A mystery introducing smart and sexy gay sleuth Tom Wilder. Learn More

The thriller master is back with a provocative take on the very nature of terrorism Learn More

Hill’s readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors.


A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What—if anything— links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?


With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
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Another wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. Learn More

The author of The Company returns with a blockbusting new thriller that interrogates the brutal psychology of a conflict that has defined our age. Learn More

A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill , an area locally known for its tranquility and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Learn More

A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill , an area locally known for its tranquility and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Learn More

Intelligence agents must stop the world s most lethal terrorist from reuniting with his family Al Quaeda in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from one of the world s masters of espionage fiction Seymour may be the best spy novelist ever. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Learn More

Intelligence agents must stop the world s most lethal terrorist from reuniting with his family Al Quaeda in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from one of the world s masters of espionage fiction Seymour may be the best spy novelist ever. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Learn More

Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on . . . Learn More

Officially the Cold War is over. Between former enemies, the hand of friendship is exchanged in public. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on . . . Learn More

A Benny Cooperman mystery. Learn More

A Benny Cooperman mystery. Learn More

A hypnotic thriller set in the art world of Venice. Learn More

A hypnotic thriller set in the art world of Venice. Learn More

The novel that established Charles McCarry's international reputation as a storyteller who surpasses Len Deighton and John le Carr . . . his novels have a multidimensional quality, a deep sensitivity, and a verisimilitude that tells you the author knows what he s talking about." Washington Post Learn More

The novel that established Charles McCarry's international reputation as a storyteller who surpasses Len Deighton and John le Carr . . . his novels have a multidimensional quality, a deep sensitivity, and a verisimilitude that tells you the author knows what he s talking about." Washington Post Learn More

Classic spy novel. "Sisters Death and Night" plot the perfect crime. Learn More

The first presidential election of the twenty-first century, bitterly contested by two men who are implacable political rivals but lifelong personal friends, is stolen through computer fraud. On the eve of the Inauguration the losing candidate presents proof of the crime to his opponent, the incumbent President, and demands that he stand aside. The winner refuses and takes the oath of office, thereby setting in motion what may destroy him and his party, and even bring down the Constitution.


From this crisis, master storyteller Charles McCarry, author of such classic thrillers as The Tears of Autumn and The Last Supper weaves a masterpiece of political intrigue. Shelley’s Heart is so gripping in its realism and so striking in its foresight that McCarry’s devoted readers may view this tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggles for the political soul of America as an act of prophecy.
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A tale of love, murder, betrayal, and life-or-death struggle set on the eve of the Presidential inauguration, from the master of political intrigue Learn More

The fifth book in the Simon Serrailler series. Learn More

A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher early one morning in West Berlin. Minutes after the handoff, the courier s spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher s wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality. Learn More

The enthralling mystery by the critically acclaimed author of the Sano Ichiro series
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The enthralling mystery by the critically acclaimed author of the Sano Ichiro series Learn More

As much a part of our national literature as the works of Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, and Ernest Hemingway. Otto Penzler, The New York Sun, May 17, 2006
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As much a part of our national literature as the works of Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, and Ernest Hemingway. Otto Penzler, The New York Sun, May 17, 2006 Learn More

The death of a young heroin dealer occasions no great concern for New York Detective Frank Parrish—Danny Lange is just another casualty of the drug war. But when Danny’s teenage sister winds up dead, questions are raised that have no clear answers.


As the homicides continue--and a disturbing pattern emerges--Frank tries desperately to make sense of the deaths, while battling his own demons. Trying to live up to the reputation of his father—a legendary NYPD Detective and one of the original “Saints of New York”--the crew who worked with the authorities to rid New York of the final vestiges of Mafia control in the 1980s--Parrish struggles with the broken pieces of his own life. But, as the murder rate escalates, he must discover the truth before there are further innocent victims.


Dark and intense, Saints of New York is a novel of corruption and redemption, of the relentless persistence required to find the truth, and of one man’s search for meaning amidst the ghosts of his own conscience.
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Simon Serailler is back in this pulse-pounding, wrenching novel of action, love, and loss Learn More

The riveting new tale from one of the masters of the modern thriller. Learn More

Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940s, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Learn More

The U.S. debut of a masterful and riveting thriller, already a bestseller in the U.K. Learn More

Robert Bloch's Psycho captivated a nation when it appeared in 1959. Learn More

By the author of Zanesville, a seductive story of grit, gunplay, vampirism, and a bit of bondage. Learn More

"Comes through with flying colors...This is a powerful and literary thriller the novel is a sad romance, a very clever meditation on the nature of history and historiography, and it offers a tense and often nastily humorous chase." Chicago Tribune Learn More

