The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California.
When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year's Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters a case with more dangerous twists and turns than Mulholland Drive. Hallinan's life hits a bump or two of its own when he's dumped by his wife of eleven years, and falls hard for an enchanting young... [click here for more]
Detective Jack Dunning and his partner Jim Tunney have their hands full. Two young boys have turned up dead within a two-month period on the same stretch of lonely highway outside the small agricultural town of Santa Paulina, California. Are they the victims of the same illusive hit-and-run sedan that mowed down rookie cop, Curley McDaniel? Or are they part of a darker, more sinister plot? Jack's... [click here for more]
This is a tale of tragedy and terror invading the pleasant life of a big coeducational medical college. It is exactly what the title says -- murder among friends. For they were all friends, a little group of intimates who were drawn to lovely, sparkling Garnet Dillon, secretary to the Dean. Then disaster struck -- struck like a great tidal wave of horror, leaving five murders and a gripping fear in... [click here for more]
The morning after the season's worst blizzard of the year, Deputies Frank "Frack" Telusky and Robely Danner of the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, are called to a remote section of woods, where they find a handcuffed man frozen to a tree. Since no one local has been reported missing they wonder if The Iceman is the driver of the overdue van out of Minnesota, reportedly carrying... [click here for more]
Leslie Adams doesn't often get angry, upset, or worried. So when Molly, his sister, first disappeared, Les kept calm and used his head. When he was nearly killed in a house explosion while searching for his sister, well, that rattled him a bit, but still Les kept his wits about him.
Now the police are blaming him for the explosion, as well as a botched robbery in which a woman was killed. His schizophrenia... [click here for more]