Frank Carlson Library

Available for pre-order now. Liz knew Jack's former girlfriend had walked out on him. What no one expected after ten years, was for her bones to be unearthed from under a tonne of concrete. When it becomes obvious that Marilyn De Beer didn't die of natural causes, Jack draws Liz into the investigation. But when a tenacious young blogger with a taste for justice goes public with new evidence, more bodies appear. An attempted kidnapping exposes corruption,...

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Dead to the Last Drop, comes a gripping new entry in the Coffeehouse Mystery series. The perfect proposal leads to a chilling cold case... Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi sheds tears of joy when her NYPD detective boyfriend surprises her with an engagement ring. But her bridal bliss is put on hold when a chilling mystery brings a wave of deadly danger to those she holds dear. After everything...

Jefferson Pierce has returned to Cleveland, ready to teach students by day and bring his brand of superhero justice by night. But when criminals with black-market weapons based on alien technology start wreaking havoc on the city, Black Lightning is going to need more than the tech built into his new costume to retake the streets. And once the villainous Tobias Whale reveals himself, turning the citizens and the police against Jefferson, the city's...

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot. The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle. At the...

Jewell McDunn solves one problem-where to live when her daughter's boyfriend takes over the apartment-and becomes entangled in a much more deadly one. When her barista friends hook her up with a room in one of Miwok town's prestigious Victorian mansions-the scene of a grisly, unsolved murder-Jewell is forced to placate the spirit of the murdered woman in order to get a good night's sleep. On this trip into the paranormal world, Jewell enlists the...

Can a woman who has lost her memory piece together the truth about her family, her life, and a friend's murder? After waking up with amnesia in hospital, Cassie returns home to a life she doesn't recognize. She gradually learns that dodgy associations from her old life have left her estranged from her husband and alienated from her children. Cassie no longer wants to be the person she was before-but breaking away from her past and from her wealthy...

A collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp, "one of the more daring young stylists working today" (Time Out New York) Adam Rapp's plays have captivated audiences across the country with their unflinching explorations of the good, the bad, and the ugly in America's heartland and cities. Gathered here are three of his works: Faster, in which two young grifters try to strike a deal with the devil during the hottest summer on record;...

The owner of a Victorian historic village is shot in the head with an arrow. A stickler for rules and routine, the victim lived her life as if she were in 1861. When Shepherd is injured during the investigation, Sims takes over the case.