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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...
Shine House
An abandoned lighthouse. A haunted psychic. The secrets of Shine House beckon from the shadows. Emmie's spring break just started. Her idyllic getaway by the ocean is everything she dreamed of. Solitude. Friends. Sunshine. A chance to get away from her psychic past....
Don’t Dare a Dame
2014 SHAMUS AWARD WINNER Tea with two spinsters thrusts 1930s private investigator Maggie Sullivan into an explosive mix of murder, political rivalries and family secrets. Pursuing their case means risking not only her life, but her detective license. The Vanhorn...
The Halls of Ashcroft
Amidst the garden parties and romantic afternoons of the Edwardian Era, a sinister plot unfolds in the southeast of England... Rosamund Haskin is thrilled when her younger sister, Georgiana, forms an attachment with Mr. Jasper Layne, a well-bred and intelligent man...
Killer Motives
Victoria’s life isn’t as perfect as it seems. But with two homicide detectives on her doorstep, it's about to get a lot worse. Still reeling from the shocking discovery that her husband is having a passionate affair with his real estate client, Victoria struggles to...
The Shadow Children
In the heart of Savannah’s hauntingly beautiful streets, a chilling mystery is about to unfold … Teenagers are vanishing from the shadowy depths of the city's ancient tunnels, and fourteen-year-old Andi Leland is determined to find out why. As she delves into the...
Shadow at the Morgue
An acquaintance with deathHaunted by her family’s unsolved murder sixteen years ago, Leonora Spencer is familiar with death. As an assistant in her elderly uncle’s London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also...
Framed in the Past
Candlestick Historical Mysteries cozy gilded age Book 1 May 1893. Mrs. Henry Case finds her amateur sleuthing skills are tested while searching for clues to mysteries both past and present. Unwilling to take everything she hears at face value, Mattie determinedly...
The Forbidden
She is someone’s darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With...
Death in a White Tie
A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season . . ."Marsh's writing is a pleasure." —The Seattle Times It's debutante season in London, and that means giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances . . ..and much too much champagne. And,...
Death at a Paris Hotel
For Lady Eleanor Swift, Paris means champagne at breakfast, romantic walks by the Eiffel Tower… and her deadliest case yet! Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler,has come along for the...
Flowers for the Judge
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times). Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All...
A Commission on Murder
The old farmhouse on Little Wye Creek is creepy enough to be a murder scene, and there's even a dead man on the lawn, but Grace Reagan hopes the infamous Garret Bishop is just pulling another lame publicity stunt. Wealthy, eccentric Bishop has survived an avalanche, a...
Pulse
The body of a young man is found in a graveyard the night after a wild, drug-fuelled party. At first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything sinister about his death, despite the shock of Detective Inspector Mark Olbeck realising that he once knew him.Detective...
Sunshine State
Serial killer's message to PI Jake Longly: Two of those seven murders I confessed to are not mine—but I won't tell you which two Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison are confronted with the most bizarre case yet. Serial killer Billy Wayne Baker now denies that two of his...
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 Clue in the Air
A high-profile murder case falls into the lap of a former policeman in this Golden Age mystery from the groundbreaking author of At One-Thirty. Though financially independent, Timothy McCarty still has second thoughts about resigning from the police force. But when...
The Draycott Murder Mystery
There was something about those hands, with their strangely crisped fingers, as though they had been arrested in the very act of closing, that somehow gave the lie to the woman’s attitude of sleep. A howling gale … A lonely farmhouse … the tread of a mysterious...
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 Jackal’s Head
A woman returns to Egypt to clear her archaeologist father's name in this mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody series. Althea Tomlinson's ostensible reason for returning to Egypt is to chaperone a spoiled teenager through this...
The Whitechapel Widow
London hunts the Ripper. A widow hunts her husband’s killer.London, 1888. While Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror grips the city, Emma Langley’s world shatters when her husband is found murdered in Whitechapel. But grief is quickly overshadowed by a startling...
The Complete Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries
GET **FOUR** GRIPPING 1920s MURDER MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.Fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Hilary Green, Rhys Bowen, Verity Bright, Fliss Chester, Benedict Brown, T.E. Kinsey, Frances Brody and Elly Griffiths are sure to be hooked.WHAT...
Playing At Murder
A short murder mystery story It’s always been a dream of Connie Butterworth’s to be a private investigator. Now that she’s retired, she makes that dream a reality and sets herself up as an investigator. With reluctant help from her sister-in-law, Sable, Connie takes...
Gone The Next
Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehder's novels have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream. GONE THE NEXT is the first novel in the Roy Ballard mystery series. About GONE THE NEXT: Meet Roy Ballard,...
A Morbid Taste for Bones
The "irresistible" and "compelling" first novel in the historical mystery series featuring a Welsh Benedictine monk in the twelfth century (The Washington Post). A Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his...
Sherlock Holmes: Cry of the Innocents
SHERLOCK HOLMES INVESTIGATES A HOLY MYSTERY: In 1891, a Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street, only to utter the words “Il corpe” . . . before suddenly dropping dead.Though the man’s death is attributed to cholera, when news of another dead priest reaches...
Immortalised to Death
Death strikes England’s foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an...
Death at the Highland Loch
‘Absolutely loved… Has it all: charm, suspense, and wit… Perfect… Kept me guessing… Had me completely hooked from start to finish.’ bookedbycrystal ?????Meet Scotland’s fearless new amateur sleuth, Lady Poppy Proudfoot: dog lover, fashion expert, and… about to solve...
The Night Riders of Hardin County
Sheltered beneath the bluffs of the Iowa River valley, the village of Steamboat Rock keeps its secrets well—until a gang’s violent rise pulls five innocent brothers into a storm of deception and bloodshed.When a brutal killing sparks a wave of vigilante justice, two...
One Yellow Dog
ONE YELLOW DOG, THE FIRST IN GREGORY C. RANDALL’S DEPUTY JORDAN TYNES SERIES, IS A THRILLING, OLD-FASHIONED MURDER MYSTERY SET IN CONTEMPORARY MONTANA AND STARRING A CAST OF UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS. After serving in Afghanistan, five Crow Indian Army veterans return...
Murder on the Mesa
Rattlesnakes, RVs and road trips? None of these are in middle-aged Violet's vocabulary. But overnight, she's barreling across the country, leaving Chicago for a tiny, New Mexico desert town in search of the man who stole her money. Oh, and he happens to be her...
Blue Ruin
The Harper and Lane series continues in this gripping novella! When a woman is found murdered by hunting arrows in a woodland clearing, Detective Jane Harper is left to determine who is responsible. But when revelations about the victim's true identity surface, Harper...