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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright must find a killer in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. June, 1890. Clare Wright, Pinkerton agent, is investigating an elaborate plot in New Mexico. Her cover job is working as a waitress at one of Fred...

A fiendish, twisty London-set mystery, based on real-life unsolved crime, that sees Holmes and Watson trawl the shabby districts of the East End as they try to uncover who is snatching girls from the streets, and why. It is 15 February 1890, and Doctor Watson receives a summons from his old...

Miss Dainty knows her place--and refuses to stay in it. When Clarissa Dainty, an impoverished governess, discovers the dead body of her friend and fellow lodger, she's thrust into a mystery that no one seems eager to solve. With Bow Street indifferent to the demise of a penniless single woman...

Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in an ever-deepening medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair, in the riveting next book from the author of Murder by Degrees. The year is 1876 and the World’s Fair has come to Philadelphia...

The Bookbinder’s Code, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

If this pup doesn't get found fast, her feisty younger sister could be on the hook for a life-threatening crime . . . Manchester, England, 1960s. Miss Riddell has no taste for modern fashions. Which gives her yet another bone to pick with the youngest and wildest family member whom she blames...

In this charming historical mystery, three women with family ties to Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and Dorian Gray become unlikely detectives when the resident gossip at their boarding home dies under mysterious circumstances—from nationally bestselling author Christy Carlyle. London, 1901...

Thomas Finbow is sent to London by Lady Margaret on a sensitive mission - to seek out and persuade her husband - his master - Sir Robert to give up his foolish infatuation with Lady Imogen - a notorious woman of the Court. But once there, Thomas is thrown into a much graver situation - the body of a young woman is found washed up beside the Thames, terribly mutilated, and soon Thomas becomes caught up in a bizarre series of events including the theft of a corpse, and even his own imprisonment.

*PREORDER NOW* The latest instalment in the Sunday Times bestselling Ali Dawson Mysteries sees Ali investigating the case of a boy who vanished twenty-seven years ago and finding herself in the past once again - only this time she's in the middle of the Blitz of 1940 Praise for the Ali Dawson...

'GRIPPING...I LOVED IT' Lisa Jewell 'A DELICIOUS TALE OF RIVALRY AND SISTERHOOD' Laura Shepherd-Robinson 'SEAMLESSLY TAUT AND TENSE' Emma Flint 'A VIVID AND RIVETING MYSTERY' Anna Mazzola IN A WORLD THAT WANTED WOMEN GROUNDED, THEY TOOK TO THE SKIES. It's the turn of the 20th Century, and the...

A horrifying crime brings a long legacy of evil to light in this chilling Southern noir from the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. There’s something wrong in those woods . . . Deep in the woods of rural Alabama, Officer Wilbur “The Cow Man”...

A priceless medieval book has been stolen from the Inner Temple. The librarian has been murdered at his desk. Once again, Sir Gabriel Ward KC must provide answers. Gabriel meanwhile is preparing to represent a tiny sweetshop in Brighton brought to the brink of ruin by the postponed coronation of...

THE NEW BESTSELLING SERIES FROM THE MASTER OF HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION, S. J. PARRIS England, 1601. Treason threatens the realm. When the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder. Cecil...

A murdered librarian. A missing manuscript. An obvious suspect. Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment in the cozy British mystery series The Trials of Gabriel Ward. The librarian's dead body lies in a pool of lamplight on his desk. A priceless medieval document has been stolen from...

Decades after serving as secret agents during World War II, three women reunite to uncover the truth behind the murder of their fellow agent in Paris. In the rugged Scottish Highlands, four young women training as secret agents became inseparable: Flip, a fearless Southern Belle; Zaina, a dreamy...

Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be suitable to use in the war effort. With snow expected, the house is cold enough to freeze the bones but there will be plenty of space for soldiers. That is, if they can convince the family to give up their home...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Can they also help Miss Olivia Gray solve a murder? London, 1920: Heiress Olivia Gray is bored out of her mind. After saving lives as an ambulance driver in the war, being trapped in her mother's palatial drawing room feels like a prison sentence she will never...

A wickedly funny sequel to The Murder at World’s End from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ross Montgomery that will delight fans of Knives Out and Thursday Murder Club. Beloved detective duo, Stockingham & Pike, return to solve a murder in the heart of London! London, 1911. Coronation...

Bombay, 1952. When once legendary British film producer, Richard Boorman, working in India's film capital, Bombay, is found murdered, shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India's first female police detective, is tasked to find his killer. Working with Archie Blackfinch...