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Murder at the Manor

Murder at the Manor

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"[T]he entire book is filled with country-house-mystery wonders: the closed-circle puzzle, the dying-message clue, and the sociopathic guest who invades the weekend house party." —BooklistThe English country...

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Hand in Glove

Hand in Glove

A deadly dull man is now just plain dead in this novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews One has to admit that the timing was peculiar. No one could doubt that Mr. Percival Pyke Period was genuinely...

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“The special qualities of Dorothy Sayers’ writing are seen here at their best” as Lord Peter battles to solve the murder of a war hero (Saturday Review). Even the Bellona Club’s most devoted members would never call it lively. Its atmosphere is that of a morgue—or, at...

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A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London.‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it...

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Murder as a Fine Art

Murder as a Fine Art

A writer in Victorian London turns detective to clear his own name in this historical mystery series debut by a New York Times–bestselling author.Winner of the Macavity and Nero AwardsALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery“A masterpiece . . .a fantastic historical...

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The Plot

The Plot

A thrilling historical novel of an assassination plot, conspiracy and divided loyalties in seventeenth century England.London 1678.Charles II is likely to die without a legitimate heir. His Catholic brother, James, is next in line to the throne. Across the country,...

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Owls Don’t Blink

Owls Don’t Blink

An odd couple of detectives descends on New Orleans to search for a missing heiress in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.   Bertha Cool is a bulldog of a woman with an attitude to match. Donald Lam is a handsome ex-lawyer who makes up for in...

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The Secret Detective Agency

The Secret Detective Agency

Meet Miss Jane Treen – the coffee-drinking cat lover dressed head to toe in tweed, who just happens to be a secret super sleuth!London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government...

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Calamity at Harwood

Calamity at Harwood

To solve a murder case, Thomas Littlejohn contends with ghosts, Nazis, and crooked real estate speculators Known across London as one of the premier slumlords of the East End, Solomon Burt has never fallen in love with a property the way he has with Harwood, a faded...

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The Man Who Could Not Shudder

The Man Who Could Not Shudder

Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery novel The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It...

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Murder, My Dear Watson

Murder, My Dear Watson

The editors of Murder in Baker Street return with a second anthology of all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and essays.First appearing more than a century ago in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most famous literary detective. Now...

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Murder at the Spring Ball

Murder at the Spring Ball

A little music, a little dancing, a little murder at the spring ball.England, 1925. After years shut away from the world, former detective Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall plans a grand ball to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday.But when someone starts bumping off...

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Tragedy on the Line

Tragedy on the Line

A body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . .   Gervase Wickenden’s estate is close to a railroad line—and that’s where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd though, considering...

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The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds

A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker).   Albert Campion’s sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a...

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Cassie Pengear Mysteries (Books 1–3)

Cassie Pengear Mysteries (Books 1–3)

The first three Cassie Pengear Mysteries in one volume.Killing at the Carnival- Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cowboy shot...

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The Innocent Flower

The Innocent Flower

MacDougal Duff falls in with a strange family—and senses murderA sudden cloudburst forces MacDougal Duff to stop his car in front of the home of Mary Moriarty. The history professor turned detective is reclining in his seat, waiting out the torrential rainstorm, when...

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In the Silence of Decay

In the Silence of Decay

2024 IPPY Gold Medal Winner, Best Regional Fiction: West Mountain2024 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Category Finalist Mystery/Crime2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist: Crime FictionNew Mexico, 1979: After a career in the military as a CID detective, all James...

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Death in the Crypt

Death in the Crypt

The Honourable Cressida Fawcett is expecting the cathedral crypt to be full of dry old bones. But when she finds a body murdered just moments before, she’ll need divine inspiration to solve her most mysterious case yet… Winchester, 1925. When heiress and amateur...

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Have His Carcase

Have His Carcase

Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane investigate a dead body on the beach in this “nearly perfect detective story” by the author of Busman’s Honeymoon (Saturday Review). Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget...

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The Bookseller of Inverness

The Bookseller of Inverness

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed,...

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North Sea Requiem

North Sea Requiem

The fourth gripping, evocative, and lyrical mystery in the acclaimed series that brilliantly evokes the Scottish Highlands of the 1950s. When a small-town Scottish woman discovers a severed leg in the boot of one of the local hockey players’ uniforms, it’s a big scoop...

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Murder in Mayfair

Murder in Mayfair

‘MY FAVOURITE BOOK… Unputdownable… Had me hooked immediately… Absolutely perfect… I devoured it in one sitting as I just could not put it down… Gorgeous… Amazing… Fantastic… Absolutely loved… Hooked throughout.’ bookwormwhitlock86, ??????????Tea and cake at The Ritz,...

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The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

A lawyer is sucked into a couple’s hostile divorce in this mystery with “a stellar ending” from the original detective series that inspired the HBO show (Kirkus Reviews).   Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money....

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Finding Kait

Finding Kait

What happens when you break all the rules? Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. When her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She’s spent her whole life...

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Finding Kait

Finding Kait

What happens when you break all the rules? Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. When her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She’s spent her whole life...

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The Londinium Mysteries (Complete Collection)

The Londinium Mysteries (Complete Collection)

DISCOVER THIS COMPLETE GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.GET THREE BOOKS IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET!Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Peter Gibbons, Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden and Damion Hunter.LONDINIUM, 1ST CENTURY AD....

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Murder at Highfields

Murder at Highfields

A town judge shot dead in a house full of suspects. Can a curious young female nurse turned amateur sleuth uncover the truth before someone else dies? It’s a mystery that will keep you guessing. Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts, 1931. Aggie Burnside is ready for her...

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Death on a Quiet Day

Death on a Quiet Day

From a British Golden Age author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” Scotland Yard Inspector Appleby helps a student solve a murder (The Times Literary Supplement).On holiday in the English countryside with his fellow university students, young...

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery

A refreshing blend of wit and intrigue, A. A. Milne’s only mystery novel is a masterpieceMark Ablett is not really a snob—not the worst kind of snob, at least. He simply prefers artists to everyone else, and the discussion of his own creative abilities to any other...

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The Lost Ancestor

The Lost Ancestor

From acclaimed author, Nathan Dylan Goodwin comes this exciting new genealogical crime mystery, featuring the redoubtable forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier. When Morton is called upon by Ray Mercer to investigate the 1911 disappearance of his great aunt, a...

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Shifting Ice

Shifting Ice

When an ex-con meets an untimely death, the investigation has a slippery start Found bound and beaten in a warehouse, a convicted criminal leaves a cryptic message before he croaks on the way to hospital.What did he know that was worth killing for? DI McCord sets out...

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The Missing Chapter

The Missing Chapter

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks for the killer: “A very clever mystery . . . A masterly job” (Booklist).   The gun was fired close to Charles Childress’s head, and his were the only fingerprints on it,...

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The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries (Volume 1)

The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries (Volume 1)

When Max Porter discovers his office is haunted by the ghost of a 1940s detective, he does the only sensible thing ... he starts a detective agency! Delve into a world both Real and Supernatural when North Carolina history mixes with the paranormal in this...

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The Friday Edition

The Friday Edition

Snow isn't all that's falling in Denver, Colorado on Christmas Eve. A beautiful, young district attorney tumbles from her balcony to her death. Police suspect suicide, but the DA’s sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn’t buying it. Samantha discovers...

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The Last Train

The Last Train

In Tokyo, murder’s easy to hide. Winner 2018 Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published BookWinner 2017 Book Excellence Awards Best Mystery Solo MedalistWinner 2017 New Apple Awards for Excellence Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white-collar crime in Tokyo....

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