Twenty Minutes to Kill, first published in 1936, is an entertaining murder mystery by Arthur M. Chase. The story opens in a penthouse apartment high above the streets of New York. A party is in progress, composed of a number of the city's leading citizens, but underlying current of envy, jealousy, and greed is present. A masked intruder enters the apartment, and chaos and murder result, with many twists as the mystery is unraveled.

Murder of a Missing Man, first published in 1934 as a Red Badge Book, is a 'golden-age' murder mystery, set largely aboard a passenger train traveling across southwestern America. From the dustjacket: "In this new mystery, the author develops an ingenious and original case in which the identity of the victim is as much a mystery as the identity of the murderer. At the outset, the reader is introduced to a highly dramatic tragedy in a fashionable New York hotel. Pi...

A beautiful and touching coming-of-age love story with a touch of fantasy. Johnny, a 14-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and Brook, a 14-year-old Native American girl From South Dakota, meet at a summer job working at a cowboy show in the suburbs of New York City-first meeting as antagonists, then like childhood friends.Coming from different cultures and lifestyles, they learn a lot from each other. Johnny, a good kid but lazy with no ambition, and Brook, dealing with a tragedy, comfort ...

A beautiful and touching coming-of-age love story with a touch of fantasy. Johnny, a 14-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and Brook, a 14-year-old Native American girl From South Dakota, meet at a summer job working at a cowboy show in the suburbs of New York City—first meeting as antagonists, then like childhood friends. Coming from different cultures and lifestyles, they learn a lot from each other. Johnny, a good kid but lazy with no ambition, and Brook, dealing with a tragedy, comfort each o...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, an ex-cop must save the woman he's sworn to protect from an ancient Irish curse.Ex-cop Finn O'Grady hasn't been home in years. But the woman he swore to protect is convinced an ancient curse has put her and her son in deadly danger. O'Grady has seen too much evil on earth to believe in the supernatural.And then the killing starts ...BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James P...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA timeless story of finding hope through unthinkable loss, The Shack is one of the most powerful and beloved stories of our age.Contains bonus sneak-peek content from the forthcoming sequel, Return to the Shack***, coming October 6, 2026.***Mackenzie “Mack” Philips’s youngest da...

Oh Danny Boy marks Edgar Award finalist Rhys Bowen's triumphant fifth installment in her New York Times bestselling Molly Murphy mystery series.In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, whom sh...

The Dain Curse is a classic detective novel by Dashiell Hammett featuring his iconic hard-boiled investigator, the Continental Op. This time, the Op is called to unravel a mysterious series of events involving the wealthy Leggett family and their enigmatic young daughter, Gabrielle. As he investigates a diamond theft and a series of bizarre occurrences around the family, he discovers a troubling connection to a cult and a supposed family curse that haunts Gabrielle, putting her life in con...

A #1 New York Times bestseller by a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A successful Manhattan banker is haunted by his humble New England roots.Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his boss's intentions and competing with his chief rival for promotio...

Some say you can never go back.But what if going back felt right? And what if your first love still made you feel those crazy sensations? Kate had never forgotten Mack or the dreams they’d talked about. Mack of the shocking kisses and intense silence. Mack, her first lover and her first love.Nothing had changed.Mack knew she was trouble. Kate had always been his kryptonite, but watching her flit back into town was like a knife tearing through his gu...

Their hot New Year’s Eve wasn’t supposed to have consequences…Fiercely independent after a difficult childhood, Ilke Lunquist devotes herself to one thing: skiing. She’s on the cusp of gold when an unexpected pregnancy throws her future into chaos.Nathaniel Hart takes on the daunting project of restoring Whiskey Jack Ski Resort to be close to his young son, but with one failed marriage behind him, he avoids serious relationships.They might be virtual strangers with ...

Jean and Louise Dana are given a valuable study lamp by their Uncle Ned. The girls plan to place it in their study room at Starhurst when they return for their sophomore year. But before the girls leave, the lamp is stolen! After the sisters return to Starhurst, they discover the lamp in a secondhand shop and buy it back. Unwittingly, the girls make an enemy of their classmate, Lettie Briggs, not only because the girl had planned to buy the lamp but because the Danas' room is the one Letti...