NATIONAL BESTSELLER PROTECTOR is the gut-wrenching, heartrending story of hard-bitten Denver homicide detective Jane Perry and nine-year-old Emily Lawrence. Emily has witnessed the murder of her parents - murders that the authorities believe are part of a larger wave of crime. However, Emily can't seem to recall a thing about the killings. When ......
Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, Irish crime writers resist many of the stereotypical devices of the genre. These writers have adroitly carved out their own individual narratives to ......
Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, Irish crime writers resist many of the stereotypical devices of the genre. These writers have adroitly carved out their own individual narratives to ......
Strange things are happening to the black bear population in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The animal-parts market is highly organized, and its practitioners are ruthless and dangerous. Service finds himself chasing illusive poachers, and wrestling with the usual cast of eccentric and entertaining characters in the third Woods Cop Mystery series.
"Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives-cryptid or otherwise." -Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer In the space of one weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia, private investigator Big Jim Foote finds himself at the center of two murder investigations. ......
With Door County caught in the grip of a fierce winter storm, Sheriff Dave Cubiak agrees to do a simple favor for a friend of his wife: he stops by to check in on an affluent widow with a questionable new suitor. His initial disquiet is easily dismissed-until she is found dead the next morning in her home. Lying at the bottom of a flight of ......
"A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own." -Brian CastleberryOne October night in the depressed steel town of Lodi, Ohio, two police officers respond to a call about trespassers in the derelict Lodi Steel machine shop. A chase through the crumbling cathedral ......
The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. His agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power, and its well-known logo of ......
Ed Grainger returns home from his History Club meeting to find his house swarming with police. His wife Lucy has been murdered. The police identify a number of suspects. Was it Lucy's recently jilted lover her work colleague robbed of promotion her lawyer with whom she had a brief affair Ed's 'unhinged' and jealous stalker and her equally as ......
