Pretty Sinister Books

Paolo Levin, concert pianist living in Rome, is being followed by an emaciated and crippled young man.  He stands outside Paolo's apartm...

THE STORY: Matt Galt, Scottish ex-pat and private detective with a middling business, lives and works in Stratford primarily because he is ...

When last I wrote of Jean Leslie's professor detective, Peter Ponsonby, several years ago ( One Cried Murder ) he was faced with the app...

Jeremiah X. Gibson, Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, is accompanied by his colleague from the D.A.'s office known only as ...

THE STORY: Ad exec, Ames Coryell, returns from a vacation in Maine with his wife Leona and 3 year-old daughter Phoebe.  While Ames unloads ...

Don't be fooled by the title or the odd illustrations on the DJs of Two Lovers Too Many (1949). It may seem like a melodramatic hospita...

Down on his luck Curt Blair is waiting out a rainstorm in a “ritzy hash joint” just outside of Hollywood, USA when he steals a fancy camel h...

What’s your sign, girl? Is it compatible to mine? If your sign matches mine Think of what we'll have We'll be making babies togethe...

Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Agora/Polis Books ISBN: 978-1-947996-92-1 284 pp $25.99 Publication date: February 2020 I...

THE STORY:  In the middle of the night Jacklin Bogart discovers the dead body of her cousin Antoinette and proceeds to cover up the crime...