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The Highgate Cemetery Murder
His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in Highgate. Man in caped coat. Milky way and red streaks. I’m being followed.”Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t...
Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a haunting that’s anything but merry in this cozy Christmas mystery from a New York Times-bestselling author! London, 1890: Days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a...
Black Velvet
Theo Holmes, a private investigator and direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in to help the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both cities. Working with PAM, a beautiful AI robot, and Delaney Watson,...
The Antiquarian
In this gripping historical thriller, the search for a mysterious and powerful object hidden in the heart of Barcelona leads to ambition, desire, love—and murderAn intriguing letter from his adoptive father, Artur, turns novelist Enrique Alonso's world upside down....
Black Velvet
Theo Holmes, a private investigator and direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in to help the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both cities. Working with PAM, a beautiful AI robot, and Delaney Watson,...
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
An anthology of eleven original Sherlock Homes tales set during the missing years between his apparent death and later return—including the Edgar Award finalist "The Adventure of the Missing Detective" by Gary Lovisi."Kurland . . . scores again in this lively...
Unnatural Death
When a terminally ill woman dies much earlier than expected, Lord Peter Wimsey suspects murder: "First-rate detection" (The Cincinnati Enquirer).Though never quick-witted, Agatha Dawson had an iron constitution and a will to fight that never abated in her old age....
The Haunted Hotel
Horror lies waiting. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man’s fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood’s fiancé and takes him to live in a rundown...
The Detective and Mr. Dickens
In "a delightful hot toddy of a winter's read," authors Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins hunt for murderer in Victorian London (Los Angeles Times).It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes in this delightful Dickensian romp, with the canonical author...
The Saffron Thief
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK 2026'An enjoyable historical thriller' Sunday Times'Out of the ashes of the Great Fire of London comes an unforgettable tale … T. L. Mogford has excelled himself' Michael Morpurgo‘I swallowed up The Saffron Thief in 36 hours....
The Nurse’s Secret
A young female grifter in 1880s New York cons her way into America’s first nursing school, but a spate of unexplained murders follows in her wake…“A spellbinding story, a vividly drawn setting, and characters that leap off the pages. This is historical fiction at its...
Death of a Fugitive
A BRAND NEW instalment in a gripping Tudor mystery from bestselling author John Pilkington. Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor and S. J. Parris.This Ward, Cutler… it seethes, does it not?1595, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Matthew Cutler, constable for the parish of...
Murder in Cottonwood Springs
Sheriff Rich got the call every lawman dreads – a relative’s murder. And it’s even worse when it’s your sister. Brigid moved back to Cottonwood Springs to be with friends and family when her marriage and her publishing company both ended. When her best friend’s...
The Midwife’s Tale
In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas’s remarkable debut, The Midwife’s TaleIt is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife...
The Man in the Queue
This locked-room mystery, "solid proof for the unreliability of circumstantial evidence" will have readers "give thanks" for the British crime classic (Kirkus Reviews). A long line of people stand outside a London West End Theatre, hopeful to nab standing room tickets...
Murder in Cottonwood Springs
Sheriff Rich got the call every lawman dreads – a relative’s murder. And it’s even worse when it’s your sister. Brigid moved back to Cottonwood Springs to be with friends and family when her marriage and her publishing company both ended. When her best friend’s...
The Withdrawing Room
Death pays a visit to Sarah Kelling's Boston boardinghouse in this cozy mystery from the bestselling author of the Peter Shandy series. Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the...
A Girl Like You
Mixing Mystery and Romance in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!A desperate girl. A dead matron. A detective with secrets of his own.It’s Chicago, 1935, and ever since the Crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, Henrietta Von Harmon has been left to care for her antagonistic...
Perfect
A mother protecting her son. A boy spiraling into darkness. A girl who never stood a chance. Sally thinks she’s succeeded in breaking generational curses until she finds out her eldest son, James, is the prime suspect in Lily Johnson’s murder. After years of bliss,...
Perfect
A mother protecting her son. A boy spiraling into darkness. A girl who never stood a chance. Sally thinks she’s succeeded in breaking generational curses until she finds out her eldest son, James, is the prime suspect in Lily Johnson’s murder. After years of bliss,...
The Mad Hatter Mystery
A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's...
The Saint John’s Fern
A medieval salesman and amateur sleuth must look past superstition to find an elusive murder suspect in this entry in the beloved mystery series."Another intelligent installment in a superbly crafted series of medieval mysteries that rival the best of Ellis Peters."...
The Long Arm of the Law
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Tired of newspaper headlines that accuse cops of malfeasance or worse? Veteran editor Edwards has the perfect antidote: 15 reprints of stories from 1908 to 1966 showing English police officers at (generally)...
Dead Man’s Chest
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne FisherDot unfolded the note. "He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher...I'll leave out a bit...their name is Johnson and they seem...
The Medici Murders
Master storyteller David Hewson launches a major new series featuring retired archivist Arnold CloverVenice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today.1548, Lorenzino de...
A Terribly Savage Killing
A funeral on a remote country estate descends into chaos and murder when the deceased proves unexpectedly and most inconveniently alive in this latest Mr. Quayle mystery.England, 1926. Following the death of the Viscount Featherstone, his closest friends and most...
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
Sixth in the cozy historical mystery series that's "guaranteed to appeal to those who never got over the death of Dorothy L. Sayers" (Financial Times, UK).Aristocratic and delightfully witty amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver was greeted with boisterous cheers from readers...
Brünhild’s Gambit
A young woman disappears simply because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The man who takes her sees her as just another piece in a game designed to entertain him, excite him, and remind him that almost nothing is beyond his reach. Serena is young,...
Brünhild’s Gambit
A young woman disappears simply because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The man who takes her sees her as just another piece in a game designed to entertain him, excite him, and remind him that almost nothing is beyond his reach. Serena is young,...
Death of a Showman
In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway."A lively upstairs/downstairs mystery."—New York Times...
Murder Must Advertise
Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover at an ad agency to find out who pitched a copywriter down a flight of stairs—“Delightful reading” (The New York Times). The iron staircase at Pym’s Publicity is a deathtrap, and no one in the advertising agency is surprised when...
The Brothers Shaughnessy
Detective brothers pursue a butchering monster while doing battle with the corrupt political machine that controls their beloved Gilded-Age New Orleans. The Gangs of New York meet Crescent City cops in The Brothers Shaughnessy: Book One of The Shaughnessy Duology. "A...
The Castle Abductions
Lose yourself in this exciting new series of Tudor thrillers! Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, Alison Weir and Anthony Riches.Nottinghamshire’s bailiffs are on the trail of a sinister kidnapper…Nottingham, England, 1590County Bailiff Edward Mountsorrel...
The Brothers Shaughnessy
Detective brothers pursue a butchering monster while doing battle with the corrupt political machine that controls their beloved Gilded-Age New Orleans. The Gangs of New York meet Crescent City cops in The Brothers Shaughnessy: Book One of The Shaughnessy Duology. "A...
King Devil
A historical mystery set in early twentieth-century New England from the acclaimed author of the Peter Shandy series.Upon graduating from an academy for respectable young ladies, Lavinia Tabard heads to the New England countryside and her rich cousin Zilpha's summer...
The Brothers Shaughnessy
Detective brothers pursue a butchering monster while doing battle with the corrupt political machine that controls their beloved Gilded-Age New Orleans. The Gangs of New York meet Crescent City cops in The Brothers Shaughnessy: Book One of The Shaughnessy Duology. "A...