by Philip Eliot | Oct 19, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Everyone has a breaking point . . . “Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook.” —Chicago Tribune There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but now—with a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custody—they will try one more interrogation. Detective Pierce, whose own daughter’s death has left a hole in his heart, and Detective Cohen, still broken from what he saw in World War II, will look into the abyss of Smalls’s troubled mind in a frantic last-ditch effort to extract a confession. Their effort will bring answers they never expected—and blur the line between innocence and guilt . . . “Cook adroitly weaves back and forth between the crime itself, the subsequent investigation and the halting questioning of the suspect. More compelling, however, is his portrayal of how the crime affects Pierce and Cohen, as well as several secondary characters . . . Down to the cleverly hatched, melancholy ending, Cook again takes readers down a dark, treacherous road into the heart of human fallibility and struggle.” —Publishers Weekly “[An] irresistible premise.” —Kirkus Reviews “Well-plotted . . . The psychic pain of these characters is piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review
by Philip Eliot | Oct 19, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
A girl with no name…Penny doesn’t remember much about her childhood and what she does remember isn’t all that great. She and her mother moved too many times to a series of cheap motels. There were too many men visiting her mother and none of them were her father. As for him, all Penny knew was that her father was rich and dead.She was found abandoned on a deserted beach on the Salish Sea when she was four years old, and didn’t even know her own name. Shunted from one foster home to another, she struggled to overcome the odds.When a Police Detective from the Victoria, B.C. Police Department calls about remains that were identified as belonging to her mother, Penny starts a quest to find out what happened to her and who her father really is.She enlists crime reporter Tess McClintock and Michael Carter to help her find her family, but when they start uncovering Penny’s past, not everyone is happy to learn their connection to the girl with no name.The Salish Sea is a new standalone book in the Salish Sea Crime Thriller series.
by Philip Eliot | Oct 19, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Death has a membership fee…In the latest high-stakes Baker & Tate thriller, a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer leads Ruth into a deadly game of cat and mouse.In the latest high-stakes instalment of the Baker & Tate series, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate uncover a deadly conspiracy tied to a rich rancher’s obsession with a serial killer. When Wade Hargrove, a prominent Texas rancher, is found strangled in his sprawling estate, Ruth and Aaron discover his connection to the secretive Murder Club—a group of wealthy landowners fixated on tracking the notorious Bandanna Strangler, a killer who preyed on single mothers across rural Texas, leaving them dead with navy bandannas around their throats.As Ruth and Aaron dig deeper, they uncover a chilling truth: the Murder Club wasn’t just studying the killer—they were surveilling him, using Hargrove’s cutting-edge technology to watch his every move. But someone else was watching them, and now the club’s members are being hunted. With each new murder, the Rangers unravel a decades-old secret linking the Bandanna Strangler to one of the club’s own, a predator whose twisted motives threaten to destroy everyone in their path.Racing against time, Ruth and Aaron must expose the killer before the conspiracy claims more lives—or their own.MURDER RANCH is an unrelenting, high-stakes mystery thriller packed with explosive action, psychological warfare, and the trademark emotional punch Baker & Tate fans have come to love.Each book in the Baker & Tate series is a complete story that can be read on its own.
by Philip Eliot | Oct 19, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
1,400 pages. 7 fiendishly twisty whodunnits. One sleepy little English village where there is always a mystery to be solved.Calling all armchair sleuths! Do you love a classic British mystery? Packed with enough red herrings and shifty suspects to keep you guessing until the final page? Then cozy up with a cup of tea and get ready to discover your new favourite series . . .**From a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, with over 14 MILLION copies of her books in print!**Welcome to Folly-on-the-Weir. A picture-perfect little village in the Cotswold Hills. To feisty thirty-something Alex Duggins, the place will always feel like home. She knows its twisty lanes like the back of her hand. From the village green to the babbling brook, and back home for a pint beside the roaring fire in the Black Dog Inn, where she grew up with her landlady mum.As a headstrong teen, Alex couldn’t wait to escape to London, to make her mark as an artist. But now, peace is what she craves. A place to heal her broken heart after her messy divorce — and where better than Folly?She’s determined to get her life back on track. Pulling pints at the Black Dog ought to be a cinch, but Alex is about to get more than she bargained for . . .Out on a wintry walk in the woods, Alex stumbles across something terrible. A frosty corpse, buried deep in a drift of snow. His neck pierced by a vicious dart.Just like that, Alex finds the finger of suspicion pointing at her!Can she uncover the true killer, hiding in plain sight among her friends and neighbours, before someone silences her forever?THE VILLAGEA view of Folly from The Hill — as locals call it — is cause for a smile in any season. Let’s try December, early on a cold morning. Snow covers frozen twigs that crackle beneath your feet. The snowfall is only a fine swirl now. On a high point to the west stands ruined Tinley Tower, the folly the village was named for. Below, across the green with its frozen duck pond, honey-yellow cottages huddle. Thin smoke straggles from chimneys and lights shine through small leaded windows. Villagers wake early here. The Black Dog, Alex Duggins’ pub, sits at the heart of it all, strands of coloured lights shining along its eaves. George’s bakery van is already on its rounds, as is the Lovell’s Dairy lorry. It’s too early for the scarlet-blazered children to be climbing on the school bus, but dog walkers are already marching through the narrow streets and across the green. Idyllic. Deceptively so?Don’t miss this unbeatable-value box set, so utterly addictive that you’ll want to binge all seven mysteries in one!Book 1: FOLLYBook 2: OUT COMES THE EVILBook 3: MELODY OF MURDERBook 4: LIES THAT BINDBook 5: WHISPER THE DEADBook 6: TRAP LANEBook 7: THE PLAYING FIELDSFans of Faith Martin, Agatha Christie, J.R. Ellis, Frances Evesham, Clare Chase and Merryn Allingham are sure to be hooked from the first page.21,000 five-star reviews can’t be wrong!‘A good old-fashioned village mystery with suspects galore, and compelling intrigue.’ Robert Dugoni, bestselling author?????????? ‘I was captured by the opening paragraph.’ Charlene, Goodreads?????????? ‘I was so embroiled in the story . . . to the point of losing track of time.’ Iris, Goodreads?????????? ‘I love to be shocked by not knowing the murderer . . . and wow! Did this one do it in spades.’ Helen, Goodreads?????????? ‘I am telling all my friends.’ Betty, Goodreads‘Taut suspense and unexpected twists transform [this] British village cozy into a mesmerizing, knuckle-whitening thriller.’ Booklist‘Readers will be flipping the pages late into the night.’ Library Journal
by Philip Eliot | Oct 19, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
The French Riviera is the ultimate travel destination…unless murder is on the itinerary. When an old high school friend is murdered on the Côte d’Azur while auditioning for the hit TV travel show “Americans See Europe,” Maggie is forced to break away from village life and new motherhood to find the killer. Her sleuthing takes her from the sun-drenched beaches of Saint-Tropez to the cafes and backstreets of Arles, across lavender fields and stunning medieval ruins and straight into the evil hands of her most diabolical adversary yet. Can Maggie find her friend’s killer before an innocent man pays for the crime? And can she do it without paying the ultimate price herself?
