William L DeAndrea

Master detective Niccolo Benedetti hunts down a killer in the French Alps. Niccolo Benedetti is many things: a professor, philosopher, painter, charmer, and a sterling, world-class detective, too. For Benedetti, a murder is not just a crime, but also a means of dissecting the nature of evil. It's a problem demanding as much art as it does science. In this second installment in the Benedetti series, the detective travels to a ski resort in the French...

An electrifying puzzle, corporate sleuth Matt Cobb is set up in a TV-world murder. This Edgar Award-winning debut novel introduces Matt Cobb, vice president of special projects at a large television network - where "special projects" means anything sensitive, or even fatal, that the company wants to keep quiet. Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation,...

Pregnant, hunted, and alone, a young woman turns to the only man who can help Faith has just enough time to dodge the speeding car. She leaps backwards and falls onto the sidewalk, breaking her thumb in an attempt to protect her pregnant belly. When she picks herself up off the ground, the baby is safe, but Faith is anything but.   Desperate for help from someone she can trust, she turns to her old friend Harry Ross, a frustrated writer with a dead-end...

Matt Cobb, troubleshooter extraordinaire, must track a killer when a talk-show host goes off the air permanently. In television production, "fringe time" refers to the period after the late-night news before the morning shows begin - the time when anything could happen. For Matt Cobb, a VP charged with getting "The Network" out of jams, fringe time is especially fraught, because it's a time when one of his charges is seriously at risk. Cobb has had...

In a spine-tingling mystery, death follows TV network sleuth Matt Cobb to Bermuda. A cruise ship full of mystery writers may sound like a fantasy for some, but for Matt Cobb, whose job consists of untangling serious knots for a large television network, it's anything but - especially when it results in a real-life murder to solve. Cobb is snatched from his normal duties at the network and put on a boat to St. David, to act as minder for two winners...

An electric thriller where spies go to battle, and the free world is at stake. In the final installment in William DeAndrea's Clifford Driscoll series, master spy Driscoll is "going tame" - that is, recovering from a near-death accident and enjoying domestic peace. Driscoll, now known as Allan Trotter, hasn't killed anyone in more than a year. He still works for the Agency - a super-secret intelligence unit of the US government known only to the president...

In the Edgar Award-winning first title of the Niccolo Benedetti series, the celebrated detective hunts a serial killer who is terrorizing a small town. In the upstate New York town of Sparta, six people die in three weeks. At first the incidents seem accidental: A highway sign drops onto a car full of teenage girls, an old man falls down a set of stairs, and a boy is struck by a sheet of ice that had been building on his garage. But after each case...

During a trip to England, a fog of mystery threatens Matt Cobb's vacation - and his life. Matt Cobb is ready to quit. His job as a special projects VP at a giant television network involves intense troubleshooting and an egotistical boss, and both have taken their toll. The network president has other ideas, though, and persuades him that all he needs is a long vacation. So Cobb takes off for London, with his dog and his lovely fiancée, Roxanne,...

A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium. In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America's favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat....