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When a child's body is discovered in tumultuous eighteenth-century London, a struggling writer dares to defy her time and become an unlikely force for social justice in a new historical mystery by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Julia Keller. Brilliant—but broke. Ahead of her time—but behind...

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”...

Sometimes death is just the beginning. . . Late 1872. When 25-year-old Sydney undertaker Tatiana Crowe travels to Auckland to embalm the body of Evan Hunter's father events go horribly wrong, leaving Tatty stricken. Back at home, Tatty has some enormous decisions to make, but finds herself...

The third in the thrilling Marbeck mystery series by John Pilkington! Perfect for fans for S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor England, 1604. All eyes are on London as a high-powered delegation arrives to initiate vital treaty talks, to bring an end to almost twenty years of bitter warfare with Spain...

The FINAL gripping instalment in the thrilling Martin Marbeck mystery series by John Pilkington! Perfect for fans for S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor London, 1605 With the new King James on the throne, England is still fiercely divided between Catholic and Protestant. Ordered to keep watch on...

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...

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Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris in a witty, twisty mystery by Jeremy Front, based on a story by Simon Brett Charles’ enthusiastic but inept agent, Maurice, is always on the lookout for a quick, easy and lucrative commission. Keen to jump on the latest bandwagon, he’s now aiming to move...

A classic murder mystery about a suspicious death, an isolated island and a houseful of suspects. 'A true master of British crime writing.' RICHARD OSMAN The truth is a dangerous guest. Five years after film star Godiva Lee died under suspicious circumstances, notorious occultist Boris Unthank...

'I am such a fan of this series' JEREMY VINE Bombay, 1951. When once famed 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...

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...

For readers of Nekesia Afia, Jacqueline Winspear, and Avery Cunningham's The Mayor of Maxwell Street, a thrilling, Harlem Renaissance–set mystery featuring a liberated, educated Black woman in Jazz-Age New York . . . and the Prohibition-era gangsters and dangerous rivals she must confront...

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.

Bloomsbury presents A Case of Fear and Favor by Sally Smith, read by Jeremy Clyde 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...

The 19th-century Egyptologist must rescue her kidnapped husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage in this delightful seventh adventure for beloved heroine Amelia Peabody. With Nefret, now a ward of Amelia and Emerson, and Ramses at home pursuing their studies, the couple returns to Amarna...

Paris 1890. Une mission dont il aurait bien voulu se passer mais qui ne se refuse pas. Sherlock Holmes est chargé par la reine Victoria de veiller sur Albert-Édouard, prince de Galles, en bordée dans la Sodome parisienne. L’avenir proche est saumâtre pour le plus prestigieux des détectives britanniques, qui a horreur de la fête, du sexe, tarifé ou non, et des nuits blanches. Paris 1890. Une promotion qui ne se refuse pas.

'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...