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Iced Diamonds
In late December, 1942, Persephone (Percy) Cole, one of Manhattan's first female PIs, has been hired to find out who killed a Santa Land elf and left the body in the storefront window of a swank 5th Avenue jewelry store. Was it the spoiled heiress whose big buck...
No Stone Unturned
Lucy Lawrence stared down at her husband, his once handsome face now a twisted mask of death. She shivered and pulled her shawl tighter around her shoulders. His life had held so many secrets, and now his sins were hers to bear…England, 1886. In the flickering...
Money, Murder, Mayhem
“Do you know her, David?”“I do. I know her and I now know who’s trying to kill me.” A Sunday morning phone call jolts Philip Warwick from his pleasant retirement and changes his life forever. He’s inherited a billion pounds and an Earldom. Sixty-four-year-old Philip...
Murder in the Devil’s Half Acre
Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this first-in-series Victorian era mystery.Trouble’s brewing in the Devil’s Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It’s enough to give a...
Death of an Art Collector
An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his...
Lies of Mine
An exceptionally good mystery from Wales’ best up-and-coming talent! A body is found in a dark and dingy tunnel at the bottom of Dinas Rock, the site of a disused mine. There is no sign of struggle ...Detective Inspector Winter Meadows suspects the victim, youth...
Requiem Mass
The first deaths are just a warm-up…A Buried Past.When Deborah Fearnside, a young wife and mother, goes missing, police interest is minimal. She would hardly be the first woman to abandon a tired marriage. Four weeks later it is Detective Chief Inspector Andrew...
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...
Dark Little Secrets
Diane Matthews lost everything when her daughter Angela died in a mysterious accident. But when Angela's husband, Will, is arrested for her murder three years later, Diane's world is turned upside down again. Desperate and seeking answers, she turns to an unlikely...
The Art Collector
It’s 1987. When photographer Seal Larsen, a Warhol protégé and denizen of New York’s downtown scene, falls from the 15th floor of a Manhattan apartment, her friend Emma Quinn—a history professor at Columbia University—is determined to find out what happened. The Art...
No More Brothers
A body on the beach. A new romance. Dark secrets. And one woman determined to uncover the truth. When Serafina Florio discovers a body on the beach, she plunges into the investigation despite dark secrets, diminishing funds, and a budding romance. Evidence leads her...
Dark Little Secrets
Diane Matthews lost everything when her daughter Angela died in a mysterious accident. But when Angela's husband, Will, is arrested for her murder three years later, Diane's world is turned upside down again. Desperate and seeking answers, she turns to an unlikely...
Death of an Art Collector
An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his...
Witchy Reservations
"Angelica makes for an effortlessly endearing Everywoman hero...a fun narrative that will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse saga." —KIRKUS REVIEWS From USA Today Bestselling author Stephanie Damore comes a new paranormal cozy mystery series that...
Death of an Unsung Hero
An English country house becomes a WWI hospital—and one of its patients falls victim to a mysterious enemy—in this “winning historical mystery” (Booklist).In 1916 and the world is at war. Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family’s dower house to the...
The Art Collector
It’s 1987. When photographer Seal Larsen, a Warhol protégé and denizen of New York’s downtown scene, falls from the 15th floor of a Manhattan apartment, her friend Emma Quinn—a history professor at Columbia University—is determined to find out what happened. The Art...
An Invisible Betrayal
When the predator becomes the prey it’s time to fight.Myles Devereux’s criminal empire is under threat, someone wants rid of him, and he’s being framed for murder.Devereux runs the lawless criminal gangs of Tudor London, controlling seedy taverns, brothels and...
Last Known Contact
A missing man. A desperate daughter. And a killer who just got started.When Ellie Connor returns from a business trip to the news that her father has vanished, she knows in her gut something bad has happened. Self-made business tycoon, Jack Bannerman, isn't the type...
The Tycoon Murderer
THE TYCOON MURDERER is the first book in a new time-travel romance/cozy mystery series set in the Pacific Northwest. When Josie Matthews buys a Victorian mansion with a notorious past, she hopes to turn it into a successful inn. While she expects all the headaches of...
