Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective"-the San Francisco-based, Italian-American, slightly overweight, thoroughly charming favorite of mystery aficionados, whose name is never revealed-returns with one of his cleverest, most intense cases. Why would a successful, good-looking young man, who had just won two hundred thousand dollars at a Lake Tahoe casino, kill himself? That's the question Nameless asks himself when he finds a friend's brother dead--an apparent suicide, was more than luck involved in his windfall? Or was his good fortune reason enough for murder? The investigation takes Nameless...

The sleepy town of Tule Bend came alive with terror after a drifter was found hanging. The constable knew his job was on the line if he didn't do something. When more swinging bodies appeared he knew he had to move fast because he was next on the hangman's list.

"Pronzini is a master of suspense." -Los Angeles Times Another nightmarish tale from the author of Breakdown. When the blizzard hit and the avalanche that followed cut them off, the 75 hardy residents of a small resort village in the Sierra Nevadas quietly prepared for a Christmas in isolation. But three desperate professional killers were trapped with them... "Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story." -Publishers Weekly

Men who participated in a never solved robbery of an armored truck are being picked off one-by-one 11 years after the crime. "Pronzini makes people and events so real that you're living those explosive days of terror." -Robert Ludlum "Once in a crocodile's age you come across a writer whose work you instinctively like... I've found one-Bill Pronzini. Buy him, read him, and relax." -Los Angeles Times "Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story." -Publisher's Weekly "Pronzini is a pro." -The New York Times

A new thriller in the tradition of Pronzini's Snowbound, "a shivery, spine- tingling it-could-happen suspense story... a real rouser." -Publishers Weekly The rich and powerful Jackman family had always had an obsession with successful gamesmanship-whether in the parlor, the bedroom, or in national politics. When Senator David Jackman plans an escape from Washington pressures through a long, idyllic weekend with his lover on the family's lavish island estate, he has no reason to suspect that he will leave buried there forever the man he had become. No sooner do Jackman and Tracy arrive than...