Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Recent examples: A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards. Hit men using Harry for target practice. The missing Shroud of Turin, and the possible involvement...

Includes: The Telltale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, MS. Found in a Bottle, The Oval Portrait, Berenice, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, The Oblong Box, The Cask of Amontillado, Metzengerstein, The Pit and the Pendulum, A Descent into the Maelström, The Premature Burial, The Sphinx, The Imp of the Perverse, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,...

Joe Grey and Dulcie, two talking cats, are on the trail of a feline who is masterminding a crime spree escalating toward murder.

"Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...

“Midnight Riot is what would happen if Harry Potter grew up and joined the Fuzz. It is a hilarious, keenly imagined caper.”—Diana Gabaldon 
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the...

Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.

A WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAP
 
It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom—if it exists at all—is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects . . . except, that is, for...

Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into...

The investigations of Dirk Gently, a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantum mechanics and lunch than fiddling around with fingerprint powders, produce startling and unexpected results.

Esther Diamond, the New York actress, is resting between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant. Then duplicate gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it's up to Esther and her friend Max The Magician to fight Evil by stopping a gang war before it starts killing the wrong people.