Take a Number
“Well-written and entertaining … you’ll find yourself turning the pages because the victim is so deliciously despicable.” – West Coast Review of Books A LYING, CHEATING ABUSER WINDS UP DEAD… “Dawson keeps suspense and interest at high pitch.” – Publishers Weekly...
The Tower Bridge Murder
A baffling murder and a missing detective. When a young woman is murdered on Tower Bridge, former spy Augusta Peel expects Scotland Yard to call on her for help.But no call comes.Meanwhile, Augusta is preoccupied with the success of her Bloomsbury bookshop. It’s doing...
Optical Delusions in Deadwood
From the Award-winning Author of Nearly Departed in Deadwood! “What a voice! Hilarious, original, and genuinely wonderful. This fresh and feisty mystery will instantly win your heart. Loved it!” ~HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity winning author “A...
Secrets of the Watch House
The truth is waiting to be told …'Stunning' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Spine-tinglingly good' AMANDA GEARD'Incredible' LORNA COOK***Cornwall, 1934.Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her...
The Scent of Lies
She wants answers. He wishes he didn’t want her. Watch out, people, sparks are gonna fly! Novice private eye Emily Parker is determined to prove herself and nail her first big case. Failing to uncover the real killer means her client's life is basically over…and so is...
Songbird
It’s all fun and games until someone gets killed. Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes...
Murdered by Adultery
In the tranquil town of Cottonwood Springs, nothing is as simple as it appears. When a young woman's life is brutally cut short, her husband becomes the prime suspect. But was it truly a crime of passion, or is there more to the story than meets the eye? Delving into...
A Vow of Silence
DISCOVER A DRAMATIC NEW MYSTERY SERIES SET IN A CORNISH CONVENT. “Outstanding.” Publishers Weekly 1988. Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Bodmin, Cornwall. The sisters at a lonely Cornish convent share a chilling secret they cannot confess . . . Sister Sophia is...
The Killer Jack Mystery
A trip to state prison puts Jenny on the trail for a stolen necklace and right into the path of a killer…The lights are just about to go out for good in my father's PI office when I get an unexpected call from the state penitentiary. My mother's only brother was sent...
Appleby Talks
From a British crime author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” twenty-three short mysteries featuring the brilliant Inspector Appleby (The Times Literary Supplement).It appears Inspector Appleby is ready to tell all in this must-read collection of...
One Night in Drake Mansion
A haunted mansion turned reality TV set. Which of the contestants will scream first? Amateur sleuth Harlan Holt only believes in cold hard facts. So when he’s cast for a supernatural reality show, he’s determined to disprove an 80-year-old spooky mystery and demystify...
Leave the Grave Green
“Lucid prose, well-focused plot, and all the trappings of a cosy British mystery” from the New York Times –bestselling author of All Shall Be Well ( Library Journal ). When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline...
The Ferry Port Mystery
A young detective ruffles a few feathers in a south coast Irish town When Detective Inspector Vikki Kirkby took the fall for a senior colleague’s mistake, she didn’t anticipate being sent from Dublin to the rural backwater of Wexford for punishment.And she feels like...
The Moon Rock
A classic locked room mystery from the genre’s Golden Age by the renowned Australian author of the Chief Inspector Luckraft series. On the day of his wife’s funeral, Robert Turold reveals that he has completed his lifelong quest to prove his family’s noble blood and...
Something Blue
Sparks fly in Something Blue , a clever, character-driven mystery where romance and suspense seamlessly intertwine. The third book in the Lord & Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series delivers crisp dialogue, irresistible romance, and characters you'll fall in love with.Lord...
Ill Wind
POE MEETS PUZO – THE WORLD’SFIRST LOCKED-ROOM MOB MYSTERY! Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of...
Death Drops the Pilot
Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, “the model of a calm, rational policeman” (Publishers Weekly). After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is nowhere to be...