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Dead Wrong
Nothing is colder than death. Or is it… In Dead Wrong, the third book in the continuing mystery series featuring reporter Samantha Church, Samantha is back and turns her attention to helping Abby Love, a young funeral home employee who has come to her with claims that...
Idaho Fall
An entrepreneur with a startup valued at one billion falls from a balcony on the eve of the company going public. Was it an accident? Or was she pushed? Rita Burch is a rising star. The founder of a huge clothing brand, she is on the brink of financial nirvana. Her...
Shifting Ice
When an ex-con meets an untimely death, the investigation has a slippery start Found bound and beaten in a warehouse, a convicted criminal leaves a cryptic message before he croaks on the way to hospital.What did he know that was worth killing for? DI McCord sets out...
A Murder Too Many
Academic conferences can be full of petty squabbles—and sometimes, not-so-petty ones. . . . “There are few detective-story writers so consistently good.” —Sunday Times Professor Andrew Basnett has returned to his old university for a meeting of the Botanical...
Coral Moon
The figure remained still as stone. Leslie couldn't even detect a breath. Spider fingers teased the back of her neck. Leslie's feet rooted to the pavement. She dropped her gaze to the driveway, seeking ... what? Spatters of blood? Footprints? She saw nothing. Honed...
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...
Witch Charm
Lexie and Luna are going back to school. A witch is dead and if Lexie doesn’t find the killer soon, she risks ending up in a roasting pit. It could be worse, and it is…The Lauriston Academy for Ladies & their Feline Companions has a dress code: White dress with...
The DCI Jack Harris Murder Mysteries (Books 1-3)
THREE GRIPPING MURDER MYSTERIES IN ONE BUMPER BOX SET DCI Jack Harris loves the peace and solitude of the rolling hills of the Pennines in the north of England. So when criminals interrupt his quietude, he makes no qualms about catching them, even if his actions run...
The Clamorous Dead
A twisty mystery set in Elizabethan England! Perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, Alison Weir and Anthony Riches.Is a curse plaguing Nottinghamshire…?Nottingham, England, 1596A routine hanging at Gallows Hill is disrupted when a wild woman begins screaming...
Witch Charm
Lexie and Luna are going back to school. A witch is dead and if Lexie doesn’t find the killer soon, she risks ending up in a roasting pit. It could be worse, and it is…The Lauriston Academy for Ladies & their Feline Companions has a dress code: White dress with...
The Fourth String
“The Claremont”, an outdated, run-down apartment building, is thrown into turmoil when its latest and most celebrated resident, Crispin Fairchild, conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, is found murdered. His eccentric neighbours and members of the orchestra...
Witch Indeed
Mackenzie Coven rule number one: Do not lose your cat. Lexie and Luna are representing the coven at a prestigious feline extravaganza. There are only a handful of guests attending and they all have their eyes on Luna, but one of them also has blood on their hands. If...
Fatal Whispers
“Money buys anything. Even murder.” A millionaire’s beautiful young wife. A homeless woman. A parish priest.Three baffling deaths within days. No sign of foul play. No police leads. Even medical authorities can’t explain the cause of death. An unprecedented occurrence...
Capital Crimes
An eclectic collection of London-based crime stories from the Golden Age of Mystery, featuring work by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace and others.Capital Crimes presents seventeen tales of murder and mayhem that blend the familiar with the unexpected in a way that...
Witch Indeed
Mackenzie Coven rule number one: Do not lose your cat. Lexie and Luna are representing the coven at a prestigious feline extravaganza. There are only a handful of guests attending and they all have their eyes on Luna, but one of them also has blood on their hands. If...
The Body in the Fjord
“Eighth in a charming series, complete with food talk, stolen antiques, murder—and recipes” from the Agatha Award-winning author of The Body in the Bog ( Library Journal ). This time out, small-town caterer and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild’s neighbor, Pix Miller,...
The Santa Klaus Murder
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of...
Pale as the Dead
This is the first stunning installment of Fiona Mountain's riveting new mystery series that uncovers the secrets of the dead. Pale as the Dead deals with the mysterious death of Lizzie Siddal, a real and fascinating historical figure whose beauty and tragic life have...
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...