CRIME

Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. Learn More

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Learn More

So this girl walks into a bar... Learn More

Marriage can be a real killer. Learn More

Warren Ellis reimagines New York City as a puzzle with the most dangerous pieces of all: GUNS. Learn More

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last—and most success­ful—novel. Learn More

Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Learn More

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Learn More

The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s. Learn More