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Death of a Fool
Folkways turn fatal in a very old-fashioned English village, in this witty mystery filled with "ingenious" detective work (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still...
A Page Marked for Murder
A murder and a missing book have Addie Greyborne running around her Massachusetts town trying to read the clues . . . January isn’t the season for the seaside, but the big Fire and Ice festival is keeping bookstore owner Addie busy. Amid the plans for a fireworks...
The Lost Ancestor
When Morton Farrier, the formidable forensic genealogist, is called upon to uncover the mysterious disappearance of a housemaid working in a large Edwardian country house in 1911, he embarks on a perilous journey into the past. Uncovering surprising secrets and facing...
No Woman Left Behind
My mother's life goal has been to see me, geek extraordinaire Lexi Carmichael, happily married. So bringing my first boyfriend, Slash, home for dinner has me hyperventilating. Things get a lot worse when bullets start flying over our corn chowder. Now the entire...
Murder In Spades
The Ashgrove Bridge Club did not expect their newly elected president, Leonard Delaney, to be murdered on the day of his successful election, or did they? Could it have been a conspiracy to get rid of Leonard? After all, he was a man of insufferable superiority, his...
The Houseboat Detective
A good detective has an analytic mind, loves to solve puzzles, is driven to know the answers - oh, and he might play piano. Twenty-something Jake Sommers lives in a houseboat moored at Fisherman’s Wharf, a picturesque set of docks bordering the Inner Harbour of...
The Broken Soul
When the party of a lifetime becomes a party to the death, the lines become blurred. Friends become enemies. Drugs become weapons. And that's just the beginning ... Retired medical examiner Maddie LaFoe is in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with her best friend...
Prepped to Kill
“Be prepped for a good read!” When Ricky Steele, a fifty- something odd jobber, plays a practical joke on her former boarding school, she plunges headlong into kidnapping and murder. While she pretends to be an ace private investigator, the niece of Massachusetts’...
Chasing Justice
Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author After a multi-year absence, Matt Royal returns to the courtroom. Reluctantly. Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key's Police Chief. Abby Lester has been charged...
The Silent Christmas
In a time of war, they discovered peace. When David Wright finds a label, a silver button and a lump of old leather in a chest in the attic, it opens up a window onto the true of joy of Christmas. Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, has just a few days to...
Hide Me Away
Rileigh Bishop left her nightmares behind, but a gruesome murder calls her back. In a race against a shadowy killer, her life hangs in the balance. Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with...
Dead by Sunrise
The first book in the bestselling mystery series by R.L. Ryker. Murder lurks in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Mountains. A year after his brother is killed in the line of duty, former homicide detective Brandon Mattson returns to Forks, WA to take...
Requiem in Vienna
A lawyer in 1899 Vienna hunts for a killer stalking the opera house and Gustav Mahler in this historical mystery from the author of The Empty Mirror."What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, Sydney Jones does for...
An Invitation To Murder
Lady Katherine only has one week to catch the Pink-Ribbon Killer. Not only to stop the killing, but also to prove her skills at detection to her father and win her dowry and independence. There’s only one catch—she has to take one last matchmaking job to do it. Never...
The Storm House
A murdered activist. A ruthless cover-up. A storm no one can escape. When campaigner Penny Wharton is found dead in the garden of a notorious house, Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth is dragged into a labyrinth of lies. Someone powerful is twisting the truth—and they’ll...
Sherlock Holmes: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Twelve festive mysteries for your Christmas wish list… Roger Riccard, having published two previous Sherlock Holmes novels, The Case of the Poisoned Lilly and The Case of the Twain Papers, has again taken pen in hand to bring forth a series of twelve short stories...
The Creation of Marla Adams
THE BOOKFEST 2022 MYSTERY-MURDER&CRIME AWARD WINNER 2022 INDIE BRAG MEDALLION HONOREE 2023 LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD VINE VOICE 5 STAR REVIEW Someone is killing the citizens of Hildebrandt, Texas, and carving perplexing numbers on the bodies. Police Officer...
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...
