US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels.

When wisecracking detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find bodies are piling up around them - seemingly unconnected with their case. And what's more all the clues point to an unlikely suspect!

US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? And what really goes on in Ward C?

Dying billionaire, Trevor Stone hires private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. So has the first investigator, Trevor Stone hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick's mentor.

Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, this book brings them together again to close down a predator.

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline.

Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed.

Presents a collection of American mystery stories. This book includes the story Running out of Dog . It also includes the full text of the play Coronado .

The internationally bestselling author of 'Mystic River' returns with a riveting new work. Though best known for his hugely successfully novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection is the first to be published in the UK. Infused with the compelling narrative drive, piercing insight, and psychological drama that have made his novels bestsellers, 'Coronado' is sure to

Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city's beloved and powerful police captains. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, Luther Lawrence flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family's Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond.

Using the Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing as its source, this book draws upon articles written by contributors which discuss popular mystery writers in the field and the characters they have created.

Each story in 'Boston Noir' is set in a different neighbourhood of the city; the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston harbour; and all stops in between. Lehane's own contribution - the longest story in the volume - is set in his beloved home neighbourhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul and throat .

As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts.

Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for revolutionaries and anarchists who, in the aftermath of World War One, are pledged to overthrow the city's ruling classes. But Danny soon finds his ideals compromised as his family starts to question where his loyalties really lie.