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A murdered man. A blind witness. A broken clock that may expose the truth. When respected New York resident Mr. Hasbrouck is found shot to death inside his home, Detective Ebenezer Gryce confronts a case with no clear suspect, no reliable witness, and almost no physical evidence. The only people...

"Smart material, fresh characters, intricate plot, a thumping success!"—New York Herald Tribune Hardy is a small-time diamond salesman and ex-cop who knows private deals mean trouble. Against his better judgment he decides to help a rich acquaintance find a special diamond for his wife. Saul...

Ghosts from the past have the nasty habit of refusing to stay buried. Returning from an extended stay in Scotland, life for Mikaela and Brodie picks up right back where it left off. Brodie is immediately tasked with a new case for the Agency, while Mikaela must attend a reception for the release...

Saffron Summersby lost everything after her brother's suspicious death: her dresses, her dowry, her place in society as a baronet's sister. So when she sees her brother's face in the latest painting from famous anonymous artist Ravenmore and realizes he might still be alive, she comes up with a...

Romeo and Juliet (yes, that Romeo and Juliet) invite you to join them in celebrating the union of their spinster daughter, Rosie (she’s 20!) to Escalus the younger, prince of Verona, where murder is the unexpected guest at the wedding. My Lady Jane meets Knives Out in Fair Verona, as New York...

William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is head of one of New York's wealthiest dynasties. When Mulholland gets wind of a hostile biography planned, he commissions his journalist son-in-law John Glass to pen the official line. To help with the job, Glass hires a beady-eyed researcher - 'the lemur'. But the next day, the Lemur is found dead, shot through the eye with a Beretta. What is the secret he knew, had he told anyone else, and why are the police suddenly asking Glass a lot of questions?

A secret liaison. A baffling murder. Can one woman solve the crime without joining the body count? Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. So, when her closest workmate reveals a salacious affair with a married man, Pauline refuses to...

"The magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in the select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times "The China of old, in Mr. van Gulik's skilled hands, comes vividly alive again." —Allen J. Hubin, The New York Times Book Review...

A fiendishly clever puzzle mystery starring the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a...

“Il tramonto della Germania di Weimar in un grande romanzo criminale” Frankfurter Allgemeine Berlino, 1930. La star del grande schermo Betty Winter muore durante le riprese del suo primo film sonoro: un riflettore cade e la colpisce in pieno. È stato davvero un incidente? Il commissario...

Irland 672: König Colgú und Prinzessin Gelgéis wollen in wenigen Wochen heiraten. Doch kurz vor dem Fest erreicht Colgú die Nachricht, dass die Prinzessin spurlos verschwunden ist. Mit zwei Begleitern ist sie aus rätselhaftem Grund aufgebrochen – einen von ihnen hat man ermordet in den Bergen gefunden. König Colgú wendet sich an seine Schwester Fidelma und bittet sie um Hilfe.

Augsburg, 1463: Endlich verstummt das Geläut der Totenglocken. Die Pest ist überstanden und die Wohlhabenden kehren in die Stadt zurück. Lina und ihr Gemahl Ulrich wollen die Schatten der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und ein ruhiges Leben führen.

A dead man among survey stakes. A woman in a cell. And a boundary worth killing for. Oregon's Cascade Mountains, 1881. Surveyor Silas Thorne is hired to verify a disputed treaty boundary that separates Klamath reservation land from a timber empire. The surveyor who drew the correct line — the brilliant, uncompromising Harriet Lockwood — sits in jail, accused of murdering the man whose body was found among her boundary markers. But Silas reads ground the way other men read books. And the ground is telling a different story. Stakes driven plumb vertical — not perpendicular to the slope.

Nach der Ermordung des russischen Zaren liegen bei Polizeipräsident Marx die Nerven blank. Ungereimtheiten an der Leiche eines ermordeten Ziegelarbeiters lassen ihn ein ähnliches Attentat in Wien befürchten. Doch die Staatsanwaltschaft hat bereits ein Geständnis für die Tat vorliegen und sieht von weiteren Ermittlungen ab. Marx beauftragt seinen geheimen Sonderermittler mit der Klärung des mysteriösen Falls.

Tödliche Rituale im Wien der Jahrhundertwende Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen. Als Inspektor Leopold von Herzfeldt...

A lawman hunts his brother through a killing winter. But what he finds isn’t the man he remembers. It’s the truth. After a deadly stagecoach robbery leaves four men dead, Sheriff Elias Kane tracks the outlaw responsible into the high country—only to discover the fugitive is his estranged brother, Harlan. Stranded by a violent storm and bound together by survival, the two men are forced into an uneasy alliance. But as they descend from the mountain, the conflict shifts—from survival… to something far more dangerous.

'There was a history in this house, secrets he hadn't even got close to scratching the surface of' Something peculiar is going on at The Lloyd Estate. The enormous house and its vast grounds are rarely seen by outsiders. Only Audrey Lloyd the cantankerous elderly owner and only daughter to the...

Two men met at dawn. Only one walked away. Is he a murderer or the next man marked for death? London, 1868. Etty Redgrave will bend rules, reputations, and polite society itself to protect the innocent. This time, justice demands she stand beside the last man she ever wanted to defend. Her childhood nemesis is accused of killing a man on the duelling field, an illegal and dishonourable act shielded by aristocratic privilege. The evidence is damning. The scandal inevitable. Yet something about the death refuses to sit neatly in its box.

In a city haunted by fear, some secrets refuse to stay buried—and it may be safer to forget them. London, 1888. Byron Constantine is a detective with amnesia—his mind is fractured. He lives day-to-day, desperately fighting to hold onto his memories, only for them to slip away as he sleeps. Mira Blayse is determined to uncover the truth behind her parents' deaths. With an artist's eye, she notices what others miss—but her investigations thus far have led nowhere.

The first original novel inspired by the hit MASTERPIECE Mystery! series Miss Scarlet and the Duke. At the height of Victorian "Egyptian Mummymania," when illusion and obsession captivate London society, a discovery defies all reason—the body of a recently murdered woman found inside a...