“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 Asherton, is found floating in a Thames River lock, the circumstances eerily recall a strangely similar tragedy. Twenty years ago, the Ashertons’ young son, Matthew, a musical prodigy, drowned in a swollen stream while in the company of his sister Julia—Connor Swann’s wife.Police Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James quickly discover that Connor’s death was no accident, and that nothing in the Asherton family is as it seems. Connor, though estranged from Julia for more than a year, still lives in her London apartment, where his exploits with women and gambling suggest plenty of motives. The Ashertons are far more attached to Connor than to their own daughter, and these are only the first of the secrets that haunt the suspects. New lies cover older lies, as Kincaid finds himself dangerously drawn to Julia Swann, and Gemma must confront her own troubling feelings for Kincaid.

“Detail and pacing are immaculate as the investigation is drawn closer and closer toward domestic secrets as the source of the solution to the crime. A superbly engrossing whodunit for all active mystery collections.” —

Booklist

“The passages of the first drowning are haunting, the mystery is intriguing, the characters are well developed and the solution satisfies.” —

Publishers Weekly

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 whole force is against her when, during her first case, her views about the suspicious deaths of an elderly couple are ignored.Not only will Kirkby have to find a killer, she’ll also have to win the trust and support of her mostly male colleagues.She finds an ally, maybe something more, in handsome local businessman Peter Booth.However, when Kirkby’s inquiry closes in on his place of work, the busy ferry port of Rosslare, she gets a creeping feeling of being let down again.

The Ferry Port Mystery

is the first of two standalone novels set in southern Ireland by David Pearson, bestselling author of

The Galway Homicides

and

The Dublin Homicides

series.The second book in this new series,

The Empty Safe Mystery

is also available from Amazon.All of our books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. A full list of Pearson's other titles is as follows:

The Galway Homicides Series

1. MURDER ON THE OLD BOG ROAD2. MURDER AT THE OLD COTTAGE3. MURDER ON THE WEST COAST4. MURDER AT THE PONY SHOW5. MURDER ON PAY DAY6. MURDER IN THE AIR7. MURDER AT THE HOLIDAY HOME8. MURDER ON THE PENINSULA9. MURDER AT THE RACES10. MURDER IN A SAFE HAVEN11. MURDER IN AN IRISH BOG12. MURDER IN A SEASIDE TOWN13. MURDER BY THE HIDDEN BAY14. MURDER AT THE ARTS FESTIVAL15. MURDER AT THE CARAVAN

The Dublin Homicides Series

1. A DEADLY DIVIDEND2. A FATAL LIAISON3. THE CHINA CHAPTER4. LETHAL IN SMALL DOSES5. PLANE DEAD6. PASSION FOR MURDER

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 Anthony Hetheridge, a chief superintendent at Scotland Yard, is about to tie the knot with DS Kate Wakefield. But the murder of a powerful CEO at the luxurious Hotel Nonpareil threatens to upend the special day. Everyone hated the dead man: his son, his scorned wife, his fiancée, and his secret lover. More ominously, Sir Duncan Godington, longtime nemesis of Lord Hetheridge and DS Deepal Bhar, hated the dead man, too.As pressure mounts from all sides, including 10 Downing Street, Hetheridge, Kate, and Bhar must solve the case in record time. But can they untangle the truth before the killer strikes again?Return to the world of

Ice Blue

and

Blue Murder

in

Something Blue

, the third Lord & Lady Hetheridge book, and dive into a whirlwind of suspense, romance, and wit sharper than cupid's arrow.

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 Chicago’s biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it’s murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide – the death scene was triple-locked from the inside.

And with that, author Heller, a former journalist and frequent Pulitzer nominee, takes her place with Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the great Edgar Allan Poe himself as one of the few authors ever to pull off a locked-room murder. In this one, half the fun is trying to figure out the locked-room puzzle. And the delight of finding one in a contemporary mob mystery.

The other half of course, is the tenacious Deuce herself, the tough, hard-boiled, and ever-human reporter who goes places the cops don’t even know about. And Heller’s intricate, action-packed mystery story.

The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable deaths – of perfectly healthy, able-bodied young mobsters,key witnesses about to flip on the top leaders of the Mob operation. Neither the Chicago police nor the FBI can come up with a cause of death – and they’ve looked at every kind of toxin – but our meticulous investigator, whose stock-in-trade is death-defying leaps of logic, fits together a couple of impossible puzzle pieces. The downside is that the bad guys figure out where their greatest exposure lies – and Deuce quickly becomes their new target.

Enter a Washington reporter who has been following the organized crime investigation for months at its source, in D.C. He and Deuce share a dark secret and he knows exactly where to apply pressure on her demons to keep her on the trail of her friend’s murderers. But as the Windy City begins to look more and more like the Chicago of Al Capone days, with bodies turning up in the river and shoot-outs in public places, Deuce discovers she couldn’t walk away even if she wanted to. Whoever is at the top – and this is Chicago, so the top is always way up – will stop at nothing to shut down this investigation.

WHO WILL LIKE IT: First of all, fans of puzzle mysteries and locked rooms! Followed closely by admirers of get-the-story-or-die reporters like Hank Philippi Ryan’s Jane Ryland and Kelly Lange’s Maxi Poole, Chicago private investigators VI Warshawski and Libby Fischer Hellman’s Georgia Davis, kickass female detective protagonists like Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone and Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan; and anyone who admires tough-minded women sleuths who’re good in a fight.