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The Weaver’s Inheritance
The year is 1476, and after a hard winter hawking his wares through the ice and rain, Roger the Chapman is looking forward to spending Christmas in Bristol, enjoying the warm hearth and good food of his mother-in-law Margaret--even if it means the young widower will...
The Delicate Pursuit of Blood
When Augusta Lockwood and her friends form a society to investigate crime, they don’t have long to wait before a murder falls into their laps. A disappearing gardener and the discovery of a gruesome crime scene launch a series of mysterious events that soon engulf...
The Coldstone
The secrets of an English country estate offer a potent mix of romance and suspense in this classic mystery featuring retired governess Maud Silver. When Anthony Colstone inherits an ancestral estate that dates back to Elizabethan England, there is one ironclad...
Murder for Beginners
As soon as they meet, it’s murder. When Jade Fitch opens a new-age shop in the picturesque market town of Hazeby-on-Wyvern, she’s hoping for a fresh start. Meanwhile, Fi Booker is trying to make a living from her floating bookshop as well as deal with her teenage son....
Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers
When a retired detective with a nose for trouble wanders into a town hiding a deadly secret … ‘When Steve Higgs writes, he hits it out of the park. Every book is a fast-paced thrill-fest, but somehow he always finds time to make me laugh out loud between the action.’...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes's most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer's daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen...
The Lost Witness
In the shadows of an alley in Los Angeles, Detective Lena Gamble stands at a crossroads. For eight long months not a single murder case has come her way, her good name tarnished by city bosses and the dark politics of the LAPD. But then fate deals her a hand from the...
A Deadly Course
Henry and Emily Fox are jolted from their peaceful semi-retirement in the idyllic community of Sugarbury Falls, Vermont when Emily discovers a dead body during her morning run. As if the discovery isn’t shocking in itself, Emily learns the dead body has a connection...
The Blood Line
A brutal murder. A cryptic crime scene. A killer who rewrites the rules. Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth faces a chilling puzzle—a victim bound to a chair, stabbed viciously, yet eerily at peace before the end. It looks like a gangland execution. But why did the...
Death of a Duchess
What really happened to the last Duchess of Blackmoore?Lenora, a lonely orphan with a mysterious gift, has resigned herself to a life of solitude. A surprise proposal from a Scottish duke brightens her prospects, but the offer comes with a dark request. She must use...
A Staged Corpse
A body is never good for a room’s feng shui … The McKays' divorce played out in the unforgiving public eye, mirroring Sheriff Mark McKay's humiliating defeat in the recent election. Just as it seems everyone is ready to move on, Mark is discovered lifeless, right in...
A Tail of Woe
In this Christmas story, there is no happy ending for Scrooge. Louisa Henry has read the Dickens classic enough times to spot a Scrooge when she sees one. Arthur Crawford is as sour as they come. Even worse? There’s no chance for his redemption because during the...
The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister
A tale of two sisters, family fortune, and murder: "Millions of Americans never seem to tire of Gardner's thrillers" (The New York Times). Beautiful Sylvia Bain Atwood is overseeing her ailing father's estate while her sister serves as his caregiver. But their...
The Complete Black and Dod Cozy Mysteries
GET *THREE* BRITISH COZY MYSTERIES SET BETWEEN THE WARS IN THIS SUPERB-VALUE BOX SET.From a three-time CWA Dagger shortlisted author.READERS LOVE THE BLACK AND DOD COZY MYSTERIES:????? ‘Quintessentially English. An excellent whodunnit which is full of twists and...
Silent Nights
Merry and mysterious crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder, with stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and more"Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there's something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the...
Clouds in my Coffee
When Ellison Russell is nearly killed at a benefactors’ party, she brushes the incident aside as an unhappy accident. But when her house is fire-bombed, she’s shot at, and the person sitting next to her at a gala is poisoned, she must face facts. Someone wants her...
The Gift
AMAZON BEST SELLER One look in a criminal’s eyes and she witnesses their crimes. Grace McKenna is not your average police officer. She is haunted by the unsettling images she sees when she locks eyes with a criminal, her vision flooded with clues that force her to...
Mistletoe and Murder
This Christmas, there is a murderer waiting under the mistletoe Miss Sampford is a desperate woman. Someone wants her dead, and she suspects it is someone in her family. Frightened and alone, Miss Sampford reaches out in the hope Clara Fitzgerald can keep her safe...
On the Border
No. 1 Amazon Best Seller When a cryptic, handwritten letter arrives at the newspaper, reporter Samantha Church is thrust into a world of darkness she never imagined. The anonymous note exposes a labyrinth of corruption—claims of murder, money laundering and the...
Dark Desires
????? “the perfect mix of mystery and romance” Betrayed by those she trusted, penniless and alone, Darcie Finch is forced to accept a position that no one else dares, as the assistant to dangerously attractive Dr. Damien Cole. Ignoring the whispered warnings and...
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...