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Lane’s End
Sydney’s Observatory on a balmy summer evening is the perfect venue for a cocktail party and, it would seem, a murder, for Peter Van Goren’s body is discovered bludgeoned to death in the grounds. The first question Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn must answer is why...
Power Struggle
“ Gritty and emotionally jagged… Power Struggle pours on the suspens e as one twisted assassin plays hide-and-go-seek with a detective who refuses to give up.” – Tome Tender Book Blog He led her into the barn and locked her in a small cage, and he left her...
Power Struggle
“ Gritty and emotionally jagged… Power Struggle pours on the suspens e as one twisted assassin plays hide-and-go-seek with a detective who refuses to give up.” – Tome Tender Book Blog He led her into the barn and locked her in a small cage, and he left her...
The Adams File
Bessie is both excited and apprehensive about her new role in Andrew Cheatham’s cold case unit. When the first case involves a missing five-year-old who may well have been murdered by her own father, Bessie has even more second thoughts.? As if Andrew’s cold case...
Death in the Fog
This classic mystery is “more than a mere crime puzzle. . . . It is a tragic event which deeply affects the destinies of those who are in any way involved” (The New York Times).The road to her aunt’s country house on Lake Michigan is dark and shrouded in fog. But it’s...
Fox Trot Murder
Goldie Weston Historical Mysteries 1920s light and clean cozy Book 2 Goldie Weston has no trouble offering solutions in her ladies’ column for household challenges and matters of the heart. It’s her own relationships that cause her problems. Is it any wonder why?Her...
The Gray and Guilty Sea
"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers Weekly A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the...
The Man in the Queue
This locked-room mystery, “solid proof for the unreliability of circumstantial evidence” will have readers “give thanks” for the British crime classic (Kirkus Reviews). A long line of people stand outside a London West End Theatre, hopeful to nab standing room...
Sacrifice Fly
Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that...
The House at Sea’s End
In “a wonderful, atmospheric mystery” featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson, six bodies of men killed during World War II turn up in Brighton—bringing with them a long-buried, nefarious secret ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ). Just back...
The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana
The author of the award-winning Joe Grey mystery series--a writer hailed for her "magical whimsy and deft writing" ( Cats magazine) who "has raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre" ( Kirkus Reviews )--teams up with her husband to conjure a charming supernatural...
Changing Hearts
What if one impulsive decision could alter the trajectory of your life?An unexpected night of passion leads to a life-altering decision, but Marissa's world shatters when her best friend is tragically killed in action. Just as she begins navigating the complexities of...
The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond
A copycat crime on Groundhog Day brings out Professor Peter Shandy’s inner sleuth in this Edgar Award finalist from the international bestselling author. The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and...
Trouble at the Red Pueblo
Who is Spider Latham? Think John Wayne meets Miss Marple. Liz Adair's style is a cross between Tony Hillerman and Agatha Christy, resulting in a cozy mystery with an edge. When Spider is hired to do some private detective work for the Red Pueblo Museum, he doesn’t...
The Book Thing
A thief targets a local bookstore and it will take a bibliophile PI to save the shop. Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children’s Bookstore. It’s bright, cozy, and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But no matter how...
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...
The Hermit of Hisarya
The Hermit of Hisarya, Book Five in the Sam Smith Mystery Series. Please note that the print length of this book runs to 50,000 words and 234 pages and not the estimate listed by Amazon. Some people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power. Indeed,...
Surgical Risk
Do you love a hero who pulls no punches and never gives up? Richard Kurtz has a reputation as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300 pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz is a surgeon, a good...
A Long Shadow
Old sins cast long shadows… When the bodies of a young, homeless girl and a girl who disappeared thirty years ago are found on the same day, residents in the historic city of York are aghast. It seems unlikely the two cases are related, and yet some of the same...
The Art Collector
It's 1987. Seal Larsen, a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films, dies in a suspicious fall from a Manhattan apartment building. Her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what...