Paul Christopher is back or is he The answer is in this relentlessly entertaining espionage novel with all the hallmarks of a McCarry bestseller. Learn More

Already a monumental hit in France, a hard-boiled detective novel from Robert Coover, the writer that T. C. Boyle called “our foremost verbal wizard, our laughter in the dark" Learn More

A mystery that answers the question: what really happened to the lost Hemingway manuscripts Learn More

A mystery that answers the question: what really happened to the lost Hemingway manuscripts Learn More

A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction and a moody Victorian backdrop it all adds up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery. Learn More

A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction and a moody Victorian backdrop it all adds up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery. Learn More

The groundbreaking novel by the "Russian Elmore Leonard" finally available for a generation of new readers. Learn More

Charles McCarry's first novel, praised as "a fast moving tale of Byzantine intrigue" by The New York Times Learn More

Charles McCarry's first novel, praised as "a fast moving tale of Byzantine intrigue" by The New York Times Learn More

From the author of the Simon Serrailler mysteries, a gothic tale of high art and gruesome ends Learn More

A riveting novel rich with suspense and intrigue by the author rightly compared to Pynchon and Delillo. Learn More

The gritty noir cult classic is now back in print—and the first of nine Nisbet books from Overlook! Learn More

Who is Martin Odum A retired spy, or a "legend," a false identity created by the CIA The answer is in the gripping new novel by the author of The Company. Learn More

Perhaps the most richly complex of McCarry s renowned Paul Christopher novels, The Last Supper is an epic recreation of the history of an organization ensnared by a culture of conspiracy, deceit, and senseless violence

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Perhaps the most richly complex of McCarry s renowned Paul Christopher novels, The Last Supper is an epic recreation of the history of an organization ensnared by a culture of conspiracy, deceit, and senseless violence

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A gripping literary mystery set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the 16th Century. Learn More

A gripping literary mystery set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the 16th Century. Learn More

"Carnoy's debut is gripping, suspenseful, totally believable -- and shockingly good." —Harlan Coben
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On the eve of World War II, "just another little murder" in New York City draws two vastly different men--An American detective and a German admiral--into the Gathering Storm. Learn More

Hysterical yet pulse-pounding—crime the way it is supposed to be written. Learn More

Honey West is the hottest private eye in town...and she's up to her cleavage in murder. Learn More

L.A's nerviest, curviest P.I. is up to her navel in trouble again, and this time the murder rap has been framed on her. Learn More

A new mystery in the classic Benny Cooperman series. Learn More

A new mystery in the classic Benny Cooperman series. Learn More

A unique comic mystery from the beloved author of Double Negative, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "intelligent, unpredictable…and extraordinarily funny" Learn More

Robert Irwin's surrealistic novel is back in print: "A picaresque nightmare, a sinister shell game, an addled odyssey along the graying edges of the psyche-Exquisite Corpse is all of these things." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of absurdist art, "Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying." (A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times) This utterly captivating book is finally back in as part of Overlook's plan to bring Robert Irwin back into the literary limelight that he so much deserves.

Caspar, the narrator of Exquisite Corpse, is one of a strange bunch of friends known as the Serapion Brotherhood a group of artists, painters, and writers who are experimenting, expanding, and developing the then nascent concept of surrealism. While the real-life figures Andr Breton, Salvador Dali, and Henry Moore-among others-move in and out of the narrative, Caspar details his and his friends' investigations into sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, waxworks, mesmerism, and madness. But when Caspar meets Caroline a beautiful and na ve young typist he is completely entranced. Strangely, she seems to fit in extremely well with the surrealists. Is all as it seems Where does she disappear to Caspar, himself, is unsure what is real and his therapist is no help at all but the tale he has woven is, as Ian Critchley wrote in the Sunday Times, "Superb!"

"An off-beat, brisk, and darkly comic novel. Robert Irwin is a deft writer with a fine ironic touch his novel, in which fiction and reality are woven unobtrusively together, is consistently clever and inventive." The New York Times

"A strange and elegant novel." The Boston Globe

"An immensely inventive and deceptive emotional novel." Village Voice

"Robert Irwin is a master of the surreal imagination " The Sunday Times

Robert Irwin studied Modern History at Oxford and taught Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. In addition to Exquisite Corpse, he has written five other novels-including the classic The Arabian Nightmare-and is the editor of Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature.

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A fast-paced and exhilarating manhunt through modern China - a trail as intricate and sinuous as the Yangtze River winding into the heart of Shanghai. Learn More

A fast-paced and exhilarating manhunt through modern China - a trail as intricate and sinuous as the Yangtze River winding into the heart of Shanghai. Learn More

A dark and provocative new play by award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Neil LaBute.

