Genres : Mystery

When a woman is found murdered in the San Antonio River Walk area, with a cryptic literary message tied to her wrist, Detective Mara Reyes discovers the killing may be connected to once-celebrated novelist Ethan Sloan.Seven years earlier, Sloan's career collapsed after a real homicide in Colorado appeared to imitate a murder scene from his bestselling novel Ash Summit. Though never charged, Sloan vanished from public life and became the center of a national controversy.Now someone has staged another body.As...

A sequel to the award-winning political mystery The History Teacher". . . COMPELLING . . . " — KIRKUS REVIEWSA Warhol protégé, a Manhattan murder and a long-hidden truth It is February 1987. Seal Larsen is a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films. When she dies in a suspicious fall from the 15th floor of her Manhattan apartment building, her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find...

One murder. One conviction. One story that refuses to stay buried.Daniel Crews has spent twelve years in prison for beating his father to death in the shed behind the family home.The evidence said the case was closed. Blood on his shirt. A missing voicemail. A hammer hidden beneath a floorboard only someone close to the property should have known about.But Daniel says the jury got it wrong.Now the file is opened again. Interviews. Witness statements. Childhood records. Prison accounts. A...

A flood is coming to the historic West Midlands city of Shrewsbury. After days of relentless rain, the raging River Severn is an unstoppable force, sweeping through twisty streets and closed doors — where it’s about to dredge up the darkest of secrets . . .Coroner and single mum Martha Gunn is trudging through Tesco when she gets the call.The police have found a body. A John Doe floating in a riverside cottage. Whoever this man is, he’s been dead...

Love Kinsey Millhone's grit, Stephanie Plum's humor, or Spenser's wry take on academia? Check out the Doctor Rowena Halley series! "Brilliantly-written and highly entertaining, a must read…" The Prairies Book Review Doctor Rowena Halley needs a job. But it may cost her more than she’s bargained for. During one of the worst years on record in the academic job market, newly-minted PhD Rowena Halley has, against all odds, gotten a job. For one semester. At poverty wages. In New Jersey....

Introducing private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham in the first of the brand-new World’s End Bureau Victorian mystery series.London, 1880. “I’m dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife …” When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World’s End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau’s owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially sceptical. How are...

When Sydney Bonner overhears a fellow mah jongg player arguing on the phone with her husband, she realizes the couple’s “perfect marriage” isn’t all it appears to be. A few days later, the husband is found dead, his head bashed in. Fearing she’ll be considered the most likely suspect, the widow prevails upon Sydney and her three friends—Marianne, Kat and Micki—to find out who really killed him. Though none of these four fun-loving, take-charge retirees has any training as detectives,...

She’s looking for a fresh start. But with eerie noises in the night and murder most foul, can she keep from going down for a crime she didn’t commit?Skye Brigid O’Shea is desperate for an escape. Losing big in a nasty divorce and taking the fall for a patient’s death, the stressed-out thirty-two-year-old jumps at the chance to move to Ireland after inheriting her grandmother’s B&B. But the nosy American quickly lands back in hot water when she investigates unearthly...

Set in St. Albans, a small British town, this is the second novel in the DI Maggie Dent Trilogy.A contemporary British fiction murder mystery with family drama and developing disloyalties.DI Maggie Dent is thrust into a major investigation when three members of the same family are found murdered,but her team is hard pushed to uncover motives and links.What they discover are secrets, hidden lives and harboured jealousy.This police procedural will have you wondering, not only about the case, but about...

Illustrated edition of book 1 in award-winning Anna Kronberg & Sherlock Holmes series.She's London's most brilliant bacteriologist. She's also not supposed to exist.By day, Dr Kronberg cuts through corpses in Guy's Hospital's gaslit laboratories, hunting microscopic killers that claim more lives than Jack the Ripper. All the while, hoping no one discovers the woman beneath the gentleman's attire.When a body surfaces in London's waterworks bearing marks of medical torture, Kronberg draws the attention of Sherlock Holmes. He sees through her...