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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...

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 bookclub historical crime novel for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters and Alis Hawkins. Bass Rock, Edinburgh, late 1600s On a cruel and windswept volcanic island, where only the toughest survive, a fragile society is about to be put to the ultimate test. Life on...

'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN A cursed island. A macabre party. An impossible crime. Five years after film star Godiva Lee died under suspicious circumstances, Boris Unthank gathers everyone connected to her death for a ‘party’ on the isolated Fever Island. A...

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...

Bombay, 1951. When once famous British film director, Roger Boorman, is shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India's first female police detective, is tasked with finding his killer. Working with Archie Blackfinch, a forensic scientist from the Metropolitan Police...

Chicago, 1899. Amid the tireless work of the women's rights movement, a wealthy heiress suffragist's desire to escape an unhappy marriage draws detective Harriet Morrow into a whirlpool of deception, lies, and murder . . . Chicago detective Harriet Morrow's new assignment is strictly...

It's 1974, and Los Angeles Times reporter Hunter Dreary returns to his hometown of Ransom, Kentucky, when he hears his autistic younger brother, Wally, is in trouble. But when he arrives at the sheriff's office, Hunter is the one facing an interrogation after Wally accidentally reveals details from an infamous night in the town's history—details that lead the sheriff straight to a body buried in the woods.

'Til death do us part . . . Singapore, 1947. Newlyweds Su Lin and Le Froy are in the Cameron Highlands, an idyllic pocket of countryside on the tropical Malay Peninsula. But this is no honeymoon . . . Le Froy is on a protection assignment for powerful businessman Max Moreno and his wife Elfrieda...

A buried fossil, a birthday party and… a murder? June, 1913. Lady Hardcastle and her intrepid lady’s maid, Florence, are looking forward to attending wealthy quarry owner Josiah McRory’s seventy-fifth birthday celebration. But the festivities come to an abrupt end when Josiah is found dead...

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...

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...

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...

Beloved detective duo, Stockingham & Pike, return to solve a murder in the heart of London in this wickedly funny sequel to The Murder at World’s End from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ross Montgomery. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension...

From the author of Death on the Lusitania and The Spies of Hartlake Hall comes a gripping historical mystery of betrayal and high-level conspiracy set during the most important seventy-two hours in human history. November 1918. At a railway siding in a forest near Compiègne, north of Paris, a...

A perfumer who recaptures lost moments unearths her family’s hidden history in an emotional novel by a USA Today bestselling author about memory, loss, war, and the secrets held across generations. Letta is a perfumer who crafts singular scents designed to evoke memories for her clients: the...

A broken WWI veteran joins Harry Houdini to expose fake mediums in 1920s New York in a spellbinding blend of historical mystery and psychological thriller, where magic is as consuming as madness. For Everett Summers, a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, New York is a disorienting city...

Als Modedesignerin für Londons Elite hatte sie ein feines Gespür für Details und einen Hang zur Dramatik. Doch an ihrem kaltblütigen Mord ist nichts Stilvolles. Da die gesellschaftliche Hochsaison kurz bevorsteht, lassen sich die Frauen in Cleos Familie bei der gefragtesten Schneiderin der...

The next book in the Mystery Tree series, exploring Singapore after the Japanese retreat and in the aftermath of WWII. Singapore 1949 When all the angsana trees on the island bloom at the same time, it's a glorious, fragrant display that lasts only one day. The next morning, Su Lin comes across...

Adelina ist zurück! Die lang ersehnte Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Romanreihe aus dem mittelalterlichen Köln. Diesmal gehen Mutter und Tochter gemeinsam auf Verbrecherjagd. Katharina Burka, die wissbegierige Tochter der angesehenen Apothekerin Adelina und des Medicus Neklas, hegt eine...