A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award–winning author ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years old, alon...

"[This] deeply engaging tale of a teenager who may—or may not—have helped kill her parents [is] a model of evenhanded true-crime writing." — Kirkus ReviewsSixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia's father was brutally...

Edgar Award Finalist: The story of the infamous escape attempt and bloody siege at Alcatraz.In 1946, six men attempted to break out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Their bloody siege lasted two days, and ended with five dead and fifteen wounded—plus two of the perpetrators executed for their role in the endeavor.In Six Against the Rock—the basis for a TV movie—an award-winning...

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco.In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. The streets became deserted and tour...

Two LAPD detectives are at odds over a horrifying case in this "taut shocker" of a novel by an Edgar Award–winning author ( The Boston Globe).A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the object of suspicion, tensions flare between the two officers—and it will push them to t...

A "vividly written" account of the bloody 1971 San Quentin riot by the Edgar Award–winning author of Zebra and Six Against the Rock ( Kirkus Reviews).American Saturday traces one man's path from the slums of Chicago to the California state prison where he embraced radicalism, was charged for the murder of a corrections officer, and eventually, was gunned down during the violent chaos following a failed escape attempt. This chilli...

A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge the Widow-Maker is...

As the Vietnam War rages, blood will be shed at a stateside Marine Corps prison, in this novel by a "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly).Siberia 10 is a military prison in California, and tensions are coming to a slow boil within its walls. Inmates are trying to escape; guards are practicing constant brutality; racial tensions are seething. Those confined to Siberia 10 have been trained to fight and kill—and in the midst of chaos, things could tu...

A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author.He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he's killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional assassin. And sometimes it's not just the target who takes a bullet—if the bodyguard or mistress is unfortunate enough to be around. When the time comes, it happens fast: assemble the weapon, load, ditch the evidence.Now ...

A hunting trip turns into a manhunt in this chilling predator-versus-prey thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author.Four guys from the suburbs are about to set out on a hunting trip. Wes is an architectural draftsman with a secret. Leo has a high-level advertising job, but is miserable with ulcers. Milt sells pharmaceuticals but is disdained by his wife—who happens to be the object of passionate desire for Lamar, who works in insurance.But one of these me...

This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man's personal journey is "wonderful . . . A truly exciting novel" ( Orlando Sentinel).After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an odd inheritance from a man he's never met: a parcel of land in east Texas. With little to lose, he and his wife set off from Kansas City and find themselves in the dusty town of Dane—where they're met with inexplicable hostility.W...

A wealthy man has been abducted—but it's not his money the kidnappers are after—in this inventive thriller by an Edgar Award–winning author.Devlin's beat is usually organized crime, but now he's been called to the home of Jennifer Keyes, a redheaded actress whose husband has gone missing. It's not Devlin's sort of case, but he finds Jennifer compelling so he agrees to help—and of course, handle the matter with discretion.J. Walter Keyes's ...