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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...
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...
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...
A Particular Eye for Villainy
From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a Victorian murder mystery featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband (Kirkus Reviews).When Mr. Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbor, Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland...
Missing Mona (A Tommy Cuda Mystery)
“A private investigator, a mysterious hitchhiker, dancers, gangsters, a mysterious bag …and twists and turns that will have the reader unable to put it down, Missing Mona by Joe Klingler has it all.” — San Francisco Book Review (5 of 5 stars) Grab your FREE copy -...
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...
Missing Mona (A Tommy Cuda Mystery)
“A private investigator, a mysterious hitchhiker, dancers, gangsters, a mysterious bag …and twists and turns that will have the reader unable to put it down, Missing Mona by Joe Klingler has it all.” — San Francisco Book Review (5 of 5 stars) Grab your FREE copy -...
Missing Mona (A Tommy Cuda Mystery)
“A private investigator, a mysterious hitchhiker, dancers, gangsters, a mysterious bag …and twists and turns that will have the reader unable to put it down, Missing Mona by Joe Klingler has it all.” — San Francisco Book Review (5 of 5 stars) Grab your FREE copy -...
From the Charred Remains
A resourceful chambermaid turns amateur sleuth to solve a murder in 17th century London in this award-winning historical mystery series.It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much...
Missing Mona (A Tommy Cuda Mystery)
“A private investigator, a mysterious hitchhiker, dancers, gangsters, a mysterious bag …and twists and turns that will have the reader unable to put it down, Missing Mona by Joe Klingler has it all.” — San Francisco Book Review (5 of 5 stars) Grab your FREE copy -...
Missing Mona (A Tommy Cuda Mystery)
“A private investigator, a mysterious hitchhiker, dancers, gangsters, a mysterious bag …and twists and turns that will have the reader unable to put it down, Missing Mona by Joe Klingler has it all.” — San Francisco Book Review (5 of 5 stars) Grab your FREE copy -...
Appleby Talks Again
From a British mystery author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives (The Times Literary Supplement).Scandal is at stake for London's fashionable society when Edwardian playwright...
Mrs Hudson & The Whitechapel Murders
Think you know the greatest detective on Baker Street? Think again!To the world, Mrs Hudson is merely the stooped, grey?haired landlady of 221B Baker Street — a respectable widow who keeps the rooms tidy while Sherlock Holmes dazzles London with his brilliance.But the...
Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
"Wit, humor, clues, and red herrings abound" as an aristocrat turns amateur sleuth in interwar-era Scotland in this historical mystery (Boston Globe, A Boston Globe Mystery of the Year).Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy Gilver, a wealthy and witty aristocrat (and...
Operation Berlin
Discover the first in a BRAND-NEW series of post-WW1 mysteries, from international bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard.'The perfect marriage of thriller and whodunit' Simon BrettIn a city...
Dead or Alive
The widow of a missing British spy is thrust into mortal danger in this suspenseful tale by the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries.A year after a body presumed to be that of her missing husband turns up, someone breaks into Meg O'Hara's flat and leaves her a shocking...
Death in Disguise
The English inspector confronts a cultist enclave where mysticism meets murder in the series that inspired the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting...
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,...
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...