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The girl lies on the ancient stone, her brown hair falling loosely onto the crude altar. Her narrow little arms are crossed just beneath the strange, angular dagger protruding from her chest. Nurse Gemma Bell and her new husband, Inspector Sebastian Bell, are visiting his family in Suffolk when...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Als Rena spurlos verschwindet, macht sich ihre beste Freundin Tilla auf die Suche. Doch schnell merkt sie: Nichts von dem, was Rena über sich erzählt hat, ist wahr. Die Verkäuferin, die angeblich Renas Mutter ist, hat gar keine Kinder. Das Haus an der Adresse, die ihre Freundin ihr genannt...

Lindisfarne in 1494 is a place of secrets. The scribe Linnet is running from her criminal past and seeking sanctuary in the island of her childhood. She’s friendless in the monastery, the monks resentful of a woman scribe, and her only company is Tom the fisherman and a child, Isabelle –...

The thirty-seventh mystery in Peter Tremayne's long-standing and much-loved series, featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. AD 673. Sister Fidelma and her husband Eadulf are journeying back from the Kingdom of the East Angles to Cashel when a violent storm wrecks their ship on...

Erpressung, Korruption, Verrat und Mord – ein ganz normaler Tag im alten Rom … Rom, 70 vor Christus: Gewalttätige Räuber beherrschen die Straßen der Ewigen Stadt, sie plündern, morden und brandschatzen, ohne dass ihnen jemand Einhalt gebieten kann. Selbst Decius Caecilius Metellus der Jüngere, Kommandant der Vigiles, kann nicht viel mehr tun, als Brände zu löschen. Als eines Morgens ein ehemaliger Gladiator tot auf der Straße gefunden wird, nimmt der hochgeborene Hauptmann die Ermittlungen auf.

She taught him about pleasure. He taught her about love. A survivor of spousal abuse, matchmaker Olivia Heather, the Dowager Countess of Allen, devotes her time to preventing the young ladies of society from following in her footsteps—until a series of newspaper articles accuse her of...

It’s 1850 when intrepid journalist and women’s-rights advocate Edith Ann, “E. A.,” Howe arrives at the home of iconic newspaper founder Horace Greeley. Her assignment is to chronicle the uncanny gifts of Cathie Fox, an eleven-year-old medium in Horace’s charge. Mysterious knocking sounds follow Cathie as she channels the restless spirit of the Greeleys’ deceased son, Pickie—a ghostly consolation to Horace’s profoundly unwell and grieving wife. As her condition worsens, E. A. suspects foul play.

THROUGH A MURDERER'S EYES . . . Caught under the tyrannical thumb of her new prioress, Dame Frevisse finds welcome relief in leaving St. Frideswide nunnery on pilgrimage. But the road brings with it unwelcome company: The wealthy Lionel Knyvet has been possessed by a foul demon. Seeking relief...

Inspired by Agatha Christie's real-life Detection Club, a murder among a group of golden age mystery writers meets a second chance romance in this debut novel from author Jackie McMahon. London, 1930. Lucy Hubbard is on the cusp of achieving her dreams. With her first mystery novel debuting with...

London, 1905: Law student and military veteran Balvinder dev Singh has found an extralegal way to fund his studies. As friend and accomplice to the infamous gentleman thief AJ Raffles, he rubs shoulders with the upper crust—and steals their valuables. That is, until their next mark, an imperialist general, is grotesquely murdered in the library of his Mayfair mansion. Bal and Raffles find themselves implicated in a series of killings that soon attracts the attention of Scotland Yard—and the aging Sherlock Holmes himself.

When Orla Penrose discovers a banker’s box labeled “LATER” inside the fading Briar Annex records building, she expects forgotten paperwork. Instead, she finds documents that should not belong together—and evidence that something inside the system has been quietly altered without ever being removed. As officials push to process and relocate the box, Orla uncovers a pattern hidden in ordinary records: subtle changes, missing attachments, shifted alignments, and procedural decisions designed not to erase information, but to misplace meaning itself.

Als der ehemalige Ermittler Heinrich Cordier gerufen wird, über die mysteriösen Hintergründe eines brutalen Frauenmordes zu ermitteln, beginnt eine Reise in die Dunkelheit. Denn der Zustand der Leiche sowie die rätselhaften Umstände weisen auf ein viel größeres Verbrechen hin. Heinrichs Instinkte stoßen ihn auf eine Spur, die immer weiter in ein Geflecht der Finsternis führt.

Zu Beginn der 1920er Jahre wird Groß-Berlin von einer Welle von Verbrechen überrollt. Ein Großteil der Taten geht auf das Konto des Psychoanalytikers Dr. Mabuse, der seine überragenden Fähigkeiten in diesem Bereich ausnutzt, um Menschen zu manipulieren. Diesmal ist seinen Handlangern erneut ein Einbruch in eine Bank gelungen. Doch Dr. Mabuse ist alles andere als zufrieden, denn in der Beute befindet sich nicht das Aktienpaket, auf das er es eigentlich abgesehen hatte. So schmiedet er einen neuen Plan, nicht ahnend, dass ihm diesmal Staatsanwalt Wenk dicht auf den Fersen ist.