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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country. Arguably...

A murdered prison guard, a dangerous fugitive, and missing evidence all point to one thing—the shadows of corruption are brewing within Scotland Yard . . . Inspector Henry Field is under pressure to track down an escaped prisoner—a man suspected of murder in a cold case that Henry is...

In the new Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery, Kaveri Murthy is enjoying herself in Mysore, India, surrounded by the beautiful city's palaces, temples, and lakes—filled with sacred crocodiles—until an old friend from Bangalore turns up dead. When Bangalore's most famous lady detective, Kaveri...

When a self-proclaimed medium contacts Amelia Greystone with chilling knowledge of a corpse's location, she turns to the one man she can trust—Scotland Yard Inspector Henry Field . . . Henry has no patience for mystics or séances. He believes in evidence, not whispers involving a dark...

In book three of this cozy Victorian mystery series, actress-turned-medium Sybil Ingram is enjoying life in Paris with her new husband, violinist Roderick Brooke, when her past suddenly catches up with her in the form of her pushy little sister. Polly wants Sybil to help her become an actress--which means getting the blessing of their father, who is near death. Back in London, Sybil's homecoming is chilly. Even worse is her reunion with her former mentor, Gerhardt Atherton, who is still falsely claiming that Sybil embezzled from the theater troupe.

Im Schatten der Historie lauert das Böse: Ein neuer literarischer Thriller von Bestsellerautor Kai Meyer! Leipzig, die Bücherstadt. 1930. In der Bibliothek ihres Stiefvaters stößt Amalia Lux auf sieben Exlibris mit der Darstellung mysteriöser Masken, signiert mit „L. Gora". Als mehrere Morde geschehen, fällt der Verdacht auf Amalia, die als Kind gegen ihren Willen aus den Kolonien nach Deutschland gebracht wurde.

Frances Lunn grew up running free on Assateague Island, a place made famous by wild horses, white-sand beaches, and whispers of lost treasure. Years later, she transformed that childhood into a best-selling memoir, until her sister Maeve publicly dismantled it, calling the story a fabrication and leaving Frances in personal and professional ruin.

Człowiek tak naprawdę nie zna samego siebie… Jest rok 1903. W mroku piwnicy przy ulicy Tschepiner we Wrocławiu znalezione zostaje ciało radnego. Podejrzenie pada na radcę kryminalnego, jednego z najlepszych policjantów w Prezydium Policji. Julian Reisky, by ratować swoje dobre imię, musi opuścić Wrocław. Na miejsce banicji wybiera Kraków, miasto swojego dzieciństwa. Tu podejmuje się śledztwa dla Heleny Modrzejewskiej, a prosta sprawa kradzieży zamienia się w niebezpieczną grę.

New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author Laurie R. King returns to the 1920s of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, but then sets off into fabulous new worlds in this dynamic collection of thirteen suspense, crime, and speculative fiction stories, some beloved and others brand-new...

Mord auf Rügen! Ein ranghoher Kriminalbeamter wird tot aufgefunden! Im Stadtzentrum von Binz finden spielende Kinder die Leiche von Hauptkommissar Bauer, einem früheren Kollegen von Lydia Westphal. Zunächst sieht es nach Suizid aus, doch die forensische Untersuchung lässt Zweifel aufkommen … Kaum sind die erfahrene Westphal und der Kommissarsneuling Jung auf Rügen angelangt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

There's more than one violent storm brewing at St. Ann's hospital in the legendary Mignon Eberhart's first book.Nothing prepared nurse Sarah Keate for the murder of a wealthy patient in his hospital bed during a fierce thunderstorm. Was the killer's motive the theft of the very expensive radium...

February 1913. Lady Hardcastle and her diminutive but brave lady’s maid, Flo, have been invited by their friend JB McIntyre to spend the weekend at his recently renovated Tudor fort on a remote island off the Devonshire coast. But the holiday quickly turns sinister when first a number of valuable jewels go missing—and then a fellow guest is murdered with a most unusual weapon.

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious...

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - new season coming soon! London, 1946. Much of the capital, and indeed the country, remains beset by rationing and bomb damage. But for some there are other, more immediate concerns: crimes of a serious and sometimes deadly nature...

The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The Name of the Rose The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is...

The author of the “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are...

New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other’s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they’re moving to a fancy home on Fifth Avenue—and that he’s running for the sheriff of New York—Molly is left reeling.

With a newborn and two children, Molly Murphy Sullivan is tackling motherhood. Her husband is off to work in Washington as Easter break begins in New York. Her dear friend and writer, Ryan O’Hara, is shooting a movie, one of the first to involve a real plot and actors. He invites Molly and the children to visit the set and watch the excitement. The movie industry is still experimenting with ways to get the best shot, but soon, their special effects start to malfunction. After a few mishaps where no one is hurt, the special effects turn deadly.

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for help from a former agent whose injury during a botched mission ten years ago forced her to retire from the elite unit of unconventional lady spies.

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White--veteran of two wars...