Max Allan Collins

With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for.-- Back cover.

Mercy Mather’s looks like a blonde angel, but everyone knows she's the wildest party girl in Clarion High. But when her boozy, slutty antics cause the death of nearly the entire high school football team's starting lineup, Mercy seeks forgiveness by way of religion. Once she's saved, Mercy feels compelled to save the bad boys she once sought out for her own pleasure. But bad boys tend to be bad, and to prevent them from backsliding, Mercy has to...

Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the help of the LVPD's computer forensics experts, the CSI team must track through hardware and software, deception and deceit to find the perpetrators. But while Willows and Stokes investigate the once well-hidden...

An original novel in the forensic crime mystery series based on the critically acclaimed hit TV show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing -- most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and the organizers have extended CSI head Gil Grissom an invitation he...

Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's greedy stepfather actually played a hand in Rita Bennett's untimely end. But no one is prepared for the news that CSIs Gil Grissom, Sara Sidle, and Nick Stokes report -- their investigation is inconclusive...because...

Small-town sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin-only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV's smash-hit, Crime Scene! But while media star Harrow tracks down dangerous criminals coast to coast-with the help of viewers' tips-a killer with a twisted agenda is making his own bloody path to fame... As...

Dive back into the case files of the no-nonsense detective, Ms. Tree, in another incredible volume of passion, crime and murder. Famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and genre-defining artist Terry Beatty deliver five thrilling adventures from the exploits of Ms. Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm-carrying private eye. No matter the danger, no matter the risk, she'll solve the case - no matter the cost.

Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again—and play patsy to a sexy girlfriend’s murder scheme.

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one-by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was ever running into his ex again...