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Cranberry Bluff
Molly Elliott's quiet life in Tallahassee, Florida, is disrupted when routine errands land her in the wrong place at the wrong time: the middle of a bank robbery. Accused and cleared of the crime, she flees both media attention and mysterious, threatening notes, to...
Murder Boogies with Elvis
Oversized, outrageous Mary Alice and her prim sister Patricia Anne have been looking forward to the gala benefit being staged to raise money for the restoration of Vulcan, Birmingham's ever-tarnishing unnatural wonder. And what a show it is, with a grand finale that...
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...
The Women in the Shadows
Included in THE TIMES Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale'The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the perspective of a gang of women.'A fresh and captivating retelling of the Jack the...
Lady Helena Investigates
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is...
Jack of All Trades
A dream job becomes a tale of money, love and murder for Jack, a builder, who gets a job repairing the summerhouse of a millionaire couple. Except the couple are at war, both having affairs, their marriage beyond salvage. The husband fires Jack, but she takes him back...
Sherlock Holmes & the Egyptian Temple
Close to the Great Pyramid, an ancient temple is uncovered in the desert sands. On one wall is a mysterious inscription — 'Consume me whole, in order to find the key.' Sherlock Holmes is summoned to solve it. With Watson at his side, he journeys from London to Cairo....
What Child Is This?
In What Child Is This?, "Boatwright conjures up the warmth of the snowy, candlelit holiday." — Publishers Weekly "Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well. A great find." — M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin...
Hop-tu-Naa and Homicide
It’s Hop-tu-Naa time on the Isle of Man and Fenella Woods is excited to learn more about this uniquely Manx celebration. When a day of fun at Cregneash village ends with Fenella finding a dead body, though, she finds herself tangled up in another murder...
A Smidgeon of Ghosts
Madame Ruby, gypsy fortune teller in the city of Chicago, makes headlines in the Chicago Tribune when she predicts a Halloween murder in the old haunted house in Lincoln Park. She also lays down a challenge for Madeline Donovan to attend a séance on that night and...
Knocked Off
Adrienne Giordano hits a home run once again with a fun mystery you can’t put down." --Dianna Love, New York Times Bestselling Author Being stuck in the old neighborhood is the last thing reluctant mob princess Lucie Rizzo wants. With her new business on the verge of...
Remaindered
A puzzler of a tale about a dead bookshop owner, a priceless cache of first editions, and a deadly secret taken to the grave. It's no mystery who killed Robert Ripple, owner of Precious Finds Bookstore in Pokesville, Pennsylvania. It was Agatha Christie—or rather, a...
Bones at the Manor House
Reunite with beloved characters and a thrilling new whodunit in Bones at the Manor House, book 2 in the Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries.“Five Stars! I adore this series and can’t wait to read more about these brave, stubborn, heroic people.” –Reader Review.Two ghosts are...
The Dower House Mystery
In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn't laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty...
Death at the Fireside Inn
A determined sleuth. And a terrible crime. London 1920. Veronica Vale is content with her obituary writing, parties with friends, and walks with her rescue dog, Benji. But when a shocking killing occurs at the Winter Garden Theatre and Veronica knows the victim, she...
Unauthorised
Justice... Such a subjective thing. A UN worker intent on revolution, a serial killer bent on revenge, and, between the two, an increasingly disillusioned Met detective. All have their own ideas of what justice should look like – even if DC Brook Deelman was only...
Hidden Fury
As a former cop turned private investigator, Annie Fitch hopes to never be in the line of fire again, so she’s expanded her business to include installing security systems. She’s thrilled to be hired by Preston Farr, a farmer with a vandalism problem on his family’s...
Sabbatical
NEW "STAND ALONE" MYSTERY Harrison Steele’s dream of a work-free sailing sabbatical from his law firm is thwarted when a young bank auditor is killed a few days before he departs for the Caribbean. He becomes entangled in the investigation when no motive is uncovered...
A Proud Woman
Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour. Tabitha was used to being a social pariah. Could her standing in society get any worse? Tabitha, the...
Bluegate Fields
From a New York Times–bestselling author, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must solve the case of a young gentleman's sordid murder—before an innocent man hangs. The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London's most...
Jon’s Downright Ridiculous Shooting Case
Jon is the most powerful psychic Reader in the country–and unanchored, which is rather a problem. The bigger problem? Finding an anchor. And Jon doesn’t think his must-have list is too crazy. It’s just rather hard for a man to have: 1) the patience of a saint (for...
Fire and Ice
“In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady….The prolific Jance…is in fine form.” —Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters—Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and...
Lion in the Valley
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging....
The Alchemy of Murder
Reporter Nellie Bly assembles a team to stop a serial killer stalking the 1889 Paris World's Fair in this historical mystery series debut."Doing for the City of Light what Ann Perry has done for Victorian London and what The Alienist did for 19th century New York,...
Death of an Old Git
`A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT OVER 600 5 STAR REVIEWS The first instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely grippingvillage detective series with a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans ofAgatha Christie, Lillian Jackson...
Witchy Business
Witchy Business (Witch Detectives Book 1) is the first novel in a compelling paranormal witch mystery charged with wicked fun, snappy dialogue, romance, and paranormal thrills. What do a Scottish werewolf and a missing valuable artwork have in common? They're no match...
The Emperor’s Snuff-Box
On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as "one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told"...
Spouse Trap
????? Spouse Trap is a blast! ????? Mystery at its best. ????? SPOUSE TRAP is the crème de la crème of mysteries! Blackmail, sabotage, and blood-chilling suspense converge in this psychological thriller meets detective mystery. Madeline Ridley’s perfect world...
No Such Thing as a Secret
Meet Brandy Alexander, a young woman from South Philadelphia with a big mouth, an even bigger heart and a little problem with impulse control. It’s not her fault trouble seems to follow her around. Okay, it is her fault, but why quibble over details? When Brandy (a...
Candlelit Smoke and Mirrors
Candlestick Historical Mysteries cozy gilded age Book 2 May 1893. The residents of the Case mansion continue to pool their knowledge and strengths to endure through difficult times. Of course, their concerns about the comfort and safety of others in the city of...
The Sister
THE TWO MASSACHUSSETS HOMICIDE COPS WONDERED WHY I WAS MENTIONED SO PROMINENTLY IN A MURDERED NUN'S OLD DIARY. I knew why. Many years before she became Sister Veronica, Ronnie Frost was a vivacious college co-ed -- and my lover. I always wondered what became of her...
Duplicitous Justice
THE PERFECT PATSY – A SWASTIKA TAT AND A PRISON RECORD – OF COURSE HE DID IT. 5 Out 5 Stars Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2024 Format: KindleVerified Purchase Carstens is one hell of a legal thriller writing author. If I ever have a need for a criminal...
Murder in Nice
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...
Of Darkness and Light
In this first book of a new historical mystery series, a young art historian faces a tough choice in German-occupied Norway. “Artful prose and at a pace that makes for a can't-put-down, first-class literary voyage."–Melissa Dalton-Bradford, bestselling author of...
Sherlock Holmes & The Beast of the Stapletons
This Sherlock Holmes mystery with a supernatural twist continues the story of The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor . . . “A wonderful addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon,” from a New York...
You Can Lead a Horse to Murder
Even small-town secrets can be deadly. Ember Burns was determined to overcome her grief and establish a new veterinary practice, but her first client lands her in the middle of a murder mystery. When the evidence points to a horse as the cause of death, she vows to...