... place. About the Author Donis Casey is the author of ten Alafair Tucker Mysteries. Donis has twice won the Arizona Book ... for the Oklahoma Book Award. Her first novel, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming , was named an Oklahoma ...
... underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients. Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie ... local toughs, a highly-trained security company, and an old enemy of Spenser's--the Gray Man--for a final epic ...
... Gemma Doyle reluctantly tells 10-year-old Lauren Tierney, when the little girl comes to the Sherlock ... done. But a few days later Lauren is back with ten dollars in hand, wanting to once again hire a consulting detective ...
... -old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stuart Hoag, whose first book was a sensation but whose career crashed when he became involved with drugs and alcohol. Divorced ten years earlier ...
... a woman she's never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabella agrees -- ... as she tries to protect the young girl from the authorities. Together with charismatic photographer ...
... in a chimney. Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading. Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found. The grief of those left behind, those who searched ...
... come for you, Iris. Mark my words!' When a murder rocks the quiet village of Helmstead, seventeen-year-old Land Girl, Iris Dawson, is determined to prove her friend and local gamekeeper Frank Tucker's innocence. But when ...
... stay with you for ever. A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When ... , Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to ...
... turned her back for a moment – but a moment was all it took for her world to be destroyed. Her two-year-old daughter Carol-Anne has vanished into thin air. Alex's husband Ray is a detective, so he's used to dealing with ...
A missing girl. An expat amateur sleuth. And a whole lot of croissants. Meet Molly Sutton, 38 years old and out of work, who moves to the French village of Castillac to recover from the end of her marriage. She's looking ...
Beyond Year Zero is the story of one man's journey into the steamy heart of Asia - and simultaneously into himself. ... trauma steps CARL MEISSNER, a 32-year-old unemployed investigative journalist recently fired over his ...
... to fiction after an eighteen year silence by one of Ulster's finest novelists. Eight years in C Division was a ... girl is killed and then his prime suspect castrated and murdered. He finds himself trapped in vicious old ...
... loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was worth it for the happy years they enjoyed together. Now, ten years on, Ed has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and things start to happen; things more ...
... the Moon Girls . Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ... the world, Ashlyn is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, ...
... marry Howard Woollcott III in the finest society wedding of the year. But when she realises she can't marry a man ... ... Is there any truth in the legend of the girls of Lake Evelyn? And how will Vivienne find the life ...
... her dream home. When a chance discovery behind an old fireplace reveals the house's secret history as a ... to the bitter realisation that no one would pay her for a year off work to write a book, so she sat down and started ...
When Freya Sinclair was a little girl, she had no idea what her parents were hiding in the basement of her childhood home... After five years away from her hometown of Fawn Lake, Detective Freya Sinclair isn't expecting ...
ï»The man lying in lower ten was on his back, his face illuminated by the early morning sun. But the light had no ... edition of the classic bestseller, The Man in Lower Ten, has been completely re-written so that the style ...
... time runs out, and they are gone forever. About the Author Louisa Luna is the author of the novels Brave New Girl, Crooked , and Serious As A Heart Attack . She was born and raised in the city of San Francisco and lives ...
... ’s Task Force. Rosa Rios, a young woman of Apache descent and one-time rodeo star, vanished three years ago. Human remains, a homicide victim burned beyond recognition, were discovered in Cochise County around the time ...
The compelling WWI murder mystery series (Home Front Detective 10). February, 1918. In the small hours of a cold morning, a burglary in Limehouse has escalated into a sinister siege between a band of thieves and the ...
... , and while Friday succumbs to the bottle, Sarah has to fight for everything she holds dear. Once again, the girls must join forces to save one of their own. But which one? And in the background Bella Jackson waits and ...
... TO MURDER. . A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER IS THE WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2020 “Nail-biting, taut and pacy. Jackson ...
... the awful specter of a scandalous murder fifteen years before suddenly haunts Edna. Leah Brenner, the ... it alone, the Newmann grandmother Molly insists - "it's old news." Life has moved on. Even Leah's children believe ...
... . Despite its regal name, the Queen's Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store ... harbour entrance to Cork city. On her first visit for fifty years, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed - ...
... a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past fifty years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship ...
... final mystery remains: the mystery of the old man in the corner himself. The Old Man in the Corner is a classic ... Pimpernel novels. Her Teahouse Detective, who features in The Old Man in the Corner, was one of the first ...
... with the name of another man. Could this be a grim warning? Henry is forced on a painful journey back to an old case he worked on with Cole and Paul. Is someone playing a deadly game with Henry, and is he about to pay ...
... ' HELEN LEDERER The next in Daisy Waugh's hilarious Tode Hall series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror and old school ties . . . The Todes are heading to Italy - and taking murder and mayhem with them. Close to ...
... ' HELEN LEDERER The next in Daisy Waugh's hilarious Tode Hall series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror and old school ties . . . The Todes are heading to Italy - and taking murder and mayhem with them. Close to ...
... adventures of Uncle Abner, a deeply religious cattle-breeder who sees God's hand in every event. The old-time character was revived by Suter at the request of the estate of Uncle Abner's creator, Melville Davisson Post ...
... is the summer of 1871 when Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross pays a visit to Jacob Jacobus, the old rogue of Limehouse: infamous antiquarian, friend to villains and informer to the police. Ben hopes to glean information ...
... , for followers of the indefatigable St. Paul detective-there's more to the story. Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul gathers three novellas from Larry Millett, casting back to Rafferty's beginnings to recount a trio ...
... a tragic accident. Or was it? The result will alter the town and nearby Native American reservation for years to come. 1955 in Eklund, Minnesota, nestled on the shores of Spirit Lake: College student, Barbara Gruen, is ...
... make it out alive . . . The first in a sharp, witty series of Victorian mystery novels, The Tumbling Girl is sure to delight fans of Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Macneal, and Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Author: Bridget Walsh ...
... make it out alive . . . The first in a sharp, witty series of Victorian mystery novels, The Tumbling Girl is sure to delight fans of Sarah Waters, Elizabeth Macneal, and Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Author: Bridget Walsh ...
Can a fairytale solve the mystery of her lost sister? 1939: Fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from London to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the ...
Paris, 1899. Abigail Wilson receives a letter from Professor Alphonse Flamand, a prominent French Professor of Archaeology, inviting her to join him on an archaeological dig in Egypt. Abigail is overjoyed to be presented ...
For readers of The True Story of Maddie Bright, The Woman in the Green Dress and The Birdman's Wife comes this atmospheric and richly detailed Australian historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. Maitland ...
Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting ...
Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting ...
This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeerbut why has he hidden this ...
The murder of a 10-year-old boy, strangled with the lead of his dog, shocks the quiet town of Victoria's Queenscliff to its core. The local senior constable, Chris Blackie and his deputy Anthea Merritt, expect the murder ...
... and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö – a husband and wife team from Sweden ...
... of the hit BBC One TV series Death In Paradise. He was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1972. When he was 10-years old, he read his first proper novel - Agatha Christie's Peril at End House - and he's been in love with the ...
September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries ...
... 's favourite bobby.Who else would be there to keep the villagers safe once the high jinks begin?When a fifteen-year-old girl runs away to join the fair, it's up to Constable Nick to track her down. And that's not his ...
... Creswell refuses to stay at the Lodge a moment longer. But events take an even more shocking turn when ten-year-old Nancy Creswell, eyes and ears for her blind Uncle Nick, goes missing. An account of the fateful Saturday ...
... everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury. 1987: It's late summer and a time of change when 17-year-old Tess Dawes leaves the local shopping centre in the ...
... everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury. 1987: It's late summer and a time of change when 17-year-old Tess Dawes leaves the local shopping centre in the ...
... retelling of The Wizard of Oz , where one little girl is forced to face head on the prejudices of the Midwest ... to the Topeka Insane Asylum. When twenty-eight-year-old psychologist Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford arrives at the ...
The enthralling new novel from the ten-million-copy, Number One bestselling author. Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous ...
... -old Darren Davies is found facedown in the Weymouth River with a gunshot wound to his chest. The killer is never found. Ten years later, his mother receives a visit from the local police. Sandra's best friend has been ...
... , Laura is slowly healing. Then she gets a call: armed drug dealers have seized a tourist boat - and her ten-year-old son Jake is on board. There's no other negotiator available, and the police need her to step up. With ...
... her hometown's history: the unsolved murder of six-year-old January. A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS As Margot digs ... , and with over 34 million monthly listens and 10 million unique listeners each month, has established Ashley's ...
... strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all ...
... a menacing black tower from which there could have been no escape--but speculation has long persisted that the ten-year-old heir may have been smuggled out of his prison cell. When Hector and Vidocq stumble across a man ...
... winter' storm she learns of the disappearance of a three-year-old boy. He was never found. Claire vows to find the ... , New York Times , and USA Today bestselling author of ten novels. She is the host of the Mod About You ...
... century, book a room at Hotel 1911. You'll find 28-year-old Ivy Nichols behind the reception desk. The hotel is Ivy's only ... are its mixtape back to her. For ten years she wrote professionally for Chatter magazine and the ...
... strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all ...
... - and now her life is in danger . . . Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent young girl. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel ...
... Al Sullivan's investigation brings up the spectre of another tragedy at the Claremont ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the wealthy and influential Bainbridge family. Some say she ...
... than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park ... Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds ...
... It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in 'The Silver Bells ... - throw some light on the other young girl? And, given that forensic evidence now points to ...
... War I England. As a difficult 1918 draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old Phoebe Renshaw and her three siblings at their beloved family estate of Foxwood Hall. The dreadful war is finally ...
... and well and living in fair Verona with their six wildly impetuous children and me, their nineteen-year-old daughter Rosaline... Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina ...
... , the ambitious, respectful son of the late George Lestrade. Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 74-year-old, who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting, joining forces again with his colleague and ...
... a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at ...
... a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . . Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading 14-year-old living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private ...
... Victoria Gilbert's new series, the perfect literary adventure for fans of Kate Carlisle and Jenn McKinlay. Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new ...
... his manner of death is a coincidence, but Sebastian has his doubts. The more he looks into the three-year-old murders, the more certain he becomes that the hapless John Williams was not the real killer. Which begs the ...
... that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady. For Maine game warden investigator Mike ... his adversary in time to save the life of a young girl, or will he be forced to watch another innocent soul die ...
... a commission to paint the 70 year old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart - The Grand Old Man of the stage. But ... just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such ...
... Mrs Greenway. Maitland, 1889 When eighteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects ... cast of colourful guests, including a frail but observant old lady, a travelling salesmen, a bearded lothario, a ...
... and May, you're in for a treat.' THE TIMES It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what has gone ...
... 1930, as the Great Depression is taking hold: Thirteen-year-old Morris Turner, a little anxious by nature, feels ... full of mysteries - a search that will bring secrets old and new to the surface, and leave someone else ...
... re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than ...
... only son of a Fifth Avenue dynasty. His widowed mother, known as Lady Maud, has kept the thirty-five-year-old on a short leash, but Dougie has crossed paths with Belinda Ross, the new Broadway songbird. He's mesmerized ...
... book of short fiction. Juliet's novels and short stories have won many awards. Juliet lives in a 110 year old cottage in a riverside suburb of Perth, Western Australia. She shares her home with a small pack of waifs and ...
... the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks ...
... the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks ...
CURIOUSITY WON'T KILL THIS CAT... Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her ... into a family of storytellers who never stopped talking about the old days 'back home' in England - for which he is ...
... one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred not only to Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing ...
... It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide ...
... the body of the organist, lying in a pool of blood, his handsome features covered by a gas mask. Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is intrigued. Why would anyone want to kill the much-admired organist in such a brutal and ...
... control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, ... on Henry's sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake's old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr, and Shardlake is unexpectedly ...
... the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an ...
... real-life ones too... Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in ...
... . The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime. On 7th November 1843, 23 year-old Harriet Monckton is found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent ...
Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. ... 's Literary Award and the CBCA Book of the Year Award (four times). She lives in the Blue Mountains ...
... Named one of the best historical fiction books of the year in The Times (UK). 'An extraordinarily vivid tale ... ... Bannin Bay after a long diving season, twenty-year-old Eliza Brightwell nervously awaits the arrival of her ...
... the truth. During World War II , Holkham Hall was an army base with large sections out of bounds, and 11-year-old Anne was in the care of a new governess, whom she hated and believed to be deceitful. Although she had ...
... to be a simple accident, but anonymous letters are discovered that suggest otherwise - and when 16-year-old Jasmine Langridge claims it is murder, she suddenly disappears. As the police begin to investigate, secrets are ...
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney ...
... Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York ...
... British-occupied Egypt. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Dinah Jefferies and Leah Fleming. When twenty-two-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon she leaves England for Egypt, his home ...
... Huntress. And Nina Markova is the only witness to escape her alive. In post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is increasingly disquieted by the soft-spoken German widow who becomes her new stepmother. Delving ...
... Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their three-year-old son Harry. Until, that is, Audrey's lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It ...
... million EuroMillions jackpot. They move with their 15-year-old daughter Rosie to an exclusive gated estate in ... Michelle Davies has been writing for magazines for twenty years, including on the production desk at Elle, and ...
... a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America. Facing an attempted murder charge, seventeen-year-old Arthur Tormes is in no position to refuse when a federal agent named Riley Triggs offers him ...