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The Persephone Code
'Who can resist a smart, resourceful and independent Regency heroine? Prepare to fall head over heels' Good Housekeeping'Told with zip and humour…most enjoyable' Historical Novel Society'The Regency as we've never seen it before!' Emma Orchard, author of A Duke of...
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories
Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press. This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories, selected and...
To Catch a Cook
A Nasty Stew Between her latest "sure–fire" foray into the food industry—video restaurant reviews—and her concern over boyfriend Homicide Detective Paavo Smith‘s depressed state, Angie Amalfi‘s plate is full to overflowing. Paavo has never come to terms with the fact...
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
In the second installment of Susan McBride’s Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin … before she becomes the killer’s next target. Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have...
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories
Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press. This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories , selected and...
The Norfolk Mystery
Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England: quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder … It is 1937, and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is broke. So when he sees a mysterious...
Surfeit of Lampreys
A suspicious inheritance comes to the rescue of a cash-strapped aristocratic family: “Entertaining and devious . . . Plenty of red herrings.” —Kirkus Reviews The upper-crust Lamprey family exemplifies charm, wit, and a chronic lack of funds. Their only source of hope...
Ann’s War: Invasion
About the Series The Ann's War Mystery Series is a series of five novellas set in 1944-5. Each story contains approximately 15,000 words and a complete mystery. The stories are: BETRAYAL, INVASION, BLACKMAIL, ESCAPE and VICTORY. The stories are set four months apart...
The Lake House Secret
A reluctant homecoming, two men from her past, and a chilling murder to solve… Home is the last place reporter Jenessa Jones wants to be. It's been 12 years since the journalist's father sent her away to hide a pregnancy, and the only thing that could bring her back...
Cat Laughing Last
Whiskered sleuths Joe Grey and Dulcie return in the “seventh cute feline mystery of theft, intrigue and murder” from the author of Cat Spitting Mad ( Publishers Weekly ). Famous novelist Elliot Traynor is temporarily living in Molena Point. He and his wife don’t have...
The Fressingfield Witch
A sinister mystery that threatens to resurrect the dark history of the Suffolk witch trials. Private Detective Lawrence Harpham grapples with his own demons while unraveling a chilling case with echoes of Suffolk’s dark history.As unexplained deaths stir whispers of...
Deep Shelter
In this gritty, white-knuckle crime thriller, Detective Nick Belsey—introduced in the acclaimed The Hollow Man as a shrewd, street-smart cynic who is one of London’s sharpest, but most unprincipled, investigators—is plunged into a perplexing mystery of secrets,...
Buried
Decades of silence. A shocking discovery. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. True crime writer Dougal Lachlan swore he’d never set foot in Twisted Cedars again. Not even for his sister’s upcoming wedding. But an email promising the story of a lifetime pulls him back...
Jupiter’s Bones
Preeminent astrophysicist Dr. Emil Euler Ganz vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues, only to reappear fifteen years later as "Father Jupiter," founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult the Order of the Rings of God. Now he's dead—a vial...
The Greek Island Killer
AN ENTHRALLING MURDER MYSTERY WITH A TWIST. “There are some unexpected twists in the plot and a few laughs along the way and the reader is kept guessing until all is revealed in the end.” Annie“ A great book that you won't want to put down .” Alan“This murder mystery...
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...
Eternity Ring
Miss Silver must contend with a vanishing corpse when murder rocks the postwar English countryside in this classic mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Det. Sgt. Frank Abbot of Scotland Yard thought he’d spend a quiet holiday at 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...
Murder at Solent Island Lighthouse
Ex-DI Genny Hadley needs a new life. Animal lover and soon-to-be bakery owner on a sleepy island off the south coast of England, Genny is settling into her fresh start two years after her sister's death in a hit and run, which made her quit her detective job in busy...
A Curse in Kyoto
Something is happening at the British School of Kyoto. A phantom geisha is haunting the halls, a star student is missing, and the campus is covered in mysterious symbols. Why? It’s all because of an ill-fated decision to host a supposedly cursed museum exhibit. Meet...
The Town I Call Home
Defense attorney Jackson Taylor traded his Chattahoochee River roots for a high-rise office in Atlanta, but when a childhood friend is accused of murder, he’s drawn back to the small town he thought he’d left behind. The boy is now a man shadowed by secrets—a cheat, a...
A Hopeless Discovery
A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance. Wanda Wegman invented the pumpkin chomping dragon at the pumpkin patch. Then three years ago, she mysteriously vanished. And on a Saturday morning among the...
Death at the Dolphin
A BRAND-NEW HISTORICAL MYSTERY FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GRETTA MULROONEY.Even in peacetime, death is just around the corner.London, VE Day, 1945.Twenty-four-year-old Daisy Moore is at a crossroads. Racked with guilt over her mother’s tragic death in a house fire, she...
The Clockmaker’s Secret
The second twisting mystery in the acclaimed Slim Hardy Mystery Series from Jack Benton, a series which is fast becoming a classic.A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned...
Smallbone Deceased
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction."A first-rate job"—New York Times"A classic of the...
Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
When a dead body is found at sea, the case can only be solved by the astute Inspector French, and his most discerning readers, in this Golden Age mystery. A mysterious shipping crate is hauled ashore off the coast of Burry Port in South Wales by two fishermen, who...
The Psychic Guardian Angel (Complete Series)
A reluctant psychic, a missing woman, and vengeance from beyond the grave. Rachel Thompson is missing, and the police have no leads. The serial killer who has taken her is efficient, elusive, and seemingly invisible. Her only hope is Jacob Daniels, a man tormented by...
Divas and Dead Rebels
The bestselling DIXIE DIVAS mystery series continues! Trinket and her pals are, once again, caught in the middle of a murder scene…"Professor Sturgis is dead.""Hah!" replied my cousin/best friend/partner in mayhem. "I'm not that lucky.""It's true," I said as I pointed...
The Friend
After a woman accepts a new friend request on social media and gains a stalker in this thriller short story from a New York Times bestselling author. Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn’t...
Something More Than Night
Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of Heaven. It's a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty...
The Replacement Child
Winner of the Tony Hillerman PrizeLate on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly tipster whose hobby is to phone the newspaper with gossip from her police...
The Psychic Guardian Angel (Complete Series)
A reluctant psychic, a missing woman, and vengeance from beyond the grave. Rachel Thompson is missing, and the police have no leads. The serial killer who has taken her is efficient, elusive, and seemingly invisible. Her only hope is Jacob Daniels, a man tormented by...
Nobody’s Sweetheart Now
The first mystery book in a rollicking new historical cozy series! When Lady Adelaide's dinner party is visited by lady death, she'll have to partner with the irksome spirit of her dead husband to crack the case… "A lively debut filled with local color, red herrings,...
Sherlock Holmes & the Headless Corpse
The headless corpse of John Solomon, a prosperous builder, has been discovered...Solomon's widow is suspected of his murder ...Her motive : a large insurance payout...Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate ...But the widow is shortly due to emigrate to Canada...And...
Folly
Looking for a gripping murder mystery with a feisty female sleuth? Meet Alex Duggins in this addictive series from a bestselling author. PLEASE NOTE THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DIGITALLY AS COLD. “Stella Cameron masterfully weaves a good old-fashioned village...
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...