"The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel--a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined. Willie Maxwell was a Baptist reverend in Alabama; he also happened to be a serial killer. Between 1970 and 1977, his two wives and brother all died under suspicious circumstances -- each...

"After throwing a party while her parents were away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found dead at the bottom of the family pool. Devastated, her family must come to grips with the realization that Kerry might have been murdered by someone she loved. The obvious first suspect is Kerry's boyfriend, with whom she had a bitter argument during the party. But there's also the neighbor, a developmentally disabled young man. Was a lack of invitation...

Jeremy Bamber loved the high life, but greed was suffocating him...he wanted more. In one of Britain's most notorious killings, he shot his mother, father, sister, Sheila Cafell and her five year old twins at the family farm and blamed it on his schizophrenic sister. But the police suspected him of the crime and when his girlfriend Julie Mugford went to the police and told them that he'd confessed to her, he was arrested and charged with murder. Though...

New to both Rosedale, MS, and the Mississippi Bar, Ruby Bozarth is tasked with defending an African American college football star accused of murdering a woman from one of Rosedale's most prominent families. Because she's a newbie, the judge thinks he can ram through a conviction, but Ruby relies on tough attorney Suzanne and diner cook Shorty (who's got secrets) as she faces a jury with secrets of their own.

When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.

"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"-- Provided by publisher.

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....

MURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes, to the tune of $750,000. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives . . . MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS. Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically...

Four previously uncollected stories from the mystery great, two featuring the young Adam Dalgliesh. Sgt. Dalgliesh becomes involved in a case described as "pure Agatha Christie" and elsewhere reinvestigates an infamous murder to reassure his godfather about an inheritance. In addition, a stuffy clerk has reasons other than his weird taste in pornography to demur when asked to testify as witness to a murder, and a celebrated crime novelist describes...

Tory Bodeen grew up in a small, rundown house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt - and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. But she had Hope - who lived in the big house, just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn't allowed to be at home: a child. After young Hope's brutal murder, unsolved to this day, Tory's life began to fall apart. And now, as she returns to the tiny...