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Elizabeth Bates must use everything she knows about the art of the con to stop a fellow scammer in his tracks in this first-ever thrilling crossover in the Victoria Thompson universe, featuring characters from her bestselling Gaslight Mysteries. Famed former police detective turned private...

Outlander meets What the Wind Knows with a dash of The Tudors Claudia, Alex, and Marie embark on a perilous journey back through the swirling mists of time, their hopes pinned on averting a looming tragedy. As they navigate the tangled web of history, vivid memories of Alex and Claudia's...

Carolyn Marie Wilkins presents Book 2 in the Psychics and Soul Food series...

When masked men storm a charity dinner for the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, Leonora Spencer and Detective Inspector Jasper Reid are among the many guests forced to witness the pandemonium—and a brutal murder. Although she is shaken by the apparent robbery gone wrong, Leo insists on...

Johnson City, Tennessee. 1955. When respected scientist Barry Harkin is found murdered in his study, veteran homicide detective Jack Manson believes he is investigating another routine homicide. But as clues begin to surface, Manson discovers that Harkin was hiding a dangerous secret—one powerful enough to inspire murder, conspiracy, and a relentless hunt for anyone connected to it. As the investigation deepens, Manson and his partner Roger York uncover a trail leading back to World War II, where dark secrets and unspeakable crimes were buried beneath decades of silence.

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...

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.

Experience two of the greatest novels of Victorian literature in one captivating collection. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens tells the unforgettable story of Pip, an orphan whose unexpected fortune sets him on a journey of ambition, self-discovery, and redemption. In The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins delivers a masterful tale of mystery and suspense.

The ghosts of Christmas come a haunting for you and me, Of which, there are one, two and three. Holmes suspects there could be a pattern to follow, Of a mystery, by a very mysterious fellow. To solve by Christmas Eve and Day, for all of thee... Doctor Watson

Blackmail and extortion in 1950s Hollywood – can Lily uncover the truth? 1950s Hollywood has a strict code of 'morality' and will stop at nothing to protect the reputation of its stars. But gossip columns start to reveal hidden secrets of some of the great and good of Tinsel Town. Then a young starlet is found murdered. When a producer is found dead a few weeks later, Lily starts to connect the targets of the gossip column with the victims. As she investigates, she uncovers a brutal web of deceit, blackmail and murder...

It is March 1570. England is reeling from the Northern Rebellion, when Lords rose up and tried to marry Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Norfolk and put her on the English throne. A body is found in what appears to be a ritualistic killing. In his dwelling a message has been daubed on the wall...

It's summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans – never to be seen again. The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nation's difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomat's wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.

A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead?

Devin Green keeps the old mountain hotel running in a ghost town that lives up to its name—especially as the anniversary of the deadly 1800s fire approaches. She swears she'll shut down early this year...until unexpected guests show up. Suspended detective Courtney Rankin arrives hoping to disappear for a week—only to realize Devin is the woman she once shared a wild, anonymous night with in college. Her sister-in-law Kayla insists on staying; the town's haunted history is perfect research for her next novel.

AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARY READS #1 TOP PICK "Kelly Rimmer is at her most skillful here… An emotional, haunting tale." —Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Dressmakers of London The literary twist of Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea meets the...

London, 1813. Lady Calliope Seaton will etwas Unerhörtes wagen: die Gründung eines Detektivbüros. Aber zuerst muss sie ihren verschleppten Bruder finden. Und dafür ist sie zu allem bereit. Wenn sie deshalb einen schneidigen Marineoffizier mit zweifelhaftem Ruf, den Duke of Kelford, heiraten muss, um an geheime Unterlagen zu gelangen, dann ist es eben so. Unerschrocken stimmt sie seinen Bedingungen zu.

En des temps reculés, une charrette bien gardée s'élance sur une route pavée traversant une forêt, mais elle est interrompue dans sa course par des brigands aux intentions peu louables…

Wien, 1531: Die türkische Belagerung ist vorüber, und doch kommt die Stadt nicht zur Ruhe. Der Mathematiker Sebastian Grün wird beauftragt, eine Reihe rätselhafter Todesfälle aufzuklären, tatkräftig unterstützt von seiner Freundin, der Winzertochter Fanny Roth. Alle Morde weisen auf Verbindungen zu den osmanischen Belagerern hin und versetzen die Bürger Wiens in Angst und Schrecken.

When Matt Moreno’s close friend, Blake Brady, accepted an internship in Utah, some of his new associates were cagey about their private lives. But then again, the world had just changed. In the late 1970s, folks in Utah—who had once felt safe—found new anxiety in things as simple as walking alone in their own neighborhoods. For good reason. The serial killer Ted Bundy had come to Utah, brutally killing girls and women, and as the newspapers of the day put it, he had stolen everyone’s innocence. There was a new, sinister tint on everything.

A fatal fall. A duchess determined to uncover the truth. And absolutely no time for tea. Fenshire, 1891. It was meant to be a birthday celebration in the country—cucumber sandwiches, polite conversation, and maybe a waltz or two. But when the Duke of Stortford is found dead at the foot of the...