Kristine Kathryn Rusch

He loves live music. He lives for it.Once, live performances were an event: People dressed up, listened reverently, knew how to behave respectfully...

As a homicide detective, Frank deals with violent death every day. And his reaction to those deaths kills him by inches. Until his most recent c...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—former first lady, editor, mother, grandmother—lives a life of mystery. But she wants to solve a mystery of her own: wh...

As a Medieval woman, Maude knows her place. But her husband’s death shortly after the birth of their son means she must fulfill his duties until t...

Maxwell Scobel writes about heroes for a living. He studies them, imagines them, imagines being them. But when a routine drive turns into a fight ...

In the months following Tim’s death, Sarah dreams. When a mysterious book with a strange dedication and an even stranger plot arrives at her home,...

When Ry gave her the gun, she thought it the most romantic gift she’d ever received. But after his death she had to put the magic gun in her past o...

Ernie wants to forget. His short life marred by pain he struggles to understand, he hopes the sirens will blast the thoughts of his mother, his fa...

Jonathan Alexander Nicholas Ashworth the Fourth—called Nico—fears nothing. He lives a life of power, prestige, money. He makes his own way, but wh...

Colin hates his job at the online entertainment site, Gossip Hourly, but he does what he can to make money. And what he does involves clones of cel...

They think they’ve found their dream home. But something seems off. Abandonded purebred cats. A dead dog. Still, little Grubby the cat hunts fearl...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, famous for her range as a writer, shows her amazing diversity in this collection of short mystery stories. From the examina...

Five different women—a CPA, a lawyer, an internet service provider, a bookstore owner, and a crime scene investigator—find themselves in the middle...

Detectives come in all shapes and sizes—and in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s five-story collection—they work the mean streets everywhere from a science...

California, a land of mystery, a land of magic. Assassins walk the streets alongside angels. Romance blossoms in the City by the Bay, while death s...

Carla uses her thieving past for good. Hired by retailers to test the effectiveness of their security systems, she makes a good living, despite her...

Beautiful longhaired tom Wall T runs a tight household. But when the other cats in his pride begin reporting a mouse incursion, he launches an inve...

Enjoy some of the best short fiction being published today in this three-book bundle containing three crime volumes of Fiction River: An Original ...

Murder, mayhem, and all manner of crimes set during the holiday season give this anthology a bite that serves as a delightful change from the swee...

When Paladin calls Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade and asks him to come to a new con he swore he’d never attend, he agrees. Be...

Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade thought he would find himself alone on Christmas Eve—until a strange call from Paladin changes...

Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade gets a strange request: A tiny woman with pointed ears asks him to help her with a case at Fle...

When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lu...

The police often show up at science fiction conventions, but not because Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade calls them. But that ...