For The Blood Orchid

Christopher Keane has written fourteen fiction and non fiction books including The Hunter (a Paramount feature, Steve McQueen's last picture -- and his first book and movie, at age 23). The Huntress (a USA TV series) and The Crossing (WB).

He has taught or lectured screen and novel writing at Harvard, Emerson College in Boston, NYU, LMU Grad School (LA) Notheastern University and spoken on screenwriting at The Smithsonian Institution, The National Press Club, Maui Writers, LA Screenwriting Expo and many more. He recently completed a feature, Lost Light (about JFK's greatest secret love with whom he spent the last year of his life in the White, House, and a TV series pilot, DIVINE JUSTICE. His new screenwriting book, Romancing The A-List will be out in March, '08.

A farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow...only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune.

"The sinister world of Amanda Stevens will feed the dark side of your soul...and leave you hungry for more." -- New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd

Amanda Stevens considers storytelling a part of her heritage. "Someone once said the South is home to people who love to talk. This is especially true of the rural South where I grew up." Her high school literature classes provided an early influence where she was drawn to the darker stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, but it was the southern gothic that truly inspired her. The strong sense of place--dusty back roads and moonlit bayous, simmering secrets and fragrant, sweltering heat--provided a powerful backdrop to the despair and desperation of the wayward souls that peopled classic southern literature. Amanda uses those same elements in her thrillers, which can best be described as "creepy, southern suspense."

A thriller set in the late 1940s, during the witch-hunting days of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, when thousands of entertainment workers were blacklisted for years.

Stuart Woods is the author of thirty-six novels. He has a run of twenty-two straight New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Key West, Florida, Mt. Desert Island, Maine and New York City.

Michael Egan comes to Ireland to investigate recent thefts and murders connected to a mythic Celtic jewelry collection. The woman who owned most of this cursed set is murdered, and her family accuses Irish jewelry designer Flanna McKenna of being involved in the theft and murder. Even though he doesn't believe her claims that she's psychic, Michael thinks she's the best bet for finding the perpetrator.

Romantic Times BOOKreviews TOP PICK! "Patricia Rosemoor's soothing pace fits in well with her lyrical Irish dialogue and fascinating myth-making. In Name Only? (4.5) is a first-rate, old-fashioned paranormal mystery with gothic overtones."

Feeling that justice is all too rare in real life, Patricia Rosemoor drives her characters to seek an equitable resolution, no matter the personal sacrifice. Her fascination with "dangerous love" -- combining romance with danger -- has led her to write various forms of romantic suspense and paranormal romantic thrillers, bringing a different mix of thrills and chills and romance to each book. 

Josette Monier has lived for centuries. The bobcat shifter was born with multiple seer gifts, leaving her lost in time--seeing the past, present and future in one stream. She's thwarted evil plans at every turn, leaving her open to constant attempts on her life. But suddenly her gifts have failed her, and without her ability to see the future, the entire human race could be in danger. It will take all her skills, plus those of the ex-husband she'd believed dead, to stop the crisis before time runs out.

"Each new chapter of this thought provoking and intense series adds further luster to an already stellar body of work. Adams & Clamp are guaranteed page turners!" -- RT BOOKreviews

"A superior offering for readers of paranormal romance. The Sazi world continues to grow and fascinate." -- Fresh Fiction

USA Today and Waldenbooks Mass Market bestselling authors C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp have published ten paranormal thrillers for Tor Books since 2004. In addition to critical acclaim, their novels have won several major awards, including the Reviewer's International Organization Award of Excellence, Book Buyers Best Award and RT BOOKreviews Magazine Reviewer's Choice award. They are also finalists in this year's Career Achievement Award competition by the same magazine. C.T. and Cathy are residents of the Texas Hill country and look forward to a long and productive writing career.

He returned to his country, his hollowed out soul gnawing away at him, until love floated in on Mojave Winds.

A Mid-Western kid ships off to serve his country...four years later...Kris Klug comes back a man looking for a job. He counts on his Uncle Fred as a bridge back to the civilian world. He yearns for simple, peaceful living. After meeting up with his Uncle Fred for a job in his trucking outfit hauling goods between L.A. and Vegas, Klug discovers an underworld where thugs and cokeheads snare him and dump him in the Mojave.

With gangsters at his heels, Klug sinks into his darkest hour. Love comes his way when he least expects to survive. Mojave Winds carry the devil's breath and maybe, just maybe, an angel's mercy.

"I started reading this thriller and couldn't put it down."  --  New York Times bestselling author, James Rollins

"Biskeborn has imagination, toughness, color and in-your-face relevance. all the ingredients for a rousing yarn." --
Robert Grudin Ph.D. - Guggenheim Fellow in 1992-93; Author of books on philosophy and two novels; Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature

A long-time resident of California, Oregon-born Mark Biskeborn first began writing and reading intensively while in high school. Just out of high school, he worked a year at Das Geotheanum in Switzerland. Goethe's Faust is performed unabridged. He obtained an MA in Comparative Literature after studying at the Universitaet Goettingen.

Later with an MBA he worked over 17 years in corporate marketing...in France and Germany, which gave him the chops to place his stories in exotic lands.  He contributed many non-fiction articles, essays, book reviews... to various magazine publications and blogs over the years. Mark began writing Mojave Winds in 2003. In 2008, Mark is already polishing a manuscript for his next thriller, Follow the Sufi's Ghost, the sequel to Mojave Winds.