No American playwright has written more compellingly about the subtle ways in which people inflict pain on each other than Neil LaBute. His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of American suburbia.

With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out-the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot-Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell's suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.

"LaBute, in his most ambitious and best play to date, gets inside the emptiness of American culture, the Masquerade and the evil of neglect. The Distance from Here, it seems to me, is a new title to be added to the short list of important contemporary plays." John Lahr, The New Yorker

"LaBute's skill, and the shortness of the scenes, are compelling [his] excellent writing generates an exact depiction of empty, soulless, thoughtless lives." Hal Jensen, Times Literary Supplement

Neil LaBute's first film, In the Company of Men received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best feature and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also written and directed Your Friends and Neighbors and the forthcoming The Shape of Things, and directed Nurse Betty and the soon to be released Possession. His other plays include Bash (available from Overlook), Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, Sangunarians and Sycophants, Rounder, and Ravages.

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The debut novel from best-selling espionage thriller writer Robert Littell--finally back in print. Learn More

A terrifying excursion into the ambiguous world of deceit, illusion, and treachery that is espionage by bestselling master-of-the genre, Robert Littell. Learn More

The intrepid gumshoe is in it up to his neck in toxic waste in this latest foray. Learn More

The intrepid gumshoe is in it up to his neck in toxic waste in this latest foray. Learn More

Overlook continues its reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbet’s oeuvre with Dark Companion. Nisbet, the acclaimed noir writer from San Francisco captures the absurdities of present-day America with a rare pungency in this noir gem.


Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian-American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf ’s relationship with his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, Toby Pride, and Pride’s stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolf’s placid world is shattered and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement that’s both stunning and absolutely perfect.
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Overlook continues it reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbit’s oeuvre with The Damned Don’t Die. Learn More

A new caper starring Benny Cooperman, the lovable and intrepid sleuth that Donald Westlake says is "a lot of fun to hang out with".

Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair, known and loved as the witty, egg salad-loving, Jewish gentleman sleuth he is the world over. This kinder, gentler detective funny, smart and squeamish about violence is the creation of master of the genre Howard Engel, whose readers stretch now to thirteen countries, from his native Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the US.

This time around, a murder and a beautiful woman are the key elements that get Benny embroiled in the scandalous world of television broadcasting. It all starts when Benny, mulling over the lack of stimulating work and the absence of his girlfriend, is visited by a woman from his past. Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty who has grown up to become Head of Entertainment at a television network, asks Benny to protect her. A friend was murdered while at her house and Vanessa fears she was the target. In Toronto, Benny poses as Vanessa's executive assistant amidst a tangle of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and hopeful hangers-on. As Benny tries to protect his client, give the local cops a helping hand, and avoid making enemies of his colleagues, he quickly discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business.

"Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines." Ruth Rendell

"Engel can turn a phrase as neatly as Chandler." Julian Symons

"The Cooperman novels are heavy on full-bodied characters, sharp dialogue, and rich humor. Benny just plain charms the socks off anyone he meets." Booklist

Howard Engel is the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, and creator of the acclaimed Benny Cooperman mystery series as well as Murder in Montparnasse, a departure from the series. He is a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association of Canada, where his private eye has been described as a cherished national institution. He lives in Toronto.

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The magnum opus of acclaimed espionage novelist Robert Littell: a mesmerizing, dazzlingly plotted epic that tells the life and death struggle of two generations of CIA operatives during a long Cold War. Learn More

“Not since the arrival of John le Carré has the emergence of an international suspense novelist been as stunning as that of Gerald Seymour,” raved the Los Angeles Times Book Review upon publication of Rat Run. With The Collaborator Seymour has entered new territory, penning a novel of the Sicilian Mafia with the pace of Mario Puzo and the craft of Alan Furst.


She is an Italian accountancy student in London. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to look after her gangster brother. Mario Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator, his career dedicated to destroying the corruption and violence of clans such as Immacolata’s family.


When Immacolata calls from London to say she is prepared to collaborate with justice, he knows she is setting in motion a terrifying series of events.
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In McCarry's first work since the astonishing revival of his legendary espionage novels, Paul Christopher is back but so is the only adversary that ever eluded him. Learn More

In McCarry's first work since the astonishing revival of his legendary espionage novels, Paul Christopher is back but so is the only adversary that ever eluded him. Learn More

The prophetic thriller from "the best writer of inteligence and political novels in the world" (The Boston Globe) Learn More

Following the notable debut of The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë, beloved author Laura Joh Rowland offers her legions of fans the next installment in the Charlotte Brontë mystery series… with more to come. Learn More

By the internationally best-selling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS... Learn More