The Wayward Alliance
When Sir Law stumbles over a dead body, he and Cormac the minstrel join forces in their first mystery together! Scotland, 1424. Returned from war wounded and with nothing to his name, Law is thrust into a mire of treachery and lies when he takes a job to find a...
Wolf Deception
A missing nuclear bomb. A ruthless conspiracy. And a plot that could ignite global war. Half-buried in the sand, an enormous black casing bears the faded markings of its former owner—USAF. Lost just off the Georgia coast more than sixty years ago, the now-legendary...
The Trouble With Paradise
????? “I was drawn to it by the title, promising a gorgeous setting and captivating mystery.” ????? “The book delivered on both fronts!” ????? “A heart pounding thriller!” ????? “The book pulls you in from the very beginning and I didn’t want to put it down until I...
The Bleeding
Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Époque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart … FIRST in a bewitching new series**Shortlisted for the CWA...
Murder in the Crypt
When the body of a young man is found stuffed into the tomb of a medieval knight, Parish Constable Daniel Haze is tasked with investigating his first solo murder case. Suspicion instantly falls on the only stranger to arrive in the village of Birch Hill just before...
Murder in Gentleweir Canal
Join Genny Hadley – bakery owner, dog-lover, retired DI and amateur detective – as she untangles her most puzzling case yet! The island is buzzing with excitement as the incumbents of Yaxley Manor are opening up their home for the wedding of Lord and Lady Neville’s...
The Seven of Calvary
A professor and a graduate student search for a campus killer in this Golden Age mystery from the author of Nine Times Nine and "a fine craftsman" (Ellery Queen). Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed...
Deadly Sanctuary
Good luck getting anything else accomplished once you are hooked on the the heart-pounding adventures of flame-haired, investigative journalist, Kendall O'Dell! Adventure #1, she stumbles upon a dark conspiracy when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in the...
Pilfered Promises
It is November of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant, and as a couple, they are looking forward to spending...
The Rhino Keeper
?? Named a 2025 Kansas Notable Book ??Winner of the Midwest Book Award for Cover DesignBefore The Porcelain Menagerie, Jillian Forsberg introduced readers to the dazzling and dangerous world of 18th-century Europe in The Rhino Keeper—a sweeping tale of wonder,...
Murder on the Ballarat Train
From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Murder on the Ballarat Train, the next historical mystery featuring the intrepid amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. What happens when this train reaches its deadly destination? Phryne is determined to find...
The Undercover Witch
From the Magic & Mixology world by USA Today bestselling author Gina LaManna... My mother says trouble began the day I was born, but I’d disagree. I think trouble started the day I crashed my broomstick into an undercover cop car. My name is Ainsley Shaw, and I’m...
Bloody Love (Lilah Love Book 6)
One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concerned, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree? What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? Lilah continues to hunt for...
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
A classic British mystery anthology containing the last twelve stories featuring the most famous fictional detective of all time. Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes for this final collection of short stories showcasing one of English literature's greatest sleuths as...
Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells
'Tis the season for miracles... and murder. A rifle crack shatters the holiday bustle. Christmas shoppers scatter as a renowned big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. Blind detective Steve Smiley and his partner rush to rescue the teen—the man's adopted daughter—who...
ICE
A TWISTY THRILLER OF DRUG SMUGGLING, MURDER, AND KIDNAP. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? ????? 'A real gem to read. Mark Kane is superb.' ????? 'Well written. Twists and turns make it a very enjoyable read.' ????? 'There are lots of crime novels about, but few that equal this...
The Emerald Shawl
The BRAND NEW utterly gripping, unputdownable novel from Richard and Judy NUMBER ONE bestseller Louise Douglas ? Perfect for fans of perfect for fans of Fiona Valpy, Lucinda Riley and Jane Eyre ?1864, Bristol, England The seamstress is found in the darkened docks,...
Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells
'Tis the season for miracles... and murder. A rifle crack shatters the holiday bustle. Christmas shoppers scatter as a renowned big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. Blind detective Steve Smiley and his partner rush to rescue the teen—the man's adopted daughter—who...


