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...
Tinplate
“Steed's style warm and chatty, the pace bracing” - Kirkus Reviews Peter Marklin, owner of a Toy Emporium, finds his quiet life harshly interrupted when a collection of antique toys, worth over £20,000, is stolen. Faced with threats from their owner, he sets out to...
The Fire in the Flint
“Intrigue abounds” in the series starring sleuth Margaret Kerr. “Robb’s captivating blend of history and mystery vividly evokes medieval Scotland” (Booklist). Scots are gathering in Murdoch Kerr’s Edinburgh tavern, plotting to drive out the English forces. Margaret...
The Art Collector
It's 1987. Seal Larsen, a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films, dies in a suspicious fall from a Manhattan apartment building. Her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what...
The Complete Earl of Moriston Mysteries
GET *TWO* THRILLING REGENCY MURDER MYSTERIES IN THIS GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.Perfect for fans of P.D. James, Beth Andrews, Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, and C.S. Harris.PRAISE FOR ANNABEL LAINE:‘A jaunty Regency mystery with romantic underpinnings, a high-spirited cast,...
The Art Collector
It's 1987. Seal Larsen, a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films, dies in a suspicious fall from a Manhattan apartment building. Her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what...
The Bloomsbury Murder
A killer is prowling Bloomsbury’s squares. Augusta Peel has just opened a secondhand bookshop and is far too busy to work on a new murder case. Or is she?When Augusta receives a mysterious letter about a missing young woman, she can’t resist helping with the search....
Inspector of the Dead
“Inspector of the Dead blends historical fact and 1855 London ambience with thriller-laced fiction in a feat of brilliant storytelling.” —Mark Rubinstein, Huffington PostFinalist for the International Thriller Writers’ Award for Best Hardcover NovelA Kirkus Reviews...
The Unusual Mayor Marheart
Cassie Black is back, and she’s now heading up MagicLand’s newest detective agency. Well, sort of... Cassie Black may have just defeated an evil wizard, but that hasn’t stopped her from getting kicked out of the Academy’s detective training program. The upside is that...
Driven
When Jenny Watkins buys an old fixer-upper with her husband, Greg, she is quickly haunted by a voice that only she can hear. The message the voice conveys prompts Jenny to look into the history of the house, which was the scene of a disappearance sixty years earlier....
Mrs Jones
A British girl with a secret.A New York cop with a past.And a Mob that wants revenge.When maverick New York detective, Tommy Connell, picks up a witness to murder, he finds himself with more than he bargained for.Mysterious British girl, Lizzie Jones, is harboring a...
Long Gone
Prepare to be hooked by the Number One bestselling mystery author...* BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES ** OVER 4,000 FIVE STAR RATINGS *What top authors are saying about Paul Pilkington's page-turning mysteries:"A master class in suspense" - LJ ROSS"Had me gripped for days"...
Miraculous Mysteries
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder, featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and more.“Readers who appreciate careful plot development, slightly unusual detectives, and logical denouements will relish this...
Boston Homicide
"I STAYED UP LATE TO FINISH THIS BOOK BECAUSE I HAD TO KNOW""EVERY TIME I THOUGHT I HAD IT FIGURED OUT, A NEW TWIST WOULD COME" *************************** Officer Danny Sullivan has just become Detective Danny Sullivan, the first in a family line of Boston Police...
Where the Bodies Are Buried
HOW HOSTILE CAN A TAKEOVER GET? MURDER MOST CORPORATE!Oakland sleuth Jeri Howard is the whole package: a traditional gumshoe who’s no stranger to the all-night stakeout, the deft, disarming blow to the hand holding the gun, or the methodical examination of documents...
The Mailbox
She delivers mail by day and solves mysteries by night. But when a hurricane reveals a dead body, will her first case be her last? Elizabeth "Stitch" Stitchway dreams of becoming a private investigator, but she remains stuck in her mail carrier day job. When a freak...