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The Etruscan Connection
After a distinguished scientist dies under suspicious circumstances at an archaeological dig in Tuscany, Darren Priest and Alana Weber are called in to investigate.They discover that the now-deceased scientist's work was focused on Italy's earliest history, and the...
Miss Gideon & The Incident
A daring lord and a young woman find themselves in peril, igniting a possible romance as they escape to stay alive.A clean historical suspense romance, about a lord who agrees to help his friends with their quest to solve a murder. Now he must fend for himself while...
Gaudy Night
Oxford is full of memories—and threats of murder—for Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in this mystery that "stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels" (The Times Literary Supplement).Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame...
Mystery Mile
A quirky amateur sleuth attempts to protect a judge from a vicious crime boss in this classic mystery by "one of the finest golden-age crime novelists" (The New York Times).Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a marked man. After fighting the Simister gang all his life, the...
Black Velvet
A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the...
Heavy Metal Murder
Jessica Byrne’s a rookie PI with an attitude, an overactive sweet tooth, and big problems. She’s got two clients—and one of them is dead. Wealthy Daniel Lakeland is chilling at the morgue, and her other client, sketchy Vlad, is cooling in the clink, charged with...
The West End Horror
New York Times Bestseller"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." —CosmopolitanMarch 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy....
Black Velvet
A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the...
Heavy Metal Murder
Jessica Byrne’s a rookie PI with an attitude, an overactive sweet tooth, and big problems. She’s got two clients—and one of them is dead. Wealthy Daniel Lakeland is chilling at the morgue, and her other client, sketchy Vlad, is cooling in the clink, charged with...
Black Velvet
A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the...
Contagion of the Night
Minutes before twelve on a night in 1943, Detective Dan Brady is summoned to a churchyard where a woman has been found strangled. He soon discounts the theory that the woman was killed during a mugging, and an interview with her widowed husband yields more questions...
Black Velvet
A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the...
Black Velvet
A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the...
Overture to Death
A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by "a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery" (Kirkus Reviews).In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old...
The Ruffler’s Child
Get ready for the first adventure in the fabulous Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series from John Pilkington. A must-read for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor. ‘A truly fine historical series’ - Library JournalBE YE HUNTER OR PREY?Introducing Thomas Finbow –...
The Green Mill Murder
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher"Anyone who hasn't discovered Phryne Fisher by now should start making up for lost time." —BooklistPhryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things—dancing...
Gideon’s Day
The gripping first British police procedural in the award-winning and addictive George Gideon of Scotland Yard series.“AMONG THE BEST POLICE PROCEDURALS EVER”—James EllroyA corrupt policeman.A ruthless drug dealer.Armed robbers terrorising innocent people.And a...
The Two Tickets Puzzle
A bloody murder on a train yields impossible questions for a police superintendent in this Golden Age classic—"An excellent straight detective story" (Dashiell Hammett, New York Post).When the 10:35 local train from Horston arrives at Kempsford Junction, the porter is...
The Long Farewell
The head of Scotland Yard probes the suspicious death of a Shakespearean scholar with a collection of secrets in this classic British mystery.Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in his library. It was rumored Packford recently acquired a book...
A Death of No Importance
"A taut, suspenseful, and complex murder mystery with gorgeous period detail."—Susan Elia MacNealThrough her exquisite prose, sharp observation and deft plotting, Mariah Fredericks invites us into the heart of a changing New York in her remarkable debut adult novel, A...
The Midwife’s Remedy
Inspired by shocking true events, "The Midwife’s Remedy" is a haunting exploration of desperation, courage, and the deadly lengths one woman will go to protect those who cannot protect themselves...Some cures are more deadly than the disease…In the quiet Hungarian...
You Can’t Make Old Friends
Joe Grabarz is the private detective people go to when they can’t afford anyone else. But when a disfigured body washes up on Brighton beach, Joe is the only one who can identify it. Even with the face burnt and fingertips removed, he recognises his best friend. They...
The Nine Tailors
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers some old crimes: "A rattling good mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Lord Peter Wimsey and his manservant Bunter are halfway across the wild flatlands of East Anglia when they make a wrong turn, straight into a...
Desolation
A BRAND NEW wickedly dark medieval mystery from Keith Moray. If you like your murder truely gruesome - this series is for you! ?? ? The Black Rood of Scotland, stolen. A coroner of York, murdered An evil worse than plague itself, at large… 1361, York. As the country...
A Grave Mistake
A fancy hotel plays host to homicide in a "jubilant" novel by "a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review). Sybil Foster lives the sort of little English village that is home mostly to the very...
Death of a Stranger
Discover the first in a BRAND NEW gripping Tudor mystery from bestselling author John Pilkington. Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor and S. J. Parris. ?? 'Pilkington transports us back to the Elizabethan era so deftly you can smell the stink of it, and feel the danger...
The Love Talker
Chilling surprises await a grad student when she visits her family's secluded estate in this classic gothic mystery by a New York Times –bestselling author. Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found...
Jet Sweep
From a USA TODAY Bestselling Author. When P.I. Burnside is lured into a scheme involving a star football player he had once recruited out of high school, he tries to turn the tables on the perpetrator. But when shots are fired on a darkened L.A. street, he is plunged...
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective...
The House on the Cliff
A spell-binding historical mystery of forbidden love and buried secrets from the bestselling author of The Storyteller's Daughter ?? Perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Kate Storey and Lucinda Riley! On the wild Cornish coast, love and loss echo through the halls of...
Jet Sweep
From a USA TODAY Bestselling Author. When P.I. Burnside is lured into a scheme involving a star football player he had once recruited out of high school, he tries to turn the tables on the perpetrator. But when shots are fired on a darkened L.A. street, he is plunged...
The Cordoba Mysteries (Books 1–4)
Four captivating historical mysteries. Over 1000 pages of intrigue. In the glittering court of 10th-century Al-Andalus, justice falls to two unlikely allies. It's the golden age of Cordoba and justice comes at a price. Vizier Hasdai ben Shaprut is a physician,...
The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House
A BRAND NEW historical mystery brimming with buried secrets, superstition and obsession ? Perfect for fans of Stacey Halls and Eve Chase ? Where bones fall from the cliffs and secrets linger in the mist, a village haunted by the past refuses to give up its dead... As...
Pistols in Paris
Never underestimate the power of a good hat... or a sharp hatpin. 9-Book Series! Paris 1917. Sent by the War Office to follow the notorious Fredrick Fredricks, file clerk turned secret agent Fiona Figg is under strict orders not to get too close and not to wear any of...
The Accident Report
“Ralph Ellis delights the reader with engaging characters, a suspenseful plot, and laugh-out-loud humor.” –Kim McCollum, author of What Happens in Montana It’s the summer of 1974, and Woodward and Bernstein have vanquished Nixon from the White House. In a sleepy North...
Death and the Dancing Footman
This tale of murder at a snowed-in country house is a "constant puzzle to the end . . . alive with wit" ( The New York Times ). The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest...