... roots are about to exact a deadly toll on the living. And Justice There is None Gemma James is adjusting ... : it's far too similar to an unsolved murder in which an antiques dealer was killed in precisely the same way and ...
... to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record ...
... , two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders ...
... this gorgeous hardback Special Edition. 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts ...
... mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Welcome to the secret life of the Colebrook twins: unnoticed old maids to most, but unseen champions to those in need - society be damned. Lady ...
... was as an enforcer for the mob. Who in the world would want to harm the silver-haired lady whose major vices were ... Laughing , the first of his long-running series of mysteries starring ghostwriter Stuart Hoag and his ...
... Darcie Wilde's mystery series featuring Rosalind Thorne, a young woman adept at helping ladies of the ton ... Now Rosalind wonders if there's a chance their love might reignite. Devon is as handsome as Rosalind remembers ...
... featuring the talented Corinna Chapman, baker and sleuth extraordinaire. There are currently six previous novels in this series with The Spotted Dog as Corinna's most recent adventure. Kerry's much-loved 1920s crime ...
... as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is determinedly unmarried ...
... no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed. Mrs Hoffman wasn't the only one at risk. Bryant ...
... own, and that no woman is safe when there is a life-changing payout on the line. A delicious debut thriller crackling with wit and an unforgettable feminist voice, The Lady Upstairs is a chilling and endlessly surprising ...
... But the woman comes with a letter of introduction from an old friend in Harlem, and Louise realizes she has no ... woman. The woman's daughter, Iris Wright, is part of an elite social circle. Louise soon finds herself drawn ...
... Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to ... Teahouse Detective, who features in The Old Man in the Corner, was one of the first fictional sleuths ...
... brother James , the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I . But the will has been lost. It may ... and dangerous streets of London to an Edinburgh in chaos. He soon realises there are others on the hunt, and ...
... brother James , the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I . But the will has been lost. It may ... and dangerous streets of London to an Edinburgh in chaos. He soon realises there are others on the hunt, and ...
... car accident, twenty-one-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below--only there is no impact. Instead, she finds ...
... car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below-only there is no impact. Instead, she finds ...
... and Julia Seales, Dianne Freeman's Agatha Award-winning series takes a delightful jaunt to the City of Light ... and secrets. They have no shortage of suspects. There is Paul's inscrutable widow, Gabrielle. Paul's art ...
... award , The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John ... at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital when he is handed an old book to read, one that recounts the trial ...
... 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 for his ...
... , Lord Harold Trowbridge-- to shadow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the ... deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the Theatre Royal. Adding to the mystery is an unusual object found on ...
... clothes vs nakedness - is extraordinarily complex. There is no doubt that this particular book is a masterpiece in every ... , and in the 1970s were the basis for an Australian television series entitled "Boney". Author: ...
... for whoever sent threatening letters to Oula Strossmayer, an old Yugoslavian woman who has been axed to death in a small Australian town. After Essington is shot and seriously wounded, Feathers admits his involvement ...
... hard at work writing her next book or planning her next series, Anna loves to fly airplanes, go ballroom dancing, or tend her roses. She is an English professor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Author: Anna Harrington. Format ...
... Madame Chenandier's body has been severely battered, as if by a lunatic. There are some obvious suspects, yet the ... 1991. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier and a ...
... new talent in British crime writing, this is the first in an engrossing new series that cleverly blends fact and fiction. An Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine ...
... is without a ship to command, and his best prospect is the "Stella Maris," a fast frigate captained by his old ... s net are completely untangled. Always surprising, Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House is an intelligent ...
... that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, ... yet another unsuspecting vicitim. Suddenly there are suspects and motives everywhere Jane looks ...
... the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins ...
... The dubious Miss Dinsdale claims her spirit guide is an Egyptian princess whose mummy resides in a ... investigate, Beryl discovers her plane has been sabotaged and wonders if there's a connection. Whether in the air ...
... & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet- preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh ...
... Will Crounce has been violently murdered - his throat slit and his right hand cut off. Terrified eight-year-old ... minster's Lady Chapel, a terrible event follows. YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE . . . Where are the ...
... new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin from Celeste Connally. London, 1815 . Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of ... in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will ...
... turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever ...
... daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902 ... An inquest sends her elder sister Mary to trial. But why would she kill Bertha when everyone knew them as loving companions? The Noon Lady ...
... of a young woman at the hands of a ghoulish fiend . . . As her wedding to Lord Darkefell approaches, Lady Anne is summoned by a local girls' school to help them with a young student troubled by ghostly apparitions. She's ...
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily ... ghost and an urge to detect. Enter Inspector Devenand Hunter from the Yard, an Anglo-Indian who is not going ...
... series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror and old school ties . . . The Todes are ... there's only one thing everyone agrees on . . . that there's absolutely no need to call the police. Praise for the Tode Hall series ...
... series: a gloriously witty tale of toffs, terror and old school ties . . . The Todes are ... there's only one thing everyone agrees on . . . that there's absolutely no need to call the police. Praise for the Tode Hall series ...
... will make an untimely exit from the London social scene? Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter finds himself in the middle of a series ... the treacherous society waters: Lady Adelaide Compton, a marquess' ...
The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime ... an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in 1954 for novel writing. During the last year of his life he was ...
... latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series. November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the ...
... , she wants to find her mother Lily, who disappeared from Hastings Pier 10 years earlier. Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that ...
... consecutive novel to win the eDunnit Award at Crimefest, was also nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her most recent novel Lady in the Lake (2019) featured in numerous Best ...
... man from the goldfields of colonial Australia but is shattered to find that the wife he left ... an investigation into his friend's sudden disappearance but his every move is hampered by his uncle's lovely young bride, Lady ...
... without a trace. Looking for the missing is not a suitable pastime for a lady. But when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off an unexpected chain of events that will throw her life into chaos. Can Violet ...
... Miss Froy before the train journey is over. Only one of her fellow passengers seems to believe her story. With his help, Iris begins to search the train for clues to the mystery of the vanished lady at the center of this ...
... The Independent "One of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists." -- The Sunday Telegraph "Spending an evening with Campion is one of life's pure pleasures." -- The Sunday Times Author: Margery Allingham. Format: Paperback ...
... indefatigable St. Paul detective-there's more to the story. Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul gathers three ... that reads PIONEER PRESS has been altered-at considerable effort-to read LIARS. An elaborate prank, yes, but ...
... With the ever-loyal Dot, the ingenious Mr Butler and all of Phryne's friends and household, the action is as fast as Phryne's wit and logic. 'With Phryne Fisher, the indefatigable Greenwood has invented the character-you ...
... up, one with an eye for the ladies - the drama is acquiring overtones of a ... there much of the material that provided the basis for the Flaxborough novels. He won two CWA Silver Dagger awards, and the Flaxborough series was ...
... hanged for their killings. So is London now confronting a malicious copyist? Or did Lovejoy help send an innocent man to the gallows? Aided by his wife, Hero, who knew Lady McInnis from her work with poor orphans, Devlin ...
... sees God's hand in every event. The old-time character was revived by Suter at the request of the estate ... fellow West Virginian Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner series, and his work has appeared in more than 30 ...
... seems to be the lack of musical entertainment for the forthcoming summer party--until, that is, Lady Hardcastle's ... a connection between the killer and an impending visit from an Austrian trade delegation, set to feature ...
... an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply "unforgettable" (A.S. Byatt). Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is ... the four Queens of Crime is Allingham." --J. K. ...
... an esteemed official. Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been ... Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters ...
... and honourable policeman McCann. It is a welcome return to fiction after an eighteen year silence by one of ... He finds himself trapped in vicious old rivalries, unsupported and alone. Are the murders connected to 'Dirty ...
... quiet street. But Edna, meeting the old woman, believes she was condemned for a murder she did not commit ... the street. Undaunted, she has an idea who the murderer is, but she needs an elaborate scheme to trap the killer. ...
... to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with ... is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, whoever they were, wherever they are ...
... its regal name, the Queen's Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department ... is once again drawn into a baffling murder investigation where suspects are all too plentiful. An unpopular man, Joseph Fitzwilliam had been ...
... -onset dementia, and things start to happen; things more sinister than missing keys and lost words. As some memories are forgotten, other, long buried, begin to surface ... and Lynn's perfect world begins to crumble. But ...
... Deer, and Jules is once again up to his crooked grin in trouble. A camper's discovery of old bones threatens to expose ... exciting installment of the critically acclaimed mystery series. Author: Jamie Harrison. Format: ...
... stream of surprises, all make this a first-class mystery. The Ladies of Locksley was originally published in 1953. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "Francis Vivian skips ...
... It is the summer of 1871 when Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross pays a visit to Jacob Jacobus, the old rogue ... echelons of society are back in London for the Season. Little does he realise that an audacious theft has ...
... old woman who worships the memory of her lost son. A nun with hidden secrets. A spinster housekeeper with a secret of her own. An ... shortly before they arrived, strange occurrences are imbued with ominous portent. The ...
... gritty and surprise-filled mystery will enthrall both newcomers and series fans" - Publishers Weekly ... Jordan, his employee's daughter. Simon is stunned and horrified to realize there's a gang of body snatchers in Leeds ...
... urgent- the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms, who might well have been a traitor. Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery ...
... the past she has left behind. Quickly she becomes an object of fascination among the locals; one in particular ... really have start afresh? What happened to this woman's old life? And what price did she pay to escape it? ...
... a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth Jane and her family are looking ... an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that ...
... a lot to hide: the second novel in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. 'You shouldn't be here. It's too late' These were Richard Pryce's last words, overheard moments before the celeb ...
... an aristocratic family's Christmas celebrations in this classic British mystery. The relatives of Sir Basil Roper are ... and a brewery. Even so, Arthur Ferryman is happy to be there and looking forward to a peaceful holiday. ...
Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died ... , no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable - a third killing. Author: Arthur Upfield. Format: ...
... death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. ... adopted it as his homeland. He is best known for his series of books featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon " ...
... the Mediterranean in search of the olive tree's mythical secrets inspired a five-part documentary film series, The Olive Route. She is also the author of novels The Forgotten Summer, The Lost Girl and The House on the ...
... of danger and deceit as he investigates a series of bribery attempts targeting a wealthy entrepreneur. ... , thrilling' Readings About the Author David Whish-Wilson was born in Newcastle, NSW, but grew up in Singapore ...
... of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human ... much about character as it is about plot…cried at the ending…huge potential series exploring the human AI connection. ...
A historical series debut - set in Ancient Egypt - from the author of the Edgar-award winning Kate Shugak ... through a tangle of lies and deceit, she will discover that nothing can be taken at face value, that she can't ...
... the artists' bizarre parlour games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot? About the Author Helen ... is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York, and an ...
... series of mediaeval mysteries by C.B. Hanley. April 1219: Edwin Weaver finds himself at Tickhill Castle under false pretences. Earl Warenne wants Tickhill for himself and is ... as an historical interpreter, and is also ...
... As a detective, Castang must play by the rules to protect himself. But for an unconventional cop like Castang, that is virtually impossible. After all, there's more to murder than a few corpses and a killer, and Castang ...
... a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth! On ... Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that ...
... round, a 'social editor' of a fashion magazine is discovered dead inside a safe, strangled with a pink ... a rose inside his breast pocket. It looks like this might be the work of Satanists but before long the bodies start to ...
... Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to ... Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome ...
... , and the atmosphere of 1940s wartime England . . . well worth the reader's time." - Publishers Weekly "Everything is quite comparable in tone to a really good Simenon." - The New York Times "Dryly ceremonious wit [that ...
... , Mark Bonnar as Reverend Humbleby and Tamzin Outhwaite as Mrs Pierce. In a quiet English village, a killer is about to strike. Again and again. Luke Fitzwilliam found it hard to credit Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation ...
... a time as a county court judge in Surrey. Hare's crime novels, many of which draw on his legal experience, have been praised by Elizabeth Bowen and P.D. James among others. He died in 1958 - at the peak of his career as ...
... , a young man eager to raise his status, but whose recklessness and moral weakness prove to be his undoing. An essential read for mystery, crime and classic readers. New Glossary and biography. The Flame Tree Collectable ...
... , Death of an Author returns to print for the first time since 1935. This edition includes an introduction by CWA ... suspects to be the author herself, crime and murder are afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found ...
... the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In 1965 Millar was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year ... cutting wit and superb plotting have left her an enduring legacy as one of the most important crime ...
... a verdict of death by misadventure. An Australian visitor to the aero club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide - or even murder ...
... his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers. Author: Arthur Upfield. Format: Paperback Fiction Books ...
... of Alderman of the City Council to join them for their annual retreat. Constantly accosted by ambitious, would-be politicians hoping to secure the bishop's backing, she's finding the week-long sojourn at the convent of ...
... the Mystery Writers of America. Many of his books have been made into movies; Westlake also wrote the screenplay for "The Grifters," for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Author: Donald E. Westlake. Format ...
... the author. The annotaters also help the reader to unravel the intricacies of plot that are sometimes misunderstood or overlooked. Contains introduction and index. Author: Joseph Furphy. Format: Paperback Fiction Books ...
... of Alderman of the City Council to join them for their annual retreat. Constantly accosted by ambitious, would-be politicians hoping to secure the bishop's backing, she's finding the week-long sojourn at the convent of ...
... in 1865. To get it now, they're threatening to reveal the long-secret treaty with the Confederacy. Barker is hired to use his connections to discreetly bring their threats to the Prime Minister. With a web of prominent ...
... her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious ...
... of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she--and her country--suffer a dastardly demise.... On ...
First...there was the last quarry. Then...there was the first quarry. Now...look who's caught in the middle. The enigmatic hitman Quarry - star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film ("The Last ...
... people know that one of Lady C's guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the bestselling ... is 'an old fraud with a beautiful daughter' and she has been promised to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is ...