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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright must find a killer in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. June, 1890. Clare Wright, Pinkerton agent, is investigating an elaborate plot in New Mexico. Her cover job is working as a waitress at one of Fred...

It is 1890, and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson reunite in the fog-bound, grimy streets of East London’s West Ham to unravel a chilling mystery that has haunted the district for years: the unexplained disappearance of local teenage girls. When another young victim, Amelia Jeffs, vanishes and her...

When a famous guest goes missing from one of San Francisco’s most luxurious hotels, mayhem and murder ensue in this witty historical mystery. This second book in the Murder Most Fowl Mysteries is perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building. San Francisco, 1905. Renowned for its daily duck...

AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. AN IRREPLACEABLE TREASURE. ANOTHER DAY'S WORK FOR HAVELOCK HARPER England's greatest gay gentleman detective has a new case to solve. Something priceless has gone missing from the Oxford Museum of Natural History: the only preserved chrysalises of an extinct species of...

Heo Gyun is a detective of a different flavour: a "gourmet detective." With an exceptional palate, he can taste a dish once and immediately reconstruct the recipe in his mind. He understands how seasonings pair, the properties of ingredients, and how food interacts with the human body. Exiled to...

Frances Lunn grew up running free on Assateague Island, a place made famous by wild horses, white-sand beaches, and whispers of lost treasure. Years later, she transformed that childhood into a best-selling memoir, until her sister Maeve publicly dismantled it, calling the story a fabrication and leaving Frances in personal and professional ruin.

Lady Holmes and Mrs Hudson return in this cosy sapphic historical mystery which reimagines the Sherlock universe. 'Please, Inspector, we never let our sensibilities stand in the way of facts'. Katy Hudson and Lady Violet Holmes have settled into life at Musgrave Hall — solving Sherrinford’s...

The irresistible Rip Through Time series by bestselling author Kelley Armstrong continues as a husband seemingly returns from the dead to stop his wife’s wedding. After falling 150 years back in time, Mallory’s life in Victorian Scotland finally feels like hers. Not only forensic scientist...

Amateur detectives Augusta and Julia Colebrook use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to rescue a noblewoman behind enemy lines in this thrilling feminist Regency mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta (Gus) Colebrook and her...

Claude Monet captured light on the canvas in a way that changed art forever. But his own life held dark secrets. In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Claude Monet is going blind and has given up painting. His daughter-in-law, Blanche, painter herself, has come to care for Claude after the death...

Love is deadly Adrian Carthallow, a dramatic and talented artist, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it’s not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity — it’s the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife...

Rebel’s Gambit, a new Hemlock Press book, full description to follow when available...

THE FINAL INSTALMENT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CASTLE KNOLL FILES Join Annie Adams as she returns to Castle Knoll to solve one last mystery . . . Praise for the Castle Knoll Files 'VERY funny' Jennie Godfrey 'Plenty of twists and red herrings' Guardian 'Smart, twisty, and original' Heat...

With the lush atmosphere and timeless appeal of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, and the suspense of BROKEN COUNTRY, EMERALD LAKE tells the story of one halcyon summer that ends in tragedy, and the impact for one woman into the present day. ‘A gorgeous, heart-wrenching tale … Don't miss this one –...

Miss Dainty knows her place--and refuses to stay in it. When Clarissa Dainty, an impoverished governess, discovers the dead body of her friend and fellow lodger, she's thrust into a mystery that no one seems eager to solve. With Bow Street indifferent to the demise of a penniless single woman...

Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in an ever-deepening medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair, in the riveting next book from the author of Murder by Degrees. The year is 1876 and the World’s Fair has come to Philadelphia...

In 1903 Philadelphia, new technologies and modes of transport are turning the city into an industrial powerhouse. Clara Shaw, a paid companion for wealthy ladies, is transforming too—and discovering a surprising aptitude for solving murder . . . Clara Shaw is uniquely equipped both by...

Globe-trotting married sleuths Jane and Redvers have no sooner discovered that he has a niece than they learn she’s in danger and hurry off to Spain . . . Madrid, 1927: Responding to the news that his brother has an illegitimate daughter who’s fallen into trouble, Redvers and Jane arrive in...

Aloysius Archer returns to find himself at the heart of a conspiracy bigger than anyone could ever imagine from internationally bestselling author David Baldacci. A CRY FOR HELP. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer is no stranger to trouble, but when the former love of...