For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another infidelity case, this time Bunny Weld suspects her loutish husband, Joe Vic Sackett, is having an affair with his younger office manager,...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts the cold case homicide of 18-year-old Noel Fryer, occurring three years ago in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia. She worked at the local jewelry...

"Ed Lynskey's new novel PELHAM FELL HERE is a delight. With a plot as complex as your grandmother's crocheted doilies, Mr. Lynskey creates a portrait of the rural hill country that rings as true as the...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts the cold case homicide of Grits Wigfall, a 55-year-old Black man, in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia. Grits works as the front counterman at...

After surviving a bad experience in his hometown, P.I. Frank Johnson moves away to Scarab, West Virginia, drawn by the promise of its leisurely days and the lure of its tranquil leafy mountains. Instead,...

PI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teen-age daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The local law enforcement...

When American diplomat Sylvester Mercedes flies into Ankara, Turkey on what is supposed to be a normal business trip, he mysteriously vanishes from his hotel room. With her husband now missing for more...

Older and wiser, P.I. Frank Johnson, in his fifth outing, has moved to the Washington, D.C. suburbs where he lives with his fiancé Dreema Atkins. Times are lean. No new P.I. cases have rolled Frank's...

 For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a pair of new cases just before the 2005 year-end holidays. The reader gets two mysteries for the price of one as he stays busy on both cases....

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a case from a distraught woman who suspects her husband of 10 years is having an affair with his female office manager. Before Frank can launch...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts his first birth-parents search for his gorgeous, 23-year-old client, Nikki Colvin, whose adoptive parents are deceased. She has reason to believe...

P.I. Frank Johnson investigates an old hit-and-run accident one year later in his next hardboiled outing. Vivian St. John believes her sister Gwen's death while jogging on a remote stretch of Botha Road...

Bestselling and award-winning mystery author Ed Lynskey introduces a new cozy mystery series set in the small town of Cat's Paw, Virginia. Plucky and resourceful, Juno Patchen operates her family truck...

P.I. Frank Johnson travels to Hogshead Beach, Virginia, a sleazy beach hamlet on the Potomac River. He looks into the murder of his old flame, Vera Freeman, who worked at the plastic bag factory. Her...

For his next hardboiled adventure, P.I. Frank Johnson looks into the puzzling disappearance of April Stringfellow, a local woman who never shows up at his office for her scheduled appointment. Her phone...

For his next hardboiled case, P.I. Frank Johnson investigates the disappearance of Salem Dawson, a local young bookkeeper. Her older sister, Trisha, brings the case to Frank's office. Trisha made a $13,000...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts several cases of infidelity, which have become his primary source of income. Beth Humphreys hires Frank to follow her cheating husband, Trey. Frank loses sight of Trey's vehicle...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another cold case homicide, this time from a former high school classmate named Stevie Palmer. Her husband, Troy, was shot to death ("double Moe Greene Special") on their front...

For his next hardboiled story, P.I. Frank Johnson investigates several of his clients' cases over the course of a week in frosty October. In his largest case, a woman hires him to locate her birth mother,...

For their eleventh mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake to solve yet another murder mystery. Their hairstylist Laura Isherwood is...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a seemingly bizarre case from Jules Sturgeon who has experienced disturbing dreams about her murder. The next morning Frank finds his new client...

Hope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, spirited fifteen-year-old...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the mysterious gunshots hitting the windows in Madison Lopat's apartment. The second big case he accepts is running surveillance...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the homicide case of Cedric Barker, the bouncer at Aphrodite's Crib, a local strip club. Engaged to the ex-stripper, Blaze O'Dwyer, Barker is...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the missing-person case of Knox Yowell, a machinist who operates a metal lathe in a job shop. One August morning, Knox leaves for the corner...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the violent death of Lark Turnbull. A local prostitute, she has drowned in her motel room bathtub while inebriated. Her twin sister,...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the violent death of Roz Fleming. A local prostitute, she's been found dead from two headshots behind the local truck stop on...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another missing-person case, this time the gorgeous 19-year-old Clover Digges who has vanished from her home in Middleburg, Virginia. He opens...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a missing person case when Cain Milsap seeks out Frank's assistance to find Milsap's 28-year-old daughter, Brett. Of course, nothing is simple...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating to find the vintage 1977 Music Man StingRay bass guitar stolen from the home of his client, Sybil Gleason. She tells him it's...